The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-18

W hlu OOu III tile nILieS.
When l see the maker Of the universe
giving himself to the architecture of n
snowflake and making its shafts, its
! domes, its curves. its walls, its
irradiations so perfectly, l conclude
he will look after our insig-
ni6cant affairs. And if we are of more
value than sparrow, most certainly We
are OF more value than an inanimate
snowflake So the bible would chiefly
impress us with God in the Titles. 1t does
not say, Consider the clouds" but il saws,
| Consider the lilies" 1t does not say,
| Behold the tempests," but Behold the
| fowls" And it applauds cup of cold
water and the widows two mites, ana 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, be-
cause 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 vapor is as certainly
regarded by the Lord as the creation and
demolition of 2 planet. Nothing is big to
God and nothing is small. What makes
the honey industries of South Carolina
such source OF livelihood and wealth?
IL is because God teaches the ladv-bug to
make an opening in the rind OF the april
cot for the bee, who can not otherwise get
| at the Juices of the fruit. So God sends
| the lady-bug ahead to prepare the way
1 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
| il 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 a comfort that he is a God in
| Titles The emperor of all the Russians iII
olden times was looking at a map that
spread before bin his vast dominions, an a
he could not find Great Britain on II Ne
map, and he called to his secretary avid
said: "Where is Great Britain that be Ar
so much abOut?" lit is under your
thumb" said the secretary, and the emp
error raised his hand from the map i,nd
saw the country he was looking for And
it is high time that we find this mighty
realm of God close bv, and under our own
little finger. To drop you out of his roem-
DRY would be to resign his Omnisci ence
To refuse you to his protection would be
to abdicate hls omnipOtence. WheIr you
tell me he is the God of Jupiter and the
| God of Mercury and the God
of Saturn, you tell me something o vast
that / can not comprehend it. But if YOU
tell me he is the God of the snowflake,
you tell me something / can IL old and
measure and realize. Thus the smallest
snowflake contains jewel case OF comfort.
Here is an opal, an amethyst, a diamond.
Here is one OF the treasures of the snow.
Take 1t for your present and everlasting
comfort.
Behold, also. in the snow the treasure OF
accumulated power. During q snow
storm let an apothecary, accustomed to
weigh most delicate quantities, hold his
weighing scales out OF the VIM low and let
one flake fall on the surface OF the scales
and it will not even make it tremble.
When you want to express e; gtreme triyi-
atty of weight you say, -Light as
feather" but a snow-fls Ike is much
lighter. 1t is Just twen'Gy-four times
lighter than water. And yG the accumu-
lation of these flakes broke down a few
days ago in sight of my house six tele-
graph poles, made l. elpless police
and fire departments, and halted
rail trains with two laundering locomo-
tiVes. We have already earned so much
of the power Of electricit y that We have
become careful how we t(nch the electric
wire. and in many case "A touch has been
death. But, lew daviI ago, the snow
put its hand on most OF The wires and tore
them down as though til ey were cobwebs
The snow said: You Gem afraid of the
thunderbolt; will cate h it and hurl it to
the ground. Your boa tied electric lights
adjoining your cities wi ih bubbles of fire,
will put out as easily as your ancestors
snufied out tallow cfindle." The snow
puts its finger on the Up of our cities that
were talking with es1h other and they
went into silence, entering not q word
The snow is mightier than the lightning
In March, 1888, the snow stopped Amer
lea. SIT said to Bro ,iklyn: "Stav home"
To New York: "Steg hOmel" to Philadel-
phia: "Stav hoTiep to Washington:
'Stay home." TO Hi .hmond: "Stav home"
1t put into white sepulchre most of this
nation. COmmerc e, whose wheels never
stopped before, ST ,pped then. What was
the matter? Power of accumulated snow
flakes on the top OF the Apennines one
fake falls, and thers fall and they pile
up. and they ma Ike a mountain OF fleece
on the top OF a mountain of rock, until
one day gust 4 wind, or even the voice
of a mountaine CT, sets the frozen vapors
into action am 1 by awful descent they
sweep everythi ng in their course-trees,
rocks, village' las when, in 1927, the
town OF Brie /, in Nalois, was buried, and
IN 1874, In Switzerland, 800 soldiers were
entombed. 7 hese avalanches were made
up Of single 1mowflakes. What tragedies
OF the snow have been witnessed by the
monks of tSt. Bernard. who for ages
have, with the dogs, been busy
in extri eating bewildered and
overwhelmed travellers in Alpine storms,
the dogs with blanket fastened to their
backs and Hacks OF spirits fastened to their
neck, to resuScitate helpless travellers.
One OF tn csc dogs was decorated with a
medal foT having saved the lives of twenty
two per IOns, and the brave beast was
himself slain of the snow on that day.
When a accompanying Piedmontese cour-
Ter on u 30 way TO his anxious household
down Che mountain, the wife and chill
dren Of the PiedmOntese courier comm:
up the. mountain in search OF him, an
avalarrche covered all under pyramids
higher; than those under which the
Egyp IianImonarchs sleep the sleep of the
ages. What an illustration of the TRACE
dies of the snow is found in that scene
betv feen Glencoe and Glencreran one
Feb ruary, in Scotland, where Ronald
Cameron comes forth to bring to his
fat ler's house his cousin Flora MacDon-
altl, for the celebration of birthday,
an 81 the calm day turns into hurricane
OF white fury that leaves Ronald and Flora
~ dead, TO be resuscitated by the shep-
herds. What an exciting struggle had
'I3avard TAYLOR among the WINERY In