The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-19
THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 10. 1891.

do not care Who yIA arc OF where you
are, you need AZ much rs l do thai
cleansing which made Gasherie DE
Witt good while he lived and glorious
when he died, Do not take il MS the
tenet Of an obsolete theology that our
nature is corrupt Wemust be changed,
We must To made over again,
The aneients thought that snow water
had especial power TO wash out deep
stains. All other water might fail, but
melted snow would make them clean,
Well job had great admiration for
snow, but he declares in substance that
II he should wash his soul in melted
snow he would still be covered with
mud like n man down in ditch Job
tx, BOZ IF | wash myself in snow
water and make my hands never so
clean, yet shalt thou plunge me in the
ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor
me" We must be washed in the foun-
tain OF Gods mercy before we can be
whittier than Snow without holiness
no man shall see the Lord" Oh, for
the cleansing powerl
II there be in this audience one man
or woman whose thoughts have al
ways been right, and whose words al
ways right, and whose actions always
right, let such one rise, or If already
standing lift the right hand. Not one |
All we, Ike sheep, have gone astray.
Unclean, uuclean And yet we may
| be made winter than snow winter than
that which on cold winters morning,
after Il night of storm, clothes the tree
| from bottom of trunk to top Of highest
| branch; whittier than that which this
hour makes the Adirondacks, and the
Sierra Nevadas and Mount Washington
heights of pomp and splendor fit to en-
| throne an archangel.
THIS Is THE WAY; WALK yE IN IT.
In the time of Graham, the essayst,
in one mountain district of Scotland
an average of ten shepherds persisted
every winter in the snow drifts, and so
he proposed that at the distance of
| every mile pole fifteen feet high and
with two cross pieces be erected show
ing the points of the compass, and a
bell hung at the top, so that every
| breeze would 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 and get
safely home. Whether that proposed
plan was adopted or not | do not know,
but | declare to all you who are in
the heavy and binding drifts of sin
and sorrow that there is a cross
near by that can direct you to
home and peace and God; and hear
you not the ringing of the gospel bell
hanging to that cross, saying, This is
the way; walk We in it2' No wonder
| that the sacred poet put the Psalmist,s
thought into rhythm with that ringing
chorus we have so often sung:
| Dear Jesus, / long to be perfectly whole;
| | want thee forever to live in my soul.
| Break down every idol, cast down every foe!
| Now wash me, and | shall be winter than
| snow!
| Whittier than snow! yes, whittier than snowl
Now wash me, and shall be whittier than
snow!
Get that prayer answered, and we
will be fit not only for earth, but for
| the heaven where everything is so
white because everything is so pure.
You know that the redeemed in that
land wear robes that are white, and the
conquerors in that land ride horses that
are white, and John in vision says OF
Christ, ''his head and his hairs were
white, "and the throne on which he
! sits is Great White Throne. By the
pardoning and sanctifying grace OF
God may we all at last stand amid
| that radiancel
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In glittering armor bright,
The armies of the living God
Throng up the sleeps of light.
IT'S finished, all is finished,
| Their fight with death and sin;
Throw open wide the golden CAT
And let the conquerors in.