Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-16
con OUEsTIONs JOE.


terrogates Job, the scientist, concern
ing its wonders, saying, Hast thou
entered into the treasures of the SNOWY
GOD QUESTIONS JOB.
| rather think that Job may have ex-
amined the snowflake with micro
scope; for although it is supposed that
the microscope was invented long after
Jobs time there had been wonders OF
glass long before the microscope and
telescope Of later day were thought OF
So long ago as when the Coliseum was
in its full splendOr Nero sat in the EN-
peror's box of that great theatre, winch
held a hundred thousand people, and
looked ut the combatants through a
gem in his finger ring which brought
everything close up to his eye
Four hundred years before Christ, IN
the stores at Athens, were sold power
full glasses called burning spheres,
and Layard, the explorer, found mag
nifving glass amid the ruins of Nineveh,
and in the palace of Nimrod. Whether
through magnifying instruments or
with unaided eye, cannot say, but |
am sure that Job somehow went
through its galleries of the snowflake
and counted the pillars and found won
| ders. raptures, mysteries, theOlOgles,
maiestics. infinities walking up anC
down its corridors, as a result OF the
question which the Lord had asked
him, Hast thou entered into the treas
urcs of the snOwE
Oh, it is a wondrOus meteor Hum
boidt studied it in the Andes twelve
thousand feet above the level of the
sea. De Saussure reveled among thes'
meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Scoresb!
counted ninety-six varieties OF snow
flake amid the arctics. They are il
shane of stars, in shape of corOnets, Ii
shape of cylinders, are globular, ar
hexagonal, are pyramidal, are castel
lated. After a fresh fall OF snow, Il
one walk you crush under your fee
Tuilleries, Windsor Castles st, Pauls
St. Peters, st. Marks cathedrals, A
hambras and Sydenham palaces IL
Vulnerable. know it depends niue
ON our own condition what impressiO
these flying meteors of snow make.
shall not forget two rough and III
pretending wood cuts which I saw i
nv boyhood side by side: one pictuI
of q prosperous farm house with a
signs of comfort, and lad warml
clothed looking out of the door upo
the first furry OF snow, and his min
no doubt filed with the sound of jim!
ling sleigh bells, and the frolic wit
nIavfeIlows in the deep banks, and
clapping his hands and shouting, 60
SHOWS! 1t snows!' The other sketc
was of a boy, haggard and hollo
eyed with hunger, looking from tt
broken door of q wretched home, an
seeing in the falling flakes prophecy {
more cold and less bread and great'
privation, wringing his hands and wit
tears rolling down his wan cheeks, or
ing: ooh, my Godl 1t snowsl
snowsi" Out of the abundance tn;
characterizes most of our homes ma
there go speedy relief to all whom tn
winter finds in want and exposurel
And now I propose, for your spiritu
and everlasting profit, if you VIII a
cept my guidance, to take you throue
some of these wonders of crystaIl1z
ton. And notice first God in the little
You may take alpenstock and cross q
a Mer de Glace, the sea of ice, ana
cend Mont Blanc, which rises INTO e
4 clouds like pillar of the great VIII
If throne; or with arctic explorers ascel
a the mountains around the north POI
and see glaciers a thousand feet hi
grinding against glaciers three INC
sand feet high. But I will take you
a less pretentious journey, and she
YOU God in the snowflake. There
room enough between its pillars Tor {
great Jehovah to stand.
Sc In that one frozen drop on the up
your finger you may find the thro
room of the Almighty. L take up I
snow in my hand and see the cours'
of celestial dominion paving th'
crystal pavements The telescope
grand, but l must confess that L
20 quite as much interested in the mic
- scope The one reveals the unlve
I above us, the other just as great a u
verse beneath u.s. But the telescc
overwhelms me, while the mlcrosce
comforts me. What you want an(
mt want especially is a God in Titles.
ltI we were seraphic or archangelc IN
Of natures we would want to study y
all In the great; but such small, we
'fs short lived beings as you ana