WHAT a cold dark scene! Starvation is before this poor animal as there is nothing in view for it to eat.
In the waste dry parts of Lapland grows a kind of white lichen, which forms the principal food of the reindeer during winter. When this is covered with snow, the deer scrapes away the snow with its hoofs and snout and gets at its food beneath, but when the snow is frozen firmly so that it can make no impression, starvation is before it, and it makes a terrible and bitter cry.
What a dreadful thing you say! Yes, starvation is an awful thing. None of our readers may know anything about such suffering. Then how much you have to thank God for. Not only should we thank Him for our temporal blessings, but for that gift of love—His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
“GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY DUE UNTO HIS NAME. (Psa. 96:80).
ML 12/10/1916