News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-12

snowflake, and making its shafts. it
domes, its curves, its walls, its irradia
lions SO perfect. conclude he will lool
after our Insignificant affairs And
we are of more value than a sparrow
most certainly we are of more valu
than an inanimate snowflake So tn
Bible would chiefly impress us will
God in the Titles 1t does not say
Consider the clouds" but it says
Consider the lilies" 1t does not say
Behold the tempestsl' but 'BehCi;
the fowls" and it applauds a cup o
cold water and the widows two mites
and says the hairs of your head are al
numbered.
DO not fear, therefore, that you are
going to be lost in the crowd. Do moi
think that because you estimate your
self as only one snowflake among c
three days January snow storm that
you will be forgotten. The birth and
death of a drop of chilled vapor is as
certainly regarded by the Lord as the
creation and demolition of a planet.
Nothing is big to God and nothing is
small. What makes the honey in
dustries of South Carolina such a source
| of livelihood and wealth. 1t is because
God teaches the ladybug to make an
opening in the rind of the apricot for
the bee who cannot otherwise get at
the juices of the fruit So God sends
the ladybug ahead to prepare the way
for the honeybee. He teaches the ant
TO bite each grain of corn that she puts
in the ground for winter food in order
that it may not take root and SO ruiz
the little granary. He teaches the
raven in dry we2es~e'- to throw pebbles
into a hollow tree that the water far
down and out of reach may come up
within the reach of the birds beak.
What a comfort that he is a God in
Iittlesl
The emperor of all the Russias in
olden time was looking at map that
spread before him his vast doIninions,
and he could not find Great Britain on
the map, and he called in his secretary
and said, Where is Great Britain
that | hear so much about2" 1T is
under your thumb" said the secretary,
and the emperor raised his hand from
the map and saw the country he was
looking for And it is high time that
we find this mighty realm of God close
by and under our own little finger. To
drop you out of his memory would be
to resign his omnisciencc. To refuse
you his protection would be to abdi-
cate his omnipOtence. When you tell
me that he is the God of Jupiter, and
the God of Mercury, and the God of
Saturn you tell me something SO vast
that cannot comprehend it, But if
you tell me he is the God of the snow
flake you tell me something | can hold
and measure and realize Thus the
smallest snowflake contains a jewel
case of comfort. Here is en- opal, an
amethyst, diamond Here is one eff
the treasures of the snow Take it for
your present and everlasting comfort
THE AWFUL FORCES OF NATURE.
Behold, also, in the snow the treas
ure of accumulated power During a
snowstorn let an apothecary accus-
toned TO weigh most delicate quanti-
ties hold his weighing scales out of the
window, and let one flake fall on the
surface of the scales and it will not
even make it tremble When you want
to express extreme triviality of weight
you say, Light as 4 feather" but a
snowflake is much lighter 1t is Just
twenty-four times lighter than water
And yet the accumulation of these
flakes broke down few days ago in
sight of my house six telegraph poles.
made helpless police and fire depart
ments and halted rail trains with two
locomotives
We have already learned so much OF
the power of solok.-.sssitv-tlaat we have
become careful how we touch the cleo
trio wire, and in many a case a touch
has been death. But, a few days ago,
The snow put its hand on most of these
wires and tore them down as if they
were cobwebs. The snow said: "You
seem afraid of the thunderbolt; 1 will |
catch it and hurl it to the ground. |
Your boosted electric lights adjoining |
your cities with bubbles of fire | will |
put out as easily as your ancestors |
nuffed out a tallow candle" The |
now put its finger on the lip of our
titles that were talking with each other,
md they went into silence, uttering
lot word. The snow mightier than
he lightning.
In March, 1888, the snow stopped
America. 1t said 10 Brooklyn, Stay
lome!" to New York, Stay home!"
o Philadelphia, Stay homer to
Stay home!" to Rich
nond, Stay home!" 1t put into a
White sepulcher most of this nation.
commerce, whose wheels never stopped
'efore, stopped then. What was the
1atter3 Power of accumulated snow
axes. On the top of the Apennines
ne flake falls and others fall, and
hey pile up, and they make mount
in of fleece on the top of a mountain
f rock, until one day gust of wind,
r even the voice of a mountaineer,
cts the frozen vapors into action, and
y awful descent they sweep every
hing in their courSe-trees, rocks, vii
lges-as when. in 1927, the town of
'riel in Valais YVES buried, and in 1924,
Switzerland, three hundred soldiers
ere intombed. These avalanches
ere made up of single snowflakes.
What tragedies of the snow have
cen witnessed by the monks of st.
ernard, who for ages have with the
ogs been busy in extricating Devil
cred and overwhelmed travellers in
lpine storms, the dogs with blanket 1
stened to their backs and TASKS of
'irits fastened to their neck to resus- /
tate the helpless travellers. one of
lese dogs decorated with medal for {
lvlng saved the lives of TWENTY-FIVE {
srsona, the brave beast himself slain 6
the snow on that day when accom- f
lnying Piedmoftese courier on the
ay to his anxious household down the L
the wife and children of the f
edmontese courier coming up the a
ountain in search of him, an ava c
nche covered all under pyramids 7
CHER than those under which the +
5yptlan monarchs sleep their sleep of i.
e ages :
What an Illustration of the tragedies il
the snow is found in that scene be- e
zen Glencoe and Glencreran one p
'bruary in Scotland. where Ronald a
lmeron comes forth to bring to his a
theirs house his cousin Flora Mac e
onald for the celebration of a birth a
y and the calm day turns into a t
OF white fury that leaves Ii
'nald and Flora as dead, to be re
Scltated by the shepherdsl What an
citing struggle had Bayard Taylor