Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-09

zouenU 50 bravery, ana your throne IN
heaven, 0 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 to tell of the Saints Everlast-
ing Rest, and to give his immortal Call to
the Unconverted?" Physical disease which
racked every nerve of his body. What
made George Whitetield so mighty in saw
ing souls, bringing ten thousand to God
when Others brought a hundredP 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 gloriled WILDER
forces Christian character? A financial
misfortune that led him to write. 81 know
not why my life is spared so long, except il
be to show that man 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
angels? Extinguishment of physical eve
sight. What is the highest observatory
for studying the stars of hope and faith
and spiritual promise1 The believers sick
bed. What proclaims the richest and most
golden harvests chat wave on all the hills
of heavenly rapture2 The SHOWS, the deep
SHOWS, the awful SHOWS of earthly calamity.
And that comforting thought is one of the
treasures of the snow.
THE IMAGE OF PURITY.
Another treasure of the snow is the sug-
gestion that this mantle covering the earth
| Ia 20 ha of 10
me-" said the Psalmist, land l shall be
whittier than snow" My dear friend Cash
! erie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzer-
land, for the recovery of his health, but
the Lord had something better for him
than earthly recovery. Little did / think
when bade him good-by one lovely after
noon on the other side of the sea to return
to America, that we would not meet again
till we meet in heaven. AS he lay one Sab
bath morning on his dying pillow in
| Switzerland, the window open, he was
looking out upon Mont Blanc. The air
was clear. That great mountain stood in
| its robe of snow, glittering in the morning
light, and my friend said to his wife: "Jen-
ME, do you know what that snow on Mont
Blanc makes me think of? 1t makes me
think that the righteousness of Christ and
the pardon of God cover all the sins and
imperfections of my life, as that snow
covers up that mountain, for the promise
is that though our sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow" Was not that
gloriousl
do not care who you are, or where you
are, you need as much as do that cleans
ing which made Gasherie De Witt good
while he lived and glorious when he died
Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete
theology that our nature is corrupt. We
must be changed. We must be made over
again. The ancients thought that snow
water had especial power to wash out deep
stains. All other water might fail, but
melted snow would make them clean
Well, Job had great admiration for snow
but he declares in substance that if he
should wash his soul in melted snow he
would still be covered with mud like a
man down in ditch Dob tx. 800. IF
wash myself in snow water, and make my
hands never so clean, yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch and mine own
clothes shall abhor me-" We must be
washed in the fountain of Gods mercy be.
fore we can be whittier than snow "With-
out holiness, no man shall see the Lord"
oh, for the cleansing powerl
If there be in all this audience one
man or woman whose thoughts have
always been right, and whose actions
are always right, let such one rise, or if
already standing, lift the right hand. Not
onel All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
Unclean uncleanl And yet we may be
made whittier than snow-whiter than that
which, on a cold winters morning, after
night of storm, clothes the tree from bot
tom of trunk to top OF. highest branch;
whittier than that which this hour makes
the Adirondacks, and the Sierra Nevada
and Mount Washington heights of pomp
and splendor fit to enthrone an archangel
In the time of Graham, the essayist, In
one mountain district of Scotland an av-
erage of ten shepherds persisted every
winter in the snow drifts, and so he pro-
posed that at the distance Of every mile
pole fifteen feet high and with two cross
pieces be erected showing the points of
the compass, and bell hung at the top, so
that every breeze would ring it, and so the
lost one on the mountains would hear the
sound and take the direction given by this
pole with the cross pieces and get safely
home. Whether that proposed plan was
adopted or not / do not know, but de-
clare to ell you who are in the heavy and
binding drifts of sin and sorrow that
there is a cross near by that can direct you
to home and peace and God; and hear you
not the ringing of the gospel bell hanging
to that cros7, saying This is the way;
walk ye in itY' No wonder that the sacred
poet put the Psalmist's thought into
rhythm with that ringing chorus we have
so often sung:
Dear Jesus, long TO be perfectly whole;
want thee forever TO live in my soul.
Break down every idol, cast down every foel
Now wash me, and shall be whittier than snow
Whittier than snowI yes, whittier than snowl
Now wash me, and l shall be whittier than snowl
Get that prayer answered, and we will
be fit not only for EARTH but for the
heaven where everything is so white be-
cause everything is so pure, You know
that the redeemed in that land wear robes
that are white, and the conquerors in that
land ride horses that are white, and John in
vision says of Christ, CHS head and his hairs
were white" and the throne on which he
sits is a great white thSone By the par
doning and sanctifying grace of God may
we all at last stand amid that radiancel
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In glittering armOr bright,
The armies of the living God,
Throng up the sleeps of light.
NTis finished all is finished,
Their fight with death and sin;
Throw open wide the golden gates
And let the conquerors in.
At Cost. At Cost