Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-14
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THE INFINITE IN 1NF1N1TEsIMALs.

cept my guidance, to take you through
some of these wonders of crystalliza'
ton. And notice first God in the Titles.
You may take alpenstock and cross the
Her de Glace. the sea of ice, and as
cend Mont Blanc, which rises into the
clouds like a pillar of the great white
throne; or with arctic explorers ascend
tile mountains around the north pole,
and see glaciers a thousand feet high
grinding against glaciers three thou
sand feet high. But | will take you on
n less pretentious journey, and show
you God in the snowflake. There is
room enough between its pillars for the
great Jehovah TO stand.
In that one frozen drop on the tip OF
your finger you may find the thrors
room of the Almighty. l take up tlie
snow in my hand and sec the coursers
If celestial dominion paving these
crystal pnyelnants. The telescope is
grand. but inust confess that | am
quite MS much interested in the micro.
scope The one reveals .the--nIliversc
above us. the other just as great a uni
verse beneath us Slut the telescope
overwhclnls ne. while the microscope
comforts me- What you want and ]
want especially is II God in Titles. II
we were seraphic or archangcic in our
natures we would want to study God
in tile great; but such small, weak,
short lived bc:ngs as you and IRE
want to find God in the Titles.
When see the Maker of the universe
giving himself TO the architecture of Il
snowflake. and making its shafts. its
doucs its curves. its walls, its irrada-
tions so perfect. conclude lie will look
after our insignificant affairs. And If
we are of more value titan n sparrow
most certainly we are of more value
than an inaniinate snowflake. So the
Bible would chiefly impress us with
God in the Titles 1t does not shy.
CONSIDER the Clouds" but it says,
Consider the lilies. 1t does not say
Behold the tclnpestsi" but Behold
the fowls" and. it applauds cup OF
cold water nnd tie widows two mites,
and says the hairs of your head are all
numbered.
Do not fear. therefore, that You are
going to be lost in the crowd. DO not
think that because you estimate your
self us only one snowflake among a
three days January snow storm that
YOU will be forgotten. The birth and
death of n 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
lustries of South Carolina such source
of livelihood and Wealth. 1t is because
God teaches the adybug to make an
opening in the rind OF the apricot for
the bee who cannot otherwise get at
the i,,ices of the fruit So God sends
the ladybug ahead TO prepare the way
for the honeybec. lie 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 weather to throw pebble,
into hollow tree that the water fur
down and out of reach may come up
within the reach OF the birds beak.
What comfort that he is God in
litHesl
The emperor of all the Russias in
olden time was looking at a map that
spread before him his vast dolninions,
and he could not find Great Britain on
the map, and he called in his secretary
and said. Where is Great Britain
that I hear so much about?" 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 omniscience. 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 he 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 an opal, an
amethyst, diamond. Here is one CT
the treasures of the snow. Take it for
your present and everlasting comfort.
THE AWFUL roEcEs OF NATURE.
Behold, also, in the snow the>treas-
ure of accumulated power. During a
snowstorm let an apothecary accus-
toned to weigh most delicate quaint
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 trelnble. When you want
to express extreme triviality of weight
you say, Light as n feather" but a
snowflake is much lighter. 1t is just
twenty-four times lighter than water.
And yet tile accumulation of these
flakes broke down a few days ago in
sight of my house six telegraph poles,
made helpless police and fire depart
ments and halted rail trains with two
laundering locomotives.
We have already leaned SO much OF
the power of electricity that we have
become careful how ,.0e touch the cleo
tric wire, and in many q case touch
las been death. But, few days ago,
the snow Pct its hand on most Of these
wires and tore them down as if they
were cobwcbs. The snow said: You