Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 February 1891 — Page 4

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.. LESSONS OF THE SNOW. A Winter Discourse toy Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. The Iin macula 1 f Mantle Thrown O’er the Karth and the VaHoua Lnmu te lie Learned by Ita Contemplation. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage before large congregations in both Brooklyn and New York City, his text being: Hast tbou entered into the treasures oi the snow—Job xxxvili.; 22. Grossly ma ligned is the season of winter. The spring and summer and autumn: have had many admirers, but winter, hoary-headed and whjte-bearded winter, hath had more enemies than friends. Yet without winter the human race would be inane and effortless. You might speak of the winter as the mother of tempests; I take it as the father of a whole family of physical, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that I know are strong in proportion to the number of snow banks they had to climb Over or push through in childhood, while their fathers drove the sled loaded with logs through the crunching drifts high ns the fences. At this season of the year, 'when wer are so familiar with the snow, those* frozen vapors, thos^falling blossoms of the sky, those white angels of the atmosphere, those poems of the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys of the wintery tempest, I turn over the leaves of my Bible and—though most of it was written in a ^lime where snow seldom or never fell—1 find many uf these beautiful congelations. Though the writers may seldom or never have felt the cold touch of the snowflake on their cheek, they had in sight two mountains, the tops of which were suggestive. Other kings sometimes take off their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount llermon all the year round and through the ages never lift the coronets of crystal from their foreheads. The first time we find a deep fall of snow in the Bible is where Samuel describes a fight between Benaiah and a lion in a pis, and Though the sSow may have crimsoned under the wounds of both man and brute, the shaggy monster rolled over dead and the giant was victor. But the snow is not fully recognized in the Bible until God interrogates Job, the scientist, concerning its wonders, saying: "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?"

I rather think that Job may have examined the snowflake with a microscope; for, although it is supposed that the microscope was invented long after Job's time, there had been wonders of glass long ljefore the microscope and telescope of later day were thought of. So long ago as when the Coliseum was in its full splendor. Nero sat in the Emperor's box of that great theater, which held one hundred thousand people, and looked at the combatants through a gem in his finger-ring, which brought every thing close up to his eye. Four hundred years before Christ, in the stores of Athens, were sold powerful glasses called “burning spheres,” and Layard, the explorer, found a magnifying glass amid the runis of Nineveh, and in the palace of Nimrod. Whether through magnifying instrument or with nnaided eye 1 can not say, but I am sure that Job somehow went through the galleries of the snowflake and counted il,s pillars and found wonders, raptures, mysteries, theologies, majesties, infinities walking up and down its corridors, as a result of the questions which the Lord has asked him: “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?” Oh, it is a wonderous meteor! Humboldt studied it in the Andes twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea. lie Saussure reveled among these meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Scoresby counted ninety-six varieties ,of snowfl ike amid the Arctics. They are in shape of stars, in shape of coronets, in shape of cylinders, are gobular, are hexagonal, are pyramidal, are castellated. After a fresh fall of snow, in one walk you crush under your feet Tuilleries, Windsor Castles, St. Pauls, St. Peters, St. Mark's cathedrals, Alfa imbras and Sydenham palaces innumerable. I know it depends much on our own condition what impression these flying meteors of the snow make. I shall not forget two rough and unpret ending wood-cuts which I saw in my boyhood side by side; one pieture, of a prosperous farm house with all signs of comfort, and a lad warmly clothed looking out of the door upon the first flurry of snew, and his mind ho doubt filled with the jingling sleigh-bells and the frolic with playfellows in the deep banks, and ‘he clapping his hands and shouting; -“It snows! It snows!” The other sketch was of a boy, haggared and hollow-eyed with hunger, looking from the broken door of a wretched home and seeing in the falling flakes prophecy of more cold and less bread and greater privation, wringing his hands and w ith tears rolling down his wan cheeks, crying: “Oh, my God! It snows! It snows!” Out of the abundance that characterizes most of our homes may there go speedy relief to all whom, this winter finds in want and exposure.

