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

was preached from the text, Job
xxxviii., %: "Hast thou entered into the
treasures Of the snow?" The eloquent
divine spoke as follows:
Grossly maligned is the season of win
ter. The spring and summer and au-
tumn have had many admirers. but win
ter, hoary-headed and white bearded
winter, hath had more enemies than
friends. Yet without winter the human
race would be inane and effortless.
You might speak of the winter as the
mother of tempests; / take it as the
father of whole family of physical,
mental and spiritual energies. The most
people that / know are strong in pro-
portion to the number of snow banks
they had to climb over, or push through
in childhood, while their fathers drove
the sled loaded with logs through the
crunching drifts high us the fences At
this season of the year when we are 80
familiar with the snow, those frozen
vapors, those falling blossoms of the
sky, those white angels of the atmos-
phere, those poems of the storm, those
Iliads and odysseys of the wintry tenn
pest turn over the leaves of my Bible
and-though most Of it was written in a
cline where snow seldom or never fell
Il find many Of these beautiful con.
gelations. Though the writer's may sell
dom or never h. felt the cold touch of
the snowflake on their cheek, they had
in sight two mountains, the tops of
which were suggestive. Other kings
sometimes take off their crowns, but
Lebanon and Mount Hermon all the year
round and through the ages never lift
the coronets of crystals from their fore
heads. The first time we find deep fall
OF snow in the Bible is where Samuel de-
scribes a fight between Benaiah and
lion in a pit; and though the snow ma
have crimsoned under the wounds Of
both man and brute, the shaggy mon
ster rolled over dead and the giant was
victor. But the snow is not fully recog-
nized in the Bible until God interrogates
Job, the scientist, concerning its won
ders, saying: Hast thou entered into
the treasures Of the snow?"
/ rather think that Job may have ex-
amined the snowflake with micro
scop for, although It is supposed that
the microscope was invented long after
Jobs time, there had been wonders Of
glass long before the microscope and
telescope of later days were thought Of
So long ago as when the Coliseum was in
its full splendor, Nero sat in the EN-
peror's box Of that great theater, which
held hundred thousand people, and
looked at the combatants through gem
in his finger ring which brought every
thing close up to his eye. Four hundred
years before Christ, in the stores Of
Athens, were sold powerful glasses
called burning spheres" and Layard,
the explorer, found magnifying glass
amid the ruins Of Nineveh, and In the
palace OF Nimrod. Whether through
magnifying instrument or with unaided
eye, can not say, but am sure that
Job somehow went through the CALLER.
les OF the snowflake and counted It's
pillars and found wonders, raptures,
mysteries, theologies, majesties, infin.
tiles walking up and down its corridors,
as result of the question which the
Lord had asked him. "Hast thou entered
into the treasures of the snow?"
o, 1t is wondrous meteor Humboldt
studied IL in the Andes twelve thousand
feet above the level OF the sea. De
Saussure reveled among these meteors
in the Alps and DIR. ScoresBy counted
ninety-six varieties of snowflake amid
the Arctics. They are in shape of stars,
in shape Of coronets, in shape of cylin.
ders, are globular, are hexagonal, are
pyramidal, are castellated After a
fresh fall Of snow, in one walk you
crunch under your feet Tuilleries, Wind.
sor Castles, st. Pauls, St. Peters, st.
Marks cathedrals, Alhambras, and
Sydenham palaces inumerable. llsnow
1t depends much on our own condition
what impression these flying meteors
OF the snow make. ! shall not forget
two rough and unpretending wood-cuts
which / saw in my boyhood side by side
-one picture Of prosperous farmhouse
with all signs Of comfort, and lad
warmly clothed looking out of the door
upon the first furry of snow, and his
mind no doubt filed witt the sound Of
jingling sloighbells, and the frolic with
play-fellows in the deep banks, and he,
clapping his hands and shouting, ut
snowsl IL snowsw The other sketch
was OF boy, haggard and hollow-eyed
with hunger, looking from the broken
door OF wretched home, and seeing In
the falling fakes prophecy of more cold
and less bread and greater privation,
wringing his hands and with tears zoll-
ing down his wan checks, crying: 20,
my God! 1t snowsl 1t snowsl' Out of |
the abundance that atcharacterizes mostof |
our homes may there go speedy relief
to all whom this winter finds in want |
and exposure.
And now propose for you spiritual |
and everlasting profit, II you viii &c
cept my guidance TO take You through |
some of these wonders of crystallization.
And notice f,st, God in the Titles.
Tou may take alpenstock and cross the
Mer de Glace, the'sea of ice, and ascend
Mont Blanc, (which rises into the clouds
like pillar OF the. Great White Throne,
or with Arctic explosers ascend the
the mountains around the North Pole
and see glaciers a thousand feet high
grinding against glaciers three thou
sand feet high. But will take you on
less pretentious journey and show you
God In the snowflake. There is room
enough between It's pillars for the great
Jehovah to stand In that one frozen
drop on the tip Of your Hnger you may
bnd the throne-room of the Almighty.