The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-12


snow in my hand and see the coursers
of celestial dominion paving these
crystal pavements The telescope is |
grand. but / must confess that l ain |
quite as much interested in the micro |
scope. The one reveals the universe |
above US, the other just as great uni
verse beneath US. But the telescope
oyerwhelIns me, while the microscope
comforts me. What you want and
want especially is a God in Titles If
we were seraphic or archangelic 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 tie Titles.
When I see the Maker of the universe
giving himself to the architecture Of q
snowflake, and making its shafts, its
domes, its curves, its walls, its>irradia-
tons SO perfect, conclude he viii hook
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 impress US with
God In the Titles 1t does not say,
Consider the Clouds" but it says,
Consider the lilies" 1t does not say,
Behold the tempests" but Behold
the fowls" and it applauds a 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 to be lost in the crowd. Do not
think that because you estimate your
self as only one snowflake among a
three days January snow storm that
you will be forgotten. The birth and
death of q drop of chilled vapor is as
certainly regarded by the Lord as the
creation and demolition of a planet.
Nothing is big to God and nothing is
small What makes the honey in
dustries of South Carolina such a source
of livelihood and Wealth. 1t is because
God teaches the ladybug to make an
opening in the rind of the apricot for
the bee who cannot otherwise get at
the juices of the fruit. So God sends
the ladybug ahead to prepare the way
for the honeybee. He teaches the ant
to bite each grain of corn that she puts
in the ground for winter food in order
that it may not take root and SO ruin
the little granary. He teaches the
raven in dry weather to throw pebbles
into q hollow tree that the water far
down and out of reach may come ur
within the reach of the birds beak.
What comfort that he is a God In
Titles!
The emperor of all the Russias il
olden time was looking at map thai
spread before him his vast dominions
and he could not find Great Britain OF
the map, and he called in his secretary
and said, Where is Great Britain
! that l hear 50 much aboutr' ut i
! under your thumb" said thesecretary
s and the emperor raised his hand from
4 the map and saw the country he wa
I looking for And it is high time. tina
: we find this mighty realm of God clos
4 by and under our own little finger. f.
' drop you out of his memory would b
8 to resign his omniscience. To refus
= you his protection would be to add
t cate his omnipotence. When you tel
J me that he is the God of Jupiter, an
+ the God of Mercury, and the God c
l. Saturn you tell me something so vas
u that cannot comprehend it. But
y you tell ne he is the God of the snow
flake you tell me something l can hol
( and measure and realize. Thus tn
J. smallest snowflake contains jew'
It case of comfort. Here is an opal, a
n amethyst, a diamond. Here is one
ii the treasures of the snow. Take it Il
d your present and everlasting comfort.
l. THE AWFUL FORCES OF NATURE.
Il Behold, also, in the snow the trea
j ure of accumulated power. During
IL snowstorn let an apothecary accu
IL toned to weigh most delicate quaint
ties hold his weighing scales out of tt
1t window, and let one flake fall on Il
surface of the scales and it will n
In even make it tremble When you wa
Il. to express extreme triviality of weig
you say, Light as feather" but
8 snowflake is much lighter. 1t is ju
H. twenty-four times lighter than wate
er And yet the accumulation Of the
or flakes broke down a few days ago
sight of my house six telegraph pole
mt made helpless police and fire depa
ke ments and halted rail trains with t.
IN laundering locomotives.
es, We have already learned so much
nd the power of electricity that we la
he
ed become careful how We touch the ell
has been death. But, few days az
IN the snow put its hand on most of tn,
I've wires and tore them down as If til
ne were cobwcbs. The snow said: "Y
csc seem afraid of the thunderbolt; v
SOY catch it ard hurl it to the groul
'w- Your boasted electric lights adofni
In your cities with bubbles of fire I '
In put out as easily as your ancest
are snuffed out tallow candle"
tel snow put its finger on the lip of ,
In cities that were talking with each 9th
Iee' and they went into silence, utter
uls, not word. The snow mightier tt
Al the lightning.
IN In March, 1855, the snow stop
nAi America 1t said to Brooklyn, rs
aon homel" to New York, Stay HON
to Philadelphia, Stay homer
I'M Washington, Stay homer to b
IN mond, Stay homer 1t put int
lure white sepulcher most of this matt
all Commerce, whose wheels never stop
1niy before, stopped then What was
pom matterl Power of accumulated s1l
aiho flakes. On the top of the ApenIl
ing one fake falls and others fall
Win they pile up, and they make moi
ne ain of fleece on the top of a noun
1T of rock, until one day gust of vi
etch or even the voice of a mountain
low sets the frozen vapors into action,