And now I propose lor your spiritual and everlasting profit, if ‘yon will accept my guidance, to take you through some of these wonders of erystalization. And notice first God in the littles You may take alpenstock and cross the Mer de Glaee, the Sea of lee, and ascend Mont Blanc, which rises into the clouds like a pillar of the great throne, or with Arctic explorer ascend the mountrins around the north pole and see glaciers a. thousand feet high grinding against glaciers three thousand feet high, But 1 will take yon on a less pretentious journey and show you God in the snowflake.- There is room enough between its pillars for the great Jehovah to stand. In that one frozen drop on the tip of your finger you may find the throne-room of the Almighty. 1 take up the snow in my hand and see the coursers of celestial dominion pawing these crystal pavements. The telescope is grand, but I must confess that I am quite as much interested in the microseojie. The one reveals the universe beneath us. But the telescope overwhelms me, while the microscope comforts me. What you want and 1 want especially is a God in Littles If we were seraphic or archangelic in our natures we would want to study God in the great; bob such small, weak, shortlived beings as you and 1 are want to find God in the littles When I see the Makerof the universe giving Himself to the architecture of a snowflake ard 'making its shafts, its domes, its curves, its walls, its irradiations so perfect, 1 conclude He will look after our insignificant affairs And if .we are of more value than a sparrow, most certainly we are of more value than an inanimate snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly impress us with God in the titties It does not say: “Consider the clouds,” but it says: “Consider the lillies” It does not say: “Behold the tempests!” hut “Behold the fowls!” And it applauds a cup of cold waiter and' the widow's two mites, and says the hairs of your head are all Do not fear, therefore, that

be forgotten. The birth and death of a drop of chilled vapor is as certainly regarded by the Lord as the creation and demolition of a planet. Nothing is big to God and nothing is small. What makes the honey industries of South Carolina such a source of livelihood and wealth? It is because God teaches the lady-bug to make an opening in the rind of the apricot for the bee, who can not otherwise get at the juices of the fruit. So God sends the lady-bug ahead to prepare the way for the honey bee. He teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn that she puts in the ground for winter food in order that it may not take root and so ruin the little granary. He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into a hollow tree that the water far down and out of reach may come up within the reach of-the bird’s beak. In March, 1888, the snow stopped America. It said to Brooklyn: “Stay home!” to N«$jw York: “Stay homer’ to Philadelphia: “Stay home!” to Washington: “Stay home!” ' to Richmond: “Stay home!” It put into a white sepulchre most of this Nation. Commerce, whose wheels never stopped before, stopped then. What was the matter? Power of accumulated snowflakes; on the top of the Apennines one flake falls, and others fall, and they pile up, and they make a mountain of fleece on the top of a mountain of rock, until one day a gust of wind, or even the voice of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors into- action and by ; awful descent they sweep every thing in their course—trees, rocks, villages—as when, in 1837, the town of Briel, in Valois, was buried, and in 1634, in Switzerland, three hundred soldiers were entombed. These avalanches were made up of single snowflakes. What tragedies of the snow have been witnessed by the monks of St. Bernard, who for ages have with the dogs been busy in extricating bewildered and overwhelmed travelers in Alpine storms, the dogs with blanket fastened to their backs and flasks of spirits fastened to

