Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-12-15
REV. DR., TAIM.GE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: THE Mission or THE FROST. "


ist OF pianist than to put his finger on u key
OF the instrument ard have It make no re-
Spouse. Though all the other KEYS are in
full play, that one silence destroys the music.
So In the great cathedral OF Nature, II ono
part fails TO praise the Lord tina harmony is
halted and lost. While fire and hail, snow
and vapor, respond 10 the touch OF lnSplra-
ton, II the frost made no utteranc' the
orchestral rendering would be hopelessly
damaged and the harmony forever incom-
plete. am more glad than l can tell that
the white key OF the frost sounds forth as
nightly as any OF the other keys, AMI when
David touches it in the Psalms it sounds
forth the words, "He scattercth the boar
frost like ashes, and when job touches it in
my text II resounds with the words, "By the
breath OF God frost is given.
As no one seems disposed 10 discuss the
mission OF frost, depending on divine help
undertake IL. This is the first Sabbath Of
winter. The leaves are down. The warmth
has gone out OF the air. The birds have
made their winged march southwark. The
landscape has been SCARED by the autumnal
equinox. The huskArs have rifled the corn
shocks. The night sky has shown the usual
meteoric restlessness Of November. Three
seasons OF the year are past and tho fourth
and last has entered. Another element now
comes In TO bless and adorn and instruct tho
world. 1t is the frost. The palaces OF this
king are far up in the arctic. Their walls
are glittering conGelation. Windsor castles
and Tuileries and winter palaces AMI
Kenilworths and Alhambras OF Ice.
temples with pendant chandeliers Of
Ice, thrones OF iceberg on which
eternal silence reigns, theaters on
whose stage eternal cold dramatlzes eternal
winter, pillars of ice, arches of lee, crowns
To-, ,lo -. - La IL,
mountains of ice, domnions OF ice-etcrnal
frigidity From those hard, white, Furnished
portals King Frost descends and waves his
silvery scepter over our temperate zone
You will soon hear his heel on the skntin;
pond. You already feel his breath in the
night wind. BY most considered an enemy
coming here TO benumb and hinder AMI
slay, | shall show you that the frost il u
friend, with benediction divinely pro-
nounced, and charged and surcharged with
Lessons potent, benetlcent and tremendous
the Bible seven times alludes to the frost
and we must not ignore 1t. "By the breath
OF God frost is given"
First think OF frost az painter. He be-
gins his work on the leaves and continues il
on the window panes. With palette covered
with all manner OF colors in his LEFT hand
and pencil OF crystal in his right hand, he
sits down before the humblest bush in the
latter part OF September and begins the
sketching OF the leaves. Now he puts upon
the foliage n faint pallor. and then touch o.
brown, and then hue OF orange, and last a
fame offlre The beech and ash and oak ar,
turned first into sunrises and then into sun
sets OF vlvldness and splendor. Allthc leaves
are penciled one by one, but sometimes q
whole forest in the course OF Il few day
shows great velocity OF work.
. BIO M, h nf,,N,z
q summer day three portraits OF life size hu
the frost in ten days can paint ten noun
tains in life size. 1t makes the last DAYS o
an autumnal wood the days OF its chlrfr~r
glory LuIembourgs in the Adronlacks
Louvres in the Sierra Nevadas, Vaticans it
the White Mountains. The work OF oihc
painters you must see in the right light /,
fully appreciate, but the paintings OF tn
frost in all lights are enchanting from tn,
time when the curtain otthe morning liftstt
the time when the curtain OF the night drops
Michael Angelo put upon one ceiling hi
representation OF the last Judgment. but til,
frost represents universal conilugrutiC.
upon 5000 miles OF stretched out graulrd
Leonardo da Vinci put upon few feet %
canvas our Lords last supper for all ages I,
admire, but the fr st puts the cleaning cha,
ices Of the imperial glories OF the last sup
per OF the dying year in the heights aut
lengths and breadths OF tho Aleghauir-
When Titan first gaznd upon u sketch O
| Corregglo, he was wrought up into sue
ecstacy that he cried out, at | were no
Titan, would be Correggio," and 40 gro,
md empowering are the autumnal seen,
Of our American forests that ono force q
nature might we'll e1caim to another, "If
were not the sunlight | would be the frost
Rugendas, tho German painter sutrcrin
Ln4 n Ia ri ~ iul
learned to paint with his left hand. hut tn
frosts paints with both hands, AMI has d
them more skill than Ill the RembrandtS an
Ruhens and Vests and Poussins and Alder
Durers and Paul Neroneses and Cluu T.
gathered in one long art gallery. But tn
| door of that great museum Of autumual 60
oring Is now closed for twalvcmonth an
another spectacle just as wonderful is no'
open. put YOU on the alert and ask yOl I
put your children on the alert.
Tired OF working on tho leaves, the fros
will soon turn to the window panrs. 70
| will soon waken on a cold morning ana fin
! that tho windows OF your home have durn
/ the night been adorned with curves, VT
/ coronets, with eXquisiteness, with POM
| with almost supernatural spectacle. The
! you will appreciate what my text says rs
! declares, "By the breath OF Col frost
| given You will see on tho window pan
traced there by the frost, whole gardens
beauty-ierns, orchids dafToiils, heliotrope
china asters, fountains, statues, hounds 0
the chase, roebucks plunging into the stream
battle scenes with dying and dead. cat
falques of kings, triumphal processions-ln
as the morning sun breaks through YOU wi
see cities On fire, and bombardmrnt wit
bursting shell, and illuminations as for sou
great VICTORY corona''ons ana Angels on u
"l.iH'
an hlSnt loIg while you were si3epihS I
i itost was "orking, anu you ought nor II
tno warmth op.i'cI"to iun scene uht'i yo
u, nnVe nulnlreu 1t, s.uui1l H. aDsorneu IT, .
", ia your memory tor pcrpG'uhl r'lresI
nleIt anu rea'lZou ..o Iort1 ana inaSh,'u.
anu iHtensny ol my teN, by the brr'ta
S nou ir1St ~ given. on, wna 70
nhNo "hat resources are lLnPlloa ny lio 'a u,
tha' . nu rs aoIo ~ w 'hnt oy lno IhSor o III
lIoss I'.y TINES IN que winter anu On hli
uEeu Thousand "lhuo" Pahos lor 'no"7'h.
Vi winters
inc SIohI ART ea'erles Oh venice anu M
pies ana Dresuen are caroluiy Huarle
anu governments pFotec' thelil, lor once los