Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-02-14

whittier than snow.s Nv dear friend Cash
erie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzer.
land, for the recovery Of his health, but the
Lord had something better for him than
earthly recovery Little did think when
babe him goo1-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 win
dow open, he was looking out upon Mont
Blanc. The air was clear. That great
mountain stood in its robe of snow, glitter
ing in the morning light, and my friend said
to his wife: Jennie, do YOU know what that
snow on Mount Blanc makes me think ofS
It makes me think that the righteousness of
Christ and the pardon of God cover all the
sins and lmperfections Of my life, as that
snow covers up that mountain, for the
promise IS that though our sins be as scarlet,
they shall be rs white as SNOW Was not
that glorious
do not care who you are or where you
are, ycu need as much as do that cleansing
which made Gasherie De Witt good while
he lived and glorious when he died Do not
take it as the tenet OF an obsolete theology
that our nature is corrupt We must be
changed. We must be made over again.
The aneients thought that snow water had
especial power to wash out deep stains.
All other water might fail, but melted snow
Wtulu make Them ClSdH. u ell. Jon mad
great admiration for snow, but he declares
in substance that if he should wash his
soul i'll melted snow he would still be COW
cred with mud, like man down in ditch
JOB tx, 3d. IF l wash myself in snow
water, and make my hands ever 50 clean,
yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch
and mine own clothes shall ebhor me.
We must be washed in the fountain of
Gods mercy before we can be whittier
than snow without holiness, no man
shall see the Lordn Oh. for the cleansing
power!
If there re in all this audience one man or
woman whose thoughts have always been
right. and whose actions are ALWAYS right
let such a one rise, or if already standing,
lift the right hand. Not onel All we, like
sheep have gone astry. Uncleanl uncleani
And yet we may be made whittier than snow
whittier than that which, on a cold winters
morning, after night Of storm, clothes the
tree from bottom of trunk to top of highest
branch, whittier than that which this hour
makes the Adirondacks, and the Sierra
Nevada and Mount Washington heights Of
pomp and splendor fit TO enthrone an arch
angel.
In the time of Graham, the essayist in one
mountain district of Scotland an average of
ten shepherds persisted every winter in the
snow drifts, amt so he proposed that at the
distance of every mile pole fifteen feet high
and with two cross pieces be erected, show.
ing the points of the compass, and bel
hung at the top, so that every breeze would
ring it. and so the lost one on the mountains
would hear the sound and take the direction
given by this pole with the cross pieces and
get safely home. Whether that proposed
plan was adopted or not do not know, but
/ declare to all you who are in the heavy and
binding drifts of sin and sorrow that there
is a 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 in