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maid Cameron comes forth to bring to his
fathers house his cousin Flora McDon-
a!i, for the celebration of a hirthday.and
the calm day turns into hurricane OF
white fury that leaves Ronald and Flora
as dead, to be resuscitated by the shep
herds. What an exciting struggle had
Bayard Taylor among the wintry APP
pennies!
In the winter of 1912, by a sipailar
force. the destiny of Europe was de-
cided The French army marched up
toward Moscow 500, 900 men. What can
resist them? Not bayonets, but the
dumb elements overwhelm that host.
Napoleon retreats from Moscow with
about 100000 men, a mighty nucleus
for another campaign after he gets back
to Paris. The morning of October 10,
when they start for home, is bright and
beautiful. The air is tonic, and al"
though this Russian campaign has been
failure, Napoleon will try again in
some other direction with his host
of brave surviving Frenchmen.
But cloud comes on the
sky, and the air gets chill, and
one of the soldiers feels on his cheek
snowflake, and then there is multiple
cation of these wintry messages and
soon the plumes of the officers are deck
ed with another style of plume, and
then all the skies let loose upon the
warriors a hurricane of snow, and the
march becomes difficult, and the horses
find it hard to pull the supply train and
the men begin to fall under the fatigue,
and many, not able to take another
step, lie down in the drifts, never to
rise, and the cavalry horses stumble
and fall, and 1000 of the army fall, and
10000 perish, and 10000 go down. and
$4,000, and 100, 900, and 100, 900, and 1872.
600 die, and the victor of Jena, and
Bridge of Lodi, and Eylau, and Austen
litz, where three great armies, com.
manded by three Emperors, surrendered
to him, now himself surreuders to the
snow-fakes.
Historians do not seem to recognize
that the tide in that mans life turned
from December 16, 1909, when he ban
ished by hideous divorce his wife Jo-
sephine from the palace, and SO chal-
lenged the Almighty, and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortress of
the sea with ammunition of crystal
Showed under! Billions, trillions, quad
rillions, quintrillions of flakes did the
work. And what suggestion of ac-
cumulative power, and what a rebuke
to all of us who get discouraged because
we can not do much, and therefore do
nothing.
''Oh," says some one, 81 would like
to stop the forces of sin and crime that
are marching for the conquest of the
nations, but ! am nobody, l have
neither wealth. nor eloquence, nor
social power. What can l do?" Ny
brother, how much do you weigh, as
much as snowflake? ''Oh, yes"
Then do you share. It is an aggrega.
ton of small influences that will yet
put this lost world back into the bosom
of pardoning God. Alas! that there
are SO many men and women, who will
not use the one talent because they
have not ten, and will not give penny
because they can not give dollar, and
will not speak as well as they can be.
cause they are not eloquent, and will
not be a snowflake. because they can
not be an avalanche,
4 In earthly wars the Generals ge,
about all the credit, but in the war TO,
God and righteousness and Heaven all
the private soldiers will get crowns OF
victory unfailing. When we reach
Heavenly the grace of God may We
all arrive there-I do not think we will
be able to begin the new songright away,
because of the surprise we shall fee
at the comparative rewards given. Al
we are being conducted along the street
to our celestial residence we will begin
to ask where live some of those who were
mighty on earth. We villas ats SO
and-so here?" and the answer will BE-
Eyes, I think he is in the city, but y,
don't hear much of him; he was good
! and he got in, but he took most of hi
pay in earthly applause; he had enough
grace to get through the gate, but JUS
where he lives lknowno He squeezes
through somehow, although think thu
gates took the skirts Of his garments. !!
think he lives in one of those bacl
streets in one OF the palmer residences
Then we shall see palace, the door
steps of gold, and the windows of agate
and the tower like the sun for Brillian
cy, and chariots before the door, ant
people who look like princes and prin
cesses, going up and down the steps
and we shall say, what one of tn,
hierarchs lives here? That must b.
} the residence of Paul or Milton, O.
: some one whose name resounds through
: all the planet from which we hav,
, Just assembled" mo, no." says on
: celestial dragoman, that is the resi-
dence of soul whom you never hear,
of. When she gave charity he
left hand knew not what her righ
3 hand did. She was mighty in secre
7 prayer and no one but God and her owl
I soul knew it. She had more trouble
, than any body in all the land wher
Q she lived, and without complaining sh
a bore it, and though her talents wer
: never great, what she had was all con
r secrated to God and helping others, an,
n the Lord is making up for her earthl
$ privation by special raptures here, an
0 the King of this country had that plac
: built especially for her. The walls be
: gan to go up when her troubles an
' privations and conservation began O
I earth, and it so happened-what
A heavenly coincidence.-.hat the las