SEAR PING “REV DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn ihwine's Sanday Sermon. Sabject: “The Lessons of Winter,” Text: ‘Hast thouentered into the treas ures of the snow? --Job xxxviii., 2. Grossly maligned is the season of winter. The spring and summer and autumn have bad many admirers, but winter, hoary headed and white bearded winter, mth had more enemies than friends. Yet without effortless. the mother of tempests. 1 take it as the father of a whole family of physical, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that 1 know are strong in proportion to the num- ber of snow banks they had to climb over or yash through in childhood, while their athers drove the sled loaded with logs through the crunching drifts high as the fences. At this season of the year, when we are so familiar with the snow, those frozen vap- pors, those falling blossoms of the sky, those white angels of the atmosphare, thoss poemns of the storm, those lliads and Odysseys of the winterv tempest, I turnover the leaves of my Bible and though most of it was written in a clime where snow seldom or never feli—1 find many of these beautiful congelations. Though the writers muy sels dom or never have felt the cold touch of the snowflake on their cheek, they had in sight two mountains, the tops of which were sug- gestive, Other kings sometimes take off their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Her- mon all the year round and through the ages never lift the corouets of crystal from their foreheads The first time we find a deep fall of snow in the Bible is where Samuel deseribes a fight beiween Benaiah and a lion in a pit and though the snow may have ecrimsoned under the wounds of both man and brute, the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and the giant was victor. But the snow is fully recognized in the Bible until God in- terrogates Job, the scientist, concerning its wonders, saying, “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?’ I rather think that Job may have exam- ined the snowflake with a micro although it upposed that the m was invent after Job's tis had been won l microscope thou the which 1 looked not ne, ad thousand people, Anis through t h brought 318 ava dred years before Chr ans, were sold powerful spheres,” and Layard, 1 a magnifving glass amid the sh and he § . the ruins of ‘ rod. What! ment « I ams the galler pillars teries, ing vy the nm which t i *“Hast thou entered into th mow?” Oh, it is a wonderous mete: studied it in the Andes, twelve thousand above the level of the sea. veled among theses meteor Dr. Scoresby counted ninety snowflake amid the arctics shape of stars, in shape of co t of cylinders; are globular, are hexagonal, are pyramidal, are casteliated. After a fres! fall of snow, in one walk you sushi under your feet, Tuilleries, Windsor castles Pauls St. Pe St. Marks cathedrals, Albambras and Sydenham palaces innumer- able: I know it depends much on condition what impression these meteors of the snow make. I shall not forget rough and un tending wood cuts which I saw in my hood side by side; one a picture of a pr ous farmhouse, with all signs of and a lad warmly clotl kin door upon the first mind no doubt fill gling sleigh bells and lows in the deep banks, and bh bands and shouting, “It holl bro in a: b 3 i ar aq ast: in shape St ors our own Bying flying two Pp boy- sper- comfort, out of tha his 1 wow, and sound of i with Htha the fr ake als soa of ascend Mont Blane, w rises clouds like a pillar of the great w or with arctic explorer ascend the mouatains around the north pole, and glaciers = thousand feet high grinding against glaciers three thousand feet high. But [ will takes you on a less pretentious journey and show you God in the snowflake. Theres is room enough between its pillars for the great Je hovah to stand. In that one frozen drop on the tip of your finger you may find the throne room of the Almighty. 1 take up the snow in my hand and see the coursers of celestial dominion pawing these crystal pavements The telescope is grand, but | must confess that I am quite es much interested in the microscope. The one reveals the universe above us; the other just as great a universe beneath us. But the telescope overwhelms me, while the microscope comforts me. What ou want and | want especially is a God in ittles. If we were seraphic or archangelic in our natures we would want to study tod in the great; but such small weak short lived beings as you and I are want to find God in the littles When I see the Maker of ing Himsolf to the arch flakes, and making its sh curves, {ts walls, its irradiations # perils concinde He will look alter our insignificant affairs. And if we are of more vane than a sparrow, most certainly we are of more value than an inanimate snowflake So the Bible would chiefly impress us with God in the litties, It does not say, “Consider the clouds,” but it says, ‘Consider the lilies.” It does not say, “Behold the tempostas™ but “Behold the fowls ™ id it applauds a cup of cold water and the widow's two mites, and says the hairs of your ead are all numbered, Do