The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-18

thousand die, and the victor OF Jena and
bridge of Lodi, and Eylau, and Austerlitz,
where three great armies, commanded by
three emperors, surrendered to him, now
himself suTenders to the snowfiakes.
Historians do not seem to recognize that
the tide. in that mans life turned from
Dec. 16, 1909, when he banished by
hideous divorce his wife Josephine from
the palace, and so challenged the Al
mighty, and the Lord charged upon him
from the fortresses OF the sky with am
munitioh OF crystal. Showed under!
Billions. triIlions, quadrillions, quintillions
of flakes did the work. And what sug-
gestionl of accumulative power, and what
| a rebul1e to all of us who get discouraged
because we cannot do much, and there
fore do nothingl
ooh" SAYS some one, 81 would like to
stop the forces OF sin and crime that are
marching for the conquest of the nations,
but am nobOdy-I have neither wealth
nor eloquence nor social power. What can
do?" My brother, how much do you
weigh As much as snowflake? "Oh, yes."
Then do your share. Its an aggre gationo of
small influences that will yet put this lost
world back into the bosom of pardOning
Gs,d. Alas that there are so men and
women who will not use the one talent
because they have not ten, and will not
give penny because they cannot give
dollar, and will not speak as well as they
can because they are not eloquent, and
will not be snowflake because they cannot
'fJe an avalanche. In earthly wars the gen.
erals get all the credit, but in the war
for God and righteousness and heaven
all the private soldiers will get crowns of
4 victory unfailing. When we reach heaven
| by the grace OF God may we all arrive
| there-I do not think we will be able to
| begin the new song right away because
| OF the surprise we shall feel at the COM
parative rewards given. AS we are being
! conducted along the stream to our celes-
| tial residence we will begin to ask where
| live some of those who were mighty on
earth. Ave will ask: "ls SO and so here?"
and the answer will be: "Ges, think he
is in the city, but we don't hear much of
him; he was good and be got in, but he
took most of his pay in earthly APP
| plause; he had enough grace to get
through the gate, but just where he lives
! / know not. He squeezed through some
how, although L think the gates took the
skirts off his garments. / think he lives
/ il one of those back streets in one of the
! palmer residences"
| Then we shall see palace, the doorsteps
| OF gold and the windows OF agate and the
towers like the sun for brilliance, and
/ chariots before the door, and people who
| look like princes and princesses going up
and down the steps, and we shall say,
"What one OF the heirarchs lives hero?
| That must be residence of Il Paul or a
! Milton, or some one whose name resounds
through all the planets from which we
| have Just assembled" mo, no." saws our
| celestial dragoman, "that is the residence
! of soul whom you never heard OF. When
/ she gave a 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 ii. She had more
| trouble than anybody in all the land where
! she lived, and without complaining she
| bore it; and. though her talents were
never great, what she bad was all conse-
Grated to God and helping others, and
the Lord is making up for her earthly
| privations by especial raptures here, and
the King OF this country had that place
| built especially for her. The walls began
! to 90 up when her troubles and privations
and conservation began on earth, and il so
happened-what a heavenly coinci-
! dence that the last stroke of the trowel
| of amethyst on those walls was given the
/ hour she entered heaven. You know
/ nothing OF her. On earth her name was
| only once in the newspapers, and that in
! the column of the dead, but she is mighty
up here. There she comes now, out of her
! palace grounds, in her chariot between
those two white horses, for ride on the
banks of the river that flows from under
| the throne OF God Let me see. Did you
not have in your world below an old
classic which SAYS something about "these
are they who came out OF great tribula-
lion, and they shall reign forever and
| ever"
AS we pass up the street / find a good
many on foot, and | say to the dragoman,
'Who are these" And when their
names are announced / recognize that
some OF them were on earth great poets,
and great orators, and great merchants.
and great warriors, and when l express
my surprise about their going afoot the
dragoman says: ain this country people
are rewarded not according to the number
of their earthly talents, but according to
the use they made of what they had" And
| then l thought TO myself: "Why, that
theory would make snowflake that falls
cheerfully and in the right place, and does
all the work assigned it, as honorable as
whole Mont Blanc of snowfiakes." Eyes,
yes" SAWS the celestial dragOman. MANY
of these pearls that you find on the fore
heads OF the righteous, and many of
the gems in the jewel-case OF
| prince and princess, are only
the petrifed snOwtiakes of earthly
tempest, for God does not forget the
promise made an regard to them: They
shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts, in
the day when | make up my Jewels"
Accumulated power All the prayers and
charities and kindnesses and talents of all
the good concentrated and compscted will
| be the worlds evangelization. This
| thought of the aggravation of the MANY
srnalls into that one mighty is another
treasure of the snow
Another treasure OF the snow is the sug-
gestion of the usefulness of sorrow. Alb
sence of snow last winter made all nations
sick. That snowless winter has not vet
ended its disasters. Within few weeks
it put tens OF thousands into the grave and
left others in homes and hospitals grad
| ually TO go down. Called by a trivial
name, the Russian grip" it was an in
ternational plague. There is no medicine
that SO soon cures the worlds malaria as
these white pellets that the clouds adj
minister. Pellets small enough 10 be
homeopathic, but in such large doses as to
| be allopathic, and melting soon enough TO
be hydropathic. Like sponge, every flake
absorbs unhealthy gases. The tables of
mortality in New York and Brooklyn inn
mediately lessened when the snow of last
/ December began to fall. The snow is one
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