Connecticut western news., 1896-03-19
TO WARM THE WORLD
CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY IS THs Glo-
 RlouS FuSNAce.

NOOS fONNAlS.
 Rev. Dc. rAlmax~ Finds Lesson In tho
 wsasher-Chriss the Great warnser-A
 Word to rrosty Chri.ti>ns-Good Deeds
 Kin<ie the Fire-Come In Out of the Cold.
 wAsaINaroS, March l5-The frees, ing blasts which have swept over the country at the time we expected spring weather make this sermon especially appropriate. Dr. Talmase's text was Psalm exlvii. II. "Who can stand before his cold?''
 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 1t. The psalmist lived in mere genial climate than this. and yet he must sometimes have been cut by the sharp weather. In this chapter he speaks of the snow like wool, tho frost like ashes. the hail. stones like marbles, aud describes the rougeament of lowest teraperature. We have all studied the power of the heat. How few of us have studied the power of the frost "who can st,nd before his colds" This challenge os the text has many times been accepted.
 Oct. l9, 1872, Napoleca's great array began its retreat from Moscow. One hundred and fifty thousand men, 5o,oo horses, 600 pieces of cannon, 10, 900 srraSgiesS It was bright weather when they started from Moscow, bus soon something wrathier than the CossacSs swooped upon their fianks- An army of arctic blasts. with icieles for hayonets and baiaSfnnes for shot, and commanded hy voice of tempest. marched after them, the flying artillery of the heavens iD pursuit. The troops at nightfall wonld gather into circles and huddle them selves together for warmth. but when the day broke they rose not. for they were dead, and the ravens came for their morning meal Of oorpses. The way was strewn with the rich stuffs of the east, brought as booty from the Russian capi- tai An invisible power seized 100, GOO men and hurled them dead into the snewtrifts. and on the hard surfaces of the chill rivera, and Into the maws cf the dogs that had followed them from Mos COW. The freezing horror which has ap- ralled kissOry was proof to all ages that 1t is g vain thing for any earthly power to accept the challenge of my text, '.Wbo could stand before his coldf"
 Frigid Horrors.
 In the middle of December. 111T, at Valley Forge, I1.oo0 troops were. with frosted ears and frosted hands and frost ed feet, without shoes. without blank cts, lying on the white pillow of the snow hank. As dpring our civil war the cry was. ''On so Riehmondl'' when the troops wore noe ready to march. so in the Revolutionary war there was de- naand for wintFy campaign until Wash ineton lost his equilibrium and wrote empba;ically. '.I assure those gent lemen it is easy enough seated by a good fire side and in comfortable homes to draw out campaigns for ths American army, but I tell them 1t is not 50 easy to lie on a bleak hillside, without blankets and without shoes. Oh. the frigid horrors that gathered around the American army in the winter of 177st Valley Forge was one of the tragedies of the century. Benumbsd. senSeless, dead "Who can stand before his coldf'' ''Not we," say the frozen lips of Sir John Franklin and his men. dying in arctic exploration. ''Nos we." answer Schwatka and his crew. falling hack from the fertresses of ice which they had tried in vain to cap tnre. "Notw say the abandoned and crushed decks of the Intrepid. the Re sistance and the Jeanne.te. Not we," say tho procession of American martyrs returned home for American sepulture, De Long and his men. The highest pill lsrs of the earth are pillars of ice Mont Blanc, Jungfrau, the Matterhorn. The largest galleries of the world are galleries of ice. Some of the mighty rivers much of the year are in captivity of iea, The greatest scplptors of the ages are the gaciers, with arm and hand and chisel and hammer of ice The cold is imperial and has . crown of glittering crystal and is seated on throne of ice, with footstool of ice and scepter of ice. Who can tell the sufferings of the winter of l4SS. when all the birds of Germany perishedi or the winter of, 1858 in Eng Thames aud temporary houses of msr- chandise were built on the ice? CT the winter of 1891 in America, when New York harbor was frozen over and the heaviest teams crossed on the ice to Staten Islandf Then come down to our own winters when there have been so many wrapping themselves in furs or gathering themselves around fires or thrashing their arms about them to re- yive circulation-the millions of the temperate and the arctic rones who are compelled to confess, '.none of us can stand before his cold"
 A Lsssea In Common se.ss-
 One-haR of the industries of our day are employed in battling inclemency of the weather. The frrs of the north, the cotton of the south, the fiax of our own 6elds, the wool of our own focks, the coal from our own mines, the wood from our own forests, all employed in battling these inclemencies, and still ev- cry winter. with blue lips and chattering teeth. answers. "None of us can stand before this cold" Now, this being such 8 cold world. God sends out influences to warm it l 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- ary is the God of June. The question as to how shall we warm this world up is a question of immediate and all encom- passing practicality. In this zone and weather there arc so many fireless hearths. SO many broken window panes, 90 many defective roofs that sift the snow. Coal and wood and flannels and thick coat are better for warming up such place than tracts and Bibles and creeds- Kindle that fire where it 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- N-aaAy all the pictures of Martha Washington repre- sent her in courtly dress as bowed to by foreign emhaSSadmS but Mira Kirk.