Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-25
CHARITY,
Gods Heater, That Fires the human
Heart With Sympathy.
Cseless to Preach the Gospel 60 Empty
stomaehs-Christ Fed the Multitude
Before Preaching on the Mount
Rev. Dr. Tnimage's Sermon.

IOre Ills
The almanac says that winter is end
ed and spring has come, but the winds,
and the frosts, and the thermometer.
IN some places down to zero, deny it.
The Psalmist lived in n more genial eli
mate than this, and yet he must some
times have been cut by the sharp
weather. In this chapter he speaks of
the snow like wool, the frost like ashes,
the hailstones like marbles, and describes
the congealment of lowest temperature.
We have all studied the power of the
heat. How few of us have studied the
power of the frostP ''who can stand
before His cold?n This challenge of
the text has many times been accepted.
October 10, 1912, Napoleon's great army
began its retreat from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty thousand men, 5O,-
600 horses, coo pieces of cannon. 40, 600
stragglers. 1t was bright weather
when they started from Moscow, but
soon something wrathier than the Cos
sacks swooped upon their TANKS. An
army OF Arctic blasts, with icicles for
bayonets, and hailstones for shot, and
commanded by voice of tempest, march
ed after them, the flying artillery of
the heavens in pursuit. The troops at
nightfall would gather into circles and
huddle themselves together for warmth;
but when the day broke they rose not,
for they were dead, ard the ravens
came for their morning meal of corpses
The way was strewn with the rich
stuffs of the east, brought as booty
from the Russian capital. An invisible
power seized 100000 men and hurled
them dead into the snow-drifts, and on
the hard surfaces of the chill rivers.
and into the maws of the dogs that had
followed them from Moscow The
freezing horror which has appalled, his
tory was proof TO all ages that it is
vain thing for any earthly power to ac-
cept the challenge of my text: ''Who
could stand before His cold?r In the
middle of December, 1177, at Valley
Forge, 11,000 troops were, with frosted
ears and frosted hands and frosted
feet, without shoes, without blankets,
lying on the white pillow of the
snow bank. AS during our civil war
the cry was ''On to Richmond" when
the troops We're not ready to march, 50
in the revolutionary war there was n
demand for wintry campaign until
Washington lost his equilibrium and
wrote emphatically: Il assure those
gentlemen it is easy enough, seated by
good firesides and in comfortable homes.
TO draw out campaigns for the Ameri-
can army; but | tell them it is not so
easy u, lie on bleak hillside, without
blankets and without shoes" Oh. the
frigid horrors. that gathered around
the American army in the winter of
1877! Valley Forge was one of the
tragedies of the century Benumbed,
senseless dead. who can stand before
His cold?' Not we" say the frozen
lips OF Sir job Franklin and his men,
dying in Arctic exploration. Not
we" answer Schwatka and his
crew, falling back from the fortresses
of ice which they had tried in vain TO
capture. Not we" say the aban-
doned and crushed decks of the In
trepid, the Resistance and the Jean
nctte. Not we" say the procession of
American martyrs returned home for
American sculpture, De Long and his
men. The highest pillars of the earth
are pillars of ice-Mount Blanc, Jung
frau, the Matterhorn. The largest gal
leries of the world are galleries of ice
Some of the mighty rivers much of the
year are in captivity of ice. The great
est sculptors of the ages are the gla-
ciers, with arm and hand and chisel
and hammer of ice. The cold is inn
perial and has crown of glitter
ing crystal and is seated on a
throne of ice, with footstool of
ice and scepter of ice. Who can
tell the sufferings of the winter of
1883, when all the birds of Germany
persisted? or the winter of 1865 in Eng
land Nyhan tho ~
Thames and temporary houses of mer-
chandise were built on the ice? or the
winter of 1921 in America, when New
York harbor was frozen over and the
heaviest teams crossed on the ice to-
Staten Island? Then come down to our
own winters, when there have been so
many wrapping themselves in furs, or
thrashing their arms about them 20 re-
vive circulation-the millions of the
Temperate and the Arctic zones who
are compelled to confess, None of us
can stand before this coldP"
One half of the industries of our day
are employed in battling inclemency
of the weather. The furs of the north,
the cotton of the south, the fax of our
own fields, the wool of our own hocks,
the coal from our own mines, the
WOOu from our forests, all en-
ployed in battling these inclemen-
cies, and still every winter. with
blue lips and chattering teeth, an
swers: "None of us can stand before
this cold" Now. this being such a cold
world, God sends out influences 20
warm IL. / am glad that the God of
the frost is the God of the heat; that
the God of the snow is the God of the
white blossoms; that the God Of Janu-
airy is the God of June. The question
as to how we shall warm this world up
is question OF immediate and all en-
comprising practically. In this zone
and weather there are so many fireless
hearths, so many broken window panes.
so many defective roofs that sift the
snow. Coal and wood and fannels and
thick coats are better for warming up
such place than tracts and Bibles and
creeds. Kindle that fire where IL has
gone out. Wrap something around
those shivering limbs. Shoe those bare
feet. Hat that bare head. Coat that
bare back. Sleeve that bare arm.
Nearly all the pictures of Mar
tina Washington represent her in
cOurtly dress as bowed to by
foreign ambassadors INIT Mra Rfr1S