The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-15

bhefedpcuticS tnere Is no remedy Ink
the small pellets prepared b
the cold, and no physician s.
skillful or so mighty as tn,
front. Scotland has had great physi
clans. but her greatest doctors hav
been the Abernethies and Abercrombie
that have come down over the High
lands horsed on the north wind. En-
gland has had her great physicians, Blu
her greatest doctors have been the An
drew Clarkes and the Mackenzies VIII,
appeared the first night the fields o
England were trimmed with white
America has had its great physicians
bnt her greatest doctors have been tn,
Willard Parkers and Valentine Mott
who landed from bleak skies while oul
fingers were benumbed and our ear
tingled with the cold. Oh, it is higl
time that you add another line to you,
liturgy. 1t is high time that you make
an addendum to your prayers. 1t i:
high time that you enlarge the cata.
logue of your blessings Thank God
for frost! 1t is the best of all germi-
cides 1t is the only hope in bacteria
logy. 1t is the medicament of CONT
nents. 1t is the salvation of our tenn
| perate 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 nv brother John,
who spent the most of his life as mis-
sionary in China, and in that part of it
where there are no frosts. He said
there was tingling gladness in his
nerves indescribable, and an almost in
toxication of delight from the fact that
it was the first time for years he had
felt the sensation of frost We COM
plain of it, we scold it, we frown upon
it, when we ought to be stirred by it to
gratitude and hoist it on doxology.
But | must go further and speak of
the frost as jeweler As the snow is
frozen rain, so the frost is frozen dew.
God transforms it from liquid into a
crystal. 1t is the dew glorified. In the
thirty-eigth chapter of that inspired
drama, the Book of Job, God saws to
the inspired dramatist, with ecstatic
Interrogation: 1.-THE hoary frost of
heaven, who hath gendered it?'' God
there asks Job if he knows the parent
age of the frost. He inquiries about its
pedigree. He suggests that Job study
up the frosts genealogical line. A
minute before God had asked about the
parentage of rain-drop in words that
years ago gave me suggestive text
for a sermon: Hath the rain a
father? But now the Lord Almighty
is catechising Job about the frost. lie
practically says: do you know its
father? Do you know its mother? In
what cradle of the leaves did the wind
rock it? The hoary frost of heaven.
who hath gendered it?'" He is a stu
pid 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 kind |
ness and beauty of God written in bios
SONS on the orchard. in sparkles on
the lake, in the stars of the sky, in |
frost on the meadows. The greatest |
leweler of all the earth is the frost.
There is nothing more wonderful in all |
Some morning in De
cember whole continent is found be-
'prent 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
,nly two or three hours? What of
hat? We go into London tower and
ook at the crown Jewels of England.
Dut we are in procession that the
yuards keep moving on, and five
minutes or less are your only emporium
ty of looking at those crown Jewels,
'ut at the crown jewels bestarred of
he frost in parks and fields you may
tand to look deliberately and for
lours, and no one to tell you to move
N.
o, these regalias and diadems of
'eauty flung out of Heaven. Kings
nd queens on celebrative DAYS have
ONE riding through the streets, throw
ng handfuls of silver and gold among
he people, but the queen of the winter
norning is the only queen rich enough
o throw pearls, and the king of frost 5
he only king rich enough to throw {
pals and sapphires and diamonds S
But | go step further and speak of I
he frost as an evangelist. and text q
f Scripture is not of much use to me c
Mess | can find the gospel in it. The I
sraelites in the wilderness break I
lsted on something that looked like c
'ozen dew. The mamma fell on the
ew, and the dew evaporated and left
pulveriZed material, white. and look
lg like frost, but it was mamma, and e
that they ate. So now this morning {
liked with the frozen dew of my text, a
lere Is mamma on which we NAV e
our souls You say the frost S
ills Yes. it kills some things but b
e have already seen that it gives a
ealth and life to others. This gospel
the SAVIOR of life unto death or of g
cath unto death. As the frost is "
lightly, the gospel is mighty. As the t
ost purifes so the grace of Goi puri- t.
IS. As the frost bestars the ear h, so b
ace eejewels the soul. As the frost | j
'epares for food many things that a
herwise would be inedible, So the Ii
oSt of trial ripens and prepares food W
r the soul In the tight grip of the Il
ost the hard shells of walnut and Il
Iestnut and hickory open. and the lux Il
les OF the woods come into our laps or Al
ION our tables; so the frost of trial II
kes many a hard and richly shell and b
ushes it until that Vaich stung the u
III now feeds it TFre are passages fo
Scripture that once were enigmas, fe
lzzles. riddles, and impossible for you 81
understand, but the frosts of trouble OF
ter while exposed the full meaning til
your soul. You said: Il do not see h,
~ David keeps rolling over in his til
aims the story of how he was pur- tn
ed and prosecuted" He describes sc