The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-15
KING FROST.
How Gcd Crowns the Valleys and
The Mountains.
DR.. Talmage Observes the Hand of the
Divine Workman in Its Beauty and
Its Bencficence-Applicatio
and Illustrations.


nearly twenty-five years have gathere
in the Fist, Second and Third Presby
terrain tabernacles successfully, d.
Talmage preached this gospel sermon
after commenting upon an appropriat
Scripture lesson and giving out til
most inspiring hymns. The subjec
was: THE Mission of the Frost
Text, Job xxxvii. 10: by the breat
of God frost is given
Nothing is more embarrassing to al
organist or pianist than to put his fin
ger on the key of an instrument an,
have it make no response. Though al
the other keys are in full play, tina
one silence destroys the music So il
the great cathedral of nature if ont
part fails to praise the Lord the
harmony is halted and lost. While fir,
and hail, snow and vapor, respond t,
the touch of inspiration. if the fros
made no utterance the orchestral rem.
dering would be hopelessly damaged
and the harmony forever incomplete
am more glad than can tell that the
white key of the frost sounds forth as
nightly as any of the other keys, and
when David touches it in the Psalms il
sounds forth the words: HE scattereth
the hoar frost like ashes" and when
Job touches it in my text it resounds
with the words: "'By the Ireath of God
frost is given"
As no one seems disposed to discuss
the mission of frost, depending on di-
vine help. undertake it. This is the
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are down. The warmth has gone out
OF the air. The birds have made their
winged march southwark. The land
scape has been SCARED by the autumn
nal equinox. The huskers have rified
the corn shocks. The night sky has
shown the usual meteoric restlessness
of November. Three seasons of the
year are past and the fourth, and last,
has entered. Another element now
comes in to bless and adorn and in
struct the world. 1t is the frost The
palaces of this king are far up in the
Arctic. Their walls are glittering con-
gelation. Windsor Castles and Tuiler-
les and Winter Palaces and Kenil-
worths and Alhambras of ice
Temples with pendant chande-
liers of ice. Thrones of ice
berg, on which eternal silence reigns.
Theaters on whose stage, eternal cold
dramatizes eternal winter Pillars of
ice. Arches of ice. Crowns of ice Chari-
OTIS of ice. Sepulchers of ice Mount
aims of ice. Dominions of ice. Eternal
frigidity! From those hard, white.
FURNISHED portals King Frost descends.
and waves his silvery scepter over our
temperate zone You will soon hear
ms heel on the skating pond. You al
ready feel his breath in the night wind.
BY most considered an enemy coming
here to benumb and hinder and slay,
l shall show you that the frost is
friend, with benediction divinely pro-
nounced, and charged and surcharged
with lessons potent, beneficent and
tremendous. The Bible seven times
salludes to the frost, and we must not
ignore it. BY the breath of God frost
is given"
First, think of frost as a painter.
lie begins his work on the leaves and |
continues it on the window-panes. |
With palette covered with all manner
of colors in his lef hand, and pencil of |
crystal in his right hand. he sits down
before humblest bush in the latter part
of September. and begins the sketch
ing of the leaves Now he puts upon
the foliage a faint pallor, and then a
touch of brown, and then a hue of
orange, and then flame of fire. The
beech and ash and oak are turned first
into sunrise and then into sunsets of
vividness and splendor. All the leaves
are peneiled one by one, but sometimes
a whole forest in the course of few
days shows great velocity of work
Weenix, the Dutch painter, could make
IN summer day three portraits of life
size, but the frost in ten days can paint
ten mountains in life size. 1t makes
the last days of an autumnal wood the
day of its chiefest glory
But the door of that great museum of
autumnal coloring is now closed for a
twelve-month, and another spectacle.
just as wonderful is about to open. |
put you on the alert, and ask you to
put your children on the alert Tired
Of working on the leaves, the frost will
soon turn to the window panes You
will soon waken on cold morning and
ind that the windows of Your home
have during the night been adorned
with curves, with coronets, with ex- ,
luisiteness, with pomp, with almost ,
spectacle. Then YOU will
what my text says, as it de-
clares: BY the breath of God frost is
given." You will see on the window ,
zane, traced there by the frost, whole I
rardens OF beauty, ferns, orchids. DAFT i
odils, heliotropes, china asters, fount- {
Tins, statues, hounds on chase, roe T
1ucks plunging into the stream, battle (
Genes with dying and dead, cata- f
alques of kings, triumphal process Q
ions, and as the morning sun breaks r
through you will see cities on fire, and @
'ombardment with bursting shell, and {
as for some great victory, f
and angels on the wing. f
III night long, while you were Sleep c
ng, the frost was working, and you u
ught not let the warmth obliterate II
he scene until you have admired it, t
tudied it, absorbed it, set it up in C
our memory for perpetual refresh s.
lent, and realized the force O
nd magnitude and intensity of D
~ text: by the breath of I,
+od frost is given" Oh. what a
cd we have. What resources are I,
nplied by the fact that he is able to W
o that by the finger of the frost fifty d
mes in one minute and on a hundred S,
window panes for thousands h
winters. The great art galleries of s.
enice and Naples and Dresden are b,
arefully guarded, and governments Ii
rotect them, for, once lost, they can o.,