The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-30


broiderios such as no one but God can work.
Alas, for this giurihcation Of the distant
and this bglittling OF the close byl This
crossing Of oceans and paying high ad-
mission Ia expenses to look at that which
is not half ms well done Ms something we
eau see by crossing our own room. aud
free of charged This praising of Raphaels
hundreds Of years gone when the greater
Raphael, the frost, will soon be busy at
the entrances to your own home
Next | speak OF the frost rs a physician.
Standing at the gates Of New York harbor
autumn before last, the frost drove back
the cholera, saying, Thus far shalt thou
come and no farther" From Memphis and .
New Orleans and Jacksonville he smote the .
fever plague till 1t reeled back and depart
ed. The frost IL a physician that doctors .
cities, nations and continents He medi- ,
cines the world. Quinne for malaria, anti .
febrile for typhoids, sulphonal for sleepless- .
ness, antispasmodic for disturbed nerves,
but In all therapeutics there is no remedy .
like the small pellets prepared by the cold, |
and no physician so skillful or So mighty AS .
he frost
Scotland has had great physicians but
sier greatest doctors have been the Aberne. !
.hies and Abercrombies that have come
down over the highlands hursed on the |
north wind England has had her great !
physicians, but her greatest doctors have
been the Andrew Clarkes and the Macken-
zies who appeared the first night the fields
Of England were trimmed with white. Amer
lea has had its great physicians, but her
greatest doctors have been the Willard
Parkers and Valentine Motifs who landed
from bleak skies while our fingers were be-
numbed and our ears tingled with the cold !
Oh, it is high time that you add another
limo To 1tnrtfy1 10 hitsb mn
you make en addcndum to your prayers
1t is high time that you enlarge the cata-
logue Of your blessings.
Thank God for froStl 1t is the best of all
germicides. 1t is the only hope in bacteriol-
ogy. 1t is the medicament of continents
1t Is the salvation of our temperate zone
1t is the best tonic that God ever gave the
human race 1t Is the only strong stimu-
liant which has no reaction. The best COM
mentary on it | had while walking near
here one cool morning with my brother
John, who spent the most of his life as
missionary in China, and in that part of it
where there are no frosts. He said there
was tiuging gladness in his nerves indie
scrbable, and an almost intoXication of de
light from the fact that 1t was the first
time for years he had felt the sensation of
frost. We complain of it, we scold it, we
frown upon it, when we ought to be stirred
by It TO gratitude and hoist IL on dox-
ology.
THE FROST OF HEAVEN
But | must 20 farther and speak of the
frost a jeweler. As the snow is frozen
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God trans
forms it from liquid into crystal 1t is
the dew gluritled. In the thirty eighth chap
ter of that inspired drama, the book OF
Job, God says to the inspired dramatist
with ecstatiC Interrogation, The hoary
frost of heaven, who hath geudered itR'
God there asks Job II he knows the parent
age of the frost. He inquiries about its
pedigree. lie suggests that Job study up
the frost's genealogical line \ minute be
fore God had asked about the parentage Of
a raindrop in words that years ago gave me
a suggestive text for a sermon, Hath the
rain father" But now the Lord Al
mighty is catechising Job about the frost
He practically says: "Do you know its ia
therl Do you know its mothery In what
cradle of the leaves did the wind rock it9
The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gen
| dered itY"
He is stupid Christian who thinks so
much of the printed and bound Bible that
he neglects the Old Testament of the
fields, nor reads the wisdom and kindness
and beauty of God written in blossoms on
the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in
stars on the sky, in frost on the meadows.
: The greatest jeweler of all the earth is the
) frost. There is nothing more wonderful
in all crystallography. Some morning in
December whole continent is found be.
e sprent with diamonds, the result of one
nights work by this jeweler
Do you make the depreciatory remark
that the frost is impermanent and will last
only two or three hoursy What of that
We go into London tower and look at the
crown jewels of England, but we are in
| procession that the guards keep moving on,
and five minutes or less are your only OPP
portunity of looking at those crown jew
els, but at the crown jewels bestarred of
the frost in parks and fields you may stand
to look deliberately and for hours, and no
7 one TO tell you to move on.
l NATURES DIADEM OF BEAUTY.
Oh, tAese regalias and diadems of beauty
5 fung out of heaven! Kings and queens on
I celebrative days have come riding through
! the streets throwing handfuls of silver and
gold among the people but the queen of
: the winter morning is the only queen rich
l enough to throw pearls, and the king of
frost the only king rich enough to throw
e opals and sapphires and diamonds. Homer
5 describes anecklace Chamber given 10 Pencil
ope, but the frost necklaces a continent
The carcanet of precious stones given to
: white muoustOne and Indian agate, but it
= was IA misfortune to any one who owned or
I inherited it, and its history, generation aft
l er generation, was history of disaster but
: the regalia of frost is the good fortune of
+ every morning that owns it.
5 The imperial household of Louis XVI
: could not afford the diamond necklace
a which had been ordered for Queen Marie
a Antoinette, and it was stolen and taken
t apart and lost, but the necklace that the
q frost puts on the wintry morning, though
a made of as many brilliants as the withered
glass blades, is easily afforded by divine
| Opulence and is never lost, but after its
4 use in the coronation OF the fields is taken
i back to heaven. o men and women, 40
custOmed to go into ecstasy when In foreign
! travel you come upon the historical gems
i Of nations, whether the Jewel be called the
!. Mountain Of Glory, or the Sea Of Light, OF
! the Crown of the Moon, or the Eye Of Al
i lah, or the Star of Sarawak, or the Kohl
: moor, Iimplead you study the jewels strewn
all round your wintry home and realize
y that "by the breath Of God frost Is given"
But go step farther and speak Of the
frost rs an evangelist, and a text of Scrip
ture is not Of much use to me unless | can
find the gospel in il. The lsraelites in the
: wilderness break tasted on something that
= looked like frozen dew The mama fell on
i the dew and the dew evaporated and left a
, pulverized material, white and looking like
frost, but it was mama, and of that they
: ate, So now this morning, mixed with the
y frozen dew Of my text, there is mama on
:, which we can breakfast our souls. Youe y
u the frost kills. Yes, IL kills some I'll 3
u but we have already seen that it gives
health and life TO Others. This gospel is
the SAVIOR of life untn life ar of death unt n