The Red Cloud chief., 1891-02-20

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with any aasIogieal faculty 90 soeiel
that out Of such chill - tie 0OV
comes Tie whes4 without realizing tn
chilling sosrows produce harvesss a
groee! The strongest ChristianA with
out any exception, ase those who wear
BY beresvemeats or sickness q povee.
y or ~persecufion. o. all Of them "a,
gether. showed under. and again and
again showed under. These anow
storms Of trouble! They kin the M.
larias Of the soal They drive n out
Of worldly dependence 70 God. Cali
the roll Of AL the eminently pious ol
all the ages and you will And them thu
sons and daughters Of sorrow.
The Msronites say that one char.c.
t~eristic Of the cedar tree h that when
the air Is full Of snow, and IL begins q
descend, the tree lifts it, branches In .
way better 70 receive the snow and
bear mp under il, and I know by much
observation that the grandest ced.rs Of
Christian character lift higher their
branches toward God when the snows
Of trouble are coming. Lord Nelson's
coffin was made ont Of the maSts Of the
ship LOrient, in which he had fought
SO bravely, and your throne in Heaven,
o suffering child Of God, will be built
out Of conquered earthly disasters
What gave John Bunyan such . won
drous dream Of the celestial city? The
Bedford penitentiary. What gave Rich
ard Baxter such power 70 tell OF tho
saints Everlasting Rest" and give
his immortal Call to the Unconvert-
ed?" Physical disease which rscked
every nerve in his body.
What mellowed and glsrified WILDER.
forces Christian character? A financial
misfortune that led him to write: II
know not why my life is spared 50 long.
except il he TO show that q mar q bo
as happy without q fortune Al with
one." What gave John Milton such
keen spiritual eyesight that he could
see the battle Of the angels? Extinguish.
ment Of physical eyesight What is the
highest observatory for studying the
stars Of hope and faith and spiritual
promise? The believers sick bed. What
proclaims the richest and most golden
harvests that wave on the hills Of
heavenly rapture? The SHOWS, 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
suggestion hat this mantle covering
the earth is like the soul after il is for
given. Wash me" said the Psalmist
and I shall be whittier than snow" Ny
dear friend. Gasherie DE Witt, went
over to Geneva, Switzerland, for the Nc
covery of his health, but the Lord had
something better for him than earthly
recovery. Little did I think when I
babe him goodbye one lovely afternoon
on the other side the sea to retmrn 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
rs clear. That great mountain stood
in its robe of snow, Offering in tho
morning light, and my friend said to his
wife: Jennie, do you know what the
10 on Mont Blanc makes ne think
of? IL makes me think that the
righteousness Of Christ and the pardon
of God cover all the sins and imperfcc-
tons Of my life As that snow covers up
that mountain. for the promise is that
though our sins be rs scarlet they shall
be as white as snow" Was not that
glorious.
l do not care who you are, OF where
You are, you need as much as l 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 must bc changed We
must be made over again. The ancients
that snow water had especial
powerto wash out deep stains. All other
water might fail. but melted SNOW !
would make them clean. Well, Job
had great admiration for snow, but he
in substance that IL he should
wash his soul in melted snow he would
still he covered with mud like q man |
down in a ditch. dob tx. 30.) If
wash myself in snow water and make
my hands never SO clean, vet shalt thou
me in the ditch and mine own
shall abhOr me-" We must be |
washed in the fountain of Gods mercy
before We can be winter than snow.
Without holiness no man shall see the
If there be in all this audience one
man or woman whose thoughts have
been right, and whose words al
right. let such a one rise, or il nj.
ready standing, lift the right hand.
Not one! All we, like sheep have Como
Unclean! unclean! And yet
We may be made whittier than snow,
than that which. on . cold win
,er's morning after q night Of storm,
the tree from bottom Of trunk
top of highest branch; winter than
hat which, this hour, makes the Adiron.
lacks and the Sierra Nevada and Mount
heights of pomp and splen-
Tor 1T to enthrone an srchangel.
In the time Of Graham, the essayist
n one mountain district Of Scotland IN
verage of ten shepherds persisted every
vinter in the snow drifts. and 50 he
that ut the distance Of every
nile, q pole fifteen feet high and with
cross pieces be erected, showing tho
oints af the compass, and . bell hung
{ the top. % that every breeze would
ing il, and 50 the lost ones on the
fountains would hear the sound and
AXE the direction given by this pole
nth the cross pieces and get safely
ONE.
Whether that proposed plan MA