Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-09
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natures. we would want to study God in
the great: but such small, weak, short
lived beings as you and are. want to
find God in the Titles.
When | see the Maker Of the universe
giving himself to the architecture OF
snowflake and making its shafts, its
domes, its curves, its walls. irradiatlons
so perfect, conclude he will took
after our insignificant affairs. And II
we are of more value than sparrow,
most certainly we are OF more value
than an inanimate snowflake. So the
Bible would chiefly impress us with
God in the Titles. 1t does Eot say
Consider the Clouds" but it says,
consider the lilies" 1t does not say,
"Behold the tempestS." but, behold
the fowls" and it applauds cup oil
cold water, and the widows two mites,
and says the hairs OF your head are ali
numbered. Do fear, therefore, that
YOU are going to be lost in the crowd.
Do not think that because you estimate
yourself as only one snowflake among
three days' January snow storm that
YOU will be forgotten. The birth and
death OF drop OF chilled yapor Is as
certainly regarded by the LORD
As the creation and demolition
Of a planet Nothing is big to God ana
nothing is small. What makes the
honey industries OF South Carolina such
A source OF livelihood and wealth? III
is because God teaches the lady bug TO
make an opening in the rind OF the APP
ricot for the bee who cannot otherwise
Get at the Juices of the fruit. so God
sends the lady-bug ahead TO prepare the
wav for the honey-bee. He teaches the
ant To bite each grain Of corn that she
nnts in the ground for winter food In
order that II may not take root ana 80
ruin the little granary. He teaches the
raven i'm dry weather to throw peoOleS
into n hollow tree that the water iar
down and out OF reach may come up
within the reach OF the 0lrd oeah'
What comfort that he Is God IN III
ties, The emperor OF all the russians
in olden TINE was looking at a map that
snread before him his vast domln-
ions. and he could not ma treat
Britain on the map, and he called IN
his secretary and said: "Where is Great
britain that | hear so much about?
at is under your thumb" SAID the sec
retarv: and the emperor raised his mana
from the map and saw the country ne
was looking for. And it is high time
that we find this mighty realm OF God
close by, and under our own llttie nhgeI;
To drop you out OF His memory "ouiu
he 10 resign His omniScience. 10 REFUSE
Won His protection would be TO abdicate
Ills omnipotence. When you tell me
rhaFUe is the God Of Jupiter and the
God of Mercury and the God OF saturn,
Won tell me something so vast that i
lcannot comprehend il. But il you ten
mo that lie is the God of the snowflake,
Won teIl me something | can hold ana
measure and realize. Thus the smalleS'
Snow.Nake contains a jewel-caSe OF com
fort. Here is an opal, an amethyS',
diamond. Here is one OF the treasure,
NJ the snow. Take 1t for your present
and everlasting comfort.
THE POWER OF LITTLE THINGS
Rebold. also. in the snow the treasure
of accumulated power. during SIo ~
storm let an apothecary, accustomed :,
weigh most delicate quantities, hoio
his weighing scales out OF the WINDOW
and lei one fake fall on the surface O
the scales and it will not even make i
tremble When you want to express
evtrame triviality of weight you say
.Iirht As feather but Snow-iah'
is much lighter. 1t is Just twenty-iouI
rimes lighter than water. And yet tn'
accumulation of these flakes orok'
down, few days ago, IN sighy Tl III.
house. six telegraph poles, maze helpleS
nolice and ire departments ah'
bolted rail-trains with two thunder
mo locomotives. We have alreau!
learned 50 much of the power OF eiec
tricitv that we have become careful nov
we tonch the electric wire. aud IN man.
n case a touch has been death. But
faw DAYS ago. the snow put Its manu- %
most of these wires and tore theui uU wv.
as though they were eooweos' In
snow said: "You seem afraid OF un
,bunderbolt: will catch it and huri
- the ground. Your boosted eleclri
tights adjoining your cities with ouoole
~ fire | will put out as easily as you
srcestors snuffed ont tallow canule'
, Tbo snow nut its finger on tue Ilp o
onr cities that were talking with edcI
other and they went into silence utter
inc not A word. The snow is miehue
than the lightning. s,orno
! In March. 1855, the snow stoppe
America. II said to Brooklyn: o.a
: bome,' 10 New York: stay h I1.i
to Philadelphia: stay home. 10 W ' asI
, ington: Stay home!' to kichhoho
! STAY home" 1t put into white sci
pIchre most of this nation. Commerce
5 whose wheels never stopped before