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Snowballs

“Hey, David, you better watch out!” Kenton yelled as David’s snowball whipped past his ear. “My next snowball will be bigger than yours!” Kenton patted more snow onto the growing, icy cold lump in his hands. David paid no attention as he started to roll another ball of his own, but Kenton’s aim was better. […]

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The Beauty of the Snow

Originally published in the February, 1977 “Hope School Highlights”   It came – – the whirling, shuddering gusts of white – – One afternoon, through dusk and into the coming night. Winds blew, ever increasing in their strength. And spread huge drifts of snow in every breadth and length. The storm raged on. By day […]

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The Treasures of the Snow

If you were in Grand Rapids dur­ing the past two weeks you would not have had to look far for an inspiration for a Beacon Lights article in the Na­ture Study section. Grand Rapids has just experienced a record breaking snow fall and from the weather reports our friends in the West are also having […]

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Winter’s Ermine Cloak

“The speckled sky is dim with snow, The light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil; By flickering curtains gray and thin.” J. T. Trowbridge   A striking change, indeed, to find when morning breaks, a blanket of crystal white enshrouding hill and dale!  Is not […]

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