Telegram-herald., 1890-12-15

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tres sfron tbe oeSA-zF tree th2s j. ~ lssb-
snon ssen ante the hyssep tai sprtngs<h
eat e tAe wali The Rsallalst SAYS. TIE
rlxhtsozs shall grew Aks cedar IN Leo
snoa and Ia enc II kls mlAsBiaseot aox
Olosiss ezl.s on tbs esdaEs - praise the
Ieord And Solotaen says the eoantenanes
of Carlst Is sxoeiseat - the codars, aIsd
Is@iAh declares, rae day u ths Lord shall
be upoa al the oedars Of I.esARoa Add
JexoEliah aa3 Ezekiel and Amos and Eeph-
aniah and LscAsriAh weave ia foliage into
their sabifaest utterances.
As Ne ride over Lebanon today there is
a bowling wind sweeping past aud dssh
OF rain. all tbs better enabling Is 10 ap-
preeiats that description OF a tempest
which no d0ubt Was suggested by what
David had seen with his own eyes among
these heights, for as L soldier he carried
his wars clear up - Damascus, and such a
poet as be, ! warrant. speat many day on
Lebanon. And perhaps whNs be wAs seated
on this very rock against which our ear
rage jOlts, he writes thai wonderful de
scription OF thunder storm. The voice of
the Lord is powerful The voice of the Lord
is full Of majesty. The voice Of the Lord
breaketh the ceaars Of Lebanon Yea, the
Lord breaketh The cedars Of Lebanon. lie
maketh them also TO skip Ike calf, I.eb-
anon and Sirion like a Young unicorn.
The voice Of the Lord dirideth The flames
OF fire"
rs the lion is the monarch Of the feds
and behemoth the monarch Of the waters,
the cedar is the monarch Of the trees And
/ think one reason why il is SO glorifed all
up and down the Bible is because We need
more of its characteristics in our religious
life. We have too much Of the willow, aud
are easily bent this way or that; too much
OF the aspen, and we tremble under every
zephyr OF assault; too much Of the bramble
tree, and our sharp points sting aud wound,
but not enough Of the cedar, wide branched
and heaven aspiring and tempest grap-
pling. But the reason these cedars stand
so we'll is that they are deep rooted. They
run their anchors down into the caverns OF
the mountain and fasten 20 the very foun.
d ions Of the earth, and twist around and
G. .ch the selves on the other side Of the
deepest layer Of rock they can reach. And
that is the difference between Christians
who stand and Christians who fall Ii is
the difference between a superficial char
acter and one that has clutched its roots
deep down around and under the Rock OF
Ages.
THE ROCK ROOTED CHRISTIAN.
One of the Lebanon cedars was examined
by scientist and from it's concentric cir
cles il was found to be thirty-fve hundred
years old and still standing. and there is
such thing as everlasting strength, and
such a stanchness Of Christian character
that all time and all eternity instead OF
being its demolition shall be its opportu-
nifty. Not such are those vacillating Chris
tians who are so pious on Sunday that
they have no religion left for the week day
As the anaconda gorges itself with food,
and then seems for long while TO lie
thoroughly insensible, so there are men
who will on Sunday get such religious
tn6J tat rest VI Wtch bDt1 St-l0
thoroughly dead TO all religious emotion.
They weep in church under charity ser
mon, but if on Monday a subject Of want
presents itself at the door the beggar's
safety viii depend entirely on quick limbs
and an unobstructed stairway. It takes
all the grace they can get 70 keep them
from committing assault and battery on
those intruders who come with pale faces
and stories of distress and subscription
papers. The reason that God planted
these cedars in the Bible was to suggest to
us that we ought, In our religious char
acter, To be deep like the cedar, high like
the cedar, broad branched as the cedar
a traveller measured the spread of the
bopgbs of one of these trees and found it
one hundred and eleven feet from branch
tip to branch tip, and / have seen cedars
of Christian character that through their
prayers and charities put out one branch
to the uttermost parts of America, and
another branch TO the uttermost parts OF
Asia, and these wide branched Christians
will keep on multiplying until all the
earth is overshadowed with mercy.
Bat mark you, these cedars of Lebanon
could not grow if planted in mild climates
and in soft air and in carefully watered
gardens. They must have the gymnasium
OF the midnight hurricane TO develop
their arms. They must play the athlete
with Thousand winters before their feet
are rightly planted and their foreheads
rightly lifted and their arms rightly
muscled And If there be any other way
for developing strong Christian character
except by storms OF trouble l never heard
Of it, Call the roll Of martyrs, call the
roll Of the prophets. call the roll Of the
apostles and see which Of them had an
easy time Of it, Which Of these cedars
grew in tho warm Valley Not one Of
them. HoneysUckles thrive best on the
south side Of the house, but cedars In a
Syrian whiTlwind-
REsIsTAsCE TO EVIL BRINGS STRENGTH.
Men and women who hear this or read
this. instead Of your grumbling because you
have il hard. thank God that you are in
Just the best school for rsaking heroes aud
heroiBes. II Is trne both for this world
and the next. Rock that baby in a cradle
cushioned and canopied, graduate him
from that into a costly high chair and give
him gold spoon. send him - school
vraypcd IN fnrs enough for an arctic ex-
pioreT. send him through college where
be will not have to study n order to s-st a
diploma hecaoes his father IA rirh: start
him m q profession where be bagsns With
sn ofioe. the floor covsres with Axninsaer.
and library of BOOKS IN Rzsssan r1orooco,
sod an AIMED chair upholstered like .
throne, sad s1 ezobros5er,d ottoman
upon which to put bis twelve dollar
CATERS. and then lsy ugoa his table
Ne best ivory clgsrboidsr you can I'm
port froa brussels and have stsn5i0Q
outside bis door pransiaz spsa tAst ven
tse pFtzs st the horse fsir. ss3 leave him
ezssxe eronah % make him ir,Aeper5erf q