The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-13
LESSONS OF THE SNOW.
a bIidwinter Discourse By Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage.
a Season That Is Grossly sTaIIsned-Great
Comfort in Small Things-EsarthIy Woes
Often EsIessings-The Only Puri-
dcatIon.


the treasures of the snow" He said:
Grossly maligned is the season of
winter. The spring and summer and
autumn have had many admirers, but
winter, hoary headed and white bearded
winter, hath had more enemies than
friends. Yet without winter the hu-
man race would be inane and effortless.
You might speak of the winter as the
mother OF tempests; 1 take it as the
father of whole family of physical,
mental and spiritual energies. At this
season of the year when we are so IA
miliar with the snow, these frozen va
spOrs, the falling blossoms of the sky,
those white angels of the atmosphere,
1 turn over the leaves of my Bible and
though most of it was written in
cline where snow seldom or never fell
Il find many of these beautiful congo
1atiOns- Though the writer's may sell
dom or never have felt the cold touch
of the snowflake on their cheek, they
had in sight two mountains, the tops of
which were suggestive
The first time we find a deep fall of
snow in the Bible is where Samuel de
scribes d fight between Benaiah and a
lion in pit, and though the snow may
have crimsoned under the wounds of
both man and brute, the shaggy mon
Eter rolled over dead and the giant was
victor. But the snow is not fully recog-
gates Job, the scientist, concerning its
wonders, saying: Hast thou entered
into the treasures of the snow?"
After a fresh fall of snow, in one
walk you crush under your feet Tuil1er-
les, Windsor Castles, St Pauls, St
Peters, st. Marks Cathedral. Alham-
bras and Sydenham palaces innumera-
BILE. 1 know it depends much on our
own condition what impression these
flying meteors of the snow make.
And now 1 propose for your spiritual
and everlasting profit, if you will ac-
cept my guidance, to take you through
some of these wonders of crYstalliza-
5tion. And notice first God in the Titles.
take up the snow in my hand and
see the cOursers of celestial dominion
paving these crystal pavements. The
telescope is grand, but must confess
that 1 quite as much interested in
the microscope. The one reveals the
universe above us; the other just as
great universe beneath u.s. What you
want and I want especially is a God in
Titles. If we were seraphic or arch
angelic in our natures we would want
to study God in the great; but such
small, weak, short lived beings as Won
and I are, want to find God in the Titles.
When I see the Maker of the universe
giving Himself to the architecture of a
snowflake and making its shafts, its
domes, its curves, its walls, its irradia-
'tions so perfect, I codclude He will look
after our insignificant affairs. And il
we are of more value than a 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 it says, Con
slider the lilies" 1t does not say, BE
hold the tempests,' but, Behold the
fowls and it applauds a cup of cold
water, and the widows two mites, anC
says the hairs of your head are mum
bered. Do not fear, therefore, that yOT
are going to be lost in the crowd Dc
not think that because you estimate
yourself as only one snowflake among
a three days January snOwstorm tina
you viii be forgotten. The birth anC
drop of chilled vapor is as certainly re
garded by the Lord as the creation anC
demolition of planet Nothing is big
to God and nothing is small.
What a comfort that he Is a God II
Titles The Emperor of all the Russia4
in oIden time was looking at a maj
that spread before him his vast dOTnin
ions, and he could not find Great Britai:
on the map, and he called in his secre
4ary and said: where is Great Britain
that hear so much abOut?'' 1T Is un
der your thumb said the secretary
and the Emperor raised his hand from
the map and saw the country he wa
looking for. And 1T is high time tina
we 6nd this mighty realm of God clos
by and under our own little finger. T.
drop You out of His memory would b
TO resign His omnisciencs. To refus
You His protection would be to abdicat
His omnipotence. When you tell M
He is the God of Jupiter, and the Go
OF Mercury, and the God of Saturn, 20
tell me something SO vast that ca
not comprehend it But if you tell m
He is the God of the snowflake you tel
me something I can hold and measur
and realize. Thus the smallest snow
1iRke contains Jewel case of cOmfOr'
Here Is an opal. an amethyst. s dis
,xnond. Here is one Of the treasures {
the snow. Take it for your present an
everlasting comfort
Behold, also. in the snow the treasuT
of accumulated power. Duringa snO'
storm let an apOthecary, accustomed t
weigh most delicate quantities, hold hi
weighing scales out of the window an
let one fla <e fall on the surface OF tn