The Iola register., 1891-02-13

snowflake and making its shafts, it,
dOmes. its curves. its walls, its irradia
tions so perfect. conclude He will lool
after our insignificant affairs. And /
we are of more value than sparrow
most certainly we are of more value
than an inanimate snowflake. So the
Bible would chiefly impress us with Coo
in the Titles 1t does not say, ''con
slider the clouds, but it says, consider
the lilies" 1t does not say, Behold
the tempests," but. Behold the fowls,
and il applauds cup of cold water, ant
the widows two mites, and says the
hairs of your head are all numbered
Do not fear. therefore, that you are go
ing to be lost in the crowd. Do no
think that because you estimate your
self as only one snowflake among
three days January snow storm tina
you will be forgotten. The birth anC
death of drop of chilled yapor IS a:
certainly regarded by the Lord as the
creation and demolition of a planet
What makes the honey industries o
South Carolina such source of liveli
hood and wealth? 1t is because Goo
teaches the lady bug to make an open
ing in the rind of the apricot for the
bee, who can not otherwise get at the
Juice of the fruit. So God sends the
lady bug ahead to prepare the way fol
the honey bee. He teaches the ant tC
bite each grain of corn that he puts in
the ground for winter food in order thai
it may not take root and 50 ruin the lit
tie granery. He teaches the raven IL
dry weather to throw pebbles into a
hollow tree that the water far down anC
out of reach may. come up within the
reach of the birds beak.
THE LORD EVEN OF THE SMALL.
What comfort that he is a God in
Titles. The emperor of all the Rus
sias in olden time, was looking at Z
map that spread before him his vast do.
minions, and he called in his secretary
and said: "Where is Great Britain,
that | hear SO much about?" ut is un'
der your thumb" said the secretary.
and the emprorer raised his hand from
the map and saw the country he was
looking for. And it is high time that
we find that mighty realm of God close
by and under one little finger. To drop
you out of His memory would be to re-
sign His omniscience To refuse you
His protection would be to abdicate His
omnipotence. When you tell melHe is
the God of Jupiter. and the God oftMer.
curry, and the God of Saturn, you tell
me something so vast that | can not
comprehend it. But if you tell me He
is the God of the snowflake. you tell me
that can hold and measure
and realize. Thus the smallest snow
flake contains jewel case of comfort.
Here is an opal, an amethyst, a diamond.
Here is one of the treasures of the snow.
Take it for your present and everlasting
comfort.
Behold, also. in the snow, the treas
ure of accumulated power. During a
snow storm let an apothecary, accust-
omed to weigh most delicate quantities.
hold his scales out of the window and
let one flake fall on the surface of the
scales and it will not even make it trem-
BILE. When you want to express eX-
treme triviality of weight. you say:
Light as a feather::" but a snowflake is
much lighter. 1t is just twenty-four
times lighter than water. And yet the
of these flakes broke down,
a few days ago, in sight of my house, six
poles, made helpless police
and fire departments, and halted rail
trains with two laundering locomotives.
We have already learned so much OF the
power of electricity that we have be-
come careful how we touch the electric
wire, and in many case, touch has
been death.
MIGHTY POWERS WHEN COMBINED.
But, few days ago, the snow put its
hand on most of the wires and tore them
down as though they were cobwebs.
The snow said: You seem afraid of the
l will catch it and hurl it
to the ground. Your boasted electric
lights adorning your cities with bubbles
of fire, | will put out as easily as your an
cesters snuffed out a tallow candle"
The snow wput its finger on the lip OF
our cities that were talking with each
other and they went into silence, utter
ing not a word. The snow mightier
than the Tightening. In March, 1888,
the snow stopped America. 1t said to
Stay home!" to New York:
Stay home." to Philadelphia: Stay
home!n to Washington: Stay home"'
to Richmond: Stay home!" 1t put in
to white sepulchre most of this nation.
Commerce, whose wheels never stopped
before, stopped then. What was the
matter: Power of accumulated snow
flakes: on top of the Apprentices one
flake falls, and they pile up, and they
make mountain of fleece on the top OF
a mountain of rock, until one day gust
of wind, or even the voice of a mountain
eer. sets the frozen vapors into action
and by awful descent they sweep every
thing in their course-trees. rocks, vii.
lages-as when, in, 1927, the town OF
Briel in Valais was buried, and in 1874,
in Switzerland, 300 soldiers were en-
tombed. These avalanches were made
of single snowflakes. What tragedies
of the snow have been witnessed by the
monks in st. Bernard, who, for ages
have. with the dogs, been busy in eXtri-
eating bewildered and overwhelmed
travellers in Alpine storms, the dogs
with blankets fastened to their backs
and TASKS of spirits fastened to their
necks, to resuscitate the helpless tavel'
lers, one of these dogs decorated with
medal for having saved the lives o.
twenty-five persons, the brave beast
himself slain of the snow on that day
when accompanying a peidmoutese
courier on the way to his anxious house
hold down the mountain, the wife and
children of the Piedmontese courier
coming up the mountain in search ol
him, an avalanche covered all under
pyramids higher than those under
which the Egyptian monarchs sleel
their sleep of the ages.
EVEN NAPoLEoN'S HOSTS BEATEN.
What an illustration of the tragedie:
of the snow is found in that scene be
tween Glencoe and Glencreran one Feb
ruary, in Scotland, where Ronald
Cameron comes forth to bring to hi:
fathers house his cousin Flora Mac
Donald. for the celebration of a birth
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