Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

universe DtDchtu 4hs ADuh NstN eolNlFgVRI
overwhelms me, while the microscope com
forts me. What you want and want es-
peciAlly n q God in Titles II we were
serHphio or arehAngelic In our natures we
would want TO study God In the great; but
such small, weak, short lived beings as You
and are want TO find God in the Titles
When sec tho Maker Of the universe
giving himself 10 the architecture OF
snowflake, and making It's shafts, its
domea, its curves, its Walls, its irradiations
20 perfect conclude he will look after our
insignificant Affairs. And II we are Of
more value than . sparrow, most certainly
we are Of more value than an inanimate
snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly i'm
proas us with God In the Titles. II does
not say, Consider the clouds" but II says
'>Considar the lilies." 1t docs not say, "Be-
hold the tempestsp but "Behold the
fowisf' and II Rpplauds n cup OF cold
water and the widows two mites, and says
the hairs Of your head are all numbered.
Do not fear, therefore, that you are going
10 be lost In the crowd. Do not think that
because you estimate yourself as only one
snowflake among a three days January
snow storm that you will be forgotten.
The birth and death OF a drop OF chilled
vapor II IA certainly regarded by the Lord
az the creation and demolition Of planet
Nothing Ia big TO God and nothing Is
small.
What makes the honey industries OF
South Carolina such source Of live.
hhood and wealth. II Is because God
teaches the ladybug 10 make an opening
In tho rind OF the apricot for the bee, who
cannot otherwise get at the juices OF the
fruit. So God sends the ladybug ahead 10
prepare the way for the honey bee He
teaches the ant 70 bite each grain Of corn
that she puts in the ground for winter
food Ia order that It may not take root
and 10 ruin the little granary. He teaches
the raven In dry weather 10 throw pebbles
into hollow tree, that the water far down
and out Of reach may come up within the
reach Of tho birds beak. What comfort
chat he is a God In littleal The emperor OF
all tho Russina In olden time was looking
AZ a map that spread before him his vast
dominions, and he could not find Great
Britain on the map, and he called In his
secretary and said, "Wbere In Great Britain,
that hear NO much aboutr ut IL under
your thumb" said the secretary; and the
emperor raised his hand from the map and
saw the country he was looking for.
THR INFINITE RRAIM or GOD
AAAta ~ ~ uAkh bAAht Wb utu tub
mighty realm 0f God close by and under
our own little finger. To drop you out Of
his memory would he 70 resign his omnis.
cionce To refuse you his protection would
be 10 Abdioats his omnipotence. When
you tell mo that he Ia the God OF Jupiter,
and the God Of Mercury, and the God Of
Saturn, you tell me something no vast that
] cannot comprehend It. But II you tell
me he Is the God Of the snowflake, you tell
me something can hold and measure and
realizs. Thus the smallest snowflake con
tainA Jewel ease Of comfort. Here IL an
opal, an amethyst, diamond Here Ia
one Of the treasures of tao snow. Take Il
for your present and everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, In the snow the treasure OF
acuumulAtsd power. During a snow storm
let an Rpothecary, accustomed to weigh
most delicate quantities, hold his weighing
scales out OF the window and let one fake
fall on tho surfaces OF tho scales. ana 1t will
noe even make IL tremble. When you
want 20 express extreme triviHlity OF
weight you sAy. Light as a feather" but
snowflake IL much lighter. IL IL Just
twenty four times lighter than water Aud
Yet the accumulation OF these flakes broke
down, few days ago, In sight OF my house,
ak telegraph poles. made helpless police
aud fire departments and halted rail trains
with two laundering locomotives.
We have already learned 80 much OF the
power Of electricity that We have become
careful how we touch the electric wire,
and In many case touch has been death !
But a few days ago tho snow put its hand
on most Of these wirea, and tori them down
aa though they were oobwehs. The snow
said; you seem afraid OF tho thunderbolt, |
will catch IL aud hurl IL 10 the ground |
Your boasted electric lights adorning your
eities with bubbles OF hro, will put out as
eaAily aa your ancestors Anuifed out tai !
how eAndle." Tho snow put It's finger on
the lip of our cities that were talking with |
each other and they went into silence, ut |
tering not a word The snow mightier
shan the lightning,
La March. lSss, the snow stopped Amer, |
lea IL said TO brooklyn. stay home" Co |
New York. stay houlel" ~ Philalalp phia, |
Stay homer 70 Washington, stay /
homsF 10 Richmond. "StAy homer Il
pat Into white sepolchor most Of this
nation. Commeroe. whose wheols never
stopped before, stopped then, What was
The matter' Power of accumulated snow
nakea. On tbs top OF the Apenninea one
naks fAlla, and others fall. aud they pile
up. and they make a mountain OF decoe
On the top of = mountain Of rook. until
one day u guat u wind, or even tho voice
of mountAinoor, aets the froken Vapors
Into action, and by awful descent they
sweep everything In their oourso-trc,s.
naoka. villages-as when la 1897 the town
u ;iriei, ia TaiAis, was burlei. and Ia lb4,
Ia SWit4oElAnd. threo hundred soldiers
Eero entombed These avalAnchaS were
nadn up u HinRle SNOW nakea-
What tragedies of tie snow have bSen
witnessed by the monkA OF 81 Bernard,
for agus haVe with the dogs bccn busy
IN axtFioAIing bowildersd aud overs holmed
travellers In Alpine stOruls, the dogs with
olAnkets fastened - thair backs aud daaks
II Aplrita fastened ~ their necks ~ rusus
iitAts helpless travsiera. one Of those dogs
decorated with medal for having saved
.he lives of twenty two persona, the brave
cast himself slain of the Hnow on that dAy
, boa accompanying a Piedmontaas courier
~ she Nay 10 his anxious household down
he mountain. the wife and children of tho
courier coming up the mount
An Ia soAFch Oi him, an avalanche covered
u under Pyramid higher than tho@e an
ar which ths ksyptlAn moaaroAs sleep
lnrlr Aleap u the AsSal
What AZ illustration u ths trAsctios u
ha SNOW y foond in thai sosns bslsren
llencos and 0lsDoraraa QUE febraAfy Ia
o0lland. wheFs k0RAld CAInenoa e0nos
1rth % hrlng - hls fAtAer's house his
1aain Riora MAnDoAAld for ~ osiebFa
on u a birthday, and The aAlm day tarns
10 : hurrieAne % whits fury IhAi lsaVus
.osaald and FioFa a. doAA. % bs nssasoi
,asd b. lne shsphoNiai WhAt "a szeltiag
Faggle had hayAEd Taylor Among ths
intFy Apsoninosi
nrnalAn aEows ANGsoHp 5osEPnikK
Ia tha wintar ~ isla by = sinallAT laroe. ,