Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-12

Another treasure of the snow is the sug.
gestion that this mantle covering the earth
is like the sonl after iii forgiven. "Wash
me- said the Psalmist, land | shall be
whittier than snow" My 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 good-by one lovely after
noon 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 Sab
bath morning on his dying pillow in
Switzerland, the window open, he was
looking out upon Mont Blanc The air
was clear. That great mountain stood in
its robe of snow, glittering in the morning
light. and my friend said TO his wife; "Jen.
ME, do you know what that snow on Mont
Blanc makes me think OFF IL makes me
think that the righteousness of Christ and
the pardon of God cover all the sins and
imperfections of my life, as that snow
covers up that mountain, for the promise
is that though our sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow" Was not that
gloriousl
do not care who you are, or where you
are. you need as much as do that cleans
ing 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 ancients thought that snow
water had especial power TO wash out deep
stains. All other water might fail, but
melted snow would make them clean
Well, job had great admiration for snow,
hut he declares in substance that if he
should wash his soul in melted snow he
would still be covered with mud like a |
Taan down in ditch Dob tx. 800. "If II
wash myself in snow water, and make my
hands never so clean, yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch and mine own
clothes shall abhor me-" We must be |
washed in the fountain of Gods mercy be.
fore we can be winter than snow. with |
out holiness, no man shall see the Lord"
Oh. for the cleansing powerl
If there be 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 il |
already standing, lift the right hand, Not
onel All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
Uncleanl uncleanl And yet we may be
made whittier than snow-whiter than that /
which, on a cold winters morning, after
night of storm, clothes the tree from bot
tom of trunk to top of highest branch;
winter than that which this hour makes
the Adirondacks, and the Sierra Nevada
and Mount Washington heights of pomp
and splendor fit to enthrone an archangel
In the time of Graham, the essayist, in
one mountain district of Scotland an av-
erage of ten shepherds persisted every
winter in the snow drifts, and so he pro-
posed that at the distance of every mile
pole fifteen feet high and with two cross
pieces be erected, showing the points Of
the compass, and bell 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 / de-
.lare to all you who are in the heavy and
,linding drifts of sin and sorrow that
here is a cross near by that can direct you
o home and peace and God; and hear you
lot the ringing of the gospel bell hanging
o that cross, saying, This is the way;l
walk ye in iJs' No wonder that the sacred
,oet put the Psalmist's thought into