Connecticut western news., 1891-02-11

all the planet from which we have just ascended." "No, mo-" says our celestial dragoman, 'that is the resi- dence of a soul whom you never heard of. When she gave a 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 consecrated to God and helping others, and the Lord is making up for her earthly privation by especial raptures here, and the King of this country had that place built especially for her.
 1.-The walls began to go up when her troubles and privations and consecra- tion began on earth, and it so hap pened-what heavenly coincidence that the last stroke of the trowel of amethyst on those walls was given the hour she entered heaven. You know nothing of her. On earth her name was only once in the newspapers, and that among the column of the dead but she is mighty up here There she comes now, out of her palace grounds in her chariot behind those two white horses, for ride on the banks of the river that flows from under the throne of God. Let me see. Did you not have in your world below an old classic which says something about these are they who came out of great tribula tion, and they shall reign forever and everp" ..-
 As we pass up the street find a good many on foot. aud I say to the drago- man, "Who are these2' And when their name is announced recognize that some of them were on earth great poets and great orators and great mer- chants and great warriors, and when l express my surprise about their go- ing afoot, the dragoman says, "In this country people are rewarded not ac- cording to the number of their earthly talents, but according to the use they made of what they had" And then l thought to myself, Why, that theory would make a snowflake that falls cheerfully and in the right place, and does all the work assigned it, as honor able as whole Mont Blanc of snow fakes"
 "Yes, yes,' says the celestial drago- man. Many of these pearls that you find on the foreheads of the righteous and many of tho gems in the jewel case of prince and princess, are only the petrified snowflakes of earthly tenn pest, for God does not forget the prom ise made in regard to them, They shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts, in the day when make up my jew els. Accumulated power! All the prayers and charities and kindnesses and talents of all the good concentered and compacted will be the world s evangelization. This thought of the aggregation of the many smalls into that one mighty is another treasure of the snow.
 THE MINISTRY OF SORROW.
 
 suggestion of the usefulness of sorrow. Absence of snow last winter made all nations sick. That snowless winter has not yet ended it's disasters. Within a few weeks it put tens of thousands into the grave and left others in homes and hospitals gradually to go down. Called by trivial name, the Russian ''grip, :" it was an international plague. Plenty of snow means public health. There is no medicine that so soon cures the worlds malarias as these white pellets that the clouds administer. Pellets small enough to be homeopathic, but in such large doses as to be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be hydro pathic. Like a sponge, every flake ab sorbs unhealthy gases. The tables of mortality in New York and Brooklyn immediately lessened when the snows of last December began to fall. The snow is one of the grandest and best of the worlds doctors
 Yes, it is necessary for the lands productiveness. Great snows in win, ter are generally followed by great har vests next summer. Scientific analysis h2s shown that snow contains larger percentage of ammonia than the rain and hence it's greater power of enrich mcnt. And besides that, it is a white blanket to keep the earth warm. An examination of snow in Siberia showed that it was hundred degrees warmer under the SHOW than above the snow. Alpine plants perished in the mild win ter of England for lack of enough snow to keep them warm. Snow strikes back the rich gases which otherwise would escape in the air and be lost.
 Thank God for the snows, and may those of February be as plentiful as those of December and January have been, high and deep and wide and en- riching; then the harvests next July will embroider with gold this entire American continent. But who with any analogical faculty can notice that out of such chill as the snow comes the wheat, without realizing that chilling sorrows produce harvests of grace! The strongest Christians, without any exception, are those who were, by be. reavements or sickness or poverty or persecution, or all of them together, showed under, and again and again showed under. These snow storms of trouble! They kill the malarias of the soul. They drive us out of worldly dependence to God. Call the roll of all the eminently pious of all the ages and you will find them the sons and daughters of sorrow.
 The Maronites say that one charac- teristic of the cedar tree is that when the air is full of snow, and it begins to descend. the tree lifts its branches in n