The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-19

mountain in search OF him, am ava
lanche covered all under pyramids
higher than those under which the
Egyptian monarchs sleep their sleep of
the agesl
What an illustration of the tragedies
of the snow is found in that scene be-
tween Glencoe and Glencreran one
February in Scotland where Ronald
Cameron comes forth to bring to his
fathers house his cousin Flora Mac
Donald for the celebration of birth
day, and the calm day turns into
hurricane of white fury that leaves
Ronald and Flora as dead, to be re.
suscitated by the shepherds What an
exciting struggle had Bayard Taylor
among the wintry Apenninesl
SNOW DECIDED THE pEsTINIEs OF
EUROPE.
In the winter of 1912, by similar
force, the destiny of Europe was de-
cided. The French army marched up
toward Moscow five hundred thousand
men. What can resist theml Not
bayonets, but the dumb elements over
whelm that host. Napoleon retreats
from Moscow with about two hundred
thousand men, n mighty nucleus for
another campaign after he gets back to
Paris, The morning of Oct. 10, when
they start for home, is bright and
beautiful The air is tonic, and al
though this Russian campaign has been
a failure Napoleon will try again in
some other direction with his host of
brave surviving Frenchmen,
But cloud comes ON the sky, and
the air gets chill and one of the sol
diers feels on his cheek a snowflake, and
then there is a multiplication of these
wintry messages, and soon the plumes
Of the officers are decked with another
style of plume, and then all the skies
let loose upon the warriors a hurricane
of snow, and the march becomes diff
cult, and the horses find it hard to pull
the supply train, and the men begin to
fall under the fatigue, and many not
able to take another step lie down in
the drifts never to rise, and the cavalry
horses stumble and fall and one thou
sand of the army fall, and ten thou
sand perish, and twenty thousand go
down, and fifty thousand and hun
dred thousand and hundred and
twenty thousand and hundred and
thirty-two thousand die and the victor
of Jena and bridge of Lodi and Eylau
and Austerltz, where three great
armies, commanded by three emperors,
surrendered to him, now himself sur
renders to the snowtlakes.
Historians do not seem to recognize
that the tide in that mans life turned
from December the 10Th, 1909, when
he banished by hideous divorce his
wife Josephine from the palace and so
challenged the Almighty, and the Lord
charged upon him from the fortresses
of the sky with ammunition of crystal
Showed underl Billions, trillions, quad
rillions, quintillions of flakes did the
work And what suggestion of &C
cumulative power, and what a rebuke
to all of us who get discouraged be-
fore do nothing.
"Oh, " says some one, II would like
to stop the forces of sin and crime that
are marching for the conquest Of the
nations; but l am nobody. / have
neither wealth nor eloquence nor social
powet. What can Idog' My brother,
how much do you weigh-as much as
a snowflake? "Oh, yes" Then do
your share. 1t is an aggregation of
small influences that will yet put this
lost world back into the bosom of
pardoning God Alas! that there are
so many men and women who will not
use the one talent because they have
not ten, and will not give q penny be-
cause they cannot give dollar and
will not speak as well as they can be-
cause they are not eloquent, and will
not be snowflake because they cannot
be an avalanche In earthly wars the
generals get about all the credit, but in
the war for God and righteousness and
heaven all the private soldiers will get
crowns of victory unfailing.
When we reach heavenly the grace
of God may we all arrive there Il do
not think we will be able to begin the
new song right away, because Of the
surprise we shall feel at the compare
tive rewards given. AS we are being
conducted along the street to our celes-
tial residence we will begin to ask where
live some of those who were mighty on
earth We will ask, ''Is So-and-so
here2 and the answer will be: Eyes, |
think he is in the city, but we don't
hear much OF him; he was good and he
got in, but he took most of his pay in
earthly applause; he had enough grace
to get through the gate, but just where
he lives | know not. He squeezed
through somehow, although think the
gates took the skirts of his garments. !
think he lives in one of those back
streets, in one of the palmer residences.
NONE Is TOO WEAK TO SERVE GOD.
Then we shall see a palace, the door
steps of gold, and the windows of ag-
ate, and the tower like the sun for
brilliance, and chariots before the door,
and people who look like princes and
princesses going up and down the steps,
and we shall say, What one of the
hierarchs lives hereY That must be the
residence of a Paul or a Milton, or
some one whose name resounds through
all the planet from which we have
just assembled" No, no." says our
celestial dragoman, that is the resi-
dence of soul whom you never
heard of When she gave 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 more
trouble than anybody in all the land
where she lived and without complain
ing she bore it, and though her talents
were never great, what she had was all
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