The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-02-11


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 the Titles.
When see the Maker of the universe
giving Himself to the architecture of q
snowflake and making its shafts, It's
domes, its curves, its walls, it's irradia'
tions so perfect, conclude He will looli
after our insignificant affairs. And Il
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 cup of cold water, and the
Widows two mites, and says the hairs
OF your head are all numbered. Do not
fear, therefore, you are going to be lost in
the crowd. Do not think that because
you estimate yourself as only one snow
flake among three-day's January snow
storm that you will be forgotten. The
birth and death Of 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
industries Of South Carolina such a
source of livelihood and wealth? Itis'be-
cause God teaches the lady-bug to make
an opening in the rind of the apricot
for the bee who can not otherwise get
at the juices of the fruit. So God sends
the lady-bug ahead to prepare the way
for the honey bee. He teaches the ant
to bite each grain of corn that she puts
In the ground for winter food in order
that IL may not take root and so ruin
the little granary. He teaches the
raven in dry weather to throw pebbles
into a hollow tree that the water far
down and out Of reach may come up
within the reach of the birds bealc
What q comfort that he is a God in lit
ties! The Emperor of all the Russias in
olden time was looking nt a map that
spread before him his vast dominions
and he could not find Great Britain on
the map, and he called in his secretary
and said; "Where is Great Britain that
hear so much about?" "ft is under
your thumb" said the secretary; and
the Emperor raised his hand from the
map and saw the country he was look
ing for. Anditi is high time that we find
this mighty realm of God close by, and
under our own little finger. To drop
You out of His memory would be TO re-
sign His omniscience. To refuse you
his protcctio would be to abdicatc His
omnipotence. When you tell me that
He is tho God of Jupiter and
the God of Mercury and the God of Sat
urn, you tell me something so vast that
can not comprehend it, But If you
tell me that lie is the God of the snow.
flake, you tell me something can hold
and measure and realize. Thus the
smallest snowflake contains jewel case
of comfort. Here is an opal, an anne
thyst, a diamond Here is one of the
treasures of the snow. Take IL for your
present and everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, in the snow the treasure
Of accumulated power. During a snow
storm let an apothecary, accu stoned TO
weigh most delicate quantities, hold his
weighing scales out of the window and
let one flake fall on the surface of the
scales and ii will not even make il
tremblc. When you want 10 express
extreme triviality Of weight you say,
Light as feather" but q snowflake
is much lighter. 1t is just twenty-four
times lighter than water. And yet the
accumulation of these flakes broke
down, few days ago, in sight of my
house, six telegraph poles, made help.
less police and fire departments, and
halted rail trains with two laundering
locomotives. We have already learned
SO much of the power of electricity that
we have become careful how TO touch
the electric wire, and in many case a
touch has been death. But, few days
ago, the snow put its hand on most of
these wires and tore them down as
though they were cobwebs. The snow
said: "You seem afraid of the thunder
bolt; | will catch ii and hurl IL 10 the
ground. Your boosted electric light
adorning your cities with bubbles of fire,
/ will put IL out as easily as your ances-
tors snuffed out tallow candle" The
snow put its finger on the lip Of our
cities that were talking with each other
and they went into silence, uttering not
a word. The snow mightier than the
lightning.
In March, 1883, the snow stopped
America. II said to Brooklyn: "Stay
homer to New York: "Stay homer
TO Philadelphia: "Stay homer TO Wash
ington: stay homer TO Richmond:
Stay home" Itput into white sep
ulcher most of this nation. Commerce,
whose wheels never. stopped before,
stopped then. What was the matter?
Power Of accumulated snowhakes; on
the top of the Apennines one fake falls,
and others fall, and they pile up, and
they make montain OF fleece on the
top of n mountain Of rock, until one day
a gust Of wind, or even the voice of a
mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors into
action and by awful descent they sweep
every thing in their course-trees, rocks,
villages-as when, in 1897, the town Of
Briel In Valais was buried, and in 1894,
In Switzerland, three hundred soldiers
were entombed. These avalanches were
made up of single snowfalSes What
tragedies Of the snow have been
witnessed by the monks OF st. Ber-
nard, who, for ages have with the
dogs been busy in extricating bewildered
and overwhelmed travellers in AL
pine storms, the dog with blanket fast