The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-08

yphoids, suIphonal for sleeplessness, anti.
'plsmodic for disturbed nerves, but in ah
therapeutics there is no remedy like the
mail pellets prepared by the cold, ana no
physician 50 skilful or so mighty rs thelroSt.
Scotland has hal great physicians, but her
r~raatest doctors have been the Abernethies
nj Ahprcrombies that have coma down
Iver the highlands horsed on the north wind.
.ngland has had her great physicians. but
. ~-rsatest doctors have been the Andrew
oar tes and the Mackenzies who appeareu
the first night tina fields OF England W ~
trimmed with waite. America has had lis
;rsat physicians. but her greatest doctors
nave been the willard Parkers and Valentine
Motifs who landed from bleak skies while
1ur fin yers were benumbe1 and our ears
singled with the cold. Oh. it is high time
that you add another line to your liturgy !
It is high time that you make an addeniun
to your prayers. 1t is high time that you
enlarge the catalogue OF your blessin 80.
Thank God for frost. 1t is the best of all
| gernicides. 1t is the only hope in bacteriol-
ogy. 1t is the medicament OF continents. IL
is The salvation of our temperate zone. 1t is
the best tonic. that God ever gave the human
race. 1t is the only strong stimulant which
has no reaction. The best commentary on
it / had while walking near here one cool
morning with my brother John, who spent
the most Of his life as a missionary in China,
and in that part of 1t where there are no
lTOSlS. Il Shll NtNtLO IA "a NAh6hAh7 -"
ness in his nerves indescribable, AMI an ! most
| intoxication Of delight from the ia It that it
| was the first time for years he had felt the
| sensation Of frost. We 20 nplain OF it, we
scold it. we frown upon it, when we ought
to be stirred by it to gratitude and hoist it on
q doXology.
But [ must go farther an | speak Of the
4 frost as a jeweier. AS the snow is frozen
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God trans
forms it from a liquid into a crystal. 1t IS
the dew glorifed. 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 gendered itY' God there
| asks Job IL he knows the ~parentaSe OF
the frost. He inquiries about its petigree.
| He suggests that Job study up the froSts
genealogical line. A minute before God hal
| asked about the parentage OF a raindrop IN
words that years ago gave me a suggestive
| text for a sermon. 'Hath the rain a father?"
! But now the Lord Almighty is catechising
Job about the frost. He practically says :
500 you know its father? Do you know its
mother? In what cradle of the leaves did
the wind it? hoary frost OF heaven.
who hath gendered itT"
He is a 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 ieweler of all the earth is the frost.
| There is nothing more wonderful in all
crystallography. Some morning in Decem-
| Der a whole continent Is found besprent with
diamonds. the result OF one nights work by
this jeweler.
Do you make the depreciatory re mark hat
the frost is impermanent and will last only
| two or three hours? What of that? We go
into TannIOn fnVUar and Innk lt tho crow
| jewels of England, but We are ina procession
that the guards keep moving on, and fivd
minutes or less are your only opportunity OF
looking at those crown jewels, but at the
| crown jewels bestarred OF the frost in parks
and fields you may stand tolooS deliberately
| and for hours, and no oneto tell you to move
on. !
Oh, these regalias and diadems of beauty
| flung out of heaven Kings and queens on
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 enough
to throw pearls, and the king of frost the
only king rich enough to throw opals and
| sapphires and diamonds. Homer describes
| 4 necklace of amber given to Penelope, but
| the frost necklaces a continent. The carcaDet
Of precious stones given to had
pintons of orange jasper and white moon
stone and Indian agate, but it was a misfor-
Juno TO any one VINO OWntu OF lluefioi II,
an its history, generation after generation,
was a history of disaster, but the regalia Of
frost is the good fortune of every morning
that owns it.
The imperial household OF Louis XVI
could not afford the diamond necklace which
| hal been ordered for Queen Marie Antoinette,
and 1t was stolen and taken apart and lost,
hut the necklace that the FROST puts on the
| wintry morning, though made of as many
brillIants as the witherad glass blades. is
easily afforded by divine opulencc and Is
never lost, but after its use in the coronation
of the fields is taken back to heaven. o men
and women, accustomed 10 go into ecstasy
when in foreign travel you come upon the
historical gems of Nations, whether the jewel
be called the Mountain of Glory, or the Sea
OF Light, or the Grown of the Moon, or the
Eye of Allah, or the Sta of Sarawak, OF the
Koh-i-noor, l implead you study the jewels
strewn all round your wintry home and rea-
lie that soy the breath of God frost is
given"
But I go q step farther and speak OF the
frost as an evangelist, and a text of Scripture
is not of much use to me unless l eau find
the gospel in it. The Israelites in the will
derness breakfasted on something that
looked like frozen dew, and the dew evapor-
ated 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 frozen dew OF my text, there Is
mama on which we can breakfast our souls.
You say the frost kills. Yes, 1t kills some
things, but we have already seen that it gives
health and life to others. This gospel is the
| SAVIOR OF life unto life or of death unto death.
As the frost is mighty, the gospel is mighty.
As the frost descends from heaven. the gospel
descends from heaven. By the breath Of
God frost Is given. By the breath OF Godthe
gospel is given. As the frost %puri1es, so the
grace OF God purifes. As the frost bestars
Tho a.rth -, ,Yraoa haiauvnl= tha EOut As fbn
irost prepares for food many things thai
otherwise would beinedible, so the frost o
trials ripens and prepares food for the soul. In
ihe tight g-ip OF the frost the hard shells o
walnut and c 'estnut and hickory open. and
the luxuries o. the WOO ls come into our laps
or upon u tables so the frost o:trial takes
many a harl AMI prickly shell and brushes
It until that which stung the soul now
feeds 1t.
There are passages OF Scripture that once
were enigmas, puzzles, riddles and impossi-
btlities for you to understand, but the frosts
oitron5le after awhile expose lthefull mean
n; to your soul. You said, 81 DO not see
WY D1yii k3vp5 rolling over in his psalm
the story OF how he was pursued and perse-
.utsi l." IL describes hims eff as surroun lei
" bees. Hs says, "They composed me
scout like bees yea, they comp ssAi me
a iout ike bees" You think what an eX-
ays ,rl5ins thing for him to ex ilaim, "Odt
OF tlo uspshS OF neil nave L ctlel unto inee,
o Lor1i'
AMI there is so mu,h OF that style Of lam
ntation in his writings you think he OYER
.oes it, but after awhile the frost co mes upon
YOU iu 1.-THE shape of persecution, and yo1 are
Hu * with this censure aud sju * with that
defamation, and stusk with some falsehoo l.,
lies in swarms ars buzzing, buzzins
tnout your ears, aud at last you understand
,y,i!t David meant when he said, ''fney
~.omp1ssed me about like bees yea, they
uni assed me about Ike BEES and you so
Town under nervous prostration and feel
| that you are as far down as David when he
,riei, ''Out OF the depths of hellP'
! What opened all those chapters that
| hitherto had no appropriateness? Frosts!
For a long while the Bible seemed lopsided
md a disproportionate amount of 1t given
| up TO the consolatory. Why page after page
/ md chapter after chapter and book after
| oook in the Bible taken M with %allevla-
| ions, with PUBLICATIONS, with condolences
| The book seems like an apothecaty store
| with one-half of the shelves occupied with
baIsams. Why such a suPerhutty OF bal
| sans? Bat after awhile the membraneous
| .roun carrias oT your child. or YOUR health