Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-12-15
warren Hastines rising until he be-

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
hail. 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
| 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 a daughter
was getting a musical education. She
needed one more course of lessons to
complete that education. The fathers
means were exhausted, and so great
was his 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 education"
The wife and mother suspected some
thing wrong, and obtained from her
husband the whole story, and that
night went around with her husband
to the merchants house and surren-
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 No! He would not let it drop,
and 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 Il 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 well.
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 tamarisks 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 CON
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
Begin!
Oh, | 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, a forest of theml st. John
saw them along the streets and on
both sides of the river, and every
month they yielded a great crop Of
fruit You know what an imposing
appearance trees give to n 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
trees the treesl The jasper walls the
fountains, the temples were not enough.
There would have been something
wanting yet. So to complete all hat
pomp and spIendOr | 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
under trees, or by the homes of 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