uieir necK, iu resusciwuc me ucijmcw travelers. One of these dogs was decorated with a medal for having saved the lives of twenty-two persons, and the brave beast was himself slain of the snow on that day, when accompanying a Piedmontese courier on the way to his anxious household down the mountain, the wife and children of the Piedmontese courier coming up the mountain in search of him, an avalanch eovered all under pyramids higher than those under which the Egyptian monarchs sleep their sleep of the ages. What an illustration of the tragedies of the snow is found in that scene between Glencoe and Glencreran one February, in Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes forth to bring to his father's house his cousin Flora MacDonald, for the celebration of a birthday, and the calm day turns into a hurricane of white fury that leaves Ronald and Flora as dead, to be resuscitated by the shepherds. What an exciting struggle had Bayard Taylor among the wintery Appennines. In the winter of 1813, by a similar force, the destiny of Europe was decided. The French army marched up to ward Moscow five hundred thousand men. What can resist them? Not bayonets, but the dumb elements overwhelm that host. Napoleon retreats from Muscow with about two hundred thousand men, a mighty nucleus for another campaign after he gets back to Paris. The morning of October 19, when they start for home, is bright and beautiful. The air is tonic, and, although this Russian campaign has been a failure. Napoleon will try again in some other direction with his host of brave surviving Frenchmen. But a eloud comes on the sky, and the air gets chill, and one of the soldiers feels on his cheek a snowflake, and then there is a multiplication of these wintry messages, and soonf the plumes of the officers are decked with another style of plume, and then all the skies let loose upon the warriors a hurrieane of snow and the march becomes difficult and the horses find it hard to pull the supply train, and the men begin to fall under the fatigue, and many not able to take another step lie down in the drifts never to rise, and the cavalry horses stumple and fall, and one thousand of the army fall, and ten thousand perish, and twenty thousand go down, and fifty thousand, and a hundred thousand, and a hundred and twenty thousand and a hundred and thirty-two thousand die, and the victor of Jena and bridge of Lodi, and Eylau, and Austerlitz where three great armies, commanded by three Emperors, | surrendered to him, now himself surrenders to the snowflakes. Histoi rians do not seem to recognize that the tide in that man's life turned from December 16, 1809, when he. banished by hideous divorce his wife Josephine from the palace, and so challenged the Almighty, and the Lord charged upon him from the fortresses of the sky with ammunition of crystal. Snowed under! Billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions of flakes did the work.

And what a suggestion of accumulative power, and what a rebuke to all of us who get discouraged because we can not do much, and therefore do nothing! “Oh,” says some one. “I would'like to stop the forces of sin and crime that ! are marching for the conquest of the nations, but I ‘am nobody—I hare neither Wealth nor eloquence nor social power. IV hat can 1 do?” My brother, how much do you weigh? As much as a snowflake? ‘Oh, yes.” Then do your share, It is an aggregation of small influences that will yet put this lost world back into the bosom of a pardoning God. Alas! that there are so many men and women who will not use the one talent because they have not ten, ’and will not give a penny because they can not give a dollar, and' will not speak as well as they can because they are not eloquent, and will not be a snowflake because they cannot be an avalanche. In earthly wars the Generals get about all the credit, but in the war for God and righteousness and Heaven all the private soldiers will get crowns of victory unfailing. When we reach Heaven—by the grace of God may we all arrive there!—I do not think we will be able to begin the new song right away, because of the surprise we shall feel at the comparative rewards given. As we are being conducted along the street -to our celestial residence we will begin to ask where live some of those who were mighty on earth. We will ask, “Is so-and-so here?” and the answer will be. “Yes, 1 think he is in the city, but we don’t hear much of him. He was good and he got in, but be took most of bis pay in earthly applause; He had enough grace to get through the gate, but just where lie lives 1 know not. He squeezed through somehow, although I think the gates took the skirts off his garments. 11 think he lives in one of those back streets in one of the plainer residences. ” Then we shall see a palace, the doorsteps of gold and the windows of agate and the towers like the snn for brilliance, and chariots before the door, and people who look like Princes and Princesses going up and down the steps and we shall say: “What one of the hierarchs lives here ? That must be a residence of a Paul or a Milton, or some one whose name resounds through all the planet from which we have just ascended.” “No, no,” says our celestial dragoman, “that is the residence of * ml whom r«m mm

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 any body in all the land where she lived, and without complaining 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. The walls began to go up when her troubles and privations and consecration began on earth, and it so happened—what a 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 in the column of the dead, but she is mighty up here. There she comes now, out of her palace grounds, in her chariot between those two white horses, for a a ride on the banks of the river that flows Horn 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 <Jf great tribulation, and they shall reign forever and ever?’ ” As we pass up the street I findjt good many on-foot, and I say to the eragoman: ‘‘Who are these?” And when their names are announced I recognize that some of them were .on earth great poets, and great orators, and great merchants, and great warriors, and when I express my surprise about their going afoot the dragoman says: “In this country people are rewarded not according to the number of their earthly talents, but according to the use they made of what they had.” And then I thought td myself: “Why, that theory would make a snowflake that falls cheerfully and in the right place, and does all the work assigned it, as honorable as a whole Mont Blanc of snowflokes.” “Yes, yes,” says the celestial dragoman! “Many of these pearls that you find on the foreheads of the righteous, and many of the gems in the jewel-case of

