Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-16
streets. in one of the palmer residences.

briIIiance and chariotS before the door, |
and people who look like princes and
princesses going up and down the steps,
and we shall say, What one of the
hierarchs lives here? That must be the
residence of a Paul or a Milton, or
some one whose name resounds through
all the planet from which we have
inst assembled s'No, no." says our
celestial dragoman, that is the resi-
dence of a soul whom you never
heard of. When she gave a charity
her left hand knew not what her right
hand did She was mighty in secret
PRAYER, and no one but God and her
own soul knew it. She had more
trouble than anybody in all the land
where she lived and without complain
ing she bore it, and though her talents
were never great, what she had was all
consecrated to God and helping others,
and the Lord is making up for her
earthly privation by especial raptures
here. and the King of this country had
that place built especially for her.
1.-The. walls began to go up when her
troubles and privations and consecra-
ton began on earth, and it so hap
pened-what a heavenly coincidence!
that the last stroke of the troweI OF
amethyst on those walls was given the
hour she entered heaven. You know
nothing of her. On earth her name
was only once in the newspapers, and
that among the column of the dead;
but she is mighty up here. There she
comes now, out of her palace grounds,
in her chariot behind those two white
horses, for a ride on the banks of the
river that flows from under the throne
of God. Let me see. Did you not
have in yOur world below an old classic
which says something about these are
they who came out of great tribula-
ton, and they shall reign forever and
everY'
AS we pass up the street [ find a good
many on foot, aud l say to the drago-
man, who are theses" And when
their name is announced l recognize
that some Of them were on earth great
poets and great orators and great mer-
chants and great warriors, and when l
| express nv surprise about their go
ing afOot, the dragOman says, In this
| country people are rewarded not ac-
| cording to the number of their earthly
talents, but according to the use they
made of what they had" And then
thought to myself why, that theory
would make a snowflake that falls
! cheerf1lly and in the right place, and
does all the work assigned it, as honor
able as a whole Mont Blanc of snow
fakes.
YES, yes" says the celestial drago
man. 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, are only the
petrified snowfiakes of earthly tenn
pest. for God does not forget the prom
Use made in regard to them, The!
shall be mine. said the Lord of hosts
in the day when I make up my jew
els" Accumulated powerl All thu
PRAYERS and charities and kindnesse
and talents of all the good concenteret
and compacted will be the world
evangelization This thought of tn
aggregation of the many smalls int
that one mighty is another treasure o
the snow
When | see the Maker of the universe
| giving himself to the architecture OF
snowflake, and making its shafts, IL
domes, its curves, its walls its irradla
tions so perfect, conclude he will lool
after our insignificant affairs And I
we are of more value than sparrow
most certainly we are of more Valu'
than an inaninlate snowflake. So tia
Bible would chiefly impress us witt
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 fowlsr and it applauds cup o
cold water and the widows two mites
and saws the hairs of your head are al
numbered
Do not fear, therefore, that you ar
, going to be lost in the crowd Do no
think that because you estimate your
self as only one snowflake among
three DAYS January snow storm tina
/ you will be forgotten. The birth an
, 1 derth of a drop of chilled vapor is a
f certainly regarded by the Lord as tn
creation and demolition of a planet
| Nothing is big to God and nothing
small What makes the honey II
I dustries of South Carolina such SQUIRE
q of livelihood and wealth? 1t is becaus
s God teaches the ladybug to make a
r oDening in the rind of the apricot tc
G the bee who cannot otherwise get q
q the Juices of the fruit. So God senC
: the ladybug ahead to prepare the wa
] for the honeybee. He teaches the al
0 to bite each grain of corn that she pu1
+ in the ground for winter food in ordt
q that it may not take root and SO rul
Y the little granary. He teaches IL
I raven in dry weather to throw pebble
! into a hollow tree that the water ia
o down and out OF reach may come u
J., within the reach of the birds beal
4 What a comfort that he is a God
d Titles
r The emperor of all the Russias
u olden time was looking at map thu
It spread before him his vast dominion
;, and he could not find Great Britain O
r the map, and he called in his secretal
and said. "Where is Great Brltal
,e that I hear so much abOutE 1t
d under your thumb" said the secretar.
n and the emperor raised his hand fro
is the map and saw the country he WI
20 looking for And it is high time thu
d we find this mighty realm of God clio
IS by and under our own little finger i
l. drop you out of his memory would
l. to resign his omniscience. To refu
le you his protection would be to abe
G. cate his omnipotence. When you tt
le me that he is the God of Jupiter, al
e. the God of Mercury, and the God
e. Saturn you tell me something SO va
that cannot comprehend it. But
re- YOU tell me he is the God of the sno'
at fake YOU tell me something l can no
1e and measure and realize. Thus Il
ye smallest snowflake contains jew
al case of comfort. Here is an opal, ;
r. amethyst, a diamond. Here is one
as the treasures of the snow. Take it f
10 YOUR present and everlasting comfort
of Another treasure or Ine gnow Is I
lis suggestion of the usefulness of sorro
a Absence of snow last winter made
re nations sick. That snowless winter b
at - ~-o+ a,o1o6 ire dico CtnrC Within