The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-28
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TIE NOTED DIyINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject warming the World"

uoWn 20 zero deny g. The pHalmlHt lived iu
more genial climate than this. and yet ho
must sometimes have been eui by the sharp
winter Ina this chapter be speaks OF tho
snow like wool. the frost ike ashes. the hail
stones Ike marbles. aud describes the con-
geNment OF lowest temperature. We have
az studied thB = Vtr 8f the heat How Few
OF us have studied the power of the ir0Fl
"Wh0 can stand before Hls coldY" This
challenge OF the text has many times been
accepted
October 10, 1912. Napoloon's great army
began Us retreat from Moscow. One hun-
dred aud atty thousand men. so. 900 horses.
600 pieces OF cannon. 10000 stragglsrs II
was bright weather when they started from
Moscow, but soon something wrathier than
than the C0ssacks swo0ped upon their TANKS
An army % arctic blasts. with ieisles Tor
bayoneis and hailstones FOR shot, and COM
manded by voice OF tempest marched after
them, the flying artillery Of the heavens in
pursuit The troops at nlghifall would
gather into circles and huddle themselves to-
guther Tor warmth. but when the day broke
they rose not, for they were dead, and the
ravens came Tor their morning meal OF
| corpses The way was slreWn with the rich
I stuns OF the elst, brought as booty from the
/ Russian capital An invisible power seized
/ 10000 men and hurled them dead into the
/ snowdriits, and on thB 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, history
| was proof TO all ages that It Is a vain thing
/ for any earthly power 70 accept the chal-
lenge Of my text, who could stand before
| His cold2"
In the middle Of December, l777, at Valley
/ Forge. II 4, 90 troop wero. 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 10 Richm0ndw
/ when the troops were not ready 70 march, so
In the Revolutionary War there was de.
mand for winiry campaign until Washington
| lost his equilibrium and wrote emphatlcally
81 assure those gentlemen It Is easy enough
/ seated by good hreside and in comfortable
homes TO draw out campaigns for the Ameri-
/ can Army, but / tell them It Is not so easy to
lie on "a bleak hillside, without blankets and
without Shoes Oh the frigid horrors that
l gathered around the American Army In the
winter Of l777l Valley Forge was one Of the
tragedies Of the century. Benumbed. sense
| less. dead! "Who can stand before His cOld2'
'Not We, says the frozen lips Of Sir John
/ Franklin and his men, dying IN Arctic ex-
| plOratiOn. "NOt we. answer Schwatka and
his crew, falling back from the fortresses OF
ice which they had tried In vain TO capture.
mot we, say the abandoned and crushed
aud the Jeanette. 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 Blame,
Jungfrau, 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 greatest sculptors Of
the ages are the glaciers, with arm and hand
I nhIen, of "a na1a a.
imperial and has a crown of glitterng crys-
tai and is sealed. on a throne Of ice, with
with ioOtstool scepter OF ice. Who
can tell the sut1erings OF the winter of 1888,
when all the birds of Germany persisted? or
the winter Of 1858 in England when the
stages rolled on the Thames and temporary
houses Of merchandise were built on the ice2
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 Island2
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 can stand be-
fore ais cold
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 flocks, 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
chattering teeth, answers, "None OF us can
stand before this cold Now, this being
such a cold world. God sends out influences
to warm it. 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 January is the God of June.
The question as to how we warm this world
up Is a question ofimmediate and all encom-
passing practically. In this zone and
weather there are so many f1reless hearths
80 many broken window panes, so many de-
fective roofs that slit me snow. Coal and
wood and fannels and thick coat are better
for warming up such a place than tracts
and Bibles and creeds. Kindlethat fire where
1t has gone out. Wrap something around
those shivering limbs Shoe those pare feet
Hat that bare head. Coat that bare back.
Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all the pictures
OF Martha Washington represent her in
courtly dress as bowed to by foreign embas
sailors, but Mrs. Kirkland. in her interesting
book, gives more inspiring portrait OIL
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 Is
better picture of Martha Washington
Hundreds OF garments. hundreds of tons o.
coal, hundreds of GLACIERS at broken window
sashes, hundreds of whole souled men ant
women are necessary to warm the wintry
weather. What are we doing to alleviate thu
condition Of those not so fortunate as we
Know Ye not, my friends, there are hundred
OF thousands Of people who cannot stand be
fore this cold? Il Is useless to preach Ia
bare feet, and to empty stomach, and L
gaunt visages. Christ gave the world les
son in common sense when, before preach
ing the gospel to the multitude in thu
wilderness, He gave them good dinner.
When was lad / remember seeing tw'
rough woodcuts, but they made more i'm
preston upon me than any pictures havt
ever seen. They were on opposite pages
: The one woodeut represented the coming o
the snow In winter and a lad looking out a
the door Of great mansion, and he was al
, wrapped in furs, and his cheeks were rudy
and with glowing countenanee he shouted
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