not fear, t erefore, that you ars going to be lost in the crowd. Do not think that be cause you estimate yoursell as only one snowflake among a three dave’ January snow storm taat you will be forgotten. The birth and death of a drop of chilled vapor is as certainly regarded by the Lor as the crea. tion and demolition of a planet. Nothing is big to God and nothing is small. ‘hat makes the honey industries of Bouth Carolina such & source of livelihood and wealth? It is because God teaches the lady. ong to make an opening in the rind of the apricot for the bee, who caanot otherwise at the juices of the fruit. So God sends ladybug ahead to prepare the way for the honey bee, [He teachas the ant to bite each of corn that she puts in the for winter food in order that it may not take root and so ruin the little granary, ion, into site Throns, A] the universe giv. ture of a snow. fia, its domes, it i pebbles into a hollow tree, that the water far down and out of reach may come up within the reach of the bird's beak. What a com. fort that He is a God in littles! apa of all the Russias in olden time invoking at a map that spread hefors him his vast dominions, and he could not find Great Brit ain on the map, and he called in his seoratar and said: “Where ix Great Britain, that Jens 0 much about? “It is b_Suder your umb, secretary; om raised his hand from she map and saw country he was looking for. i : i 3 i Ani it is high time that we find this nighty realm of God close by and under our own little finger. To drop you out of His memory would be to resign His omniscience, To rafuse you His protection would be to ab dicate His omnipotence, When you tell me that He is the God of Jupiter and the God of Morcury, and the God of Saturn, you teil me something so vast that 1 cannot comprehend it. But if you tell me Hs is the God of the snowflake, you tell me something I can hold and measure and realize. Tous the smallest snowflake contains a jewel case of comfort, Here is an opal, an amethyist, a diamond, Here is one of the treasures of snow. Take it for your present and everlasting comfor:, Bebaold, also, in the snow the treasure of accumulated power. During a snow storm let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh most delicate quantities, hold his weighing scales out of the window and let one flake fall on the surface of the scales, and it will not even rake it tremble. When you want to ex. press extreme triviality‘ofl weight you say, much lighter, Jighter than water. And yet the accamula- ago, in sight of my house, six telegraph poles, made heipless police and firs dep! ments and halted rail trains with two t locomotives We have already learned so much of the power of electricity that we have become careful how we touch the electric wire, and in many a case a touch bas been death. But of these wires, and tore them down as though they were cobwebs, The snow said: seem afraid of the thunderbolt; I will catch it and hurl it to the ground. ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle The snow put its flager on the lip of our that were talking with each other and they went into silence, uttering nota word, The snow mightier than the lightning In March, 1855 the snow stopped ica, It said to Brooklyn, ‘Stay ho ‘ew York, “Stay home! to Phila Stay home!” to Washiagton, “Stay to Richmond, “Stay home It put white sepulcher most of this nation, whose wi : Wi art mercs, ais never st nl cumulated snowflakes : a falls, 3 thers fa 16Y make a mountain mntain ther was Lhe oped Apennines of 1827 the town of , and in 1624. in Bw wi soldiers ware anton made of ware up snowilakes, What tragedies of witnessed by the for ages have w tricating ars been of Bernard, who 1 the dogs been DUSY in ax- bewildered and overwhe in Alp ' the dogs v snow have St the nal Jilis 14 i U resuscital 2% deo to the snow is Glencoe and Glm 8 otiand, | forth to cousin F AN wiay, and the ca turns into a hurricans of white fury and Flora as dead to the shepherds had Bayard Apennines! , the winter 1 the destiny of Europe French army mar up toward five hundred thousand men det them? N ments o treata that be resuscitated by Taylor among the wintry of 1812, by a similar forces was M ram CARn Ie hed Vw ten lie down in » drifis never oo ries, an #tambie and fall, and one thousand of the arms I, and ten thousand } 4 twenty ti nd go down i sand, and a hundred thousand, ane auty thousand and a hun- fred and thirty-two thousand die, and the victor of Jena and bridge of Lodi and Evian and Austeriitz, where threes great armies sommanded by three emperors, surrenderad 0 him: now himself surrenders to the snow- lakes Historians do not seem to recognise that the tide in that man's life tarnel from Dec 16, 1809, when he banished by hideous divorce ais wife Josephine from the palace and so shallenged the Almighty, and the Lord sharged upon him from the fortress of the ky with ammunition of erystal Hnowel ander! Billions, trillions, quadrillions gquine. willions of flakes did the work And waata wggestion of accu nulative power, and what s rebuke to all of us who get discouraged bs mise