Milford chronicle., 1893-12-08


ard see the factories Of lace at Brussels"
saws some one, Why. within 20 feet Of
where YOU awaken some December msrn-
ing you will see richer lace interviewer for
your window panes. by divine fingers "Oh,
il could see the factories of silk at Lyons"
saws some one. Why, without leaving your
home on the north side Of your own house
on Christmas morning you may see where /
the Lord has spun silken threads about 1
YOUR windows this way and that-em- /
broideries such as no one but God can work. |
Alas. for this gloriication Of the distant /
and this belittling of the close byl This /
crossing of oceans and paying high adj /
mission in expenses to look at that which !
is not half as well done as something we !
can see by crossing our own room, and I
free of charged This praising of Raphaels I
hundreds Of years gone, when the greater |
Raphael, the FROST will soon be busy at 4
the entrances to your own home
Next | speak Of the frost as a physician. /.
Standing at the gates of New York harbOr /.
autumn before last, the frost drove back I
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 depart
ed. The frost is a physician that doctors
cities, nations and continents. He medi-
cines the world. Quinine for malaria, anti
febrile for typhnds sulphonal for rsleepless-
ness, antispasmOdic for disturbed nerves,
but in all therapeutics there Is no remedy
like the small pellets prepared by the cold,
and no physician so skillful or so mighty rs
the frost
Scotland has had great physicians, but
her greatest doctors have been the Aberne-
thies and Abercrombies that have come
down over the highlands horsed on the
north wind. England has had her great
physicians, but her greatest doctors have
been the Andrew Clarkes and the Macken-
zies who appeared the first night the fields
Of England were trimmed with white. Amer
lea has had its great physicians, but her
greatest doctors have been the Willard
Parkers and Valentine Motifs who landed
from bleak skies while our fingers were be-
numbed and our ears tingled with the cold.
Oh. it is high time that you add another
line to your liturgyl It is high time that
you make an addepdum to your prayers.
1t is high time that you enlarge the cata-
logue Of your blessings.
Thank God for frost 1t is the best of all
germiodes. It is the only hope IN baeteriol-
ogy 1t 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 stimu-
liant which has no reaction. The best com
mentary on is / had while walking near
here one cool morning with my brother
4 John, who spent the most Of his life as
missionary In China, and in that part of it
| where there are no frosts. He said there
1 was a tingling gladness in his nerves inde-
4 scribable, and an almost intoxication Of de
/ light from the fact that it was the first
/ time for years he had felt the sensation of
/ frost. We complain of it, we scold it, we
! frown upon it, when we ought to be stirred
bv it to gratitude and hoist it on doN-
ology.
But must 60 farther and speak Of the
frost as a ieweler. As the snow is frozen
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God trans
forms it from a liquid into crystal 1t IS
the dew glorified. 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 ltY"
God there asks Job if he knows the parent
ace of the frost He inquiries about its
pedigree. He suggests that JOB study up
tbe frost's genealogical line. A minute be-
lore AUOu udA hShNA ehuhAN NAAo -
a raindrop in words that years ago gave me
a suggestive text for a sermon, Hath the
rain a father?" But now the Lord Al
mighty is catechising Job about the frost.
He practically says: do you know its IA
tberP Do YOU know its mother9 In what
cradle of the leaves did the wind rock itf
THE hoary frost of heaven, who hath gen
dered itY"
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
December a whole continent is found be-
snrept with diamonds, the result OF one
nights work by this jeweler.
! Do Won make the depreciatOry remark
that the frost is impermanent and will last
only two or three hours? What OF thati
We 90 into London tower and look at the
crown Jewels of England, but we are IN g
procession that the guards keep moving on
and five minutes or less are your only cp
.. portunity Of looking at those crown Jew
.. els. but at the crown jewels bestarred o.
the frost in parks and fields you may stand
Z to look deliberately ana for hours, ana h'
one to tell you to move on.
NATURES DIADEM OF BEAUTY.
Oh, these regalias and dladems OF Deaut!
Auug out of heavenl Kings and queens OF
8 celebrative days have come riding through
: the streets throwing handfuls OF silver an'
: gold among the people, but the queen o
II fa fba only rlgl
+ enough to throw pearls, and the king o
+ frost the only king rich enough to throw
5 onals and sapphires and diamonds. Home
: describes necklace ofamber given to Penel
. one. but the frost necklaces o continent
a The carcanet of precious stones given Z
u Harmonic had piniOns of orange jasper AM
n white moonstCne and Indian agate, but !
u was n misfortune to any one who owned o
Inherited it, and its history, generation an
u or generation, was a history of disaster, bu
u the repalia of frost is the good fortune
= every morning that owns 1t.
e The imDerial household Of Louis Nv
;, ,ould not afford the diamond necklae
h ,vhicb had been ordered for Queen Mari
E. Antoinette. and it was stolen and take
= anart and lost, but the necklace that tn
d frost Duts on the wintry morning, thoug
l. oade Of as many brilliants as the Withere
Ie glass blades, is easily afforded by divin
s. opulence and is never lost, but after II
Z nse in the coronation of the fields is take
9 hack TO heaven. o men and women, g
= customed to 90 into ecstasy when in toreil
1 travel YOU come upon the historical ger
. of nations, whether the jewel be called
y u Mountain of Glory, or the Sea Of Light,
l' the Crown Of the Moon, or the Eye OF ,
U lah. or the Star of Sarawak, or the kon
moor Iimplead you study the jewels streV
y All round your wintry home and real
~ ~ that ''by the breath Of God frost is giveI
y But goa step farther and speak Of t
y frost as an evangelist, and text OF scr
a. ture is not Of much use to me unless | c
~ find the gospel in it. The Israelites in
~ wilderness breakfasted on something Il
Il, looked like frozen dew. The mannafeli
y the dew. and tho dew evaporated and lei
~ pulverized material, white and looking 4
~ frost, but it was mamma, and OF that Il
nd ate. So now this morning, mixed with
frozen dew of nv text. there is mama