The Penn's Grove record., 1891-02-20
who come out of great tribulation, and they

are thesey" And when their name Is an.
nounced l recognize that some Of them were
on earth great poets, and great orators, and
great merchants, and great warriors, and
when l express my surprise about their going
afoot the dragoman y ''In this country
people are rewarded not according to the
number of their earthly talents, but accord
ing to the use they made of what they had. y
And then l thought to myself: "Why, that
theory would make a snowflake that falls
cheerfully and In the right place. and does
all the work assigned it, as honorable as q
whole Mont Blanc Of snowhakes."
Eyes, yes,' says the celestial dragoman,
''mapy OF these pearls that you find on the
foreheads of the righteous. and many of the
gems in the jewel case Of prince and princess,
are only the petrified snowaakes of earthly
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 when I
All the prayers and charities and kindnesses
and talents of all the good c~oncentered and
~compacted will be the worlds evangelization.
This thought Of the aggregation Of the many
smalls into that one mighty Is another treas
ure of the
Another treasure of the snow Is the sug-
gestion Of the usefulness of sorrow. Absence
Of snow last winter made all nations sick.
That snowless winter has not yet ended its
disasters. Within a few weeks II put tens
of thousands into the grave. and left others
In homes and hospitals gradually to go
down. Called by q trivial name, the Rus
sian grip" 1t was an International plague.
Plenty OF snow means public health. There
Is no medicine that so soon cures the worlds
malarias as these white pellets that the
clouds administer-psllsts small enough to be
homeopathic, but in such large doses as to
DO allopathic, and melting soon enough to be
h~ydropathic. Like a sponge, every fake alb
serbs unhealthy gases. The tables OF NOR
tality In New York and Brooklyn imme-
diately lessened when the SHOWS of last De-
cember began to fall. The snow Is one OF
the grandest and best Of the worlds doctors.
Yes, it is necessary for the lands produc-
~taveness. Great SHOWS in winter are general-
ly followed by great harvests next summer.
Scientific analysis has shown that nov con-
tains a larger percentage Of ammonia than
the rain, and hence its greater, power of en-
richment. And besides that, it is a white
blanket to keep the earth warm. An e1-
animation Of snow in Siberia showed that it
was a hundred degrees warmer under the
snow than above the snow. Alpine plants
persisted In the mild winter Of England for
lack of enough snow to keep them warm.
Snow strikes back the rich gases which other
wise would escape In the air and be lost.
Thank God for the SHOWS, and may those Of
February be as plentiful as those OF Decem-
Der ana JdnudTy u&t0 bc0u, htku dhu ucSp
and wide and enriching; then the harvests
next July will embroider with gold this en-
tire American continent. But who with any
a~nalogfcal faculty can notice that out Of such
chill as the snow comes the wheat, without
realizing that chilling sorrows produce har-
vests of gracel
The strongest Christians, without any ex-
csption, are thuse who were by be~reavsments
or sickness or poverty or persecution. or all
- kho,~ fo0afhor HunWQd nndAr- and
again and again snowed under. These
snow storms Of troubled They kill the ma
larias Of the soul. They drive Us out of
worldly dependence to God. Call the roll
Of all the eminently pious Of all the ages and
YOU will find them the sons and daughters
Of sorrow. The Maronites say that one
characteristic of the cedar tree is that when
the air is full of snow and it begins to de-
scend the tree lifts its branches in a way
better to receive the snow n bear up under
it and / know by much observation that the
erandest cedars of Christian character lift
higher their branches toward God when the
SHOWS Of trouble are coming.
Lord Nelson's coffin was made out of the
masts of the ship Torrent In which he had
fought 90 bravely, and your throne in
heaven, o suffering child Of God. will be
built out Of conquered earthly disasters.
What gave John Bunyan such a wondrous
dream Of the celestial city, The Bedford
p~enitentiary. What gave Richard Baxter
guch power to tell Of the Saints Everlasting
Uncouyertedr Physical disease which
racked every nerve Of his body. What made
George WhfteHeid 70 mighty in saving souls
bringing ten. thousand to God when Others
brought Q hundrsdf Persecution that carl
cstured and assailsd him all up and down
England, and dead vermin thrown in his
face when he was preaching.
Christian characterf 4 financial misfortune
that led him to write, 81 know not why my
life Is spared so long, except it be to show
That a man can be as happy without a for
time as with one.n What rave John Milton
such keen spiritual eyesight that he could
see the battle Of the angelsi Extinguishment
Of physical syesight. h Is the highest
and faith and spiritual promisef The be-
levers sick bed. What proclaims the richest
and most golden harvests that wave on all
the hills Of heavenly rapturef The SHOWS
the deep SHOWS, the awful SHOWS Of earthly
calamity. And that comforting thought Is
one of the treasures of the snow.
Another treasure of the snow is the sugges-
ton that this mantle covering the earth is
ike the soul after it Is forgiven. "Wash
me- said the Psalmist, land / shall be
winter than snow" My dear friend CASH
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 recovery. Little did ! think when /
babe him good-by' one lovely afternoon on
the other side Of the sea toreturn % America,
that we would not meet again till we meet
In heaven. As he lay one Sabbath morning
on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the win
dow open, he wa looking U Upon Mont
Blanc. The air was clear. That great
mountain stood in its robe Of snow, glitter.
ing in the morning light, and my friend said
to his wife: Jennie. do you know what thai
snow on Mount Blanc makes me think OF
1t makes me think that b Righteousness OF
Christ and the pardon Of God cover all the
sins and imperfections Of my life as that
snow covers up thai mountain, for tbs
promise IL that though our sins DO as scarlet,
they shall be a. whits a. now" Was moi
that gloriousf
lido not care who you are o. where you
which made Gashsris De witt good while
he lived and glorious when he died. Do moi
take 1t as the tenet Of an obsolete theology
that our nature is corrupt. We must bt
changed. We must BE- made over again.
The ancIents Thought that snow water had
especial power to wash out deep stains
would make Them clean. Wen, JOB had
great admiration for snow, but he declares
In substance that II he should wash hi
SOUL IN melt9u blloW NO WYNN btAA poSSs
cred with mud, like q man down In a ditch
Job IL, sN. "n ! wash myself In snow
water, and make my hands ever so clear
vet shalt thou plunge rue In the ditc,
and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
| we must be washed in the fountain o
| Coda mercy before we can be white
than snow. "Without holiness, no maj
Shall see the Lord" Oh, for the cleansing
II there be in all this audience one man OF
woman whose thoughts have always oeei
| rieht. and whose actions are always rignt
lei such a one rise, or IL already. standing
lift the right hand. Not onel All we; hk
sheen. have gone astry. Uncleanl uncieAn
And vet we may be made whittier b sno,
whittier than that which, on a cold winter
morning, after a night Of storm. clothes tn
tree from bottom OF trunk to top OF highes
branch, whittier than that which this hou
makes the Adirondacks, and the Slerr'
Nevada and Mount Washington heights Q
pomp and ~splendor ft to enthrone an arcn
angel.
in the time Of Graham, the essayist, In on
mountain district of Scotland an average Q
ten ~shepherds perished every winter In th
snow drifts, and so he proposed that az IN
distance OF every mile a pole fifteen feet hlgl
and with two cross pieces be erected, SNOW
ing the points Of the compass, and a De
bnno At the ton. so that every breeze woul