SNOW 201. 
Earth is covered with snow in a few Minutes’ 
time. Here is the power of the Great God. If 
all the Princes and Great Ones of the Earth 
should send their Commands to the Clouds, not 
a Flake of snow would come from thence.” 
Then follow the “uses,” at last, — the little 
boys in the congregation having grown uneasy 
long since, at hearing so much theorizing about 
snowdrifts, with so little opportunity of personal 
practice. “Use I. If we should Praise God 
for His giving Snow, surely then we ought to 
Praise Him for Spiritual Blessings much more.” 
“Use II. We should Humble our selves under 
the Hand of God, when Snow in the season of 
it is witheld from us.” “Use III. Hence all 
Atheists will be left Eternally Inexcusable.” 
“Use IV. We should hence Learn to make a 
Spiritual Improvement of the Snow.” And 
then with a closing volley of every text which 
figures under the head of “Snow” in the Con- 
cordance, the discourse comes to an end; and 
every liberated urchin goes home with his head 
full of devout fancies of building a snow-fort, 
after sunset, from which to propel consecrated 
missiles against imaginary or traditional Pe- 
quots. 
And the patient reader, too long snow-bound, 
must be liberated also. After the winters of 
deepest drifts the spring often comes most sud- 
