oo - REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Lessons of Winter.” And it is high time that wo find this mighty realm of God close by and under our own little finger. To drop vou out of His memory would be to resign His omniscience. To refuse you His protection would be to ab- dieate His omnipotence. When you tell me that He is the God of Jupiter, and the God of Mercury, and the God of Saturn, you tell me something so vast that I cannot comvprebend it. But If you tell me He is the God of the ————— i Text: ‘Hast thowentered into the treas- | ures of the mow? Job xxxvill,, 22, Grossly maligned is the season of winter. | The spring 4 summer and autumn have had many admirers, but winter, hoary headed and white bearded winter, hath had more enemies than friends. Yet without | winter the human race would be inane and | effortiess. You might speak of the winter as the mother of tempests, I take it as the father of a whols 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 wash 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 atmosphere, those poems | of the storm, those Iliads and Odyssays of | the wintery tempest, I turnover the leaves of my Bible and-~though most of it was written in a clime where snow seldom or never fell—I find many of those beautiful congelations, Though the writers may sel dom or never have felt the cold touch of the snow flake on their cheek, they had in sight two mountains, the tops of which were sug- estive, Other kings sometimes take off heir erowns, but Lebanon and Mount Her | mon all the year round and through the ages never lift the coronsts of crystal from their foreheads The first time we find a deep fall of snow in the Bible is where Samuel describes a | fight between Benaiah and a lion in a pit, and though the snow may have crimsoned under the wounds of both man and brute, the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and the giant was victor. But the fully recognized in the Bible tervogates Job, the scientist, wonders, saying, “Hast thou the treasures of the snow?” I rather think that Job may have exam ined the snowflake with a mu wr, although wed that the micr was invented long aiter Jol im had been wonders of microscope and thought of iseum was in the emperor which © ial | i snow is not until God in concerning its entered into roscope: | it is supy SCOpe there re the day were r ago as when th sod] ww NETO glass talesco at in groat theatre looked at th his close expl ruin rod ment I an the pu rapt teres, 1 OJIN, THA) ie ni mg ap at the ques “Hast tho Snow sities AS A res ad asked » treasures of the Oh, it is a won studied it above the velsd ng thes Dr shy © snowf a shape of cviinders; are pyram fall of snow nthe evel of the met ~ snted nix inshape of © are globular, are ial, are casteliated in one walk you vour Tull Windsor Pauls St. P Marks, irals Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumsr able. 1 know it depends much on our own condition what inpression these meteors Ww makes I shall not forget tending wood cuts which hood side by side ous farmbous and a lad door ur Irani f { star h hexagot After af Tush casties feet, AOTIeN ters, St cathe f the sn two rough and unpre I saw in my boy one a picture of a prospe war Ung Re IWS In , haggard ai from t yar spiritual 1 will accept t ugh some of these And notion first ay take alpenstock wn of iow rises into white 1 hron>, rer ascend the mountains and see glaciers a usand feet high grinding against glacier go thousand feet high, But | will take a less pretentious journey and show {in the suowfiak There is room h between its pillars for the great Je. to stand. In that one I the tip of your fliiger you may find the throne room of the Almighty. | take up the in my hand and see the coursers of « dominion pawing these crystal paver The telescope is grand, but | must confess that | am quite as much interested in the microscope. The one re the universe above us; the other just as great a univers ben=ath us jut the telesc pe overwhelms me, while the microscope comforts me What ou want and | want espscially Is a God in Ritttes If we were seraphic or are in our pata we would want to study | : in the great; but such small, weak lived beings as you and | are wan! Goa in the little When | see the Maker of the universs giv ing Himself to the architecture of a8 mow flake, and making its shafts, its domes, its curves, ita walls, its irradiations so perfect | conclude He will look after our insignificant affairs. And if we are of more value 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 littien, It does not sy, "Consider the clouds,” but it says, “Consider the Hiies.” It does not say, "‘Hebold the tempests™ but the ’ \1 and . : which is like a pillar ith arctic expl ind the north { the great -~ ¥ you Ge enong bovah sens drov on show “estial rile veals ary rel “a. short to find “Behold the fowls” and it applands a cup of | cold water and the widow's two mites, and | the generals got about all the says tho hairs of your head areall numberad, | the war [or God and righteousness and heavon Do not fear, therefore, that you are going to be lost in the crowd. Do not think that be snowflake among a three days’ January snow storm that 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 lggdustries