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

Yes, IL Is necessary 1Of the lduuS
productiveness. Great SHOWS in win
ter are generally followed by great har-
vests next summer. Scientific analysis
has shown that snow contains larger
percentage of ammonia than the rain
and hence its greater power of enrich
ment And besides that. it is n white
| blanket to keep the earth warm. An
! examination of snow in Siberia showed
that it was q hundred degrees warmer
under the snow than above the snow.
Alpine plants persisted in the mild win
ter OF England for lack OF enough
snow to keep them warm. Snow strikes
back the rich gases which otherwise
would escape in the air and be lost
Thank God for the SHOWS, and may
those of February be as plentiful as
those Of December and January have
been, high and deep and wide and e,t-
riching; then the harvests next Juiy
will einbroider with gold this entire
American continent But who with
any analOgical faculty can notice that
out of such chill as the snow comes tie
wheat, without realizing that chilling
sorrows produce harvests of grace!
The strongest Christians, without any
exception, are those who were, by be-
reavements or sickness or poverty or
persecution, or all of them together
showed under, and a2ain and again
showed under. THESE snow storms of
trouble! They kill the malarias of the
nj e i
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.
The Maronites say that one charac-
teristic of the cedar tree is that when
the air is full of snow, and it begins to
descend, the tree lifts its branches in a
way better to receive the snow and
bear up under it; and / know by much
observation that the graEdest cedars of
Christian character lift higher their
branches toward God when the SHOWS
of trouble are coming. Lord Nelson's
coffin was made out of the masts OF
L'Orient, in which he had fought so
bravely, and your throne in heaven, =
suffering child of God, will be built out
of conquered earthly disasters.
What gave John Bunyan such a
wondrOus dream OF the celestial city?
The Bedford penitentiary. What gave
Richard Baxter such power to tell of
the Saints Everlasting Rest and to
give his immortal Call to the Uncon-
vertedP' Physical disease which racked
every nerve of his body. What made
George Whitefield SO mighty in saving
souls, bringing ten thousand to God
when Others brought a hundred2 Per
secution that caricatured and assailed
him all up and down England, and
dead verInin thrown in his face when
he was preaching.
What mellowed and glorified WiIber-
forces Christian character2 A finan- |
cial misfortune that led him to write, |
Il know not why my life is spared |
so long except it be to show that |
a man can be as happy without a |
fortune as with one" What gave John |
Milton such keen spiritual eyesight that |
he could see the battle of the angelsl
Extinguishment of physical eyesight.
What is the highest observatory for
studying the stars of hope and faith |
and spiritual promised The believers |
sick bed. What proclaims the richest |
and most golden harvests that wave on
all the hills of heavenly rapture2 The
SHOWS, the deep SHOWS, the awful
SHOWS of earthly calamity. And that
comforting thought is one of the treas
ures of the snow.
MADE WHITE LIKE THE SNOW.
Another treasure of the snow is the
suggestion that this mantle covering
the earth is like the soul after it is for
given. Wash me, " said the Psalmist.
land l shall be whittier than snow"
My dear friend Gasherie De Witt went
over to Geneva, Switzerland, for the
of his health, but the Lord
had something better for him than
earthly recovery. Little did | think
when | bade him good-by. one lovely
afternoon on the other side of the sea
to return to America, that we would
not meet again till we meet in heaven.
As he lay one Sabbath morning on
his dying pillow in Switzerland, the
window open, he was looking out upon
Mont Blanc. The air was clear. That {
yreat mountain stood in its robe of
now, glittering in the morning light, '
md my friend said to his wife: Jennie.
10 you know what that snow on Mont
Blame makes me think Off 1t makes
ne think that the Righteousness of
christ and the pardon of God cover
Ill the sins and imperfections of my
lie as that snow covers up that mount
N, for the promise is that though our
ms be as scarlet they shall be us white
s snow. Was not that gloriousl
% not care who you are or where you
re, you need as much as ] do that
leansing which made Gasherie De
Witt good while he lived and glorious
'hen he died. Do not take it as the
enet of an obsolete theology that our
allure is corrupt We must be changed
We must be made over again.
The ancients thought that snow water
ad especial power to wash out deep
aims. All other water might fail, but
lelted snow would make them clean.
Yell, Job had great admiration for
low, but he declares in substance that
he should wash his soul in melted
low he would still be covered with -
nd like man down in ditch Job
, 800. IF | wash myself in snow
alter, and make my hands never SO
can, yet shalt thou plunge me in the
tch and mime own clothes shall abhor
e." We must be washed in the foun-
in of Gods mercy before we can be
hitter than SNOW. without holiness
} man shall see the Lord" Oh. for
e cleansing power!
If there be in this audience one man
woman whose thoughts have al
lys been right, and whose words al
lys right, and whose actions always !
Int, let such one rise, or if already =
lnding lift the right hand. Not onel :
! we, like sheep, have gone astray. :
lclean, unCivanl And yet we may
maG2 winter than snow; whittier than
ut which Oh Il cold winters morning.
er nj Ellt of storm, clothes the tree
IN bottom Of trunk to top of highest
lnch; whiter than that which this =
ur makes the Aiirondaclxs, and the
IRA Nevadas and Mount Washington
ghts of pomp and splendor fit to en- "
one an archange! h
HIS Is THE WAY; WALK YE IN IT." ~
n the time of Graham, the essayist.
one mountain district of Scotland ha!
nh.