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theory would make a snowflake that falls
cheerfully and In the right place, and does
all the work assigned 1t, as honorable as
whole Mont Blanc Of snowHakes"
"Yes, yes" says the celestial dragoman,
many Of these pearls that you find on the
foreheads Of the righteous, and many Of the
gems in the jewel case Of prince and princess,
tempest, for God does not forget the promise
made in regard to them, They shall be Mine.
said the Lord Of hosts in the day when I
make up My jewels.'n Accumulated power!
All the prayers and charities and kindnesses
and talents Of all the good concentered and
compacted will be the worlds evangelization.
This thought of the aggregation of the many
smalls into that ore mighty is another treas
ure Of the snow.
Another treasure Of the snow Is the sug-
gestion of the usefulness OF sorrow. Absence
Of snow last winter made all nations sick
That snowiess winter has not yet ended its
Of thousands into the grave, and left others
In homes and hospitals gradually to go
down. Called by trivial name, the Rus
sian 'grip," it was an international plague.
Plenty of snow means public health. There
Is no medicine that SO soon cures the worlds
malarias as thess white pellets that the
clouds administer-pellets small enough to be
noIneopaGnlc, Dut III SUCH iaERe ooSeS aS W
be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be
pasesh1 IHs sponge tss sss hsEo Of mo se
tality in New York and Brooklyn inme-
diately lessened when the SHOWS of last De-
cember began to fall. The snow Is one Of
the grandest and best Of the worlds doctors.
Yes, it Is necessary for the lands produc-
tiveness. Great SHOWS in winter are general
ly followed by great harvests next summer.
Scientific analysis has shown that snow con-
tains a larger percentage Of ammonia than
the rain, and hence its greater power Of en-
richment. And besides that, 1t is white
blanket to keep the earth warm. An ex-
animation of snow in Siberia showed that it
was q hundred degrees warmer under the
snow than above the snow. Alpine plants
pcrished in the mild winter Of England for
lack Of enough snow to keep them warm.
Snow strikes back the rich gases which other
wise would escape in the air and be lost.
Thank God for the SHOWS, and may those Of
February be as plentiful as those Of Decsm-
ber and January have been, high and deep
and wide and enriching; then the harvests
next July will embroider with gold this en-
tire American continent. .....
What mellowed and glorifei Wilberforce's
Christian character? A financial misfortune
that led him to write, II know not why my
life is spared so long, except it be to show
that man can be as happy without for
tune as with one" What gave John Milton
such keen spiritual eyesight that he could
see the battle Of the angels? E1tinguishment
of physical eyesight. What is the highest
observatory for studying the stars Of hope
and faith and spiritual promise! The be-
lisver's sick bed. What proclaims the richest
and most golden harvests that wave on all
the hills of heavenly rapture? The SHOWS
the Geep SHOWS the awful SHOWS Of earthly
calamity. And that comforting thought is
one of hetreasures of the snow.
Another treasure Of the snow is the sugges-
tion that this mantle covering the earth is
like the soul after it is forgiven. Wash
me-" said the Psalmist, land shall be
whittier thau snow.r My dear friend Cash
erie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzsr-
land, for the recovery Of his health, but the
Lord had something better for him than
earthly recovery. Little did think when I
bade him good-by one lovely afternoon on
the other side of the sea to return to America,
that we would not meet again till we meet
In heaven. As he lay one Sabbath morning
on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the win
dow open, he was looking out uoon Mont
Blanc. The air was clear That great
mountain stood in It's robe Of snow, glitter
ing in the morning light, and my friend said
to his wife: Jennie, do you know what that
snow IN Mount Blanc makes mo think OFF
1t makes me think that the Righteousness Of
Christ and the pardon OF God cover all the
sins and impsrfections Of my life, as that
snow covers up that mountain, for the
promise Is that though our sins be rs scarlet
they shall be as white as snow" Was not
that glorious?
do not care who you are, or where you
nre ycu need as much as do that cleansing
which made Gasherie De Witt good while
he lived and glorious when he died. Do not
take it as the tenet Of an obsolete theology
that our nature is corrupt. We must bs
changed. We must bs made over again.
The ancients thought that snow water had
especial power to wash out deep stains.
Ali other water might fail, but melted snow
would make them clean. Well, Job had
great admiration for SNOW, but lie declares
in substance. that il he should wash his
soul in melted snow he would still be COW
cred with mud, like man down in ditch
water, and make my hands ever so clean,
yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch
and mine own clothes shall abhor me-"
We must be washed in the fountain OF
Gods mercy before we can be winter
;han snow. "Without holiness, no man
shall sec the Lord" Oh, for the cleansing
powerl
II there he in all this audience one manor
woman whose thoughts have always been
right, and whose actions are always rlgnt,
let such one rise, or II already standing,
lift the right hand. Not one! All we, IKE
sheep, have gone astry. Uncleanl uncleanI
And vet we may be made whittier than snow
whittier than that which, on cold winters
morning, after night Of storm, clothes the
tree from bottom Of trunk to top OF highest
branch, winter than that which this hour
makes the Adirondacks, and the Sierra
Nevada and Mount Washington helshts OF
pomp and splendor fat to enthrone an arcn'
angel.
mountain district Of Scotland an average OF
ten shepherds perished every winter In the
snow drifts, and so he proposed that az tne
distance of every mile pole fifteen 1eet hlgn
and with two cross pieces be erected, snow,
ing the points Of the compass, and bel!
hung at the top, so that every breeze woula
ring it. and so the lost one on the mountains
would hear the sound and take the direction
given by this pole with the cross pieces ana
got safely home. Whether that proposed
Dian was adopted or not DO not know, ous
declare to all you who are in the heavy anu
blinding drifts of sin and SORROW that there
is a cross near by that can direct you TO nome
and peace and God; and hear you not tne
ringing of the gospel bell hanging 10 tnat
cross saying, ''This is the way; WALK ye ~
is?' .----
Useful In the Criminal Court,
The phonograph in China is verl.
table missionary. One mandarin OF
the rank OF the blue button bought one
and went to work using it. It was an
eye-opener. He was amazed at Its