Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-14

oman. that is the residence OF 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 Dut
Cod and her own soul knew 1t. She had
more trouble than anybody in all the
land where she lived, and without com
planning. she bore it, and though her
talents were never great, what she nau
was all consecrated to God ana heiplng
others and the Lord is making up Tor
her earthly privation by especial rap
tures here. and the King OF this country
had that place built especially for her.
The walls began TO 20 up when ner
troubles and privations and conservation
BEGAN on earth, and 1t 50 happened
what heavenly coincidence-tnat the
last, stroke O. the trowel Of amethyst on
those walls was given the hour she en-:
tered 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. IL her chariot be-
hind those two white horses. for 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
a great tribulation, and they shall reign
forever and ever:"
AS we pass up the street, l find good
MANY on foot and say 10 the dragoman:
.'W6o are these?" And when the name
Is announced recognize that some OF
them were on earth great poets and
great orators and great merchants and
great warriors, and when / express my
surprise about them going on loot, the
dragoman says: I'm this country PEG
ple are rewarded not according TO their
earthly talents, but according to the
use they make OF what they had.
ACCUMULATED POWERS WONDERS.
And then thought to myself: "Why,
that theory would make a snowflake
that falls cheerfully and in the right
place, and does all the work assigned it,
as honorable as whole Mont Blanc Of
snowfiakes." Eyes, yes" says the celes-
trial dragoman, ''many OF these pearls
that YOU see on the foreheads OF the
righteous, and many Of the gems in the
jewel case of prince and princess, are
only the petrified snowhakes OF earthly
tempest, for God does not forget his
promise made in regard to them: They
shall be mine, said the Lord OF hosts, in
the day when make up my jewels. v
Accumulated power! All the prayers
and charities and kindnesses and tai
Tents OF all the good concentered and
compacted will be the worlds evangeli-
cation. This thought OF the aggrega-
ton of the many smalls into that one
mighty is another treasure OF the snow.
Another treasure OF the snow is the
suggestion of the usefulness OF sorrow.
Absence of snow last winter made all
nations sick. That snowless winter has
not vet ended its disasters. Within q
few weeks it put tens Of thousands in
to the grave and left others in homes
and hospitals gradually to go down
Called by trivial name, the Russian
"grip,n It was an international plague
Plenty of snow means public health
. There is no medicine that so soon cures
the worlds maleria as these white pei
lets the clouds administer. Pellets
small enough to be homeopathic, but
: inlsuch large doses as to be allopathic,
| and melting soon enough to be hydro
pathic. Like q sponge every make
, absorbs unhealthy gases. The tables
of mortality in New York and Brooklyn
immediateately lessened when the
SHOWS of last December began to fall.
The snow is one of the grandest and
best OF the worlds doctors. Yes; it ii
necessary for the lands productiveness
Great SHOWS in winter are generally
followed by great harvests next sum
mer. Scientific analysis shows thai
snow contains q larger percentage o.
ammonia than the rain. and hence III
greater power OF enrichment. AND
besides that, is q white blanket to keel
the earth warm. An examination o.
snow in Siberia showed that II was 6
hundred degrees warmer under the
snow than above the snow:
MAKING HARVESTS OF GRACE.
Alpine plants persisted in the mild
winter of England for lack Of enough
snow to keep them warm. Snow strikes
DdCk lilo rICu Buooo WAAOA OOhOA WADS
would escape in the air and be lost.
Thank God for the SHOWS, and may
those of February be as plentiful as
those OF December and January have
been, high and deep and wide and en-
riching; then the harvest next July
will embroider with gold this entire
American continent. But who with any
analogical faculty can notice that out
of such chill as the snow comes the
wheat, without realizing that chilling
sorrows produce harvests Of grace! The
strongest christians, without any ex'
ceptiOn, are those who were by be-
reavements or sickness, or poverty OF
persecution, or all of them together
showed under, and again and again
showed under. These snow storms Of
trouble! They kill the malarias Of the
soul. They drive us out of worldly de.
pendence to God. Call the roll OF ali
the eminently pious Of all the ages and