The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-01-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Miesion Of Frost, with Bene-
diction Divinely Pronounced.


. | AS'. =. Dc WIN Adiindgc Oeklvero
. the following discourse on s'The Mis-
: sion of the Frost in his Brooklyn
ta bernacle, taking for the text:
BY the breath Of God frost is given.--Jo
: xxxvfi.. TO-
Nothing is more embarrassing to al
: organist or pianist than to put his fin
ger on key of the instrument AMI
: have 1t make no response. Though al
; the other keys are in full play, thai
one silence destroys the music So IL
the great cathedral of nature, if ons
part fails to praise the Lord the har.
mony is halted and lost. While FIRE
and hail. snow and vapor respond to
; the touch of inspiration, if the frost
made no utterance the orchestral rend
ering 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 it sounds forth the words: ssHe
scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. .
and when Job touches it in nv text 1t
resounds with the words: .By the
breath of God frost is given"
AS no one seems disposed to dis
cuss the mission of Frost, depending
on Divine help. undertake it. This
is the first Sabbath of winter. The
leaves are down. The warmth has
gone out of the air. The birds have
made their winged march southwark.
Ihe landscape has been SCARED by the
autumnal equinox. The huskers have
rlfied the corn shocks. The night sky
has shown the usual meteoric restive-
ness 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
congclation. Windsor castles and Tuii-
leries and Winter palaces and Ken
llworths and Alhambras of ice.
Temples with penchant chandel-
icrs of ice. Thrones of ice
berg, on which eternal silence reipns
Theaters on whose stage eternal cold
aranatizes eternal winter. Pillars of
ice Arches of ice. Crowns of ice.
Chariots OF ice. Sepulchers of ice.
Mountains 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 his heel on the skating
pond. You already feel his breath in
the night wind. By most considered
an enemy coming here to benumb and
hinder and slay, I shall show you that
the frost is friend, with benediction
divinely pronounced, and charged and
surcharged with lessons potent, benefi-
cent and tremendous. The Bible seven
times alludes to the frost, and we
must not ignore it. by the breath of
God frost is given.
First. notice Frost as a nainter
DE begins his work on the leaves. and
continues it on the window-panes.
With palette covered with all manner.
d colors in his left hand, and pencil /.
II crystal in his right, he sits down be-
ore the humblest bush in the latter
'art OF September, and begins the /
ketching of the leaves. Now he puts | :
lpon the foliage faint pallor, and :
hen touch of brown, and then hue I
4 orange, and then a flame of fire. /;
The beech and ash and oak are turned | 1
lrst into sunrise and then into sunsets =
t vividness and splendor. All the :
caves are penciled one by one. but O
ometimes whole forest in the course z
a few days shows great velocity of a
York. Weenix, the Dutch painter, .
ouid make in summer day three por- G
rats of life size, but the Frost 4
ten days can paint ten mountains !
life size. 1t makes the last davs s,
an autumnal wood the day of ite y
nlefest glory. Luxembourgs in the q
dirondacks, Louvres in the Sierra
evadas, Vaticans in the White mount Il
ms. The work of other painters YOU q,
nst see in the right light to fully an =
reciate, but the paintings of Frost in +
lights are enchanting, and from the o,
me when the curtain of the morning 4,
its to the time when the curtain of II
re night drops. Michael Angelo put l.
BON one ceiling his representation of A.
e Last Judgment, but the Frost rep n
sents universal confagration upon ~
rec hundred miles of stretched-out Is
andeur. Leonardo de vinci put upon q,
Few feet OF canvas our Lords Last q
'pper for all ages to admire, but the 10
'ost puts the cleaning chalices of the n
perial glories of the Last Supper of ~
e dying year on the heights and ~
ngthsand breadths of the Alleghanies. mi
hen Titan first gazed upon a sketch r,
Correggio he was wrought up into r.,
en- an ecstasy that he cried out: "Jf i
We're not Titan i would be Cor a.
ygio, and SO great and oyerpower- 81
are the autumnal scenes of our 4,
nerican forests that one force of ma -,
re might well exclaim to another: -,
were not the sunlight would be W.
frost. Rugendas, the German rir
inter, suffering from weakness in his In
mt hand, laboriously learned to ha,
mt with his left hand, but the Frost an,
nts with both hands, and has in thu
I'm more skill than all the Rem ar,
lndts, and Rubens, and Vests. and -.
ussins, and Albert Durers, and Paul cru
roneses, and Claudes gathered in sou
e long art gallery. -,
But the door of that great museum m,
autumnal coloring is now closed for r.
and another specta- AFT,
just as wonderful, is about In ~
N. | put You on the alert. Tired ,vb
on the leaves The f,.x,sx ,...,,