News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-02-28

Will be 10 uncertain grapple, but under
one omnipotent stroke tho devouring
monster that would slay our soul shall
go reelirg back into pit 10, 600 times
deeper than that in which Bcnaiah slew
the lion ON snowy day.
On Snowy Days.
A word to all who are in a snowy day.
Oh, fathers and mothers who have lost
children, that is tho weather that cuts
through body and soul. But drive back
the lion Of bereavement with tho
thought which David Rae of Edinburgh
got from the Scotch gravedigger, who
was always planting white clover and
the sweetest flowers on the children's
graves in the cemetery, and when asked
why he did so replied: "Surely, sir, l
Gamma make over fine the bed coverin O.
little innocent sleeper that's waitin
there till it's Gods time to waken it,
and cover it with the white robe, and
watt it away to glory. When sic gran
deur is waitin it yonder, it's fit it should
be decked DOT here. l think the Saviour
that counts its dust sac precious will
like to see the white clover sheet spread
over it. Do ye moo think so, too, sir?"
Cheer up all, disconsolates. The best
work for God and humanity has been
done on the snowy day. At gloomy Ma
rine Terrace, island of Jersey, the exile,
Victor Hugo, wrought the mightiest
achievement of his pen. Ezekiel, ban:%l-
ed and bereft and an invalid at Corn
hill, on the banks of the Chebar, had his
momentous vision of the cherubim and
wheels within wheels. By the dim light
of dungeon window at Bedford, John
Bunyan sketches the "Delectable Noun
tains. Milton writes the greatest poem
of all time without eyes. Michael An
gelo carved statue out of snow, and
all Florence gazed in raptures at its ex-
quisiteness, and many of Gods servants
have out of the cold cut their immortal
ity. Prosecutions were the dark back
ground that made more impressive the
courage and conservation Of Savonarola,
who, when threatened with denial Of
burial, said, "Throw me into the Arno
if you choose; the resurrection day will
find me, and that is enough" Benaiah
ON a cold, damp, cutting, snowy day
gained leonine triumph. Hardship and
trouble have again and again exalted
and inspired and glorified their subjects.
The bush itself has mounted higher
And flourished unconsumed in fire.
Well, we have had many snowy days
within the past month, and added to
the chill of tho weather was the chill
ing dismay at the nonarrival Of the
ocean steamer Gascogne. Overdue for
eight days, many had given her up as
lost, and the most hopeful were very
anxious. The cyclones, whose play is
shipwrecls, had been reported being in
widest romp all up and down the At
lantic, The ocean few days before had
swallowed the Elbe, and with unap-
peased appetite seemed saying, "Give
us more of the best shipping. " The Nor
mandie came in on the same track the
| Gascogne was to travel, and it had not
seen her. The TeutoniC, saved almost
| by the superhuman efforts Of captain
| and crew, came in and had heard no gun
There were pale faces and wringinG
| hands on both continents, and tears
rolled down cold checks on those snowy
days We all feared that the worst had
happened and talked of the City o.
Boston as never heard of after sailing
and the steamship President, on which
the brilliant Goodman sailed, never re
ported and never to be heard Uf again
until the time when the sea gives VI
its dead But at last under most power
full glass at Fire island, a ship was seel
limping this way over the waters. Thel
we all began to hope that it might bt
the missing French liner. Three hour
of tedious and agonizing waiting ant
two continents in suspense. When viii
the eyeglasses at Fire island make rev
citation of this awful mystery of the sea
There it isl Ha, hal The Gascogne
Quickl Wire the news to the city
Swing the flags out ON the towers! RIM
the bells Sound the whistles of tn
shipping all the way up from Sand.
Hook to New York Battery! "She's safe
She's safe!'' are the words caught u
and passed on from street to street. 81
is the Gascogne!" is the cry sounding
through all our delighted homes an,
thrilling all the Geographic wires of tn
continent and all the cables under tn
sea, and the huzza ON the wharf as til
gangplanks were swung out for discnl
barkation was a small part Of the huzz
that lifted both hemispheres into eXul
tation. The fakes of snow fell on tn
extra" as we opened it on the street
get the latest particulars.
From Chill Snow to White Flowers.
Well, it will be better than that whe
some of you are seen entering the hal
Dor of heaven. You have had roug
voyage. No mistake about that. Snow
day after snowy day. Again and agai
the machinery of health and courag
broke down, and the waves Of tempti
ton have swept clear over the hurricar
deck, so that you were often compelle
to say, "All thy waves and thy billoN
have gone over me, and you were dow
in the trough of that sea and down
the trough of the other sea, and man
, despaired of your safe arrival. But IL
great pilot, not one who must come o
from some other craft, but the one wi
walked storm swept Galilee and no
| walks the wintry Atlantic, comes c
board and heads you for the havel
when no sooner have you passed IL
, narrows of death than you find all Il