Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-02-12


universe beneath us. But the telescope
overwhelms me, while the microscope COM
| forts me. What you want and | want es-
pecially is God in Titles. II we were
seraphic or archangelic in our natures we
would want to study God in the great; but
/ such small. weak, short lived beings rs you
/ and are want to find God in the Titles.
When see the Maker of the universe
\ giving himself to the architecture of a
snowflake, and making its shafts. its
domes, its curves, its walls, its irradiations
so perfect | conclude he will look after our
| insignificant affairs. And if we are of
more value than a sparrow, most certainly
we are of more value than an inanimate
snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly i'm
press us with God in the Titles. 1t does
not say, Consider the Clouds" but it says
Consider the lilies" 1t does not say, BE
hold the tempestsp but Behold the
fowlsi' and it applauds cup of cold
water and the widows two mites, and says
the hairs of your head are all numbered
Do not 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 a three days January
snow storm that you will be forgotten
The birth and death of drop of chilled
|
as the creation and demolition of a planet
Nothing is big to God and nothing is
small
What makes the honey industries of
South Carolina such a source of live
lihood and wealth. 1t is because God
teaches the ladybug to make an opening
in the rind of the apricot for the bee, who
cannot otherwise get at the juices of the
fruit. So God sends the ladybug ahead to
prepare the way for the honey bee He
| teaches the ant TO bite each grain of corn
that she puts in the ground for winter
food in order that it may not take root
and so ruin the little granary. He teaches
the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles
| into a hollow tree, that the water far down
and out Of reach may come up within the
reach of the birds beak. What comfort
that he is a God in Titles! The emperor Of
all the Russias in olden time was looking
at map that spread before him his vast
dominions and he could not find Great
Britain on the map and he called in his
secretary and sid, Where is Great Britain,
that hear so much aboutf" ut is under
your thumb, said the secretary; and the
emperor raised his hand from the map and
saw the country be WAS looking for.
THE INFINITE REALM OF GOD.
And it is high time that we find this
mighty realm of God close by and under
our own little finger. TO drop you out of
his memory would be 10 resign his omnis-
cience. To refuse you his protection would
be to abdicate his omnipotence. When
you tell me that he is the God of Jupiter,
and the God of Mercury, and the God of
Saturn, you tell me something so vast that
cannot comprehend it. But If you tell
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me something | can hold and measure and
realize. Thus the smallest snowflake con
tans jewel case of comfort. Here is an
opal, an amethyst, diamond. Here is
one Of the treasures of the snow. Take it
for your present and everlasting comfort.
Behold. also, in the snow the treasure of
accumulated power. During snow storm
let an apothecary, accustomed 10 weigh
most delicate quantities, hold his weighing
scales out of the window and let one fake
fall on the surface of the scales. and it will
not even make it tremhle When you
want to express extreme triviality of
weight you say, Light as a feather" but
a snowflake is much lighter. 1t is just
twenty-four times lighter than water. And
! yet the accumulation Of these flakes broke
down, a few days ago, in sight Of my house,
six telegraph poles, made helpless police
and fire departments and halted rail trains
with two laundering locomotives.
We have already learned so much of the
power Of electricity that we have become
careful how we touch the electric wire
and in many case a touch has been death.
But a few days ago the snow put its hand
on most of these wires, and tore them down
as though they were cobwebs. The snow
said: "You seem afraid Of the thunderbolt
will catch it and hurl it TO the ground.
Your boosted electric lights adjoining your
cities with bubbles OF fire. will put out as
easily as your ancestors snuffed out a tai
low candle.n The snow put its finger on
the lip of our cities that were talking with
each other and they went into silence, ut
tering not a word The snow mightier
than the lightning
In March, 1855 the snow stopped Amer.
lea 1t said to Brooklyn, Stay homer to
New York. "Stay homer to Philadelphia,
stay homep' 10 Washington, 'Stay
homer to Richmond, stay homer 1t
put into white sepulcher most OF this
nation Commerce, whose wheels never
stopped before, stopped then. What was
the matteri Power Of accumulated snow
flakes. On the top Of the Apeunines one
fake falls, and others fall, and they pile
up, and they make mountain Of fleece
on the top of a mountain of rock, until
one day gust of wind, or even the voice
of mountaineer, sets the frozen yapors
into action, and by awful descent they
sweep everything ia their cosrse trees,
rocks, viilages-as when in lS2T the town
Of Bricl, IN Valais, was buried, and in lo24, |
in Switzerland. three hundred soldiers |
were entombed These avalanches We're
made up of single snowilakes.
What tragedies of the snow have been
witnessed by the monks of st. Bernard, /
who for ages have with the doss been busy |
in extricating bewildered and overwhelmed |
travellers in Alpine storms, the dogs with l
blankets fastened to their backs and TASKS /
of spifiss fastened to their necks to resus
citate helpless travellers, one of these dogs
decorated with medal for having saved i
the lives of twenty-five persons, the brave
beast himself slain of the snow on that day
when accompanying a Piedmontese courier
on the way TO his anxious household down
the mountain. the wife and children of the