Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-14

ana we Suiill SKY, w liele ouc vi Iuo
hierarclls lives liere2 That must be the
residence of q Paul or a Milton, or
Somo one whose name resounds through
all the planet from Which we have
Just asccnded." mo, no." says our
celestial dragcman, that. is the resi-
dence of a soul whom you never
heard of. When she gave charity
her left hand knew not what her right
hand did. She was mighty in secret
prayer, and no one but God and her
own soul knew it. She had more
trouble than anybody in all the land
where she lived and without complain
Ing she bore it, and though her talents
were never great, what she had was all
consecrated to God and helping others,
and the Lord is making up for her
earthly privation by especial raptures
here, and tho King of this country had
that place built especially for her.
The walls began to 20 mp when her
troubles and privations and consecra-
ton began on earth, and it SO hap
pened-what a heavenly coincidcncel
that the last stroke OF the trowel OF
amethyst on those wallis was given the
hour size entered heaven. You know
nothing of ller. On earth her name
was only once in the newspapers, and
that among the column of the dead;
but she is mighty up here. There she
comes now. cut of her palace grounds,
in her chariot behind those two white
horses, for n ride on the banks of the
river that flows from under the throne
of God. Let Inc see. Did you not
have in your world below an old classic
which says something about these arc
they who came ont of great tribula-
ton, and they shall reign forever and
evcrT"
AS we pass mp the street l find good
many on foot. aud l say to the drago-
man, "Nho are theseT And when
their name is announced recognize
that some of them were on earth great
poets and great orators and great MGR
chants and great warriors, and when I
express my surprise about their go
ing afoot, the dragoinan says, I'm this
country people are rewarded not ac-
cording to the number of their earthly
talents, but according to the use they
made of what they had" And then I
thought to- myself, 'Why, that theory
would make a snowflake that falls
cllecrfully and in the right place, and
docs all the work assigned it, as honor
able rs whole Mont Blanc of Snow
fakes.
YES, yes" says the celestial drago-
man. ",Iany of these pearls that YOU
find on the forcheads of the righteous,
and many of the gems in the jewel case
of prince and princess, are only the
petrifed snowflakcs of earthly tenn
pest, for God does not forget the prom
Use made in regard to them, They
shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts,
in the day wien I make up my jew
els" Accumulated power All the
prayers and charities and kindncsses
and talents of all the good concentered
and conractcd will be the worlds
evangelization This thought of the
aggregation of the many smalls into
that one mighty is another treasure Of
The snow.
THE MINISTRY OF SORROW.
Another treasure of the snow is the
suggestion of the usefulness OF sorrow.
Absence of SHOW last winter made all
nations sick. That snowless winter has
not yet ended its Disasters. Within a
few weeks itput tens of thousands into
the grave and left others in homes and
hospitals gradually to go down. Called
by trivial name, the Russian grip"
il was an international plague Plenty
of snow means public health. There
is no medicine that so soon cures tho
worlds malarias rs these white pellets
that the clouds administer. Pellets
small enough to be homeopathic, but
IN such large doses as to be allopathic,
and melting soon enough to be hydro
patbic. Like IL sponge, every flake abb
serb, unhealthy gases. The tables of
mortality in New York and Brooklyn
lessened when the SHOWS
Of last December began to fall. The
snow is one OF the grandest and best Of
the worlds doctors
Yes. it is necessary for the lands
rroductivencss. Great SHOWS in win
Ter are generally followed by great har-
vests next summer. Scientific analysis
has shown that snow contains a larger
percentage of ammonia than the rain
and l.cncc its greater power CT enrich
lncnt. And besides that. it is white
blanket to keep the earth warm. An
examination of snow in Siberia showed
that it was 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 tue 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 aad wide and en-
riching; then the harvests next July
will embroider with gold this entire
American continent. But who with
any analogic;.l faculty can notice that
out of such chill IS the snow comes the
wheat, without realizing that chilling
sorrows produce harvests of grace!
The strongest Christians, without any
exception, are those who were, by be-
or sickness or poverty or
or all of them together,
showed under. and again and again
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