The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-02-10

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Grossly maligned Is the season OF
Winter. The Spring and Summer and
Autumn have had many admirers, but
Winter, hoary-headed and white
bearded Winter, hath had more enc
mics than friends. Yet without Win
ter the human race would be insane
Winter as the mother Of tempests;
] take 1t as the father of a whole faIni-
ly of physical, mental and spiritual
energies.
rnther think that Job may have ex-
amined the snow-flakes with miscro-
pope; for, although 1t Is supposed that
the miscroscope was invented long
after Jobs time, there had been won
ders OF glass before the miscroscope
and telescope of later day were
thought Of. So long ago as when the
Coliseum was in its fulllsplendor, Nero
sat in the Emperors box Of that great
theatre, which held a hundred thous-
and people and looked at the combat
ants through gem in his flnger-ring
which brought everything close to his
eye. Four hundred years before
Christ, in the stores OF Athens, were
sold powerful glasses called burning
spheres" and Layard, the explorer,
found q magnifying. glass amid the
ruins Ninevah, and in the palace of
| Nimrod. Whether through magnify
ing instruments or with the unaided
| eye, l cannot say, but | am sure that
Job somehow went through the gal
/ leries of the snowflake and counted
| its pillars and found wonders, raptures,
mysteries, theologies, maiestics, in
/ tinites walking up and down It's cor
| iidors, Us a result of the question
which The Lord asked him. Hast
thou entered into the treasures of the
snow"
After referring to the beauty of snow
| crystals, DR.. Talmage spoke of Gods
work in the little things in nature, and
then referred to the great force of
snow In its mass as an avalanche. He
\ then said:
"Oh," says some one, 81 would like
to stop the forces of sin and crime that
arc marching for the conquest of the
nation; but | am nobody. l have
neither wealth, nor eloquence, nor
social power What can / dor NV
brother, how much do you weigh? as
much as u snowflake? ooh. yes"
Then do your share. 1t is an aggrega-
| tion OF small influences that will yet
put this lost world buck into the bosom
| of pardoning God.
|
and women who will not use the one
talent because they have not ten, and
will not give a penny because they
cannot give a dollar, and will not
speak as well as they can because they
are not eloquent. and will not be Il
Snowflage because they cannot be an
| avalanch. In earthly wars the generals
| get about all the credit, but In the war
| for God and righteousness and heaven
all the private soldiers will get crowns
| of victory unfailing.
When we reach heavenly the grace
OF God may we all arrive there!-I do
not think we will be able to begin the
new song right away, because of the
surprise we shall feel at the compare.
| tive rewards given. As we are being
conducted along the street to our &C.
lestial residence We will begin to ask
where lives some of those who were
mighty on earth. We will ask; as so
| and-so horeF and the answer will be:
Aes, think he is in the city, but we
don't hear much of him; he was good
| and he got in, but he took most Of his
pay in earthly applause: he had enough
| grace to get through the gate, but
4 just where lie lives | know not. He
squeezed through somehow, although
! l think the gates took the skirts of his
|
| those back streets In one OF the palmer
residences"
Then we shall see a palace the door
steps of gold and the windows OF
agate, and the tower like the sun for
brllliance, and chariotS before the
door, and people who look like princes
and prineesSes going up and down the
| steps and we shall say, s'what one OF
tho hieiarchs lives here? That must
be the residence of a Paul or a Milton,
or soma one whose name lesounds
through all the planet from which we
have Just assembled mo, no." SAYS
our celestial dragoman, that is the
residence OF a soul whom you never
| heard Of"
When she gave charity her left
hand knew not what her right hand did.
Sho was mighty i'll secret prayer, and
no one but God and her own soul
knew it. She had more trouble than
anybody iii all the land where she
lived, and without complaining she
bore it, and though her talents were
never great, what she had was all con
sectated 10 God and helping others,
and the Lord is making up for her
earthly prlvation by her special rap
lures here, aud the King of this eoun-
try had that place built especially for
her
The walls began to go up when her
troubles and plirations AMI consecra.
ton begun ON earth, and it so hap
pened what heavenly eoincidcnce!-
that the last stroke of the trowel 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,