rrmce ana iTincess, are only tne petrified snowflakes of earthly tempest, for God does not forget the promise made in regard to them: ‘They shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my jewels.’ ” Accumulated power! All the players and charities, and kindnessess, 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. Another treasure of the snow is the suggestion that this mAtle covering the earth is like the soul after it is forgiven. “Wash me,” said the Psalmist, “and I shall be whiter than snow.” My dear friend Gashene De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzerland, for the recovery of his health, but the Lord had something better for him than earthly recovery. Little did I think when I bade him good-bye one lovely afternoon on the other side of theAta, to return to America, that we would not meet again till we meet in Heaven. As he lay one Sabbath morning on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the window opens, he was looking out upon Mont litanc. The air was clear. That great mountain stood in its robe of snow, glittering in the morning light, and my friend said to his wife: “Jennie, do you know what that snow on Mont Blanc makes me think of? It makes me think that the righteousness of Christ and the pardon of God cover all the sins and imperfections of my life, as that snow covers up that mountain, for the promise is that though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Was not that glorious? I do not care who you are, or where you are, you need as much as 1 do that cleansing which made Gasherie De Witt good while he lived and glorious when he died. Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete theory that our nature is corrupt. We must be changed. We mast be made over again. The ancients thought that snow-water had especial power to wash out deep stains. All other water might fail, but melted snow would make them clean. Weil, Job had great admiration for snow, but he declares in substance that if he should wash his soul in melted snow he would still be covered with mud like a man down in a ditch. (Job is, 30). “If I wash myself in snow-water, and make my hands never so clean, yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” We must be washed in the fountain of God's mercy before we can be whiter than snow. “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” Oh, for the cleansing power!

ii mere ne m au xms autuenee one man or woman whose thoughts have always been right, and whose actions always right, let such a one rise, or if already standing, lift the right hand. Not one! All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Unclean! Unclean! And yet we may be made whiter than snow, whiter than that which, on a cold winter’s morning, after a night of storm, clothes the tree from bottom of trunk to top of highest branch; whiter than that which, this hour, makes the Adirondacks and the Sierra Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to enthrone an archangel. In the time of Graham, the essayist, in one mountain district of Scotland, an average of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snowdrifts, and so he proposed that, at the distance of every mile, a pole fifteen feet high and with two cross-pieces be erected, showing the points of the compass, and a bell hung at the top, so that every breeze would ring it, and so the lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and take the direction given by this pole with the cro6S-pieces and get safely home. Whether that proposed plan was adopted or not I do not know, but I declare to all you who are in the heavy and blinding drifts of sin and sorrow that there is a cross near by that ean direct you to home, and peace, and God; and hear yon not the ringing of the Gospel bell hanging to that eross, saying: “This is the way, walk ye in it?” No wonder that the sacred poet put the Psalmist's thought into rhythm with that ringing chorus we have so often sung: Sear Jesus, 1 Ion# to be perfectly whole; I want Thee forever to live ia my soul. Break down every idol, east down every foe? Now wash me, and } will be whiter than snow! Whiter than snow! yes, whiter than snow! Now wash me, and 1 shall be whiter than i s ao w ! Get that prayer answered, and we will be fit not wily for earth, hut for the Heaven where every thing is so white because every thing is so pure. You know that the redeemed in that land wear robes that are white, and the conquerors in that land ride horses that are white, and John in vision says of Christ: “His head and His hairs were white,” and the throne on which He sits is a great tyhite throne, fhr the pardoning and sanctifying graee of God, may we all at last stand amid that r*dianee! Ten thousand times ten thousand. In glittering armor bright. The armies of the living God. Throng up the steeps of tight. Tie finished, all is finished, Their fight with death end sin; Throw open wide the golden pntat 1§I tht tcnyttw lit

