“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?”
Job 38:22
Today, I encourage you to be a snowflake.
Before you judge, consider this borrowed thought: what the piling up of thousands of insignificant snowflakes becomes:
“Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of accumulated power. During a snowstorm let an apothecary accustomed to weigh most delicate quantities, hold his weighing scales out of the window and let one flake fall on the surface of the scales and it will not even make it tremble. When you want to express extreme triviality of weight you say, “Light as a feather;” but a snowflake is much lighter. It is just twenty-four times lighter than water. And yet the accumulation of these flakes once broke down, in sight of my house, six telegraph poles, made helpless police and fire departments, and halted rail-trains with two thundering locomotives.
We have already learned so much of the power of electricity that we have become careful how we touch the electric wire, and in many cases a touch has been death. But the snow puts its hand on many of these wires and tears them down as though they were cobwebs. The snow says, “You seem afraid of the thunderbolt; I will catch it and hurl it to the ground. Your boasted electric lights adorning your cities with bubbles of fire, I will put out as easily as your ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle.” The snow puts its finger on the lips of our cities that are talking with each other and they relapse into silence, uttering not a word. The snow mightier than the lightning!
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 cannot 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 have neither wealth nor eloquence nor social power. What can I 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 cannot 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.”
– Excerpt from “The Snow” a sermon by Dr. Thomas DeWitt Talmage.
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