Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-25
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The Eminent Divine's SH"da?
Sermon.
SUDECr:-"Warming the World"
text: "Who can stand before Bis coldi'
Psalm cxlvli., II.
Tho almanac says that winter In endet
and spring has come, but the winds, ami this
frosts. and the thermometer, In some places
down to zero, deny It. The psalmist lived In
more genial climate than this, and yet he
must sometimes have been cut BY the sharr
winter. In this chapter he speaks of the
snow like wool, the frost like ashes, tho hail
stones like marbles, and describes the con.
gsaiment OF lowest temperature. We have
all studied the power Of the heat. How few
OF us have studied the power Of the frost.
."Who can stand before His cold2' Thh
challenge OF the text has many times beey
accepted.
October 10, 1912, Napo!eon's great arm,
began Its retreat from Moscow. One hun.
dred and fifty thousand men, Sc, 900 horses,
600 pieces Of cannon, 10000 stragylers. II
Moscow, but soon something wrathier thar
than the Cossacks swooped upon their fiankS
An army OF arctic blasts, with icicles foi
bayonets and hailstOnes for shot, and com.
manded by voice Of tempest. marched aftei
them, the flying artillery Of the heavens In
pursuit. The troops at nightfall would
gather into circles and huddls themselves 10.
gether for warmth, but when the day broke
they rose not, for they wero dead, and the
ravens came for their morning meal ol
eorpses: The way was strewn With the rich
stuffs Of the east, brought as booty from thu
Russian capital. An invisible power ssissd
100000 men and hurled them dead into the
snowdrifts, and on tho hard surfaces Of the
chill rivers, and into the maws of tho dogs
that had followed them from Moscow. The
freezing horror which has appalled, history
was proof to all ages that It Is q vain thina
for any earthly power to accept the chal.
ienge OF my text, "who could stand befors
His cold?"
In the middle Of December, lit, at Vale,
Forge. IL, 90 troop were. with frosted eara
ehoes, without blankets, lying on the white
pillow OF the snow bank. As during our
Civil War the cry was, "On to Richmondp'
when the troops were not ready to march, 50
in the Revolutionary War there was de.
mand for winiry campaign until Washington
lost his equilibrium and wrote emphatically,
II assure those gentlemen II IL easy enough
seated by good fireside and in comfortable
homes to draw out campaigns for the Ameri{
can Army, but tell them It Is not so easy I'd
lie on bleak hillside, without blankets and
without shoes" oh, the frigid horrors that
winter OF 1777l Valley Forge was one of the
tragedies of the century. Benumbed. sense
less. dead! who can stand before His cold?"
"Not We" says the frozen lips Of Sir John
franklin and his men, dying in Arctic ex-
ploration. 'Not we." answer Schwatka and
h,a fol Ln,l g. g.. -
ice which they had tried in vain to capture.
Not we," say the abandoned and crushed
decks OF the Intrepid, the Resistance
and the Jeanette. mot we," says
tno procession OF American martyrs
returned home for American sepulture, De
Long and his men. The highes. pillars Of
the earth are pillars Of ice-Nont Blanc,
Jungfrau. the Matterhorn. The largest gal.
lories of the world are galleries Of ice. Some
OF the mighty rivers much Of the year are in
captivity Of ice. The greatest sculptors OF
the ages are the glaciers, with arm and hand
and chisei and hammer OF ice. The cold Is
imperial and has crown OF glittering crys-
tai and is seated on a throne Of ice, with
with footstool q scepter OF ice. Who
can tell the sufferings OF the winter Of 1893,
when all the birds of Germany perished2 or
the winter of 1858 in England, when the
stages rolled on the Thames and temporary
houses of merchandise were built on the ice1
or the winter of 1921 in America, when New
York harbor was frozen over and the heavi-
est teams crossed on the ice to Staten Island7
Then come down TO our own winters when
there have been so many wrapping them
selves in furS or gathering themselves around
fires or thrashing their arms about them to
revive circulation-the millions Of the tenn
perate and the arctic zones who are COM
PEELED to confess. ''none Of US con stand be-
fore His cold
One-half of the industries Of our day An
ompInval in hatftipO ipalorn ~
weather. The furs Of the North, the cotton
OF the South, the fax Of our own fields, the
wool OF our own fiocks, the coal from our
own mines, the wood from our own forests,
all employed in battling these inclemencies,
and still every winter, with blue lips and
stand before this cold" Now. this being
such a cold world. God sends out influences
to warm 1t. am glad that tho God of the
frost is the God of the heat; that the God OF
the snow is the God OF the white blos SONS;
that the God Of January Is tho God of June.
up Is a question OF immediate and all encom.
passing practicality. In this sOne and
weather there are so many nreiess hearths,
30 many broken window panes, SO many de.
fective roofs that sift :hs snow. Coal and
wood and flannels and thick coat are better |
for warming up such q place than tracts !
and Bibles and creeds. Kindle that fre whore !
It has gone out. Wrap something around
those shivering limbs. Shoe those bare fest. !
Hat that bare head. Coat that bare back.
Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all tho pictures
OF Martha Washington represent her 10
courtly dress as bowed to by foreign smbss-
sadors, but Mrs. Kirkland, in her Interesting
book, gives Q more inspiring portrait OF
Martha Washington. She comes forth from :
her husbands hut in the encampment, the
hut sixteen feet long by fourteen feet wide. !
she comes forth from that hut to nurse the :
sick, to sew the patched garments, to con. :
sole the soldiers dying Of the cold. That Il
q better picture Of Martha Washington.
Hundreds of garments. hundreds OF tons oi
coal, hundreds Of GLACIERS at broken window
sashes, hundreds of whole souied men and /,
women are necessary to warm the wintry !
weather. What are we doing to alleviate the |
condition of those not so fortunate as weS '
Know We not, my friends, there are hundreds /
Of thousands Of people who cannot stand be- |
fore this oold2 1t Is useless to preach to !
bare feet, and to empty stomach, and to
gaunt visages. Christ gave the world q les
son in common sense when, before preach ;
ing the gospel to the multitude In the
wilderness. He gave them good dinner.
When l was a lad I remember seeing tive !
rough woodcuts, but they made more i'm. :
preston upon me than any pictures have
ever seen. They were on opposite pages. ,
The one woodcut represented the coming OF
the snow In winter and a lad looking out at
the door Of great mansion, and he was all
wrapped in furs. and his cheeks were ruddy,
and with glowing countenance he shoutedi ,
at SHOWS, it snows!" On the next page !
there was miserable tenement, and the door
was open and a child, wan and sick and
ragged and wretched, was looking out, and
he said. "Oh, my God, it snows!" The win.
ter Of gladness or Of grief, according to our
circumstances. But, my friends, there is
more than one way Of warming up this cold
world, for 1t is a cold world In more re,
spects than one. and 1 am here to consult
with you as to the best way of warming up
the world, want to have a great heater in
troduced into all your churches and all youI
homes throughout the world. 1t is a heater +,
OF divine patent. 1t has many pipes with
which to conduct heat. and 1t has
door in which to throw the fuel
Once get this heater introduced and II
will turn the arctic zone into the temperate
and the temperate into the tropics. 1t Il
the powerful heater, IL Is the glorious fur
mace Of Christian sympathy. The question