Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-12-07

morning You will see richer lace ,
,n'erwoven for your window panes by
Dlvine fingers. s''Oh, if | could see fac
tories OF silk at Lyons" saws some one.
"hy without leaving your home, on
tne north side of your own house on
Nhristmas morning you may see where
the Lord las spun silken threads about
your windows this way and that. En-
broideries such as none but God can
work. Alas, for this glortication of
the distant and this BETTING of the
Closely.
This crossing of oceans and paying a
high admission in EXPENSES to look at
that which is not half rs well done rs
something we can see by crossing our
own room and free of charge This
praising of Raphaels hundreds of years
gone. when the greater Raphael. the
Frost. will soon be busy at the entrance
to your own home
Next speak of the frost as Il physi-
clan. 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
further" From Memphis and New
Orleans and Jacksonville, he smote
the fever plague till it reeled
back and departed. The frost is a
physician that doctors cities nations
and ccltinents. lie medicines the
world. Quininc for malaria, antife-
brile for typhoids, sulphonal for sleep
lessness, anti-spasmodic for disturbed
nerves, but in all Therapeutics there is
no remedy like the small pellets pre-
pared by the cold, and no physician SO
skillful or as mighty as the frost
Scotland has had great physicians,
but her greatest doctors have been the
and Abercrombies that
have come down over the highlands
horsed the north wind. England
hos had her great physicians, but her
greatest doctors have been the Andrew
Clarkes and the MaclSenzies who APP
peared the first night the fields of Eng
land were rimed with white. America
has had its great physicians; but her
greatest doctors have been the Willard
Parkers and Valentine Motifs who land
ed from bleak skies while our fingers
were benumbed and our ears tingled
with the cold. Oh, it is high time that
You added another line to your liturgy.
1t is high time that you make an ad-
dendum to your prayers 1t Is high
time that you enlarge the catalogue
of your blessings. Thank God for the
frost. 1t is the best of all germicides.
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
stimulant which has no reaction.
The best commentary on it ever had
while walking near here one cool morn
ing with my brother John. who spent
the most of his life as n missionary in
China, and in that part of it where
there are no frosts He said there was
tingling gladness in his nerve indie
scribable. and an almost intoXication
of delight from the fact that it was the
first time for years he had felt the SEN
sation 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 it on a doxology.
But / must go further and sT~-l- "f
the frost as jeweler. As the ,uyv =
frozen rain, SO the frost is frol, II fav.
God transforms it from a liquid j 20
crystal. 1t is the dew glor rec In
the SSth chapter of that Ms red
drama, the Book of Job, Goo 81 S to
the inspired dramatist, witt, &c tatic
interrogation: THE hoary 'r of
heaven, who hath gendered it?' God
there asks Job if he knows the parent
age of frost He inquiries about its
pedigree.
He suggests that Job study up the
frost's genealogical line. A minute be-
age of a rair-drop in words that years
ago gave me q suggestive text for q
sermon: "Hath the rain. q father?"
But now the Lord Almighty IL Ssegs
chising Job about the frost He -.
u says: '''Do you know
18th pot your, kn9w his mo the
wilma .asi.ii s ne J. {es 1'. frost
81 u srSn, 18th gendef-.--. 49,
s5upid Christian who THINKS so
much o; the printed and bound Bible
That ne pegleets the Old Testament of
;ho 6eiIs; non reads the wisdom and
Aindness and bauty 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
nothing more wonderful in all crystal
Biography.
Some morning in December a W..
continent is found besprent with liz.
monds, the result of one. nights work
by this jeweler. Do you'mak IT, IL
predatory remark that the fros - IA
permanent and will last only two
three hours? What of that? SO 81
into London Tower and look d. .ne
Crown jewels of England, but we are
in q procession that guards keep mo-
ing on, and five minutes or less arr
your only opportunity of looking at
those crown jewels, but at the crown
jewels Bestarred of the fro IT in parks
and fields, you may stand to look de-
'iberately and for hours, and no one to
tell you to move on.
o, these regafas and diadems of
beauty flung out of Heaven! Kings
and queens on celebrative days have
come riding through the streets, throw
ing handfuls of silver and gold amor.
the people, but the queen of the winter
morning is the queen rich enough to
throw pearls, and the king of the
frost the only king rich enough to
throw sapphires and diamonds. Homer
describes a necklace of amber given to
Penelope, but the frost necklaces a
continent The carcanet of precious
stones given to Harmonic had pinions
of orange jasper and white moonstone
and Indian agate, but it was mis-
fortune to any one who owned or in
herited it, and its history, generation
after generation, was history of dis
aster; but the regalia of frost is the
good fortune of every morning that
own it.
The imperial household of Louis XVI.
could not afford the diamond necklace
which had been ordered for Queen Ma
rie Antoinette, and it was stolen and
taken apart and lost, but the necklace
that the frost puts on the wintry morn
ing. though made Of as many brilliants
as the withered grass blades, is easily
afforded by Divine opulence, and is
never lost, but after its use in the coro-
nation of the fields is taken back to
Heaven. o men and women, accus-
toned to go into ecstacy when in for
eign travel you come upon the histori-
cal gems of nations, whether the jew
els be called The Mountains of Glory"
or the Sea of Light" or 1.-THE Crown
of the Moon" or The Eye of Allah,
or THE Star of Saravak," or THE
Koh-i-noor," I implead you study the
jewels strewn all around your wintry
home and realize that by the breath
of God frost is given"
But go a step further, and speak of
the frost as an evangelist; and a text
of Scripture is not of much use to me
unless can find the Gospel in it. The