News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-12

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then there is multiplication of thes
Wi9try messages, and soon the plume
oil the officers are decked with anothe
style OF plume, and then all the skie
let lOoseupon the warriors q hurrican,
or snow, and the march becomes diff
cult, and the horses find it hard to pul
the supply train, and the men begin (,
fall under the fatigue. and many no
able to take another step lie down il
the drifts never to rise, and the cavalr,
horses stumble and fall, and one thou
sand OF the army fall. and ten thou
sand perish, and twenty thousand %
down. and fifty thousand and a hun
dred thousand and a hundred and
twenty thousand and hundred and
thlrty-tWo thousand die. and the victo,
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 snownakes.
Historians do not seem to recognize
that the tide in that mans life turned
from December the 10th, 1902 when
he banished by hideous divorce his
wife Josephine from the palace and SC
challenged the Almighty. and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortresses
of the sky with ammunition of crystal.
Showed under! Billions, trillions, quad
rilliOns, quintillions of flakes did the
work. And what suggestion of ac-
cumulative power, and what a rebuke
to all of us who get discouraged be-
cause we cannot do much, and there
fore do nothing
''Oh, 5" says some one, Il would like
to stop the forces of sin and crime that
are marching for the conquest 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 mitch as
a smowilakeI "Oh, yes" Then do
your share 1t is an aggregation of
small influences that will yet put this
lost world back into the bosom of a
pardoning God Alas! that there are
so many men and women who will not
use the one talent because they have
cause they cannot give a dollar, and
will not speak as well as they can be-
cause they are not eloquent, and will
not be a 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 will get
crowns of victory unfailing.
When we reach heavenly the grace
of God may we all arrive there Il do
not think we will be able to begin the
new song right away, because of the
tive rewards given. AS we are being
conducted along tie street to our celes-
tial residence we will begin to ask where
live some of those who were mighty on
earth We win ask, rs So-and-so
here?' and the answer will be: Ives, 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 / know not He squeezed
through somehow, although think the
gates took the skirts of his garments /
think he lives in one of those back
straats- in one of the nlainer residences"
NONE IS TOO WEAK TO SERVE GOD.
Then we shall see u palace, the door
steps of gold, and the windows of ag-
OF hn El,,o r.,
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
hierarchs lives here? That must be the
residence of n Paul or a Milton. or
some one whose name resounds through |
all the planet from which we have
just assembled. No, no" says our
celestial dragcman, that is the resi- |
dence of a 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 complain
ing she bore it, and though her talents
were never great, what she had was all
to God and helping others,
and the Lord is making up for her
earthly privation by especial raptures
here, and the King of this country had
that place built especially for her.
THE walls began to go up when her
troubles and privations and consecra-
ton began on earth, and it so hap
pened-what a heavenly coincidencel
that the last stroke of the trowel of
amethyst on those walls was given the
hour she entered 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,
n her chariot behind those two white
horses, for a ride on the banks of the
liver that flows from under the throne
If God. Let me see. Did you not
nave in your world below an old classic
which says something about these are
hey who came out of great tribula-
ion, and they shall reign forever and
.verp"
As we pass up the street find good
many on foot aud | say to the drago- {
nan, who are these?" And when
heir name is announced | recognize
hat some Of them were on earth great '