He Giveth Snow like Wool.
By E. R. Dewey
Drop a piece of wool upon the floor. Do you hear it? No. It is noiseless. And this is altogether characteristic of divine operations. “What God does, is done so sweetly,
So completely,
And so still,
Every part becomes amazing,
While we’re gazing
At his skill.” Beautiful snow! how silently it falls! It makes no sound as it comes, it sends no herald to proclaim its advent, but silently and surely it falls, covering every twig and tree, till all nature is clothed in a pure, white garment. It covers all the rough places, hides every deformity. It crowns the lowly cottage with its pure wreath of white, as well as the mansion of the rich. How pure, how beautiful, it is before it is marred by man! Is there anything whiter than snow? You are almost ready to say, Surely, nothing can be; but the psalmist tells us that there is. See Ps. 51: 7. “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Snow is often alluded to in the Bible for its whiteness, and for its cleansing qualities. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool.” Oh! sweet assurance! to have all our sins thus blotted out, and our hearts made pure and clean, “whiter than snow,” that we may be accounted worthy of receiving eternal life when Jesus comes. “Jesus! who on Calvary’s mountain
Poured thy precious blood for me,
Wash me in its flowing fountain,
That my soul may spotless be.”