we cannot do much, and therefore do wimg! “Ou,” says some one, ‘I would like to ston he forces of sin andY rime that are marchin ‘or the conquest the nations but I am sobody: | have neither wealth nor eloquence wr social power What can | do® MN other, how much do you weigh? Asm ws a snowflake! “Oh, Then do your share. [tis an sgeregation of small influ mees that will vet put this lost world back nto the bosom of a pardoning God. Alas that here areso many men and women who will aot use the on» talent because thay have not tan, and will not give a penny because they snnot give a dollar, and will nos speak as wall ax they can bocanse they are not elo juent, and will not be a mowflake because they cannot bean avalancha! In earthly wars the generals got about all the eredit, but in the war for God and rigoteousasss and heaven all the private soldiers will get crowns of victory unfailing When we reach heaven-by the graces of jod may we all arrive there 1 do not think we will be able to bagin ths new song right away becauss of the surprise we shall feel at the comparative rewards given. As we are being conducted along the strest to our selestinal residence we will begin to ask where live some of those who were mighty We must ask, “Is Boandso here? And the answer will be: “Yeu | think he is in the city, but we don't hear much of him; he was good and he got in, but he took most of his pay in earthly a ume; he had enough grace to get through gate, sre he lives | know not. He somehow, although | think the gates took the skirts of his gar ments, I think be lives in one of thoss back strests in one of the pisiner esidences.” Then we shall see a thagdoorkiepe of gold, and the windows agate, the tower like the sun for brilliance, and char lots before the door, and who look one of the caval ¥ DOTrans ifty ti 3 bandred and twa of ves" the residence of a soul who you never heard of. “When she gave her charity her loft hand knew not what her right hand did. Bhe was mighty in secret prayer, and no one but God and her own soul knew it. Bhe had wore trouble than anybody in all the land where she lived, and without complaining she bore it, and though her talents were never great, what she had was all conse. erated to God and helping others, and the Lord is making up for her sarthly privation by especial raptures here, and the King of this country had that piace built especially for her. The walls began to go up when her troubles and privations and comsecrations began on earth, and it so happened —what a heavenly coincidence !—that the last stroke of the trowel of amethyst on those walls was given the hour she entered heaven, “You know nothing of her. On earth her names was only once in the newspapers, and that among the column of the dead, but she is mighty up here. There she comes now out of her palace grounds in her chariot be hind those two white horses for a ride on the banks of ths river that flows from under the throne of God Let me ses Did you not have in your world below an old classic which says something about ‘these are they who come out of great tribulation, and they shall reign for sver and aver?” As we pass up the street I lind a good many on foot, and | say to the dragoman: “Who are these And when their name is an- nounced I recognize that some of them wers on earth great poets, and great orators, and great merchanis, and great warriors, and when I express my surprise about their going afoot the dragoman says: ‘In this country people are rewarded not according to the number of their earthly talants, but accord. ing to the uss they made of what they had.” And then I thought to mveell: “Why, thst theory would make a snowfiake that falls cheerfully and in the right pi and does assignead It, 88 honorable as a Blanc of snowfial "says the celestial you fin and man caus of prince Aan vilakes forget the whole Mo Yes vi ‘many of Pp draroman aris that bteous, $ Wed rifled sno They shall be NIAs 11 coming g war msde out of the L'Orient in which be had fought so iy. nd your throne in saven, (0 sul ing : of God. will be built out of conquers mrthly disasters What gave John h a wondrous of the Fhe Bodiord Y hat gave Richa Baxter eriasting naste of ood vs £ t ¥ Call to the Unoonverted® ' disomse which racked avery nerve of his body. What made George W hitafleld oo mighty in saving souls bringing thousand to { brought a hundrad? Pers caturaed and assailed him England, and dead ver face when he was preaching What mellowad and glorified Wilberforee s Christian character? A financial misfortune that lad him to write, "'] know not why my ife is spared so long, except it be to show that a nan can be as happy without a for. tune as with one” Whaat gave John Milton uch keen spiritual eyesight that sald ea ths battle of the an rele’ Extinguishment f physical eyesight What is the highast iservalory for studying the stars of hope and faith snd spiritual promise? The be te wick bed. What procinimes the richest wd most golden harvests that wave on all the hills of heavenly rapture’ The snows the deep snows, the awful snows of earthly ralamity, And that comforting