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

ic. Like a sponge, every fake absorbs un-
healthy gases. The tables of mortality in
New York and Brooklyn Immediately less
ened whoa the SHOWS Of last December be
gan to fall. The snow is one of the grand
est and best of the worlds doctors.
THE BLESSINGS OF WINTER.
Yes, il is necessary Cor the lands pro-
ductiyeness. Great SHOWS in winter are
generally followed by great haryests next
summer. Scientific analysis has shown
that snow contains larger percentage OF
ammonia than the rain. and hence its
greater power of enrichment. And besides
that, it is a white blanket to keep the earth
warm. An examination OF snowin Siberia
showed that it was a hundred degrees
warmer under the snow than above the
snow. Alpine plants persisted in the mild
winter of England for lack of enough snow
to keep them warm. Snow strikes back
the rich gases which otherwise would es-
cape in the air and be lost Thank God for
the SHOWS, and may those OF February be
as plentiful as those of December and Janu-
airy have been, high and deep and wide and
enriching; then the harvests next July will
embroider with gold this entire American
continent But who with any analogical
faculty can notice that out of such chill as
the snow comes the wheat, without reali-
zing that chilling sorrows produce harvests
of gracel
The strongest Christians without any
exception are those who were by bereave-
ments or sickness or poverty or persecu-
ton, or all of them together, showed I'M
der, and again and again showed under.
These snow storms of troubled They kill
the malarias of the soul They drive us
out of worldly dependence to God. Call
the roll of all the eminently pious of all
the ages and you will find them the sons
and daughters of sorrow. The Maronites
say that one characteristic of the cedar
tree is that when the air is full of snow
and il begins TO descend the tree lifts its
branches in a way better to receive the
snow and bear up under it, and know by
much observation that the grandest cedars
of Christian character lift higher their
branches toward God when the SHOWS of
trouble are coming
Lord Nelson's coffin was made out of the
masts of the ship L'Orient in which he had
fought so bravely, aud your throne in
heaven, O suffering child of God, will be
built out Of conquered earthly disasters
What gave John Bunyan such wondrous
dream Of the celestial city, The Bedford
penitentiary. What gave Richard Baxter
such power 10 tell of the Saints Eyerlast-
ing Rest, and TO give his immortal Call to
the Unconvertedgn PLY steal disease which
racked every nerve of his body. What
made George Whitefed so mighty in saw
ing souls, bringing ten Thousand to God
when others brought hundred? Perse-
cution that caricatured and assailed him
all up and down England, and dead vermin
thrown in his face when he was preaching
What mellowed and glorified WILDER
forces Christian eharacters A financial
misfortune that led him to write. Il know
not why my life is spared so long, except it
be to show that mar can be AS happy
without fortune as with one" What
gave John Milton such keen spiritual eye
sight that he could see the battle of the
angelsY Extinguishment of physical eye
sight What is the highest observatory
for studying the stars of hope and faith
and spiritual promiseS The believers sick
bed. What proclaims the richest and most
golden harvests that wave on all the hills
of heavenly raptureS The SHOWS, the deep
SHOWS, the awful SHOWS of earthly calamity
And that comforting thought is one of the
treasures of the snow.