Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-13
''that is the residence of a soul whom
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that is the residence of a soul whom
you never heard Of
When she gave II 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 moro 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 had
WAS all consccratcd to God and helping
Others, and the Lord is making up for
her earthly privatons by especial rap
/ iares here, and the king of the country
lad that place built especially for her.
/ The walls began to go up when her
! troubles and privations and conscientious
began on earth, and it so happened
what heavenly coincidencc.-that the
last stroke of the trowel of amethyst on
those walls was given the hour she en-
tered heaven.
You know nothing of her. On earth
her name was only once in the news
papers, and that among the column of
the dead, but she is mighty Up here.
There She comes now out of her palace
grounds in her chariot behind those two
white horses for u ride on the banks of
the river that flows from under the
throne of God. Let nc see. Did you
not have in your world below an old
classic which says something about
''thesc are they who come out of great
tribulation, and they shall reign for ever
and cver?"
. Another treasure of the snow is the
! suggestion of the usefulness of sorrow.
, Absence of snow last winter made all ma
tions sick. That snowlcss winter has
not yet ended its disasters. Within d
, few weeks it put tens of thousands into
t the grave, and left others in homes and
: hospitals gradually togo down. Called
by trivial name, the Russian ''grip,"
g it was an international plague. Plenty
+ of snow means public health. There is
e no medicine that SO soon cures the
/. worlds malarias as these white pellets
X the clouds administcr-pcllcts small
c enough to be homeopathic, but in such
il large doses as to be allopathic, and melt
). ing soon enough to be hydropathic. Like
# a sponge. every flake absorbs unhealthy
= gases. The tables of mortality in New
C York and Brooklyn Immediately lessened
S when the SHOWS of last December began
e to fall. The snow is one of the grandest
&c and best of the worlds doctors.
y Yes, it is necessary for the lands pro
IL ductivencSS. Great SHOWS in winter are
II generally followed by great harvests
l. next summer. Scientific analysis has
& shown that snow contains u larger per
1T centage of ammonia than the rain, ali.
ID hence it's greater power of enrichment
IS And besides that, it is a white blanket tt
.e keep the earth warm. An examination
to of snow in Siberia showed that it wa
w one hundred degrees warmer under thu
snow than above the snow ALPINE
ID plants persisted in the mild winter o
" England for lack of enough snow to keeI
to them warm. Snow strikes back the ricl
O. gases which otherwise would escape il
Nv the air and be lost. Thank God for TIL
err SHOWS, and may those of February be a
SC plentiful as those of December and Jan
ed AIRY have been, high and deep and wild
of and enrching; then the harvests mex
ID July will embroidcr with gold this CT
nd tire American continent But who wit
CIV any analogical faculty can notice tina
of out of such chill as the snow comes til
st wheat, without realizing that chillin
n sorrows produce harvests of grace!
&C. The strongest Christians without an
en- exception are those who were by bcreav
IS, ments or sickness OF poverty or pcrsec1
of ton, or all of them together, snowe
"A. under, and again and again snowe
m under. These snow storms of troubl
dc They kill the maarias Of the soul. The
drive us out of worldly dependence
en- God. Call the roll of all the eminent
I'd, pious of all the ages and you will fiji
en- them the sons and daughters of sorro,
err The Maronites say that one characte
he istc of the cedar tree is that when I'll
cir air is full of snow and it begins to d
RS, scend the tree lifts it's branches in a Wa
lal better to receive the snow and bear I
wo under it, and know by much observ
of ton that the grandest cedars of Chri
w. tian character lift higher their branch
to toward God when the SHOWS OF trOub
Mt are coming.
W. Another treasure OF the snow is tt
an suggestion that this mantle covering tt
~ earth is like the soul after it is forgive
.'Wash me-" said the Psalmist, "and
les shall be whittier than snow" My de-
be- friend Gasheric De Witt went over
,b- Geneva, Switzerland, for the recovery
M his health, but the Lord had somcthil
RS better for him than earthly recover
for Little did l think when babe him goo
he by one lovely afternoon on the other sit
lite of the sea to return to America, that v
as would not meet again until we meet
,p- Heaven. AS he lay one Sabbath NOR
ad ing OH his dying pillow in Switzerlan
en- the window open, he was looking o.
upon Mount Blanc. The air was clea
tn That great mountain stood in its robe
,re snow, glittering in the morning llgll
"a and my friend said to his wife: 'Jcnni
,nr do you know what that snow on Mou
or Blanc makes me think of? 1t max
cb me think that the righteousness
700 Christ and the pardon of God cover q
is the sins and imperfections of my life.
,at that snow covers up that mountain, f
no the promise is that though our sins be
,at scarlet, they shall be as white as snow
Was not that glorious!
,nv do not care who you are. or whe
nv you are, youneed as much as do tn
ni cleansing which made Gasherie DeWi
ha. good while he lived and glorious wh'
,nt he died. Do not take it as the tenet
ho an absolute theology that our nature
nv. corrupt. We must be changed. v
+ho must be made over again. The ancien
Nd thought that snow water had especi
gnt power to wipe out deep stains. All 9th
7N' water might fail, but melted snow wou
,co make them clean. Well, Job had gre
,ot admiration for snow. but he declared