Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-12

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host Of brave surviving Frenchmen.
But a cloud comes on the sky and the
air gets chill, and one of the soldiers feels
on his cheek "a snowflake, and then there Is
a multiplication of these wintry messages,
and soon the plumes of the officers are
decked with another style of plume, and
then all the skies LEI loose upon the war
riors "A hurricane of snow, and the march
becomes difficult, and the horses find it
hard to pull the supply train, and the men
begin to fall under the fatigue, and many
not able to take another step lie down in
the drifts never to rise. and the cavalry
horses stumble and fall, and one thousand
of the army fall, and ten thousand perish,
and twenty thousand go down, and fifty
Thousand, and hundred thousand, and
hundred and twenty thousand and hun
dred and thirty-two thousand die, and the
victor of Jena and bridge of Lodi and
Eylau and Austerlitz, where three great
armies, commanded by three emperors,
surrendered to him, now himself surren-
ders to the snowfiakes.
Historians do not seem to recognize that
the tide in that mans life turned from
Dec. IT, 1909, when he banished by hideous
divorce his wife Josephine from the
and the Lord charged upon him from the
fortresses Of the sky with ammunition Of
crystal. Showed underi Billions, trillions,
quadrillions, quintrillions of flakes did the
work. And what suggestion of accumu-
lative power, and what a rebuke to all of
us who get discouraged because we cannot
do much, and therefore do nothingl
DO YOUR SHARE FOR GOD
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stop the forces of sin and crime that are
marching for the conquests of the nations,
but AN nobody; | have neither wealth
nor eloquence nor social power. What can
dor" My brother, how much do you
weight As much as a snowflakef "Oh, yes"
Then do your share. 1t is an aggregation
of small influences that will yet put this
lost world back into the bosom of par
doning God Alas that there are so many
men and women who will not use the one
talent because they have not ten, and will
not give penny because they cannot give
dollar, and will not speak as well as they
can because they are not eloquent, and will
not be snowflake because they cannot be
an avalanchcl In earthly wars the gem
erals get about all the credit, but in the
war for God and righteousness and heaven
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victory unfailing.
When we reach heavenly the grace of
God may we all arrive there--I do not
think we will be able to begin the new
song right away because of the surprise
we shall feel at the comparative rewards
given. As we are being conducted along
the street to our celestial residence we will
begin to ask where live some of those who
were mighty on earth We will ask, SIS
So-and so heres" And the answer will be:
ayes, 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
applause; he had enough grace to get
through the gate, but just where he lives
know not. He squeezed through somehow,
although think the gates took the skirts
of his garments. | think he lives in one
Of those back streets in one of the palmer
residences"
Then we shall see palace, the door
steps of gold. and the windows of agate,
aud the tower like the sun for brilliance,
and chariots before the door, and people
who look like princes and princesses going
up and down the steps, and we shall say,
What one Of the hierarchs lives hereY
That must be the residence of a Paul or n
Milton, or some one whose name resounds
through all the planet from whichw we have
just assembled" mo. no." says our celes-
tial dragoman: that is the residence of IA
soul whom you never heard of.
"When she gave a charity her left hand
knew not what her right hand did. She was
mighty in secret prayer, and no one but
God aud her own soul knew it. She 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-
Grated to God and helping others, and the
Lord is making up for her earthly priva-
ton by especial raptures here, and the
king of this country had that place built
especially for her The walls began to 20
up when her troubles and privations and
CONSIDERATIONS began on earth, and it so
happened-what n heavenly coincidence
that the last stroke of the trowel of anne
thyst on those walls was given the hour
she entered heaven.
you know nothingof her. On earth her
name 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 behind those two white horses
for 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 old classic which says something
about these are they who come out of
great tribulation. and they shall reign for
ever and every"
PEARLS on THE FoREHEADs OF THE RIGHT
EOus
As we pass up the street | find good
many on foot, and | say 10 the dragoman,
"Who are theseY" And when their name
is announced I recognize that some Of
them were on earth great poets, and great
orators. and great merchants, and great
warriors, and when express my surprise
about their going afoot the dragoman
says. In this country people are rewarded
not according to the number of their
earthly talents, but according TO the use
they made OF what they had" And then /
| thought TO myself: 'Why, that theory
would make a snowflake that falls cheer |
fully and in the right place, and does all
the work assigned it, as honorable as a
whole Mont Blanc of snowfiakes."
Eyes, yes" says the celestial dragoman,
many of these pearls that you find on the