thought i» one of the treanenres of the snow Another treasure of the snow is the sugges. tion that this mantle covering the earth is like the soul after it is forgiven. “Wash said the Psalmist, “and 1 shall be whiter than snow.” My dear friend Gash. srie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switser. iand, for the recovery of his health, but the ford had something better for him than earthly recovery. Little did I think when | bade him good-by one lovely afternoon on the other aude of the sea to return to Amerion, fen yi when others on that oar up and down nin thrown in his hie ¢ rer moa” in heaven. As he lay one Habbath morni ng on his dying idow in Switseriand, the mh 5 was look out wu ont a. vB Mons mountain stood in its robe of mow, glitter. in the merping t, and my friend said is wife: “Jennie, do you know what that snow on Mount Blane makes me think off that our sins be as Was would make them olean. Wall, Job had front admiration for snow, but he declares n substance that if he should wash his soul in melted snow he would still be cov. ered with mud, hike a man down in a ditch Wob ix, 0). “If 1 wash myself in snow water, and make my hands ever so cles yat shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me" We must be washed in the fountain God's mercy befors we can be whiter than snow “Without holiness, no man shail see the Lord.” power! If thers! woman whose thoughts have always been right, and whose actions are always right, Jet such a ono rise, or If already standing, lift the right hand. Not ons! susp, have gone astry Unciean! unclean! And yet we may be made whiter than snow whiter than that which, on & cold winter's morning, after a night of storm, clothes the branch, whiter than that which this bour makes the Adirondacks, and the Blerrs Nevada and Mount Washington heights of angel, : in the time of Graham, the essayist, in one ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts and so be proposed that at the distance of every mile a pole fifteen fest high and with two cross pisces be erected, show- ing the pointe of the compass, and a bell hung at the top, ring it. and so the lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and take the direction given Ly this pole with the cross pieces and get safely home Whether that proposed sian was adopted or not 1 do not know, but | declare to all you who are in the heavy and is a cross near that can direct you to home and peace and (vod; and hear you ringing of the wospel bell % saying, “Th is the iY { $ banging to that orn RE Electricity Exorcises Thieves. The fact ine mn A nt expression of it the electric light has the occupat "i5 now protectin i houses will slightest after the ala connection of the to the f ei part £1 OY ELI ven SUR © in looking afte SAME COnnec } may the police convey station, ms burgiar gets throug work he may find outside patiently Not long ago an snthusiag Paris was so deligh of this form of bu enamored He cleve hoards of jew Caine gnort rac The Sap Sucker, A great many iat wholly detrimental lestroyed on the erroneous charge ti they are in some way to the farmers’ interests with no compen. sating habita, and twice as morn that are admttted to be many in some degree, in the mistaken belief that oa the whole they are the authors of mere harm than good. In first category may be named the sapsucker that is commonly considered a fair target for everybody's gun, on the plea that he is continually injuring young fruit trees for the purpose of feeding on the tender bark or sucking the sap, as popularly This is the head and front of his offending, for it is never pretended that he seriously injures fruit or grains, Close observers, are fully convinced, that the little bird in ques. tion does not make original holes in the bark of the tree at which it is pecking, but that all its efforts are directed to de- stroying and devouring the borers that are concealed in holes already existing, which the birds have not made. Atthe very worst the bird does no more than in some cases to widen the hole enough to allow its beak to reach the worm. As good an authority as Oassius M. Clay is on record as saying, from his own study of ita habits, that the sap- sucker is the deadliest foe of the vermin which destroy cur trees, and that every. one should encourage the multiplication of sap suckers. St. Louis Republic. usefol f { the supposed % however, Sa————— AISA Wigg's Apple. Thomas Wigg, of Wood County, W. Va., picked an apple the other day which had the figures “1890” on its side as plain as if they had been print ed. Wigg thinks it is a warning tha he will die next year, i William Graw, who died a your ago in Pittsburg, was thought to be worth $0,070,000, and yet his estate has up $20,000,000, The Shah of Persia bas a passion for SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 22 181, Elijan’'s Successor. LESSON TEXT. OKings2 : 12.22. Me 12.14 nory versos LESSON PLAN. Toric or and Serving, THE UUARTER: Gores Texr ror the QUARTER! Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Tim. 4 : 8, Lesson Toric: God's Servant Im- powered, 1. The Successor of Elijah, ve, 12-1 2. The ets. vs, If | 2. The Benefactor of Men, i ve, 1922 i4 Chief of the Proph 1% Leeson Outing: Goroes Texr: Not by might, nor by power but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. — Zech. 4 : 6, Damy Hour M, r Sia WEADINGS -2 Kings 2 : 12.22. God's serv- ant empowered, T.- Joun 16 ; 1-15. power, / John pari« d. ~1 Cor. 1 a 20 : 1-23. Power 12.31. Power de- 11. Succaoss When he they were d Moses stretohe ' - waters smitten the water Wale Elisha room anoint to be prophet 1 Kings 19: I Lot a double portion of thy npon me (2 Kn 2: 9). I perceive that this is an holy man of Cod (2 Kings 4: 9). spirit il. Reverencs Shown: They bowed themselves to the ground before him (15). They bowed down themselves him to the earth Gen. 43 I foll down before the Lord IRL, She fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground (Ruth 2: 10). They fell down and worshipped Matt. 2: 11. il, Petitions Asked: Let them go, we pray thee, and seck thy master (16). Now 1 ask one petition of thee, me not {1 Kings 2: 16). to 26). { Deut. him iQ “ | | { | i and my mother (1 Kings 19: 20). Elijah said, Ask what I shall do tor thee (2 Kings 2: 9). know how to give unto your children (Matt. 7: 11). Elisha.” parted prophet; (2) The spirit of the incoming prophet. —(1) Elijah’s qualifications; (2) Elisha's request; (3) Elisha's endowment. 2. “Let them go, we pray thee, and sock thy master.” (1) The depart- ed master; al The importunste prophets; (3) The authorized suo- Did not I say ant Go not? 3. “Did no » you, not?” (1) Etisha's first report; oung men's persistent doubt; (3) Llisha's complete vindication, (11, THE BENEFACTOR OF MEN, I. Help Neodad: The water is naught, and the land misearrieth (19), Yeo have brought asforth. . . to kill... with hunger (Exod. 16: 8). The people thirsted there water (Exed. 17: 8), They fell down, and there was none to help (Psa, 107: 12). Whenee are we to buy bread, that these may eat (John 6: 5 11. God ne Lond Thus sith the I bave healed hose 1) i i Moses eried unto the Lord (Exod, 17: 4.) Then they cried unto the Lord is their trouble (1 ea. 107: 131, Oh that men sonld praise the Lord for his goodness (Pea: 107; 15). Having given thanks, he distributed (John 6: 11. Il. Reller 8 Bo the waters were healed day (22) I will rain bread from heaven for you (Exod. 16: 4., The quails came up, and covered the camp (Exod. 16, 13). Water came forth abundantly (Num. 20: 11 saved them ont of (Pea. 107: 13., 1, “The men of the eity said unto Elisha.” (1) Jericho's advantages; (2) Jericho's disadvantages; (3) Thd citizen's appeal; (4) The prophet'd assistance, % “T'tius saith the lord, 1 have healed these waters.” (1) An evil condition; (2) A competent helper; (3) A complete cure.—(1) The waters; (2) The salt; (8) The Lord: (4) The eure, 3. “Bo the were healed.” (1) 3y divine power; (2) Through hu- man intercession; (3) By appointed Ieans. ured unto thie their distresses 2 wilers a — LESSON BIBLE BEADING the nology); piace length of indi- ¥ me ie nt 1 On y sont ’ i] people of wbly the rulersand e ders, Eli r Elijah 1n £ has of of The i ting for ham, sein rend mantle wale EO~ search ha for- their 1m- y to { arch of Jer- afn ha cn IIIs Weizht of Ice on Tree Branches. has sent to inter ght an {ross was at its maximum gentieman thus dest result of his experiment: “‘A branch of the syrings which weighed one pound had five pounds of ice on it, and & branch of pine needles weighing one pound had tweive pounds of ice on it I got these weights by taking the wood with the ice on it at first, and then taking weight of wood after the ice had melted This does not represeut cor. rectly the enormous strain or sctual pressure exerted on the branches of trees by these ice-storms, but will easily se- count for the sad breakage of trees so common the past few days, and the dan- gers from these ice-storms on both trees and wires.” It was surely a most for. tunate thing that, during the days when the ice remained on the trees, we had no high winds. There must have been in that case, much more damage than was inflicted. — Boston Transoript. of the ice upon tree branches during he ice on the wt + 4 SLOrm., i ribes the i ——————— By Accident. The term ‘‘tweeds,” which is used for a wellknown kind of woollen cloth, is said to be a corruption of “tweels.” The latter word was blotted or imperfectly written on an invoice, and so gave rise to the now familiar name of these goods. “Tweel” was read as “tweed” by the late James Locke, of London, a pioneer of the trade, and it was thought so ate, from the goods bein or prop once adopted, and has been continued ever since. Tweed cloth is woven diagonally. Well-Pald Archbishops. The Austrian Archbishops are prob. ably the most highly paid in the world. The Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna has only about £6,000 a year, but the A of Olmuts hae £40,000, the Cardinal Archbi of Prague has £35,000, and the op of Eriru has £60,000. And the primate of Hungary, the Cardinal Arcibihop. of Grau, haa £90,000 8
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