Most children like winter because of the lovely snow. They are delighted when they see the flakes fly in the air. What pleasure they have in snow-balling, making snow men, coasting, tobogganing, etc. These are good exercises.
The snow has been falling on mountain and valley; carpeting all in spotless white, and glittering in the sunlight.
The next time it snows, let some of the lakes fall on your coat sleeve and examine them with a magnifying-glass. You will see a mass of beautiful little starry crystals, so graceful in form, so delicate in structure, that the most skillful fingers could never hope to make anything like them. These are exquisite formations, which put to shame our poor human artistry. Nothing in all Nature is lovelier than a snow crystal. God says,
“Halt thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?” Job 38:22.
“WHERE WAST THOU WHEN I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE. EARTH? DECLARE, IF THOU HAST UNDERSTANDING.” Job 38:4.
ML 01/19/1941