The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-01-17

iork barDor was paved with ice &
that the people passed on foot 10 Ia
adjoining Islands. But the full stor
of the cold will never be known. IN
lips which would have told il wer
frozen and the fingers that would ha,
written ii were benumbed. Only her
and there a fact appears. In 1851 In
cold was 50 terrific that the wolves en
tered Vienna. In I4Gs 1t vas so coll
that wine was cut with hatchets an,
distributed among the soldiers. Ii
1894 a whole forest was killed by tb,
cold al Ravenna. In 763 the Black sea
was frozen over. As we 20 further
back the frosts are mightier. but as We
come further down the frosts lessen
The worst seventies have been halted
and the SHOWS have lost their d, pths
and the thermometers announce less
terrific falls of temperature. and the
time will come when the year viii be
one long summer Of foliage and bloom.
While the worlds moral condition vii!
be reformed, the worst climates will
be corrected. You could not have n
millennium with a January blast pos
rible.
Behold, also. as Il is possible in no
other month Of the year, the wondrous
anatomy Of the trees in January. the
leaves OF the last year al gone and
not so much as bud Of a new botan-
ical wardrobe appearing, the trees
standing with arms stretched toward
heaven. one Of the greatest evidences
OF the wisdom and the power Of the
Creator. The leaves appear only once
and then die, but these great arms are
stretched up toward heaven in silent
prayer for scores OF years, now mailed
with ice, now robed in snow or bowing
to the God Of the tempests as He
passes in the midnight hurricane. In
July the trees stand glorifyiDg the
earth; in January they stand defying
the winter. Under the same tree the
child plays with his toy and. growing
up to manhood, sits under it in senii-
mental or philosophical mood and, hav-
ing passed on to Old age, rests himself
under its shade. In these January DAYS
The trees seem to say: "The leaves that
rustled their music in the last summer
are dead and gone, but the leaves that |
viii adorn this uncovered brow and /
these bare arms shall have as much /
beauty and glory as their predecessors. |
only wait. There are beautiful and /
lovely things TO come in my tree life.
as there are beautiful and lovely things
10 come in your life. o human specta-
tor Oh. the tree! Only the Almighty
and the Infinite could have made one.
Gothic architecture was suggested by
H. But for the arch of its boueh and
he pointing Of its branches the ST.
-hapelle OF Paris and other specimens
1f Gothic arch would never have been
lifted. No wonder the world has taken
rom II many styles Of suggestiveness
the laurel for the victor, the willow
or the sOrrOwing, the aspen for the
rembling, the cypress for the burial.
jut, unlike ourselves. they cannot
hange their place and so stand watch
ng al that passes. Some OF them are
oiemn monuments of the centuries.
hank God for trees, their beauty.
leir shelter, their interlacing branchss ,
not only for the trees in June time
cremation, but in January priyation Of Z
verything but graceful structurel Let
he iconoclastic ak not be lifted against
hem. "Woodman. spare that tree" =
Behold a.so In this January month {
he increasing daylight. Last month ,
he sun went down at 4;30, but in this a
ionth the days are getting longer. The c
lnrise and the sunset are farther p
part. Sunlight instead Of artificial :
ght, and there is for our dear old bat 1
red earth growing light. "rhe day
'ring from on high hath visited US" 5
'e shall have more light for the home. a
ore light for the church, more light r
" the nation, more light for the world 81
light Of Intelligence, light Of comfort. il
ght of rescue, light ofeyangelization. 81
yht from the face of God. light from o.
ie throne. But, you say, the light in ii
eases so slowly. each day OF this Jan al
Try only one minute longer than its n
edecessor, the sun setting the frs, ei
" of January al four o'clock and 43 "a
inutes, the sun setting the second day h'
January at four o'clock and A min II
es, the third day of this month the "
n setting at four o'clock and 45 min tr
es, the fourth day Of January the Ut
n setting at four o'clock and 46 min ID
es. This evening 1t will set at four W
lock and A. minutes. The day ep- ar
rges very little, and the reign Of sun W
ht is not much increased. but do MOI oa
spise the minute OF increasing light an
ch day OF this January, and do not 10
spise the fact that more light Is yo
ming for the church and the world ce
ough ii come slowly. As We are now ne
this season gradually going toward
: longest day OF next summer, so our s''
rid is moving forward toward IA, py
& day Of emancipa tion and Christh VI,
ninion. 1t may now in the stale WI
J the church and the world be Jan w
~ cod, but we are on the way to -"
y harvests and September or ."
rds. WI
10 not read your almanac backward ''' ",
not go out and ask the trees hun '"'
h icicles by January storm whei w.
y will ever again blossom in Nj. w
leaf in June. We are moving to- ~"
ID the words redemption. Tn, ~. 4"
zen tears will melt, the river Of "'