Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-09

STONED then. What was the mattel:
Power OF accumulated snow-nakes; on
the top of the Apprentices one fiake falis,
and others fall, and they pile up and
they make a mountain OF fleece on the
ton OF mountain of rock, until one day
"A gust OF wind, or even the voice OF Il
mountaineer, sets the frozen Vapors ihto
action and by awful descent they sweep
leyerything in their course-trees, rocks,
villages-as when, in 1927, the town oil
Briel in Valois was buried, and IN 1914,
lin Switzerland, three hundred soldiers
were entombed. These avalanches
were made up OF single snow nakes.
What tragedies OF the snow have been
witnessed by the monks OF st. Bernard,
who, for ages have with the dogs been
busy in extricating bewildered and
overwhelmed travellers in Alpine storms,
the dogs Wild blanket fastened to their
backs and TASKS OF spirits fastened TO
their necks, to resuscitate the helpless
travellers, one of these dogs decorated
with a medal for having saved the lives
OF TWENTY-FIVE persons, the brave beast
himself slain OF the snow on that day
when accompanying Piedmontese
courier on the way to his anxious
household down the mountain, the
wife and children OF the Pied
montese courier coming up the noun
tain in search of him, an avalanche COW
cred all under pyramids higher than
those under which the Egyptian mon
archs sleep their sleep of the ages.
What an illustration of the tragedies OF
the snow is found in that scene between
! Glencoe and Glencreran one February,
in Scotland, where Ronald Cameron
comes forth to bring TO his fathers
house his cousin, Flora Macdonald, for
the celebration OF birthday, and the
calm day turns Into hurricane OF white
fury that leaves Ronald and Flora as
dead, to be resusctated by the shep-
herds. What an exciting struggle had
Bayard Taylor among the wintry APP
PENNIES.
In the winter of 1912, by a similar
force the destiny.O of Europe was decided.
The French army marched up toward
Moscow five hundred thousand men.
What can resist them? Not bayonets,
but the dumb elements overwhelm that
host. Napoleon retreats from Moscow
with about two hundred thousand men,
mighty nucleus for another campaign
after he gets back TO Paris. The morn
ing OF October 10Th, when they start for
home Is bright and beautiful. The air
! is tonic, and, although this Russian
campaign has been failure, Napoleon
will try again i'm some other direction
with his host Of brave surviving French
men. But cloud comes on the sky,
and the air gets chill, and one
of the soldiers feels on his
cheek snowflake, and then
there is multiplication OF these wintry
messages, and soon the plnmeS OF the
officers are decked with another style oil
plume. and then all the skies let loose
( upon the warriors hurricane OF snow,
I.and the march becomes difficult and the
horses find it difficult to pull the sup
ply train, and the men begin to fall I'M
/ der the fatigue; and many, not able TO
/ take another step, lie down in the drifts
never to rise, and the cavalry horeS
stumble and fall, and one thousand OF
the army fall, and ten thousand perish,
and twenty thousand 60 down, and hfty
thousand. and hundred thousand, and
hundred aud twenty thousand, ana
hundred and thirty-two thousand dle'
and the victor of Jena, Bridge OF Lodi,
Eylau and Austerlitz, where three
great armies. commanded by three en-
perors. surrendered 10 him, now him
self surrenders to the SnowilakeS. His
torians do not seem torecognize that the
tide in that mans life turned from De-
cember the 10th, 1909, when he ban
! ished by hideouS divorce his wife Jose
phine from the palace and so challenged
the Almighty, ond the Lord charged
upon him from the fortreSSes OF the SKY
with ammunition Of crystal. Showed
under! Billions. trillions, quadrillions,
ouintillions OF flakes did the work, And
what suggestion OF accumulatiye
power, and what rebuke to all OF us
who get discouraged because we cannot
do much, and therefore do nothing.
TIE CHRISTIAN PURITY.
Another treasure of the snow is the
suggestion that this mantle covering the
earth is like the soul after It is forgiven.
"Wash me-" said the PSalmist, ''and |
shall be whittier than snow" My dear
friend Gasherie De Witt went over to
Geneva, Switzerland, for the recovery
of his health, but the Lord had some
thing better for him than earthly recoy-
cry. Little did / think when | bade
him goodbye one lovely afternoon on
the other side of the sea, TO return to
America, that we would not meet again
tin we met in Heaven. As he lay one
Sabbath morning on his dying pillow in
5 Switzerland, the window open, he was
looking out upon Mont Blanc. The air
was clear. That great mountain stood
in its robe Of gnow. glttering in the
morning light, and my friend SAID TO
his wife: Jennie, do you know
what that snow on Mont Blanc
makes me think Of? 1t makes me think
that the righteousness Of Christ, and
the pardon OF God cover all the sins, and
imperfections OF my life, as that snow
covers up that mountain, for the prom
Use is that though our sins be as scarlet
they shall be as white as snow" Was
not that glorious. | do not care VINO
YOU are, or where you are, you need as
muce as do that cleansing, which MADE
Gashierie De Witt good while he lived
and glorious when he died. Do not
take il as the tenet of an obsolete the
, ologv that our nature is corrupt. we
must be changed. We must be made
, over again. The ancents thought that
snow-water had especial power to wash
lout deep stains. All other water might
: fail. but melted snow would make them
/ clean. Well. job has great admiration
| I. declares In substance
that if he should wash his soul in melted
, snow. he would still be covered with mud
r like man down in ditch. (Job y: 3Ol.
, IF wash myself in snow water and
p make my hands never 50 clean, yel
, shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and
nv own clothes shall abhor me" we
i mnst be washed in the fountain OF God
mercy. before we can whittier than snow
= "Without holiness, no man shall see inc
Lord" Oh. for the cleansing power.
Y If there be in all this audience one
Y man or woman whose thoughts have
a AWAY, been right, and whose words AZ
n WAYS right, and whose actions AWAY
D right. let such one rise, or If already
e standing. lift the right hand. Not one
g All we. like sheep. have gone astray
{ Uncleanl unclean' And yet we may OF
c made whittier than snow, whittier TN
: that which. on cold winters morning
r after night Of storm, clothes the tre'
- from bottom of trunk TO top OF hlgh
4 est branch; whittier than that which
b this hour. makes the Adirondacks any
: the Sierra Nevada and Mount Wash
r ington heights OF pomp and splendor Il
TO enthrone an archangel.