Connecticut western news., 1891-02-11

George Whitefield so mighty in saving souls, bringing ten thousand to God when others brought a hundred2 Per secution that caricatured and assailed him all up and down England, and dead vermin thrown in his face when he was preaching.
 What mellowed and glorif1ed Wilber- forces Christian character2 A finan- cial misfortune that led him to write ''I know not why my life is spared % long except it be to show that man can be as happy without fortune as with one" What gave John Milton such keen spiritual eyesight that he could see the battle of the angels9 Extinguishment of physical eyesight What is the highest observatory for studying the stars of hope and faith and spiritual promise2 The believers sick bed. What proclaims the richest and most golden harvests that wave on all the hills of heavenly rapture9 The snows, the deep snows, the awful snows of earthly calamity. And that comforting thought is one of the treas ures of the snow
 MADE WHITE LIKE THE SNOW.
 Another treasure of the snow is the suggestion that this mantle covering the earth is like the soul after it is for given. ''Wash me-" said the Psalrnist, land shall be winter than snow" My dear friend Gasherie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzerland, for the recovery of his health, but the Lord had something better for him than earthly recovery. Little did I think when I bade him good-by, one lovely afternoon on the other side of the sea to return to 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 window open, he was looking out upon Mont Blanc. The air was clear. That great mountain stood in its robe of snow, glittering in the morning light, and my friend said to his wife: "Jennie, do you know. what that snow on Mont Blanc makes me think off It 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 mount ain, for the promise is that though our sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow." Was not that gloriousl I do not care who you are or where you are, you need as much as I do that cleansing which made Gasherie De Witt good while he lived and glorious when he died. Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete theology that our nature is corrupt. We be changed. We must be made over again.
 The ancients thought that snow water had especial power to wash out deep stains. All other water might fail, but melted snow would make them clean. We'll, Job had great admiration for snow, but he declares in substance that if he should wash his soul in melted snow he would still be covered with mud like a man down in 0 ditch Job k, 30). If I wash myself in snow water. and make my hands never so clean, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me-" We must be washed in the foun. tain of Gods mercy before we can be winter than snow. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord" Oh, for the cleansing powerl
 If there be in this audience one man or woman whose thoughts have al- ways been right, and whose words al- ways right, and whose actions always right, let such one rise, or if already standing lift the right hand. Not onel All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Uncaean, unclean! And yet we mAS be made winter than snow; winter than that which on a cold winters morning, after a night of storm, clothes the tree from bottom of trunk to top of highest branch; winter than that which this hour makes the Adirondacks, and the Sierra Nevadas and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to en- throne an archangel
 "THIs IS THE WAY; WALK VIE IN IT."
 In the time of Graham, the essayist, in one mountain district of Scotland an average of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, and so he proposed that at the distance of every mile pole fifteen feet high and with two cross pieces be erected show ing the points of the compass, and bell hung at the top, so that every breeze would ring it, and so the lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and take the direction given by this pole with the cross pieces and get safely home. Whether that proposed plan was adopted or not I do not know, but I declare to all you who are in the heavy and binding drifts of sin and sorrow that there is a cross near by that can direct you to home and peace and God; and hear you not the ringing of the gospel bell hanging to that cross, saying, 'This Is the way; walk ye in it9' No wonder that the sacred poet put the Psalmist's thought into rhythm with that ringing chorus we have so often sung:
 Dear Jesus. I long to be perfectly whole;
 want thee forever to live in my soul.
 Break down every idol, cast down every foel Now wash me, and shall be whiter' than
 snowl V Winter than snowl yes, whiter than snowl Now wash me, and I shall be whitcr than
 snowl
 Get that prayer answered, and we will be fit not only for earth, but for the heaven where everything is 90 white because everything is so pure. You know that tho redeemed in that land wear robes that are white, and the conquerors in that land ride horses that gre white, and John in vision says cf Christ, ''his head and his hairs were