of Honth Carciina such a source livelihood and wealth? It is because (od teaches the lady- bug to make wn oping in the rind of t apricot for the bes, who cannot otherwise at the juices of the fruit, So God sends ladybug ahead to re the way for the honey bee, He teaches the ant to bite . fn of corn that she puis in the for winter food in order He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw hbles into a hollow tree, that the water far | went into silence, uttering nota wor Aa | New York, “Stay | merce, whose wheels firing snowflake, you tell me something I can hold and measure and realize, Thus the sinallest | snowflake contains a jowel 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 comfort. Babold, 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 nt sven make it tremble. When you want to ex- press extreme triviality of weight you say, | “Light as a feather,” but a snowflake is much lighter. lighter than water, And yet the accumula tion of these flakes broke down, a few days | ago, in sight of my house, six talograph poles, made helpless police and fire depariments and halted rail trains with two thundering locomotives Wo 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 has been death But a fow days ago the snow put its hand on most of these wires, and tore them down as thiough they were cobwebs The snow said: “You seam afraid of the thunderbolt; I will eatch it and hurl it to the ground. electric lights adorning your cities with bub bles of fire, I will put out as easily as your ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle.” | snow put its finger ou the lip of our citios that were talking with each other and they The snow mightier than the lightning In March, 1888, the snow stopped Amer jon. It said to Brooklyn, ‘Stay home!” to J home!” to Philadelphia to Washington, “Stay home ' It put intoa “stay home! to Richmond, “Stay home! white sepuicher most of this nation Com never before What was the matter? P (On stopped stopped then of accumulated snowflakes the Apennines one flake falls, and others { and they pile up, and they make a mount of fleece on the top of a mountain of unt day a gust ! or sven the © Of 8 mountainesr, = frosen jon, and by awiald nt thoy swaep in their ilinges—as when in ai y Valais, was buried, and in . three hundred soldiers made il one vapor COUTSH the LVAIRI i WwW wilake What tragedies «1 by the slain of & now Of panying a Piedmon « anxious bh e and child riser comin in, £0 avalanche « seh under pyra ier which the op of the a wiration of the tr of wind in that Glencreran one February in Hooald Cameron comes X father's hou his MeDonald for the n . and the calm day turns into a ite fury that leaves Honald dead. to be resuscitated by What an exciting struggle Taylor among the wintry agedies snes het wasn celebrati ff a birthday hurricane of w and Fiora as e shepherds! bad Bayard Apennines! » winter of 1812, by a similar foros, tiny of Europe was decided. The sneh army marched gp toward Moscow wired thousand men. What can re Not bayonets, but the dumb sie g overwhelm that host campaign Again m y Is a mult and soon kad with an sil the skies cane of Healt, and tee supg | und , and a n and ten thousand go down, and wisand, and a hun- y fall twenty thousand nd a hundred th enty thousand and v-two thousand die, of Lodi and Eylan Areas Krime NOeTOrs rronderad himself surrenders to yw nd bra where three roe # Lt] the #1 coe Historians do not seem to recognize the tide in that man's life turne | from 16, 158, when he shed by hideous div his wife Josephine from the palace, and so challenged the Almighty, and the Lord charged upon him from the fortress of the sky with ammunition of crystal HSoowed al B trilions, quadrillions quin iO And whata and what yaragzed he that Pe MAY f fakes did the work iative p is who get nacho ’ on of » "war, a rebuke to all of CAUSE Wa Oar nothind} Oh,” say the forces of sin and for the iin wt do and therefore do ‘I would like to stop rime that are mar route nati but I am nobody: | have neither wealth nor sloguen nor social power What ean | do™ My brother, how much do you weigh? A= much as a snowflake! “Oh, yea “Then do your share. It is an aggregation of small influ ences that will yet put this lost world back into the bosom of a pardoning God. Alas that there are so many men and women who will pot use the one talent becuse they have not ton, and will not give a penny because they cannot give a dollar, and will not speak as well as thay can beosuse they are mot elo quent, and will not be a sowflake because they cannot bean avalanche! In earthly wars erodit, but in # ROmMe one, bin the Oi] ", all the private soldiers will got erowas of | victory unfailing oause you estimate yoursell as only one | When we reach heavenly the grace of (lod may we all arrive there--1 do not think wa will be able to begin the new song right away because of the surprise we shali feel at the comparative rewards given, As we are Iwing conducts situg the strest to our | celestial residence we will begin to ask | where live some of those who were mighty lon earth, We must ask, “Is Soandso here™ And the spswer will be | think be ix in the city, but we don't hear | much of him; he was he took most of his pay in earthly applause; he had enough