The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-02-11

morning Light, and my friend said to his
wife: Jennie, do you know what that
snow on Mont Blanc makes me think
OF? 1t makes me think that the right
eousDess OF Christ, and the pardon Of
God cover all the sins and impcrfectionS
OF my life, as that snow covers up that
mountain, for the promise that though
our sins be as scarlet they shall be as
white as snow" Was not that glorious?
do not care who you are. or where
you are, you need as much as do that
cleansing, which made Gashierie De
Witt good while he lived and glorious
when he died. Do not take 1t 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, but
he declares in substance that II he
should wash his soul in melted snow, he
would still be covered with mud like a
man down in ditch. Job 0; 30.) "If
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
before we can be whittier than snow.
"Without holiness, no man shall see the
Lord" o. for the cleansing powerl
II there be in all this audience one
man or woman whose thoughts have al
ways been right, and whose words al
ways right, and whose actions always
right, let such one rise, or, If already
standing, lift the right hand. Not onel
ALI we, like sheep, have gone astray.
Unclean! And yet we may be made
winter than snow, winter than that
which, ON cold winters morning,
after a night Of storm, clothes the trees
from bottom trunk TO top Of highest
branch; whittier than that which, this
hour, makes the Adirondacks and the
Sierra Nevada and Mount Washington
heights Of pomp and splendor fit to en-
throne an archangel.
In the time Of Graham, the essayist, in
one mountain district Of Scotland an
average of ten shepherds perished every
winter in the snow drifts, and so he
proposed that, at the distance OF every
nile, pole fifteen feet high and with
Two cross-pieces be erected, showing the
points Of the compass, and n bell
hung at the top, so that every
breeze would ring it, and so the
lost one ON the mountain would hear
the sound and take the direction given
by this pole with the cross-pieces and
get safely home. Whether that pro-
posed plan was adopted or not / do not
know, but declare to all you who are
In the heavy and binding drifts of sin
and sorrow that there is cross near by
that can direct you TO home, and peace,
and God; and hear you not the ringing
of the gospel bell hanging TO that cross,
saying: "This is the way, walk ye in
it?" No wonder that the sacred poet
put the Psalmists thought into rhythm
with that ringing chorus we have so
often sung:
Dear Jesus Ilong 10 be perfectly whole;
want Thee forever TO live In my soul.
Break down every lido cast down every foel
Now wash me. and shall be VIII ter than snowl
Whittier than snow! yes, whittier than snowi
Now wash me, and shall be whittier than snow
Get that prayer answered, and we will
be fit not only for earth, but for the
Heaven where everything is SO white
because everything is so pure. You
know that the redeemed in that land
wear robes that are white, and the con-
querors in that land ride horses that
are white, and John in vision says of
Chr st, His head and His hairs were
white, and the throne on which He sits
is great white throne. BY the pardon
ing and the great sanctifying grace of
God, may we all at last stand amid that
radiance.
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In glittering armor bright,
The armies OF the livingGol
Throny u the sleeps OF light
IT'S finished all is finished,
Their tight with death and sin;
Throw open wide the golden gates,
And let the conQuerors In.