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

ened when the SHOWS Of last December be.
gan to fall The snow is one OF the grand.
est and best Of the worlds doctors
TIE BLESSINGS or WINTER.
Yes, it Is necessary for the lands pro
ductiyeness. Great SHOWS in winter are
generally followed by great haryests next
summer. Scientific analysis has shown
that snow contains larger percentage Of
ammonia than the rain, and hence it,
greater power Of enrichment. And besides
that, it is a white blanket TO keep the earth
warm. An examination Of snowin Siberia
showed that it was a hundred degrees
warmer under the snow than above the
snow. Alpine plants perished in the mild
winter Of England for lack Of enough snow
to keep them warm. Snow strikes back
the rich gases which otherwise would es-
cape in the air and be lost Thank God for
the SHOWS, and may those Of February be
as plentiful as those Of December and Janu-
ary have been, high and deep and wide and
enriching; then the harvests next July Will
embroider with gold this entire American
continent. But who with any analogical
faculty can notice that ont Of such chill as
the snow comes the wheat, without reali-
zing that chilling sorrows produce haryests
OF grace
The strongest Christians without any
exception are those who were by bereave-
ments or sickness or poverty or persecu-
tion, or all Of them together, showed un
der, and again and again showed under
These. snow storms of troubled They kill
the malarias of the soul. They drive us
out Of worldly dependence TO God. Call
the roll Of all the eminently pious Of all
the ages and you will find them the sons
and daughters Of sorrow. The Maronites
say that one characteristic Of the cedar
tree Is that when the air is full Of snow
and it begins 10 descend the tree lifts its
branches in way better TO receive the
snow and bear up under it, and know by
much observation that the grandest cedars
Of Christian character lift higher their
branches tsward God when the SHOWS Of
trouble are coming
Lord Nelson's coffin was made out of the
masts Of the ship EOrient in which he had
fought so brayely, and your throne in
heaven, o suffering child OF God, will be
built out Of conquered earthly disasters
What gave John Bunyan such "A wondrous
dream Of the celestial cty' The Bedford
What gave Richard Baxter
such power ~ tell Of the Saints Everlast-
ing Rest, and to give his immortal Call to
the Unconvcrtedw Physical disease which
racked every nerve Of his body. What
made George Whitedeld so mighty in say.
ing souls, bringing ten thousand 10 God
when others brought hundrodi perse
cution that caricatured and aisailed him
all up and down England, and dead vermin
thrown In his face when he was preaching.
1t H.. 4 wv
forces Christian charactcri A financial
that led him to write. 81 know
not why my life is spared so long, except il
be to shuw that man can be as happy
without n fortune as with one" What
gave John Milton such keen spiritual eye
sight that he could See the battle Of the
angels' EXtinguishment of physical eye.
sight. What is the highest observatory
for studying the stars Of hope and faith
and spiritual promisel The believers sick
bed. What proclaims the richest and most
golden haryests that wave on all the hills
of heavenly raptureY The SHOWS, the deep
SHOWS, the awful SHOWS OF earthl calamity.
And that comforting thought is one Of the
treasures OF the snow.
THE IMAGE or PURITY.
Another treasure OF the snow Is the sug
yestion that this mantle covcrGg the earth
IS like the soul after it is forgiven y"Wash
me-" said the PsAlmist, "and | shall be
Shiter than snow" My dear friend Cash
'rie DE Witt went over TO Geneva, Swit1er-
and, for the recovery OF his health, but
he Lord had something better for him
han earthly recovery. Little did think
when hade him good 10y one lovely after
loou on the other side Of the sea 10 return
% America, that We would not meet again
i'll we meet in heaven. As he lay one Sab
ath morning on his dying pillow inI
the window open, he was
cooking out upon Mont Blame. The air
NaS clear, That great mountain stood in
Is robe Of snow, glttering in the morning
light, and my friend said to his wife, "Jen.
ale, do YOU know what that snow on Mont
Blanc makes me think OF 1t makes me
hink that the Righteousness OF Christ and
he pardon OF God cover all the sins and
OF my life, az that snow
overs up that mountain, for the promise
> that though our sins be as scarlet, they |
hall bo As white ~ snow" Was not that |
;loriousl
| do not care who you are, or where YOU
.rr, you need As much as do that cleans
ny which made Gasherie De Witt good 1
While he lived and glorious whom he died |
Do not take It ~ the tenet OF an obsolete |
heology that our nature is corrupt WEI
must Ia changed. We must be made over /
,galn The ancients thought that snow |
'ater had cspcoiA power to wash out deep /
tains, All other water might fail bur |
Melted snow would make them clean /
\ oil, job had great Sdmiration for snow,
.ut he declares In substance that II he 1
hould wash his soul In melted snow he /
would sttll he covered with mad like u 4
nan down In \ ditch dob TX. 3N III / |
ash mysolf in snow water, and make my l
auds never 50 clean, Yet shalt thou I
lungr me In the ditch aud mine own
lothes shall abhor me" We must be .
'aahod ia the fountain 0f Gods mercy bs
'rc We can he winter than snow. with
ut holiness, no man shall $40 the Lord "
IA, Tor tho cleansing power
II thcro be ia all this audience one
lan or woman whose thoughts have
ways bocn right, and whose actions
~ always right, lct such a one rise, or n /
Ircady standing. mn the right hand Not
nc, All Ne, hko shccn have gOno AstrAy
nclcanl uncleanl Aud yet No may ba
lade whittier than suOw--W hitter than that
blch, CA a oold winters m1rning, after a
.ght of storm, clothes the troo from eot,
'm ~ trunk % top of highosg branch;
hitter than that which this hour makes
10 AdlrOudacks, and the sierra Nevada
al Moant Washington heights ~ Esomp
AL splcndoF do Ia enthronc an ArchAngcl
IN Tao t.nc II Graham. the esssAylSl, In
lc mountain district ~ scotland al Av-
agc ~ ten sheph~rds psrtShed every
inter la tho snow dFlftA aud - be pm,
sod thai az The distAnoe ~ every mile a
no aftoon fecg high and With two cross
cces - erccte1, showing the psints ~
c conpAss. aud bell hung AZ the top, ~
al every br~se would ring Il, and ~ The
st one on thc mountains would hcAr the
"A lad aud Iako lAp diugNtlQn given by thls