grace (o get through The gate, but jost where he lives | know not. He sjusesad through somehow think the gates took the skirts of his gar ments, | think be lives in one of thoss back strests in one of the plainer reddences.” Then we shall see a palace, the doors gold, and the windows of agate, = wer like the sun for brilliance, and char. jota before the door, md Joopie who look like princes and princess going W the steps, and wo shall say, * the hisrarohs lives hers? t must be the residence of a Paul or a Milton, or some one whose name resounds through all the planet from which we have just ascended.” ‘No, » our oslestial dragoman; “that He residence of & soul who you never it | that among the | he is mighty up here, | out of her palace grounds in her chariot be It is just twenty-four times | Your boasted | | And then I thought to myself The | | all the work assigned it, as | are only the petrified sn | and wide and enriching; then “Yeu 11 good and be got in, but | | mow covers wp promise fa that though our sine be as soariet, although 1 | | Are, of | the | “When she gave her charity her left hand knew not what her right hand did, She was mighty in secret prayer, and no one but God and her own soul knew it, Bhe had more 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. crated to God and helping others, and the Lord is making up for her earthly privation by especial raptures here, and the King of this country had that place built especially for her. The walls began to go up when her troubles and privations and conseorations began on earth, and it go happened-—what a heavenly coincidenca!—that the last stroke of the trowel of amethyst on those walls was given the hour she entared heaven “You kaow nothing of her. On earth her pame was only ones in the newspapers, snd column of the dead, but There she comes pow hind those two white horses for a ride on the banks of the river that flows from under the throne of God Let me see Did you not have in your world below an oid | which says something about ‘these are thoy who come out of great tribulation, and they shall reign for ever and ever?” As wo pass up the street I find a good many | on foot, and [ say to the dragoman: “Who are these” And when their pame is an pounce! I recognize that some of them were on earth great poets, and great orntors, and great merchants, and great warriors, a afoot the dragoman says: “In this country psople are rewarded not according to the number of their earthly talents, but accord- ing to the use they made of what they had “Why, theory would make a snowflake that cheerfully and in the right place, and honorable whole Mont Blane of snowflakes “Yes yes” says the oalestial dragoman, “many of these pearls that you find on the foreheads of the righteous, aud many of the falls gems in the jewel case of prince and princess, | ¥ I I earthly | yewflakes of tempest, for God does not forget the promise made in regard to them, “They shall be Mine, said the Lord of hosts, in the day make up My jewels’ All the prayers and charities and kindnesses and talents of all the good conosntered and compacted will be the world's evangelization This thought of ft srnalls into that i ure of the snow Another treasure of the usefulness of : winter made the agereZation one mughty is an &n BOTT 1 au at snowieas winter has not tor Within a few weeks a tho satyde into the grave lately les mber the grandest a 1 best Of thie Yeu iti SOBER, tiven Liven ly followed by Seientif tains a larger per the rain, and hence rich an we In hary DARITHS has = ront tae its gros C4 boson aria Siberia \ - ent And t to keep the f snow it DIAN Ke amination was a hundred de now ry Kr 1 above the perished in the mild winter lark on Snow strikes back ther He Warn now w to koe oh En Wl wise would Ape in the air Thank God for the snows, and February be as plentiful as those of ber and January have high the f enough | et I bneworty and deep harvests baeeny pext Jaly will embroider tire American analogioal {acul chill as the snow that « of grace » str with g realizing $ , Are th iw slcKness 0 thems and w storms as of the ridly the depend wl avery ner re White!) ringing ten in brought a hundred atured and sssailed him England, and dead face when he was preaching What mellowed and g ie] Wilberforoe's Christian charact A financial mis{ortune that led him to write, I know not why my fe is spared so long, sxoept i to show that a man oan ut a fou tune as with one.” y» Jolin Milton h keen spiritual « y add se the battle of the angels’ Extinguistiiment { physioal eymight What is the highest imervatory for studying the stars of hope and faith and spiritual promis The be aver's sick bed. What prociainmes the richest and most golden harvests that wave on all the hills of heavenly rapture? The snows, the deep snows, the ol soows of earthiy calamity, And that comiorting thought i" one of the treasures of the snow Another treasure of the snow is the sugres. tion that this mantle covering the earth is like the soul after it is forgiven. me.” sald the Psalmist, “and 1 shall be whiter than snow.” My dear friend Gast. erie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switeer. land. for the recovery of his health, but the Lord had something better for him than earthly recov “7. Fistio di) I