Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-09
TOO MICROSCOPIC.

l rather think that job may have eX-
amined the snowflake with a microscope;
for. although it is supposed that the
microscope was invented long after
Jobs time, there had been wonders OF
glass long before the microscope and
telescope of later day were thought OF.
So long ago as when the Coliseum was
i'm It's full spendor, Nero sat in the En-
peror'S box Of that great theatre, which
held a hundred thousand people, and
looked at the combatantS through gem
I'm his fngct ring which brought every
thing close up TO his eye. Four hun
dred years before Christ, In the stores
of Athens. were sold powerful glasses
called burning spheres and Dayard,
the explorer, found a magnifyng glass
amid the ruins of Nineveh, and in the
palace of Nimrod. Watcher through
magrifying instrument or with unaided
eve. l cannot say, but l am sure that
Sob somehow went through the CALLER
les OF the snowflake and counted Its pill
lars and found wonders, raptureS, myS-
terics. theol0gieS, majeStieS, iniinlties
walking up aud down It's corridors, Is a
result of the question which the Lord
had asked him, Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snow
Oh. 10 is wondrOuS meteor. Hum
boldt studied 10 In the Andes twelve
thousand feet above the level Of the
sea. De Saussure revelled among these
meteors in the Alps and DR.. ScoreSby
counted ninety-SiX varieties of snow
fake amid the ArcticS. They are in
shape of stars, i'm shape OF coronetS, IN
shape OF cylinders, are gobular are
hexagonal, are pyramidal, are castel-
lated. After fresh fall of snow, In
one walk you crush under four feet
TuilierieS, Windsor Castles, st. Pauls,
St. Peters, ST. Marks Cathedrals, A.
! hambras and Sydeuham Palaces innum-
cradle. know it depends much on
/ our own condition what impression
these fving meteOrS of the snow make.
| | shall not forget two rough and unpre-
tending wood-cuts which | saw in my
hovhood side by side: one picture
of prosperous farm house with all
sirns of comfort, and q lad warmly
clothed looking out of the door upon
| the hrSt furry of snow, and MS minG no
doubt filed with the sound OF jingllng
sleich-bellS. aud the frolic with play
fellows i'm the deep banks, and he, clap
ming his hands and shouting: III
I sro,vs, IL SHOWS The other sketch
was of a boy. hagsard and hollow-eyed
with hunger. looking FROM the broken
door of a wretched home. and seeing IN
| the falling flakes prophecy of more cold
land less bread and greater privauon'
wrinring his hands and with tears roll
pg down his wan cheeks, crying: ION,
my God" IL SHOWS. It SHOWS Oul
of the abundance thatcharacterlze moS'
of our homes may there go speedy re-
/ lief 10 al whom this winter finds III
want aud exposure.
Az OBJECT LESSON.
Aud nov l propose, for your spiritua
and everlasting proht, il you VIII accep'
nv guidance, 10 take you through some
of these wonders OF cryStaization. Ana
notice first, God in the Titles. You
NAV take an Alpenstock i'm hand ana
cross the Mer 6e Glace, the sea Of ice
and ascend Mount Blanc, which rises
into the clouds like pillar ol tnt
Great White Throne. or with the Arctly
evplorcr ascend the mountains arouhu
,be. North Pole and see glaciers thou
sand feet high grinding asa1nS, ga,
ciers three thousand feet high But
will tai,e YOU on less pretentiorS loul'
new and show you God in snowflake
( There is room enough between its p',
lars for the Great Jehovah to stand
In that ore frozen drop on the up o.
vour finger you may nnu tn'
:ES5oe.room Of the Almighty,
take uy the snow in my hand and SEE SEE
the cohrses Of celestial dcominio2 on paw ,S,
! ing these crystal payements. The tei
ssSaps - erand. buJ must confess ina
ann quite as much Interested IN Ia
miserocope. The one reveals the 4Nl
verse above usi the other, just as sfea
a universe beneath us, But the teles
. cone overwhelms me, while the mleIps
q cone comforts me. What you want an
, / / Want especially is God in Titles.
} we were seraphic or arch-angelic IN on
IContinued on Third Fdgs'I