The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-20
RET. DR.. TRLuBGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
misunderstanding the World"


SUmECr:-"Warming the World"
TEXT: "Who can stand before His cold2'
Psalm cxlyii., II.
The almanac says that winter is ended
ana sprins has come, but the winds, and the
frosts. and the thermometer, IN some places
down to zero, deny it. The psalmist lived in
a more genial climate than this, and yet ht
must sometimes have been cut by the sharr
winter. In this chapter he speaks of the
snow Xix WOOL, the frost like ashes, the hail.
stones like marbles, and describes the con-
gsalment OF lowest temperature. We hava
all studied the power Of the heat. How Few
OF US have studied the power of the frostl
who can stand before His, cold2" Thl
challenge OF the text has many times beer
accepted.
October 10, 1912, Napoleon's great arm,
began its retreat from Moscow. One hun.
dred and fifty thousand men, so, 900 horses,
! 900 pieces OF cannon, 1000 stragylers. II
was bright weather when they started from
Moscow, but soon something wrathier thar
than the Cossacks swOoped upon their TANKS.
An army OF arctic blasts, with icicles fol
bayonets 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 nightiall would
| hthCA lhbO huu uhl "
gether for warmth, but when the day broke
they rose not, for they were dead, and the
ravens came for their morning meal Of
corpses. The way was strewn with the reh
stuffs OF the east, brought as booty from thu
Russian capital. An invisible power seized
100 900 men ind hurled them dead into the
snowdrifts, and on the hard surfaces OF thu
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 1t Is a vain thina
for any earthly power to accept the chat
lenge of my text, 'Who could stand before
His coldf"
In the middle of December, l777, at Valley
Forge, IL, 90 troop 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 RichmondP'
when the troops were not ready to march, SO
in the Revolutionary War there was a de-
mand for wintry campaign until Washington
lost his equilibrium and wrote emphatically,
al assure those gentlemen IL is easy enough
seated by a good flreside and in comfortable
homes to draw out campaigns for the Amerif
can Army, but / tell them 1t is not so easy I'd
lie on a bleak hillside, without blanket5 and
without Shoes" Oh, the frigid horrors that
gathered around the American Army In the
winter Of 1777! Valley Forge was one OF the
tragedies of the century. Benumbed. sense
less, deadi who can stand before His cold2"
"Not We" says the frozen lips of Sir John
Franklin and his men, dying In Arctic ex-
ploration. Net 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
decks Of the Intrepid, the Resistance
and 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 Blanc.
Jungfrau. the Matterhorn. TIL largest gal'
leries Of the world are galleries Of ioa. 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 and has a crown OF glittering crys-
tai and is seated on a throne OF Ice, with
with footstool a scepter OF ice. Who
can tell the sufferings of the winter OF l433.
when all the birds of Germany pertshed? or
the winter Of 1858 in England when the
stages rolled on the Thames and temporary
houses Of merchandise were built on the ice7
or the winter of 1921 in America, when New
York harbor was frozen over and the heRvi-
est teams crossed on the ice to Staten lsland1
Then come down to our own winters when
there have been so man 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 oom'
PEELED to confess, "nons OF US can stand be-
fore His cold
One-half of the Industries OF our day an
employed In battling ~inclemency Of thu
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 oui
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, "Nono OF us car
stand before this cold" Now, this being
such a cold world, God sends out influenced
to warm It.. l am glad that the Goo OF the
frost Is the God Of the heat; that the God OIL
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 OF immediatea and all encom.
passing practicality. In this zone and
weather there are SO many freless hearths
10 many broken window panes, 30 many de.
fectlve roofs that slit the snow. Coal and
wood and hannels and thick coat are bettel
for warming up such a place than tract
and Bibles and creeds. Kindlethat nre where
IT has gone out. Wrap something AROUND
those shivering limbs. Shoe those Dare feet
Hat that bare head. Goat that bare back
Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all the picture.
of Martha Washington represent her IL
courtly dress as bowed to by foreign ambas
sailors, but Mrs. Kirkland, In her interesting
book, gives q more inspiring portrait o.
Martha Washington. She comes forth IRON
her husbands hut in the e~ncampment, thu
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 O.
coal, hundreds OF GLACIERS AT broken windoN
sashes, hundreds OF whole souled men ant
women are necessary to warm the wintr,
weather. What are we doing to alleviate thu
condition of those not so fortunate as we
Know We not, my friends, there are hundreds
Of thousands OF people who cannot stand Do
fore this cold2 1t Is useless TO preach to
bare feet, and to empty stomach, &c
gaunt visages. Christ gave the world a les
son in common sense when, before preaeh'
ing the gospel to the multitude In INT
wilderness. He gave them a good dinner.
When 1 was a lad l remember seeing tive
rough wOodcuts, but they made more i'm
I preston upon me than any pictures nave
ever seen. They were on opposite pages
The one woodcut represented the coming o
the snow in winter and a lad looking OUT a
the door Of a great mansion, and he was al
wrapped in furs. and his cheeks were rudy
and with glowing countenanoe he shouteu
at SHOWS, 1t snows!" On the next page
there was a miserable tenement, d the doc
was open and a child, wan and sick ant
ragged and wretched, was looking out, ant
Re said, "Oh. my God, it snowsI' The win
ter Of gladness or of grief, according to GU
circumstances But, my friends, there u
more than one way of warming up this COLI
world, for 1t is a cold world in more re
spects than one. and l am here to consul
with you as to the best way OF warming ul
the world, l wantto have a great heater in
trodueed into all your churches and all you
homes throughout the world. 1t Is a heate
of divine patent. 1t has many pipes Wit
which to conduct heat. and II mas
door in which to throw the luel
Once get this heater Introduced and 1
will turn the arctic zone into the temperate
: and the temperate into the tropics. II
d, the powerful heater, it is the glorious iur
mace OF Christian sympathy. The question
! ought to be, instead OF how much heat ca
, we absorb, how much heat can we thro'
ont? There are men who go through IN
world floating icebergs. They freeze every
thing with their .orbidding look The han
, With which they shake yours is as cold ~ TN
paw OF a polar bear. II they noat into
salto{oua mating fhA temperature drop