The Forrest City times., 1891-02-13

ana the answer VIII De, ''leS, l tninK no E in the city, but we don't hear much him; he was good and he got in, but h, took most of his pay in earthly applause he had enough grace to get through the gate but just where he lives I 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 the palmer resi- dences."
 Then we see palace, the door-steps of cold and the windows of agate, and the tower like the sun for brilliance, anu 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 a Paul or a Milton, or some one whose name resounds throughout all the planet from which we have just ascended." '.No, mo-" says our celestial dragoman, 'that is the residence of a soul whom you never heard of. When she gave 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 ride on the banks of the river that fl ows from under the throne of God. Let mo 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 everp"
 As we pass up the street I find a good many on foot, end say to the dragoman, ''Who are these?" And when their name is pronounced I recognize that some of them were on earth great poets and great orators and great merchants and great warriors, and when I express my sur prise about their going afoot, the drago- man says, ''ln this country people arc rewarded not according to the number of their earthly talents, but according to the use they made of what they had" And then l thought to myself, "Why, that theory would make snowflake that falls cheerfully and in the right place, and does all the work assigned it, as honorable as a whole Mont Blanc of snowflakes." "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 petrifed snowflakes 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 l make up my jewels. y Accumulated power, All the prayers and charities and kindnesses and talents of all the good concentered and competed will be the worlds evangelzation. This thought of the aggregation of the many smalls into that one mighty is another treasure of the snow.
 Anoth CT treasure of the snow is the sug- gestion of the usefulness of sorrow. Ab- sence of snow last winter made all nations tatr hi, ra,.y ,& ,r thousands into the grave. Called by triv- ial name, the Russian grip" it was an in- ternational plague. The snow is one of the grandest and best of the worlds doctors.
 Yes; it is necessary for the lands pro- ductiveness. Great snows in winter are generally followed by great harvests next summer Scientific analysis has shown that snow contains larger percentage of ammonia than rain. and hence it's greater power of enrichment. Thank God for the snows. and may those of February be plen- tiful-high and deep and wide and enrich 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 gracel Tho 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 troublel They kill the malarias of the soul. They drive us out of worldly dependence to God. Call the roll of all the eminently pious of all the ages and you will find them the sons and daughters of sorrow. What proo laims the richest and most golden harvests that wave on all hills of heavenly rapture? The snow. the deep snows, the awful snows of earth by calamity. And the comforting thought is one Of the treasures Of the snow.
 Another treasure of the snow is the sug- gestion that this mantle covering the earth is like the soul after it is forgiven. "Wash me and l shall be winter than snow" said the Psalmst I do not care who you are or where you arc, you need as much as do that cleans ng. Do not take it as the tenet Of an obsolete theology that our na- 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 sec the Lord 1" Oh. for the cleansing powerl
 If there be in all this audience one man or woman whose thoughts have always been right and whose words always right, aud WuoSe aClapnS aiWlyS rlEnt let Sucn 0 one rise, or if already standing. lift the right hand. Not onel All we, like sheep. have gone astray. Unclcan Unclean! And yet we may be made whiter than snow; winter than that which. on cold winters morning, after night of storm. clothes the tree from bottom of trunk to top of highest branch; whiter thau that which. this hour. makes the Adriondacks and the Sierra Nevada and Mount Wash ington heights of pomp and splendor it to enthrone an archangel
 l declare to all you who are in the heavy and binding drifts of sin and sorrow that there is cross near by that can direct you to home and peace. and God; and hear you not the ringing of the gospel bell hanging to that cross. saying; This is the way, walk ye iu it?" No wonder that tho sacred poet put the Psalmists thought into rhythm with that ringing chorus we have so often sung:
 Dear Jesus long to be perfectly whole; l want thee forever to live in my soul
 Break down every idol,c down every foe 1 Now wash mo. and l shall be whiter than
 snow!
 Winter than snow! yes. whlter than snow Nov wash mo, and I shall be whiter than snow!
 Mir Grump: can't sec, my dcaY, what good that border of fur does around tho hem of your skirt Mrs. Grump: Why, 1t shows that can afford it.