think when | bade him good-b the other msde of the ssa to return to Amerion, that we would not meet again till we meet in heavens. As be lay one Sabbath morning vermin thrown mn be be as | on his dying plilow in Bwitseriand, the win. | dow open, was looking out upon Mont Blane. The alr was clear. That great mountain stood in ita robe of mow, glitter. ing in the morning Nght, and my friend sid to his wife: “Jennie, do you know what that mow on Mount Blane makes me think of? It makes me think thst the righteousness of Christ and the pardon of God cover all the sine and imperfections of my life, as that that mountain, for the they rhall ta as white as snow.” Was not that glorious I do not oare who Jou are, or where you ou need ax much as 1 do that cleansing which made Gasherte De Witt good while he lived and glorious when he died. Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete thor that our patare s corraph. We must changed. We must be made over again, The ancients thought that snow water wer to wash out “laine, classic ‘ | distance of every mile a pole fiftosn feet high dl when | express my surprise about thelr going | | aud peace and God; w | ringing of that | does | us al | fic when 1] Accumulated power! | | the nenns “Wash | y one lovely afternoon on | | it, water, and make my hands ever so clean, yot shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me” We must be washed in the fountain of God's mercy before we can be whiter than snow. “Without holiness, no wan shall see the Lord” Oh, for the cleansing power! If thers be in all this audience one man or woman whose thoughts have always been right, and whose actions are always right, Jot such a one rise, or if already standing, 1ift the right band, Not one! All we, like sheep, have gone astry . Unclean! unclean! And yot we may be made whiter than snow whiter than that which, on a cold winter's morning, after n night of storm, clothes the tres from bottom of trunk to top of highest branch, whiter than that which this hour makes the Adirondacks, and the Blerra Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to enthrone an arch- angel, in: the time of Graham, the essayist, in one mountain district of Scotiand an average of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, and so he proposed that at the and with two cross pleces be erected, show ing the points of the compass, and a bell hung at the top, so that every breese would ring it. and so the lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and tale the direction given by this pole with the cross pieces and get safely home, Whether that proposed plan was adopted or not 1 do not know, but | declare to ail you who are in the heavy and blinding drifts of ¥in and sorrow thet there is n cross near Ly that can direct you to home and hear you not the the gospel bell hanging to that cross, saying, This is the way, Walk ye in 15 4d - EE — Electricity Exorcises Thieves, The fact that the electric light has in ted biow at of the familiar one, and the t the A severe the occupation ‘midnight marauder” now A recent n wn subject ol TRL 5 of house breakers has calle Ls | stent depredation | nm Lo ADECIA which are now he ia —————- - The Sap Sucker ntinually r the pur) fi Dark or sw the This is the king : ipposed head and fron his offendir NOVer pretende | hat he seriously w grains fully ques Close observers, are anvinced, that t i 2 does not make ginal holes the wrk of the tree at it is pe king, it that all its effort re directed to de th borers endy existing, At the in troving and devouring that are concealed in holes a which the birds have n¢ very worst the bird do 0 1 in some cases to wid we than hole enourh to allow its beak to reach the worm. As good an authority as M. Clay is on record as sayiog, from his own study of its 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. Lowis Republic, Cassius —-— a — Weight of lee on Tree Draoches, A gentleman of Brookline has sent to the Listener an account of a very inter esting experiment in taking the weight of the ice upon tree branches during an jeestorm, when the ice on the trees was at its maximum, describes the result of his experiment: “A branch of the syringa which weighed one pound had five pounds of ice on it, and a branch of pine needles weighing one pound had twelve pounds of lee on I got these weights by taking the wood with the ice on it at first, and then taking weight of wood after the jce had melted. This does not represent oor. rectly the enormous strain or actual pressure exerted on the branches of trees by these ice-storms, but will easily ne- count for the sad bicakage of trees so common the past few days, and the dan. gers from these loo-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 The German Emperor's Toast. The Emperor of Germany drank the following toast at the marriage of his sister Vietorin: “I stand here in place of my father, now resting in God, who did pot grant that he should live to see this day. May the blessing of our departed futher and our beloved mother, and of your parents [turning to the bridegroom] rest upon you, I stand here also as the head of the royal house, You may fl~ ways rely upon my protection and my paternal friendship. 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