The Iola register., 1891-02-13

lanother step lie down in the drifts never
to rise, and the cavalry horses stumble
and all. and 1000 of the army fall, and
10. 900 perish, and 10000 go down, and
$4,000 and 100000. and 120, 900 and 132,
600 die and the victor of Jena and
bridge of Lodi, and Eylau, and Aus
terlitz where great armies, commanded
by three emperors, surrendered to him.
now himself surrenders to the snow
flakes.
MADE wEIGHTY BY UNITED WORK.
Historians do not seem TO recognize
that the tide of that mans life turned
from December 16, 1909, when he
banished by hideous divorce his wife
Josephine from the palace and SO chal-
lenged the Almighty, and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortresses
of the sky with ammunition of crystal.
Showed underl Billions, trillions,
duadrillions. quintilliOns of flakes did
the work. And what a suggestion of
accumulative power, and what rebuke
to all of us who get discouraged be-
cause we can not do much, and there
fore do nothing.
s'Oh," saws one, Il would like to stop
|
marching for the conques of the
nations; but am nobody, have neither
wealth nor eloquence nor social power.
What can dO?" MY brother, how
much do YOU weigh? AS much as a
snowflake?" ''Oh, yes" Then do your
share. 1t is an aggregation of small
influence that will yet put this lost
world back into the bosom OF pardon
ing God. Alas that there are so many
men and women who will not use the
one talent because they have not ten,
and will not give penny because they
can not give dollar, and will not speak
as well as they can because they are not
eloquent, and will not be a snowflake
because they cannot be an avalanche.
In early wars the generals got about all
the credit, but in the war for God and
Righteousness and heaven all the prl-
vate soldiers will get crowns OF victory
unfailing. When we reach heaven
by the grace of God may we all arrive
there!-I do not think we will be able
to begin the new song right away, be-
cause 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 will ask, 'ls so
and so here?" and the answer will be,
''Yes. think he is in the city, hut
don't hear much of him; he was "o"d
and he got in, but he took most OF Is
pay in earthly applause; he had enor-A
grace to get through the gate, but ltist
where he lives | know not. He squeezed
through somehow. although think the
gates took the skirts of his garments. |
think he lives in one of those back
streets in one of the palmer residences. J"
REWARDS FOR THE TRULY GOOD.
Then we shall 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 princes and princesses
going up and down the steps, and we
shall say, "What one of the hlerarchs
lives here? That must be the residence
of a Paul or a Milton. or some one
whose name resounds through all the
planet from which we have just ascend
ed" "No, no." says our celestial drag
oman, that is the residence of soul
whom YOU never heard of. When she
gave charity her left hand knew not
what her right hand did. She was
mighty in secret prayer, and no one but
God and her own soul knew it. 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 had
was all consecrated to God and helping
others. and the Lord is making up for
her earthly privation by especial rap
lures here, and the King OF this country
had that place built especially for her.
The walls began to 60 up when her
troubles and privatiOns and consecratlon
began on earth, and it so happened
what heavenly coincidence-that the
last stroke of 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, in 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
great tribulation, and they shall reign
| forever and ever?"
AS we pass up the street, | find good
many on foot and | say 10 the dragoman:
''Who 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 foot, the
draroman says: I'm this country peo-
pie are rewarded not according to their
earthly talents, but according to the
use they make of what they had.
ACCUMULATED POWERS WONDERS.
And then l 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." Yes, 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 snowtlakes 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. "
Accumulated power! All the prayers
and charities and kindnesses and tai
Tents of all the good concentered and
compacted will be the worlds evangeli-
zation. 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 yet ended its disasters. Within a