News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-18

non cedar. Better weep and pray and
tremble and listen to Paufs advice TIC
the Galatians when he says, "Consid-
ering thyself lest thou also be tempt
ed" No man is safe until he is dead
unless he be divinely protected. A
greater thinker than Lord Francis Ba-
con the world never saw, and he
changed the worlds mode of thinking
for all time, his ''Novmn Organuln, Il
miracle of literature. With S3S, OOO
salary and estates worth millions and
from the highest judicial bench of the
world he goes down under the power
of bribery, and confessed his crime and
was sentenced to tho Tower and the
scorn of centuries Howl fir tree, for
the cedar is fallen
Warren Hastings, rising until he be-
came governor general of India and
the envy of the chief public men of his
| day, plunges into cruelties against the
barbaric people he had been sent to
rule, until his name is chiefly associated
with the criminal trial in Westminster
hall, where came upon him the anathe-
mas of Sheridan, Fox, Edmund Burke,
| the English nation, and all time.
Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallenl As
eminent instances of moral disaster are
found in our own land and our own
| time, instances that l do not recite 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 a re-
spectacle but poor family Laughter
was getting n musical education. She
needed one more course of lessons .
complete that educatf~2.- The fatdler 3
means were exhausted, and so great
was-nis anxiety to help his daughter
tbst-he feloniously tool some - lnsa ,sXl
sri sicy q. md eng .l5 a.
his daughter, said, There is the money
to complete your musical education.
The wife and mother suspected some
thing wrong, and obtained from her
husband tile. whole story, and that
night went IN a With her husband
dered the whole amount of the money
and asked forgiveness. Forgiveness
was denied and the man was arrested.
The judge, knowing all the circum-
stances, and that the money had all
been returned, suggested to the mer-
chant he had better let the matter drop
for the sake of the wife and the daugh-
ter MOI He would not let it drop,
ana he did all he could to make the
case conspicuous and blasting. The
judge says that afterward that same
inexorable merchant was before him
for breaking the law of the land 1t is
a poor rule that will not work both
ways. Let him that standeth take
heed lest he fall. Not congratulation
but tears when a cedar is fallen.
Yet there is one cedar of Lebanon
that always has and always will over
top all others. 1t is the Christ whom
Ezekiel describes as goodly cedar, and
says, Under it 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, all shall be we'll
THE BOTANY OF PALESTINE.
In my journey up and down Pales-
tine and Syria nothing more impressed
me than the trees-the terebinths, the
sycamores, the taniarisks, the clean
ders, the mulberrys, the olives, the
myrtles the palms, the cedars-all OF
them explanatory of SO much of the
Scriptures. And the time is com
ing when, through an improved
arboriculture, the round world shall
be circumferenced, engirdled, EN-
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." and in another place, "All
the trees of the field shall clap their
hands Instead of the thorn shall
come up the fir tree; instead briar shall
come up the myrtle tree" Oh, grand
est arborescence of all time! Begin
Beginl
Oh, l am so glad that the holy
land of heaven, like the holy land of
Palestine and Syria, is a great place
for trees-an orchard of them a grove
of them, n forest of them st. John
saw them along the streets and on
both sides of the river, and every
month they yielded great crop of
fruit. You know what an imposing
appearance trees give to city on
earth, but how it exalts my idea of |
heaven when st. John describes the |
city on high as having its streets and |
its rivers lined with them Oh. the |
treesl the trees! The jasper walls, the
fountains. the temples were not enough |
There would have been something |
wanting yet So to complete all hat
pomp and splendor | behold the up
branching trees of life.
Not like those stripped trees now
around us, which like banished min
strels through the long winter night
utter their dolorous lament, or in the
blast moan like lost spirits wander
ing up and down the gale, but leaf
shall never wither. Whether you walk
on the banks of the river you will be
uIdCi IlCSo, Vi ny Vic uClueS Oh mar |
tyrs under trees, or by the heavenly
temple under trees, or along the pal
ace of the King immortal under trees
BLESSED are they that do his com
mandments that they may have right
to the tree of life" Stonewall Jack
sons dying utterance was beautifully
suggestive, Let US cross over and lie
down under the trees"
He Had Discovered Freak.
weak, sickly looking individual,
with shawl and a pair of CATERS en-
tered a railroad restaurant and said to
the waiter: ,le2
Waiter, bf@s'e 2 sirloin steak. an
omelet and GONE baked potatoes. -"
Eyes, sir; that