Connecticut western news., 1891-02-11
THE INFINITE IN INFINTTESIMALS.

THE INFINITE IN 1NFINTTEs1MALs [. And now propose, for yonr spiritu1 end everlasting profit, if you will ac- cept my guidance, to take you through some of these wonders of crystalliza ton. And notice first God in the littles. You may take alpenstock and cross the Mer de Glace, the sea of ice, and as cend Mont Blanc, which rises into tho clouds like pillar of the great white throne; or with arctic explorers ascend the mountains around the north pole, and see glaciers thousand feet high grinding against glaciers three thou sand feet high. But will take you on a less pretentious journey, and show you God in the snowflake. There is room enough between it's pillars for the great Jehovah to stand.
 In that one frozen drop on the tip of your finger you may find the throne room of the Almighty. take up the snow in my hand and see the coursers of celestial dominion paving these crystal pavements. The telescope if grand, but I must confess that I am quite as much interested in the micro scope. The one reveals the universe above us, the other just as great uni verse beneath us. But the telescope overwhelms me, while the microscope comforts me- What you want and 1 want especially is a God in littles. If we were seraphic or archangelic in our natures we would want to study God in the great; but such small, weak, short lived beings as you and I are want to find God in the littles-
 When see the Maker of the universe giving himself to the architecture of a snowflake, and making it's shafts. it's domes it's curves, it's walls, it's irradiar tions SO perfect, conclude he will look after our insignificant affairs. And if we are of more value than a sparrow most certainly we are of more value than an inanimate snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly impress us with God in the littles. It does not say, Consider the clouds" but it says. Consider the lilies" It does not say, Behold the tempests" but Behold the fowlsl' and it applauds a cup of cold water and the widows two mites, and says the hairs of your head are all numbered.
 Do not fear, therefore. that you are going to be lost in the crowd. Do not think that because you estimate your self as only one snowflake among a three days January snow storm that you will be forgotten. The birth and death of drop of chilled vapor is as certainly regarded by the Lord as the creation and demolition of a planet. Nothing is big to God and nothing is small What makes the honey in- dustries of South Carolina such source of livelihood and wealth7 It is because God teaches the ladybug to make an opening in the rind of the apricot for the bee who cannot otherwise get at the juices of the fruit. So God sends the ladybug ahead to prepare the way for the honeybee. He teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn that she puts in the ground for winter food in order that it may not take root and so ruin the little granary He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into a hollow tree that the water far down and out of reach may come up within the reach of the birds beak What comfort that he is God in littlesl
 The emperor of all the Russias in olden time was looking at map that spread before him his vast dominions, and he could not find Great Britain on the map, and he called in his secretary and said, Where is Great Britain that I hear so much about?" Ut is under your thumb" said the secretary, and the emperor raised his hand from the map and saw the country he was looking for And it is high time that we find this mighty realm of God close by and under our own little finger. To drop you out of his memory would be to resign his omniscience. To refuse you his protection would be to abdi cate his omnipotence. When you tell me that he is the God of Jupiter, and the God of Mercury, and the God of Saturn you tell me something so vast that I cannot comprehend it. But if you tell me he is the God of the snow flake you tell me something can hold and measure and realize. Thus the smallest snowflake contains a jewel case of comfort. Here is an opal, an amethyst, diamond. Here is one eff the treasures of the snow. Take it for your present and everlasting comfort.
 THE AWFUL FORCES OF NATURE.
 Behold, also, in the snow the treas ure of accumulated power. During mowstorm let an apothecary accus toned to weigh most delicate quanti ties hold his weighing scales out of the window, and let or1e flake fall on the surface of the scales and it will not even make it tremble When you want you say, Light as feather" but snowflake is much lighter. It is just twenty-four times lighter than water. And yet the accumulation of these flakes broke down few days ago in sight of my house six telegraph poles, made helpless police and fire depart ments and halted rail trains with two laundering locomotives.
 We have already learned 50 much of the power of electricity that we have become careful how we touch the cleo tric wire. and in many case touch has been death. But, a few days ago, the snow put its hand on most of these wires and tore them down as if they were cobwebs The snow said: You seem afraid of the thunderbolt; will catch it and hurl it to the ground. Your boasted electric lights adorning