SNOW, ICE AND FROST 181 



autumn to see if you could find two exactly alike? 

 Did you find them? No, you could not. Is it, then, 

 any more marvelous to you that the tiny snowflakes 

 are all different from each other? 



When you look at those exquisite crystals of the 

 snow, and see the beauty and the variety of the six- 

 sided stars, you know that no power but God's could 

 have formed their wonderful shapes, and that no law 

 but God's could have given those fragile stars the 

 power that they possess when many of them work 

 together. i 



When the snow lies thick and soft over the ground 

 it is indeed like wool, for it keeps the earth sheltered 

 and warm underneath. Where the snow has lain all 

 winter the grass is much greener than it is where it 

 has been exposed to the bitter winds. The new grass 

 and the plants have a better chance to grow because 

 the weight of the snow has crushed the dead grass 

 and fallen leaves down into the soil about the roots. 

 The earth is more fertile then for having been 

 wrapped in the soft blanket of snow all winter. 



Had you known before that the rain water blesses 

 the earth in so many ways, and is so useful, and that 

 it changes into so many different forms? There are 

 the clouds, the rain, the brooks, the rivers, the 

 ocean, the bubbling springs, the lakes, and then the 

 ice, the frost, the snow and the hail. We may well 

 find joy in all these and not discontent. When the 

 rain or snow hinders our own plans, we should re- 

 member that it brings God's blessing to the earth, to 

 the plants, to the animals and to the people who live 

 upon it. 



