Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-13


cannot give dollar, and will not speak as
J well as they can because they are not elo-
quent, and viii not be- snowflake because
they cannot be an avalanche. In earthly
wars the generals get about all the credit,
but in the war for God and Righteousness
and heaven all the private soldiers win get
crowns Of victory unfaling. When we
reach heavenly the grace of God mCy
/ 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 comparative rewards given. AS we
are being conducted along the street TO our
celestial residence, we will begin to ask
| where live some of those who were mighty
ON earth. We viii ask, lis so-and-so here?"
and the answer will be, Eyes, l 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 just where he lives l know not
He squeezed through somehow, although |
think the gates took the skirts of his gar
ments. l think he lives in one of those
back streets in one of tho palmer resi-
dences."
Then we see palace, the door-steps OF
gold and the windows OF agate, and the
tower like the sun for brilliance, and
chariots before the door. and people who
look like pr noes and princess going up
and down the steps. and we shall say.
What one Of the hicrsrchs lives here?
| That must be the rcs!d nee Of q Paul or a
Milton. or some one whose name rcsounds
throughout all the planet from which we
have just assembled" "No, no." says our
celestial dragoman,. THAT is the residence
of a soul whom you never heard of. When
she gave a charity her left hand knew not
what her right hand DID. There she comes
now, out OF her palace grounds, in her
| chariot behind those two white horses, for
| q ride on the banks of the river that fl ows
from under tho 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
tribulation, and they shall reign forever
and evern"
AS we pass up the street I find a good
many on foot. end say 10 the dragoman,
who are these?" And when their name
is pronounced 1 recognize that some of
them were on earth great roets and great
orators Dnd great merchants and great
warriors, and when I express my sur
| prise about their going afoot the drago-
man says, 'In this country people are
rewarded not according TO the number OF
their earthly talents, but according 10 tho
use they made OF what they had" And
then / thought TO myself, ''Why, that
, theory would make snowflake that falls
cheerfully and in the right place, and does
all the work assigned IL, as honorable as q
whole Mont Blanc of suowtlakes. 'Yes,
yes" says the celestial dragoman, MANY
of these pearls that you find on the fore
heads of the righteous, and many of the
gems in the jewel case of prince and
| princess, are only the petrihed snowhakes
of earthly tempest, for God does not for
get the promise made in regard to them
| They shall be mine, said the Lord Of hosts,
in the day when make up my jewels. 1"
| Accumulated power! AL the prayers and
| charities and kindnesses and talents of all
the good concentered and compacted will
| be the worlds evangelzation. This
thought Of tho aggregation of the many
smalls into that one mighty is another
treasure of the snow.
Anoth er treasure of the snow is the sug-
gestion of the usefulness of sorrow. Alb
Sence OF snow last winter made all nations
sick. Within a few weeks 1t put tens of
thousands into the grave. Called by triv-
ial name, the Russian grip" it was an in
ternatonal plague. The snow is ono OF
the grandest and best of the worlds doctors.
Yes: it is necessary for the lands pro-
! ductiveness. Great SHOWS in winter are
generally followed by great harvests next
summer. Scientific analysis has shown
that snow contains a larger percentage of
ammonia than rain. and hence its greater
| power Of enrichment Thank God Tor the
SHOWS, and may those of February be plen-
f,,l Is..l, I -.
ing. 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 exception. are those who were by be-
reavements, or sickness, or poverty, or per-
secution, or all of them together, showed
under, and again showed under. These
snow-storms of troubled They kill the
malaTiss Of the soul. They drive us out of
worldly dependence 70 God. Call the roll OF
all the eminently pious of all the ages and
| you will find them the sous and daughters
of sorrow. What proc lams the richest
and most golden harvests that wave on all
hills of heavenly rapture? The SHOWS. the
deep SHOWS, the awful SHOWS OF earth by
calamity. And the comforting thought is
one of the treasures OF the snow.
| Another treasure of tho snow is the sug-
gestion that this mantle covering the earth
is like tho soul after it is forgiven. "Wash
me and shall be winter than snow" said
the Psalmist. Go not care who you are
or where you are, you need as much as
do that cleans ng. Do not take IL as the
tenet &C an obsolete theology that our ma
ture is corrupt We must be changed. We
must be made over again. We must be
washed in the fountain of Gods mercy be-
fore we can be winter than snow. with
out holiness, no man shall see the Lord. 4"
Oh, for the cleansing power!
If there be in all this audience one man
or woman whose thoughts have always
been right, and whose words always right.
and whose actions always right, let such O
one rise, or If already stlndng. lift tho
| right hand. Not ohel All we, like sheep.
| have gone astray. Unclean Unclean!
And yet we may be made whittier than
snow; winter than that which. on a cold
winters morning, after night of storm.
clothes the tree from bottom of trunk 70
top Of highest branch; whiter than that
which, this hour. makes the Adrlondaclts
and the Sierra Nevada and Mount Wash
ington hei0hte Of Domu and anlendor IA In