The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-12

stains. All other water might fail but
melted snow would make them clean.
Well, Job had great admiration for
snow, bat he declares in substance that
If he should wash his soul in melted
snow he would still be covered with
mud like @ man down IN n ditch Job
tx, so. IF I 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
men We must be washed in the foun-
tain of Gods mercy before We can be
whittier than snow. without holiness
no man shall see the Lord" Oh, for
the cleansing power!
If there be in this audience one man
or woman whose thoughts have al
ways been right, and whose words al
ways right, and whose actions always
right, let such one rise, or if already
standing lift the right hand Not one!
All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
Unefean, unclean, And yet we may
be made whittier thsa.- srrcw; winter than
that which on q cold winters morning,
after a night of storm, clothes the tree
from bottom of trunk to top of highest
branch; winter than that which Tins
hour makes the Adirondacks, and the
Sierra Nevadas and Mount Washington
heights OF pomp and splendor fit to en-
throne an archangcl.
This Is THE WAY; WALK NE II IT. y
In the time of Graham, the essayist,
in one mountain district of Scotland
an average of ten shepherds persisted
every winter in the snow drifts, and so
he proposed that at the distance OF
every mile pole fifteen feet high and
with two cross pieces be erected show
ing 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 l declare to all you who are IL
the heavy and binding drifts OF SIT
and sorrow that there is eros:
near by that can direct you tt
home and peace and God; and hea
you not the ringing of the gospel bel
hanging to that cross, saying, This i
the way; walk ye in it," No wonde
that the sacred poet put the Psalmist'
thought into rhythm with that ringing
chorus we have SO often sung:
. Dear Jesus, long to be perfectly whole;
| want theeforever to live in my soul.
Rreak down every idol cast down every foel
Now wash me, and l shall be winter tina
snow!
Whittier than STOW! yes, whittier than snow!
s Now wash me, and ! shall be whittier tina
e snow!
Get that prayer answered, and "
= will be fit not only for earth, but &c
s the heaven where everything is S
Q white because everything is SO pure
l. You know that the redeemed in tina
y land wear robes that are white, and tn
Q conouerors in that land ride horses thu
b are white, and John in vision says {
It Christ, Ibis head and his hairs wei
eI white" and the throne on which /
q sits is a Great White Throne. BY tt
}! pardoning and sanctifying grace I
vi God, may we all at last stand ami
g. that radiance!
,r Ten thousand times ten thousand,
,, In differing arInor bright,
- The armies of the living God
III Throng up the sleeps Of light
Of IT'S finished, ell is finished,
al Their fight With death and sin;
~ Throw open wide the golden gates
" And let the conQuerors In.