The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-03-19
fMAAGES SUNDAY SERMON.
GOSPEL MESSAGE
Ib,eet. "warming the World"

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sr, "who can stand before His cold2'
him cNlvn., ~.
. almanac says that winter is ended
n,iu,, has come, but the winds, an1 the
aud the thermometer, in some places
h 10 zero. deny Il. Thepsalmist lived in
lea Genial climate than this, and vet he
sometimes have been cut by the sharp
fer In this chapter no speaks Of the
I, like wool the frost like ashes, the haii-
90 like marbles. and describes the con-
iment Of lowest temperature. We have
Itudie1 the power OF the heat. How few
have studied the power OF the frostl
ho can stand before His cold2" This
llengc OF the text has many times been
bctober 10. 1912. Napolcon's great army
IAN its retreat from Moscow. One hum
II and fifty thousand men, $4,000 horses,
niccns of cannon, 10000 stragglers. IL
bright weather when they started from
kerow but soon something wrathier than
n thu Cossncks swooped upon their Hanks.
army OF arctic blasts, with icicles for
Wyonets and hailslones for shot, and ccm-
Ended by voice OF tempest, marched after
(em. the flying artillery OF the heavens In
.f5< ra,iit fhe troops at nlghtfali would
Ktber into circles aud huddle themselves to-
Xtber for warmth. but when the day broke
kcy rose not, for they were dead, and the
Kyrns came for their morning meal Of
,,irs Of the east, brought ne booty from the
Is 4 Bussan capital An invisible power seized
LON OOO men aud hurled them dead Into the
n nowdrifts. and on the hard surfaces OF the
a hill rivers, and into the mnws OF the dogs
n Mat had followed them from Moscow. The
K. ireezing horror which has appalled, history
& HAS proof to all ages that 1t is q vain thing
I'M any earthly power to accept the ohal-
E<)onge Of my text, "Who could stand before
W1lis col1G'
!. IS. In the middle of December. I777. ut Valley
t1'orge. IL. 90 troop were. with frosted ears
land frosted hands and frosted feet, without
Wthoes, without blankets, lying on the white
"a pillow OF tho snow bank As during our
III Civil War the cry was, "Ou TO Richmond!'
III when the troops were not ready to march, so
81 In the Revolutionary War there was de.
IA mnud for winiry campaign until Washington
ri los, his equilibrium and wrote emphaticnlly.
~ II assure those gentlemen il Is easy enough
II seated by good ilreside and In comfortable
III homes TO draw out campaigns for the Atneri-
ID can Army. but ] tell them Il Is not so easy TO
Fl lie on a bleak hillside without blankets and
II without shoes Oh the frigid horrors that
II gathered around the American Army in the
II winter Of 1777 Valley Forge was one OF the
n tragedies Of the century. Benumbed. sense
less dead! "Who can stand before His cOid?
n "Not we, says the frozen lips Of Sir John
Il Franklin and his men, dying IN Arctic eX.
4 uloration "Not we," answer Schwatka aud
NJ
4 ice when they had tried in vain TO capture
Not we" say the abandoned and crushed
decks Of the Intrepid the Resistance
4 aud the Jeannette. mot we.' says
the procession of American martyrs
returned home for American sepulture. De
Long and his men. The highest pillars of
the earth are pillars Of ice-Nont Blanc
Jungirau. the Matterhorn. The largest gal.
leries OF tho 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 aud hand
and chisei and hammer of ice. The cold Is
imperial NJ has Il crown of glltterng crys-
tai Gl1+ INlhled on u throne Of ice, with
witbt sed fol scepter Of ice. Who
Ay tootsN offerings Of tho winter of 1893.
y ,el hSS ysirds OF Germany perished? OF
can VI ~ two( IlG5s in England, when the
when,y yiutet "A OF. the Thames and temporary
the ,ss rouo,s .4st,rryfsu were tu1f Ga the zee.
stass go ,5iyl ls4l in America, when New
3 winVt.p ps ffozen over and the heavi
4 N " ~ crossed on the ice 20 Staten Islandi
Then come down TO our own winters when
there have been so many wrapping them.
\ .sselves in iurs or gathering themselves around
n rcs or thrjlShing their arms about them e.
eyive circulation-the millions Of the tenn
erate and the arctic zones who are com
y PEELED to confess, "nOuc Of Us can stand bc.
fore His cold
One-half of the industries Of our day ar,
employed in battling incemency OF tn,
weather. The lurs of the North the cottoI
of the South, the flax OF our own fields, the
wool Of our own fOcks. the coal from ou
own mines the wood from our own forests
all employed In battling these inclcmenccs
AMI still every winter, with blue lips an,
chatering teeth, answers, "None OF us ear
stand before this cold" Now, this beinl
sdch n cold world, God sends out influence
10 warm it. am glad that the God of tn
frost Is the God of the heat; that the God O
the snow is the God OF the white bios SONS
that the God Of January is the God OF June
The question a. to how we warm this worl,
up IL Il question OF immediate and all encom
passing practicality. In this zone an,
weather there are so many llreless hearths
- many broken window panes. so many de
fective roofs that slit me snow. Coal an
wood and iannels and thick coat are bette
Tor warming up such place than tract
aud Bibles and creeds. Kindlethat fire wher
II has gone out. Wrap something aroun,
those shivering limbs. Shoe those pare feet
Hat that bare head. Coat that bare back
Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all the picture
OF Martha Washington represent her i
courtly dress as bowed to by foreign embas
sadors, but Mrs Kirkland. in her interestn
book, gives more inspiring portrait @
Martha Washington. She comes forth fror
her husbands hut in the encampment, IN
hut sixteen feet long by fourteen feet wide
she comes forth from that hut to nurse tn
sick, TO sew the patched garments, TO cor
sole the soldiers dying Of the cold. That
better picture of Martha Washington
Hundreds Of garments. hundreds of tons
coal, hundreds OF GLACIERS at broken windo'
sashes, hundreds of whole souled men an
women are necessary to warm the wintr
weather. What are we doing 10 alleviate III
condition of those not so fortunate as W,
Know We not, my friends there are hundred
OF thousands OF people who cannot stand b,
foro this cold? II Is useless 70 preach [
bare feet, and TO empty stomach. aud I
gaunt visages. Christ gave the world le
son in common sense when, before preacl
ing the gospel to the multitude in III
wilderness, He gave them good dinner.
When | was a lad ] remember seeing tw
rough woodcuts, but they made more I'm
preston upon me than any pictures | hay
ever seen. They We're on opposite page
The one woodcut represented the coming
the snow in winter and "A lad looking out
the door OF great mansion and he was a
wrapped In furs. and his checks were rudd
and with glowing countenanGe he SHOUTED
at SHOWS, IL snows!' On the next pas
there was u miserable tenement, and the dot
was open and child, wan and sick au