Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-15

, politicians clap their hands and say
"Just as expecred!' When o great
} minister of religion falls, MANY little
ministers laugh up their sleeves and
think themselves advantaged. All, be-
loved brethren, no one makes ANYTHING
out OF moral shipwreck. Not willow
hy the rivers OF Damascus, not q sTca-
more on the plains OF Jericho, not an
olive tree in all Palestine 10 helped by the
fall OF Lebanon cedur. Better weep
and pray aud tremble and listen to
Paul . al vice TO the Galatians when he
SAYS: considering thyself lest thou also
be tempted - No man is safe until he
Is dead, unless he be div.nsly protected.
A greater thinker than Lord Francis
Bacon the world never saw, and he
changed the worlds mode of thinking
for all time, his Novum OrRanum q
miracle of literature. With S3S, 900 SAL
ary, and estates worth millions and from
the highest judicial bench of the world 4,
he goes down under the power Of briberv
ana confessed his crime aud was sem
fenced TO the tower and the scorn of
Centuries. Howl fir-tree for the cedar
Is fallen!
WARREN HASTINGS.
rising until he became governor-genera.
OF India, and the envy of the chief public
men OF his dav, plunges into cruelties
against the barbaric people he has been
sent to rule, until his name is chiefly
| associated with the criminal trial in
Westminster hall where upon him came
| the anathemas Of Sheridan, Fox, Ed
| mund Burke, the English nation, and
| all time. Howl fir-tree for the cedar is
| tailen! As eminent instances OF moral
Disaster are found in our own land and
our own time. instances that do not re-
cite lest l wound the feelings of those
now alive to mourn the shipwreck. Let
! your indignation against the fallen turn
to pity. A judge in one OF our American
| courts gives this experience. In re-
| spectacle but poor family, q daughter
was getting musical education. She
needed one more course of lessons to
complete :hat education. The fathers
means were exhausted, and so great was
MS anxiety to help his daughter
that he feloniously took some money
from his employer and going
home to his daughter saId: "There is the
money to complete your musical educa-
ton. - The wife and mother suspected
something wrong, and obtuined from her
husband the whole story, and that night
went around with her husband to the
whole amount of the money and asked
forgiveness. Forgiveness was denied,
aud the man was ~ rested. The Judge,
knowing the circumstances and that the
money had all been returned, suggested
TO the merchant he had better let the
matter drop for the sake OF the
WIFE AND THE DAUGHTER.
NO! he would not let it drop. and he
DID al! he could to make the case conSpi-
cu9us and blasting. The judge SAYS that
aferward thatsame ineXorable merchant
was before him for breaking the Inv of
the land. IL is poor rule that will not
work bo:h ways. Let him that standeth
take heed lest he fall. Not congratula-
ton. but ;enrs when cedar Is fallen!
- Yet there is one cedar OF Lebanon that
always has and always will overtop all
others. 1t is the Christ whom Ezekiel
describes as a goodly cedar and SAYS:
''under 1t shall come all fowl of every
wing Make your nest in that great
cedar. Then let the storms beat and
the earth rock, and time end and
eternity begin, nll shall be well.
In my journey up and down Palestine |
and SyrA nothing more impressed me
than the trees-tha terebinths, the syca- |
mores. the tamarisks, the blenders, the |
palms, the cedars-all of them explana- |
tory of so much of the Scriptures. And |
The time ia coming when, through All
improved arboriculture, the round world |
shall be circumfereured, engiriled, em-
bosomed, emparadised in shade trees,
and fruit trees, and flower trees. Isaiah
declares in one place 'The glory of |
Lebanon shall! be given unto it, - aud in
another place, :All the trees of the
field shall clap their hands. Instead of
the thorn shall! come up the fir tree. In
steal OF the briar shall come up the
myrtle tree. - Oh, grandest arbor-
escencs of all time
BEGIN! BEGIN!
Oh! l am so glad that the Holy Land
of heaven like the Holy Land of Paies-
tine and Syria, Is q great place tor trees.
an orchard of them, n grove OF them, a
forest of them. SAINT john saw them
along the streets, and on both sides the
river, and every month they yielded a
great crop OF fruit. You know what an
i'm posing appearance trees give to city
on earth, but how it eXats my idea of
heaven when Saint John describes the
citv on high ns having its streets ard its
rivers lined with them. Oh, the trees!
the trees! The jasper walls, the foun-
|
There would have been something want
ing yet. So to complete all that pomp |
and splendor. behold the upbran ching
trees of life. Not like those
stripped trees now around US,
" hich like bnnished Ministries
through the long winter night utter
their dolorous lament, or in the blast
moan like lost spirits wandering up and
Town the gale. but their leas shall never
xither. Whethe- YOU walk on the banks
II the river you will be under trees, or
~ the homes OF martyrs under trees, or
~ the heavenly temple under srees. or
along the Palace OF the King immortal
lnder trees. "Blsssed are they that do
lis commandments that they may have ,
light to the Tree of Life. - 'Stonewall
|ackson's dying utterance was beauti-
ully suggestive: 'Let US cross over
md lie down under the treesi'