The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-03-01


go Keeling back into pit 10, 600 times
deeper than that in which Benaiah slew
the lion on snowy day.
On Snowy Days.
A word to all who are in snowy day
Oh, fathers and mothers who have lost
children, that is the weather that cuts
through body and soul. But drive back
the lion of bereavement with the
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 GOVERN 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. think the Saviour
that counts it's 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, Danish
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 Detachable Noun
tains - Milton writes the greatest poem
of all time without eyes. Michael An
cello 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, WHOM tlre;,tt n Il with denial of
burial, SAID, ''Ihlu,. INTO the Arno
/ you choose; the ton day will
find me, and t1at ii. y Benaiah
OH cold, damp, cutting, snowy day
gained leonine triumph. Hardship and
trouble have again and again exalted
and inspired and gloritied 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 the weather was the chilli
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 |
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
as 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
md crew, came in and had heard no gun
If distress from that missing steamer
There were pale faces and wringing
lands on both continents, and tears
oiled down cold cheeks on those snowy
lays. We all feared that the worst had
and talked of the City of
Boston as never heard of after sailing,
md the steamship President, on which
he brilliant Goodman sailed, never re-
ported and never to be heard of again
Until the time when the sea gives up
is dead. But at last, under most power
ul glass at Fire island, ship was seen
imping this way over the waters. Then
We all began to hope that it might be
he missing French liner. Three hours
f tedious and agonizing waiting and
wo continents in suspense. When will {
he eyeglasses at Fire island make rev. l
lation of this awful mystery of the sea? !
here it isl Ha, hal The Gascognel ,
QUICK! Wire the news to the city a
wing the flags out on the towersl Ring
he bells! Sound the whistles of the
hipping all the way up from Sandy
look to New York Battery! "She's safe! =
he's safer' are the words caught up
nd passed on from street to street ''It !
the Gascogne!" is the cry sounding !
through all our delighted homes and "
hrilling all the Geographic wires of the '
ointment and all the cables under the .
ga, and the huZZa on the wharf as the A
angplanks were swung out for disen- :
arkation was a small part of the huzza
nat lifted both hemispheres into exul-
alton The flakes of snow fell on the
extra as we opened it on the street to
ct the latest particulars.
From Chill Snow to White Flowers. n
Well, it will be better than that when a
,me of you are seen entering the hal a
or of heaven. You have had rough n
Oyage. No mistake about that. Snowy Il
ay after snowy day: Again and again a
le machinery of health and courage n
roke down, and the waves of tempea S,
on have swept clear over the hurricane
eek, SO that you were often compelled
say, "All thy waves and thy pillows
ave gone over me, and you were down
the trough of that sea and down in
le trough of the other sea, and many d
SPARED of your safe arrival But the ia
.eat pilot, not one who must come off d
ON some other craft, but the one who I,
alked storm swept Galilee and pow &C
alks the wintry Atlantic, comes on 81
)ard and heads you for the haven, sh
hen no sooner have you passed the sa
lrrows of death than you find all the su
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