Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-13

~ uoeS not say, "RehOld the 1
y! .."pes's! but "Behold the fowls!' and
~ aPpiauaS cup of cold water and the
"'uu" TWO mites, and says the hairs of
solr mead are ali numbered Do not
, ,S therefore, that You are going to be
'os' III she crowd. DO not think that be-
cause you estimate yourself as only one
snowflake among a threo-davs, J,nn.rv
SHOW storm that you will be forgotten.
Tho birth and death of q drop of chilled
yapor is as certainly regarded hy tho
Lord as the creation and demolition of a
planet Nothing is big to God and MOTH
ing is small.
Aud it is high time that we find this
mighty realm of GOD close by and under
our own little finger. 10 drop you out
OF his memory would be to resign his ON
hlsciencc. 10 refuse you his protection
would be to abdicatc his omnipotence.
Whcn You tell me that he is the GOD of
Jupiter, and the God Of Mercury. and
the God OF Saturn, you tell me some
lhlhs so vast that cannot comprehend
II. But IL you tell me he is the God of
the snowflake. you tell me something L
can hold ana measure and realize. Thus
the smallest snowflake contains II jewel
case OF comfort. Here is an opal, an
amethyst. Il diamond. Here is one of
tho treasures of the snow. Take it for
your present and everlasting comfort.
Behold, also, in the snow the treasure
of accumulated power. During a snow
storm let an apothecary, accustomed to
| weigh most delicate quantities, hold his
weighing scales out of the window and
let one lake fall on the surface of the
scales. and it will not even make it
trcmbie. Whom you want to express ex-
IRENE triviality of weight you say,
Light as Il feather but Il snowflake
is much lighter. 1t is just twenty -four
| times lighter than water. And yet the
accumulation OF these flakes broke down.
II few days ago, i'm sight of MY house. six
telegraph poles. made helpless police
and fire departments and halted rail
trains with two laundering locomotives.
We have already learned SO much OF
the power of electricity that we have be
come careful how We touch the electric
wire, and in many Il case a touch ha:
been death. But Il few days ago the
snow put its hand on most of these
wires, and tore them down as though the!
We're cobwebs. The snow said: "Yol
seem afraid of the thunderbolt; l vii
catch it and hnrl it to the ground
Your boastcd electric lights, adjoining
your cities with bubbles of fire, will pu
out as easily as your ancestors snuffct
out a tallow candle" The snow put it
finger on the lip of our cities that wcr
talking to each other and they went int
silence, uttering not a word. The snow
mightier than the lightning.
In March, 1888, the snow stoppc,
America. 1t said to Brooklyn, ''Sta
homer to New York, "Stay home!" i
II I,l,s "A,
ton, ''Stay home!" to Richmond, "Sta
home" 1t put into a white sepulche
most of this nation. Commerce, who's
then. What was the matter? Power c
. accumulated snow-tlakes. On the to
of the Apcnnines one flake falls, an
, others fail, and they pile up, and the
make a mountain of fleece on the top
, a mountain of rock, until one day gu.
of wind. or even the voice of moul
, taincer, sets the frozen vapors into a.
ton, and by awful descent they swee
everything in their course-trces, rock
vilagcs-as when in 1927 the town (
,, Bricl, in Valais, was buried, and in 1872
! in Switzerland, 300 soldiers were el
tombe Those avalanchcs were mao
up of single Snowtlakes.
q What tragedies of the snow have bee
witnessed by the monks of ST. Bcrnar
: who for ages have with the dogs bee
4 busy in eXtricating bewidered and owe
4 whclmed travellers in Alpine storms, tt
dogs with blankets fastened to the
: nccks TO resuscitate helpless traveller
a one of these dogs decorated with med
, for having saved the lives of TWENTY-FIVE
i, persons, the brave beast himself slain
y the snow OH that day when accOmpan
ing u Picdmontese courier on the way
;, his anxious household down the noun
( ain in search of him, an avalanche co
: cred all under pyramids higher this
y those under which the Egyptian mo
arclls sleep of the ages!
What an illustration of the traged
!. of the snow is found in that scene b
. . tween Glencoe and Glcncreran one Fe
r ruary in Scotland. where Ronald Car
cron comes forth to bring to his father
y, house his Cousin Flora Macdonald f
= the celebration of IL birthday, and Il
l. calm day turns intoa hurricane of viii
% fury that leaves Ronald and Flora
l. dead, to be rcsuscitated by the she
~ herds! What an exciting struggle h;
- I;ayard Taylor among the wintry Ape
n mines.
d ''Oh," says some one, 81 would like
II stop the forces of sin and crime that a
n marching for the conqucsts OF the II
h tions, but I am nobody: l have ncith
v, wealth nor eloquence nor social powe
+" What can doc" My brother, how niue
IS do you weigh? AS much as a snowfall
" .'Oh. yes Then do your share. 1t
IN an aggregation of small influences TIL
will vet put this lost world back into u
al bosom of pardoning God. Alas til
IT there are so many men and women VI
70 will not use the one talent because TIN
ID have not ten. and will not give pcnl
" because they can not give dollar, al
lc will not speak as well as they can +
II cause they are not eloquent and will
a be q snowflake because they cannot
N an avalanche! In earthly wars the &c
ne erals get about all the credit, but in t
a war for God and righteousness al
ST Heaven all the private soldiers will
Mt crowns OF victory unfailing.
ns When We reach Heavenly the era
~ of God may we all arrive there do
IN think we will be able to begin the nc
d. song right away because of the surprl
of we shall feel at the comparative rewa
m given. As we arc being conducted alol
~ +ha stroot to orr celestial residence ,