A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. The following story—which is attracting1 wide attention from the press—isso remarkable that we cannot excuse ourselves if we do not lay it before our readers, entire. To tkt Editor Rochester (X T.) Democrat: Sir. On the first day of June, 1881,1 lay at my residence in this city surrounded by my friends and waiting for death. Heaven only knows the agony I then endured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a few years previous any one had told me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, 1 should have scoffed at the idea 1 had always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds and hardly knew, in my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who will read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull pains in various parts ot the body and do not understand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This was just the way I felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought nothing of it; that probably 1 bad taken a cold which would soon pass away. . Shortly after this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic, pain in one side of my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next, I paid little attention to it Then my stomach would get out of order and my food often failed to digest, cansing at times great inconvenience. Yet, even as a physician, 1 did not think that these things meant anything serious 1 fancied I whs suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But 1 got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids 1 was passing—also that there were large quantities one day and very iittle the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appea red on the surface, and a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them,rand my suspicion was wholly disarmed by Urn fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why 1 should have been so blind I cannot understand. “ * «• I consulted the best medical skill in the land. 1 visited all the famed mineral springs in America and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grew worse. No two physicans agreed as to my malady. One said I was troubled with spinal irritation; another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another, general debility; another congestion of the bas^ of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of many of which I really had. in this way several years passed, during which time I was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms I had at first experienced were developed into terrible and constant disorders. My weight had been reduced from 307 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to myself and friends. Icontd retain no food on my stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine had little or no effect in deaden ing the pain. For six days and nights 1 had the death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly. My water was filled with tube-casts and albumen. I was struggling with Bright’s Disease of the kidneys in its last stages!

vv nue sunsnng irius i receiveu a rau irvui my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector of St Paul’s Episcopal Church, of this city. I felt that it was. our fast interview, but in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable cures of cases like my own which, had come nnder his observation. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I derided the idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being in the least beneficial. So solicitous, however, was. Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive my prejudice. 1 began its use on the first day of June, 1881, and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for one in my debititated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed and I was finally able to retain food upon my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change for the better, as also did m.v wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what 1 had believed but a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the presence of my family aud friends, should I recover, I would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity) aud this letter is iu fulfillment of-that vow. My improvement was coustant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained 25 pounds in flesh, became entirely free from pain and I believe I owe my life and present condition wholly to Warner’s Safe Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have thoroughly reinvestigated the subject of kidney difficulties and Bright’s disease, apd the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, and as a physician, that I believe more than onc-hal/ the daths uihieh occur in America are caused by Br aht's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to fully verify it. Bright’s disease has no distinctive features of its own, (iudeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity) but has the symptoms of nearly wery other common complaint* Hundreds of people die daily, whose burials are authorized by a physician’s certificate as occurring from “Heart Disease,” “Apoplexy,” “Paralysis,” “Spinal Compl ■ t,” “Rheumatism,” “Pneumonia,” and other common eompla nts, wheu in reality it is from Bright’s disease of the kidueys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this disease or its dangerous and insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence if at ail by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself in the constitu tion before the victim is aware of it It is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common and fully as fatal. Entire fatailies, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died,and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, from convulsions, apoplexy, or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says, I implore everyone who reads these words not to neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such chances. I make the foregoing statements Dased upon facts which I can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers such as I was, is an ample inducement for me to take the step I have, and if I can successfully warn others from the dangerous path in which I once walked I am willing to endure all professional and personal consequences. J. B. HENION, M. D. Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 30.

Wats the pretty typewriter goes so far as to put her arms about her employer's nock she Is apt to say of the process: “It is the manifold." A an could not ssrre two masters m tne old days, hut nowadays sailors often serre three-masters.—Pittsounh Chronicle. How cruel to force children to take nasty worm medicines. Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers are always sure and taste like dainty tittle candies. To rtirm the lips and hands of girts from being chapped—tell the young men not to call again.—Bostorf Herald. Sms fail to cure sick headache, often the very first dose. This is what is said by all who try Carter's Little Liver Pills. Tnu Is oae very pteesant feature about a sleigh-ridcou a cold night-and that is the irrival home.—Norristown Herald.

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