The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-19

poets and great orators and great mer-
chants and great warriors, and when
express my surprise about their go
ing afoot, the dragoman says, 'ln this
country people are rewarded not ac-
coftiing 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
cheerfully and in the right place, and
does all the work assigned it, as honor
able as whole Mont Blanc of snow
flakes"
Eyes, 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 snowhakes of earthly tenn
pest, for God does not forget the prom
Use made in regard to them, They
shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts,
in the day when l make up my jew.
els, ;" Accumulated power All the
prayers and charities and kindnesses
and talents of all the good concentered
and compacted will be the worlds
evangelization. This thought of the
aggregation of the many smalls into
that one mighty is another treasure oil
the snow.
THE MINISTRY OF SORROW,
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 yet ended it's disasters. Within a
few weeks it put tens of thousands into
the grave and left Others in homes and
hospitals gradually to go down. Called
by trivial name, the Russian grip, y
it was an international plague. Plenty
of snow means public health There
is no medicine that so soon cures the
worlds malarias as these white pellets
that the clouds administer Pellets
small enough to be homeopathic, but
in such large doses as to be allopathic,
and melting soon enough to be hydro
pathic. Like a sponge, every flake alb
serbs unhealthy gases. The tables of
mortality in New York and Brooklyn
Immediately 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 is necessary for the lands
productiveness. Great SHOWS in win
ter are generally followed by great har-
vests next summer Scientific analysis
has shown that snow contains u larger
percentage of ammonia than the rain
and hence its greater power of enrich
ment. And besides that it is white
blanket to keep the earth warm An
examination of snow in Siberia showed
that it was a hundred degrees warmer
under the snow than above the snow.
Alpine plants persisted in the mild win
ter of England for lack of enough
snow t. keep them warm. Snow strikes
back the rich gases which otherwise
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 harvests next July
will embroider with gold this entire
American continent. But who with
any analogic;,l 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
exception are those who were, by be
reaveInents 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
dependence to God. Call the roll OF
all the eminently pious of all the ages
and you will find them the sons and
daughters of sorrow.
The Maronites say that one charac
teristic of the cedar tree is that when
the air is full of snow, and it begins tc
descend, the tree lifts its branches in a
way better to receive the snow and
bear up under it; and l know by much
observation that the grandest cedars o.
Christian character lift higher then
branches toward God when the snow,
of trouble are coming. Lord Nelson's
coffin was made out of the masts Of
LOrient, in which he had fought sc
bravely, and your throne in heaven, C
suffering child of God, will be built ou
of conquered earthly disasters,
What gave, John Bunyan such q
wondrous dream of the celestial city
The Bedford penitentiary. What gave
Richard Baxter such power to tell Of
the Saints Everlasting Rest and t.
give his immortal "Call to the Uncon
verted" Physical disease which rackeC
every nerve of his body. What made
| George Whtefeld so mighty in saving
souls, bringing ten thousand to Goo
when Others brought hundred? Per
secution that caricatured and assaiet
him all up and down England, anC
dead vernin thrown in his face wher
he was preaching.
What mellowed and glorified WILDER
forces Christian character A fnan
cial misfortune that led him to write
Il know not why my life is spared
SO long except it be to show thai
a man can be as happy without {
fortune as with one" What gave JOIN
Milton such keen spiritual eyesight thai
he could see the battle of the angels
Extinguishment of physical eyesight
What is the highest observatory fol
studying the stars of hope and faitl
and spiritual promise2 The believer!
sick bed What proclaims the richcs
and most golden harvests that wave OF
all the hills of heavenly rapturel The
SHOWS, the deep SHOWS, tile awfu
SHOWS of earthly calamity And tina
comforting thought is one of the treas
ures of the snow
Made WHITE, LIKE THE lNow