The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-12

FEBRUARY III OCOafSAuO1 WASAC Aso1sAd
Cameron comes forth to bring to his
fathers house his cousin Flora Mac
Donald for the celebration of birth
day, and the calm day turns into a
hurricane of white fury that leaves
Ronald and Flora as dead, to be re-
suscitated by the shepherdsl What an
exciting struggle had Bayard Taylor
among the wintry Apennines!
Snow DECIDED THE DESTINIEs OF
EUROPE.
In the winter of 1872, by a similar
force, the destiny of Europe was de-
cided. The French army marched up
toward Moscow five hundred thousand |
men. What can resist thern9 Not |
baycnets, but the dumb elements over
wheIm that host. Napoleon retreats |
from Moscow with about two hundred |
thousand men, mighty nucleus for
another campaign after he gets back to |
Paris. The morning of Oct. 10, when |
they start for home, is bright and |
beautiful. The air is tonic, and al |
though this Russian campaign has been
a failure Napoleon will try again in
some other direction With his host of
brave surviving Frenchmen.
But a cloud comes on the sky, and
the air gets chill and one of the sol
diers feels on bis cheek snowflake, and
then there is a multiplication of these
wintry messages, and soon tie plumes
of the officers are decked With another
style of plume, and then all the skies
let loose upon the warriors a hurricane
of snow, and the march becomes diff
cult, and the horses find it hard to pull
the supply train, and the men begin to
fall under the fatigue, and many not
able to take another step lie down in
| the drifts never to rise, and the cavalry
horses stumble and fail, and one thou
sand of the army fall, and ten thou
sand perish, and twenty thousand go
| down, and fifty thousand and a.hun-
dred thousand and a hundred and
twenty thousand and a hundred and
thirty-two thousand die, and the victor
of Jena and bridge of Lodi and .Eylau
and Austerlitz, where three great
armies, commanded by three emperors,
surrendered to him, now himself sur
renders to the snowfakes.
Historians do not-seem to recognize
that the tide in that mans life turned
from December the 10th, 1909, when
he banished by hideous divorce his
wife Josephine from the palace and so
challenged the Almighty, and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortresses
of the sky with ammunition of crystal.
Showed under! Billions, trilfions, quad
rillions, quintillions of fakes did the
work And what a suggestion of &C
cumulative power, and what a rebuke
to all of us who get.discouraeod be-
cause we cannot do much, and there
fore do nothing.
"Oh," says some one, Il would like
to stop the forces of sin and crime'that
are marching for the conquest Of the
nations; but 1 am nobody 1 have
neither wealth nor eEoquence nor social
power What can Idog' My brother,
how much do you weigh-as much as
q snowfake2 "Oh, yes" Then dc
your share 1t is an aggregation o.
!, small influences that will yet put this
lost world back into the bosom of 6
.. pardoning God. Alas. that there are
! so many men and women who will MOI
:. use the one talent because they have
not ten, and Will not give q penny be
cause they cannot give u dollar, ant
will not speak az vel as they can be
cause they are not etoquent, and viii
y not be snowflake because they canno
|. be an avalanche. In earthly wars tn
l generals get about all the credit, but il
" the war for God and righteousness AM
heaven all theprivate soldiers will &c
crowns of victory unfailing.
S When we reach heavenly the grac
a of God may we all arrive there!-I d
s. not think we will be able to begin tn
l. new song right away, because of tn
he surprise we shall feel at the compare
ne tive rewards given. As we are bein
d conducted along the street to our cele.
IL tial residence we will begin to ask wher
II live some of those who were mighty o
a earth. We will ask, "Is So-and-s
ST here?" and the answer viii be: YES,
r. think he is in the city, but we don
Sc hear much Of him; he was good and h
In got in, but he took most of his pay
s, earthly applause; he had enough graz
L to get through the gate, but just whel
70 he lives l know not. He squeeze
through somehow, although think tt
OF gates took the skirts of his garments
We think lie lives in one of those BAG
streets, in one of the palmer residences
- NONE Is TOO WEAK TO SERVE GOD
Then we shall see a palace, the do
~ steps of gold, and the windows of a
% ate, and the tower like the sun f
y brilliance, and chariots before the doc
c and people who look like princes ar
- princesses going up and down the step
III and We shall say, What one of Il
~ hierarchs lives herei That must be Il
VII residence of Paul or a Milton,
:, some one whose name resounds throus
i1o all the planet from which we ha
'u Just assembled" NO, no." says o
%, celestial draGoman, that is the re
s dence of soul whom you new
A heard Of When she gave a char
her left hand knew not what her rig
81 hand did. She was mighty in secl
- prayer, and no one but God and b
9. own soul knew it. She had me
trouble than anybody in all the la
0n where she lived and without complai
ing she bore it, and though her taller
o We're never great, what she had was
consecrated to God and helping othe
and the Lord is making up for /
y" earthly privation by especial raptu
n here, and the King of this country b
luu that place built especially for her.
''The.waIls began to go up when
troubles and privations and consec
a ton began ON earth, and it SO HI
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