Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-04-28
Talrr>age
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BY Rev.
Frank DE tCiTf
Tof m q &c. d. ID.

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Los Angeles. Cal. April 24.-ln this
sermon the preacher announces the di-
vine amnesty to all who repent, and
sinners of every degree are urged to
accept the offer which is made with a
royal magnanimity and completeness
that put human forgiveness TO shame
by comparisoit Thc text is Psalm
Ii. I, Wash mc, and l shall be whittier
than SHOW"
Absurd simile," you say; that state
ment cannot be scientifically true.
There is nos hing whittier than the snow.
any more than there is anything deadcr
than death, or blackcr than black, or
reddor th,sl artcrial blood, or emptier
than vacuum
Snow. from chemists standpoint.
has Il supcrlativc Wilderness The pur-
est of all vapors is that found far up
in the heavens. Along comes a sudden
cold wave and it freezes that vapof in
TO snowfiakcs, just as that cold wave
can freeze falling raindrops into hail
stones which patter upon the pave
mcnt. Then as that snowflake slowly
drops through the air it comes to us
as white AZ it is possible for anything
to he. And yet there is a sense iii
which the pSalmiSt is right in saying
TINT God can wash away our sins I'M
iii we become whittier than snow the
pure snow, the spotlcs9, wind driven
snow.
The Poets License.
What Won state about the snow Is
literally true. Scientifically. there can
be nothing whittier than snow" But
YOU must interpret these lords Of my
text with the fpuratiyc license Of the
poet when you see through poetic
eyes snd hear through poetic ears you
caG see SIGHTS and hear sounds nevsr
nnalyzed II any laboratory or classi-
hed 10y any earthly acoustician, ! re
member that some years ago in a ser
mon describeG myses as walking
through m orchard and lying down
Slnder the hrancE@; of an oil APPLE
tree and listening 1t Il long cOnversa-
ton between two apples or tn, tree
overhead. Ons apple wanted 10 live
<.r.lv for Sclf IT wanted 10 hold on TO
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wrinlhlcd and brown and dccayed and
fell to the ground 10 he trapIplcd under
foot by the swine. The other apple
was wiling to die in order that others
might live This second apple wanted
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