The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-12

made OF what Ik1ey nSAl AHo Aika
thought to myself. 'sWhy, that theory
would make a snowflake that falls
and in the right place, and
does all the work assigned it, as honor
able as n whole Mont Blanc of snow
flakes"
YES, yes" says the celestial drago-
man. Many of these pearls that you
find on the foreheads of the righteous,
and many of the gems in the jewel case
of prince and princess, are only the
petrified snowfiakes 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 when / make up my jew
els" Accumulated power! All the |
PRAYERS and charities and kindnesses |
and talents of all the good concentered
and compacted 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 snow last winter made all
nations sick. That snowless winter has
not yet ended its disasters. Within 4
few weeks it put tens of thousands into
the grave and left others in homes and
hospitals gradually to go down Called
by trivial name, the Russian grip,
it was an international plague Plenty
of snow means public health. There
is no medicine that so soon cures the
worlds malarias as 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
pathic. Like a sponge, every flake alb
serbs unhealthy gases. The tables of
mortality in New York and Brooklyn
Immediately 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
productiveness. Great SHOWS in win
ter are generally followed by great bar
vests next summer. Scientific analysis
has shown that snow contains larger
percentage OF ammonia than the rain
and hence its greater power of enrich
ment And besides that, it is white
blanket to keep the earth warm. An
examination of snow in Siberia showed
that it was undred 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 the cir and be lost.
Thank God for the SHOWS, and may
those of February be as plentiful a:
those of December and January have
been, high and deep and wide and en-
riching; then the harvests next July
will elnbroider with gold this entire
American continent. But who will
any analogical faculty can notice tina
; out of such chill as the snow comes tn
wheat, without realizing that chillin!
SORROWS produce harvests of grace
The strongest Christians, without an.
exception, are those who were, by be
, reavements or sickness or poverty 0
, persecution, or all of them togethe,
{ showed under. and again and agail
, trouble! They Kill the nalarias of th
, soul They drive us out of world
t dependence to God Call the roll c
, all the eminently pious of all tho age
: and you will find them the sons an
l daughters of sorrow.
> The Maronites say that one chara:
I teristic of the cedar tree is that whe
t the air is full of snow, and it begins
9 descend, the tree lifts its branches in
q way better to receive the snow al
q bear up under it; and know by Eauc
t observation that the grandest cedars {
Christian character lift higher the
e branches toward God when the snow
o of trouble are coming Lord Nelson
e coffin was made out of the maSts
e L'Orient, in which he had fought {
h bravely, and your throne in heaven,
g suffering child of God, will be built OF
s. of conquered earthly disasters.
e What gave John Bunyan such
n wondrous dream of the celestial cit,
20 The Bedford penitentiary. What gay
l Richard Baxter such power to tell
t the Saints Everlasting Rest" and
re give his immortal "Call to the Unco
IN vertedr Physical disease which racke
e every nerve-of his body. What mat
re George Whitefeld SO mighty in savir
d souls, bringing ten thousand to &c
le when others brought a hundreds Pc
/ secution that caricatured and assailt
* him all up and down England, al
;" dead vermin thrown in his face VIII,
. he was preaching.
or What mellowed and glorified WILDE
O. forces Christian characteri A fina
or cial misfortune that led him to writ
II. II know not why my life is spar
I'd SO long except it be to show tn
IS man can be as happy without
be fortune as with one" What gave JoI
be Milton such keen spiritual eyesight tn
or he could see tine battle of the angel
yh Extinguishment of physical eyesigf
We What is the highest observatory
ur studying the stars of hope and fai
81 and spiritual promise3 The believe
-er sick bed. What proclaims the richie
ty and most golden harvests that wave
hit all the hills of heavenly rapture9 T
ret SHOWS, the deep SHOWS, the aw1
Ter SHOWS of earthly calamity. And tt
IRE comforting thought is one of the ire
nd ures of the snow.
in MADE WHITE LIKE THE SNOW.
ats Another treasure of the snow is {
all suggestion that this mantle covert
rs, the earth is like the soul after it is f
Ter given. Wash me, said the Psalmi
res sand / shall be winter than snow
ad My dear friend Gasherie De Witt w