Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
THE WINTER BLASTS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW TO
WARM THE WORLD.

A Unique Text and Powerful Sermon.
The Eject Of tho Warmth of the
Church OF God--Tae Worlds Fireplace.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The freezing
blasts which have swept over tho country
at the time We expected spring weather
mako this sermon especially appropriate.
DR.. Talmagc's text was Psalm cxlvii, II,
"Who caa stand before his ooldg'
Tho almanac says that winter Is ended
and spring has como, but the winds, and
the trusts, aud the Thermometers, in some
places down to zero, deny it. The psalmlsi
lived in a more genial climate than this,
and vet he must sometimes have been cut
by the sharp weather In this chapter be
soeaks OF tho snow like wool, tho frost like
ashes the hailstones like marbles and de-
scribes the cnngealnent Of lowest temper
allure. We have all studied the power OF
the heat. How fow Of us have studied the
mower Of the frost? "WhO can stand be-
fore his cold9" This challenge Of tho text
has many times been accepted
Oct. 10, 1912, Napoleon's great army
began its retreat from Moscow. One hun
dred and fifty thousand men, 30 900 horses
600 Dfecas Of cannon, 10, 600 siragglers. II
was bright weather when they started
from Moscow, but soon something wrath
Ter than the CossaoSs swO0ped upon theil
nanks An army Of arctic blasts Will
jcicles for bayonots and hailstones for shot
and commanded by voice of tempest
marched after them, tho flying artillery
Of tho heavens IN pursuit. The troops 81
nightfali would gather into circles ant
huddlo themselves together for warmth
but when the day broke they rose not, fol
they wero dead, and the ravens came fol
their morning meal of cOrpses. The way
was strewn with the rich stuifs Of the cast
brought rs booty from the Russian CAPT
fal An invisible power seized 100, 900 mel
ana hurled them dead into the snowdrift
ana on the hard surfaces Of tho chill river
and into tho maws Of The dogs that ha'
followed thum from MOSCOW. The foezins
horror which has appalled, history was proc
to ali ages that i5 IS Il vain thing for am
earthly power to accept tho challenge o
my taxt, Who could stand before hi
oold?" In tho middle Of December, 1777
nj Valley Forge, II 900 troops were, Will
frosted ears and fosted hands and froste'
feet, without shoes, without blankets, y
ing on the white pillow of the snowbank
Frigid Horrors.
AS during our civil war the cry was
"0n 10 Richmond" when thetrOapa wcr
not ready to march, so in the Revolution
ary war there was demand for wintr
CAMPAIGN until Washington lost bis oqui
librium and wrote emphaticaily, 81 assur
those gentlemen it is easy enough seated
by good fresido and in comfortable
homes to draw. out campaigns for tn
Amepican army, but tell them 1t is no
so easy TO lie on a bleak hillside, withou
blankets and without shoes, Oh, tn
1rigid horrors that gathered around tn
American army In tho winter Of l137
Valley Forge was ono Of tho tragedies o
tho century. Benumbed, senscless, dead
who can stand before lis coid@' mo
we. say the frozen lips Of SlrJohn Franz
lin and his men, dying in arctic explora
ton. "Not we, " answer Sohwatka ant
his crew, falling back from the fortresse
Of leo which they bad tried in vain {
capture. mot va, say ihe Rhapdane
and crushed decks OF the Intrepid, the nc
sistanee and tho Jeanette, mot We " sa
tho procession OF American martyrs II
turned homo for American sepulture, ID
Long and his men, Tho highest pillars
/ the earth ARE pillars of ice-Mont Blanc
/ Jungfrau, the MatterhOrp, Tho larges
/ galleries Of tho world AFRO glllories Of to'
Some Of the mighty rivers much ct tn
year arc in captivity Of ice, The creates
sculptors Of tho ages AFRO the glaciers, wit
arm and hand and ehisel and hammer @
ice. Tho cold is imperial md has crow
Of glittering crystal and is seated on
throne Of ice, with foot stool of leo an
scepter of ice. Who can tell tho suffering
of tho winter Of 1888, when all the bird
Of Germany porisled, on he winter of lG5
| in England, when the stages roaod ON th
/ Thames and temporary houses of me-
chandise wero built on tho ice, or the viii
Ter of 1921, in America, when New Yor
1 harbor was frozen over and the heavlei
teams crossed on tho leo to Staten lslanl
Then come down to our own winter
when there have been SO many wrappin
themselves in furs, or gathering then
selves around Tres, or thrashing the
arms about them to revive circulation
tho millions of the temperate and Il
arctic zones who ara compelled to comics
''None Of as can stand before his cold, "
Hffroleea Homes.