Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-20


ines. IL is true both for this world and the
next Rock that babyin cradle cushioned
and cauopied; graduate him from that into
costly high chair and give him a gold
spoon; send him to school wrapped in turs
enough for an Arctic explorer; send him
through college where he will not have to
study 10 order to get = diploma because his
father Is rich: start him in a profession
where he begins with an Office, the floor COW
cred with Administer and a library OF books
in Russia morocco. and an armed chair up
hoistered like throne, and an embroidered
ottoman upon which to put his twelve dollar
cutters. and then lay upon his table the best
ivory eigarholder you can import from
Brussels and have standing Outside his door
"A prancng span that won the prize at the
horse fair. ann leave him estate enough in
dependent of all struggle, and what will be-
come OF him? Nhs do not die early Of IMAM
ition or dissipation he will live useless life,
and die an unlamented death, and go into
fool'e e;ernity.
Lebanon CEDAR John Milton on his
way up to the throne of the worlds sacred
poesy must sell his copyright of paradise
Lost" for S72 in three payments. And
William Shakespeare on his way up to be
sekno wleIged the greatest dram atist of all
ages must no d horses at the door of the
London theatre for sixpence, and Homer
INN Drtaty. and John Bnnyan must cheer
himself on the way up by making flute
out OF his prison stool, and Canova, the
sculptor, must toll on through orphanage
modelling lion in butter before he could
cut his statues in marble. And the great
Stephenson must watch cows in the field
Tor a few pennies and then become stoker,
and terward mend clocks before he puts
the loeomo i've on its track and calls forth
rain mn Ri nh nd rnadala
from kings. Abel Stevens is picked up a
neglected child of til e street, and rises
through his consecrated genius to be one
OF the most illustrious clergymen and his.
torians of the century. And Bishop James
Of the same church in boyhood worked his
passage from Ireland to America and up
to usefulness where, in the bishopre, he
was second to no one who ever adorned it.
While in Punishment Xenophon wrote his
"Auabasis" and Thucydides his History
of the Peloponnesian War" and Victor
Hugo must be axiied for many years to the
island of Guernsey before he can come to
that height in the affections of his country
men that crowds Champs Elysees and the
adjoining boulevards with one million
m0urners as his hearse rolls down to the
Church o. the Madeleine Oh, it is a tough
old world, and il will keep you back and
keep you down and keep you under as long
rs it can! Hail sons and daughters of the
fire.
Thirty years from now the foremost men
in all occupations and professions will be
those who are this hour in awiul struggle of
early lie, many OF them without five dollars
TO their name. SO in spiritual life it takes
course of bereayements, persecution, sick
nesses and losses to develop stalwart Chris
tian character. got letter a few days
ago saving: "Ihave hardly seen II well day
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own name until was 50 years of age, and
am very poor; but | am, by the grace of
God. the happiest man in Chicago"
The bile speaks OF the SHOWS OF Lebanon,
and at this season of the year the SHOWS
there must be tremendous. The deepest
snow ever seen in America would beinsignifi-
can't compared with the mildest winter Of
SHOWS on those Lebanon mountains. The
C. dars catch that skyiul of crystals on their
brow and on their long arms. Piled up in
great heaps are those SHOWS, enough to crush
other tees to the ground, splitting the
branches from the trunk and leaving them
rent and torn, never to rise. But what do
the eedars care for these SHOWS n Lebanon?
Taey look IN to the winter skies and say
Snow on Empty the white heavens upon
us, and when this storm IL passed let other
PROFESSIONS OF tempest try to bury us in
their fury We have for five hundred winters
been accustomed to this, and Tor the next
FIVE hundred winters We will cheertnlly take
all you have tosend. for hat is the way we
develop our strength. and that is the way we
serve God and teach all ages how to endure
and conquer" So say; Good cheer to all
people who are showed uude Put your
faith in God and you will come out glori-
ously. Others may be stunted growths, or
weak jumpers on the lower Levels of spirit
ualty, but you are going to be Lebanon ce-
dars. At last it will be said of such
as you These are they who came out of
grent trihulatioH and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the lamb
But while crossing over these m Mountains
Of Lebanon ] bethink myself OF what an
exciting sceEe it must be when one OF the
cedars does iall. 1t does not go down like
other trees with a slight craekle that
hardly makes the woodsman look up. or q
hawk tlutter from a neighboring bouph.
When a cedar tails it is the great event in
the calendar of the mountains. The axmen
fly The wild beas stink to their dens.
The cartridges swoop to tire valley for es-
cape. The neighhorins trees go down under
the awful weight of the descending monarch
The rocks are moved out of their places,
and the ear I'll trembies as from miles around
ali raYines send back their sympathetic
echoes. trash crash crashl So when the
great eedars of the worldly or Chr stan
influence fall it is something terrific Within
the past few years how many mighty and
overtopping men have gone down. There
seems now to be an epidemic o moral disaster.
The moral world, the religious world. the
political world, the commercial world, are
quaking with the fall OF Lebanon cedars 1t
is aw:ui. We are compelled to cry out with
Zachariah, the prophet Howl fir trees, for
the cedar is fallen!" Some OF the smaller
trees are glad of it. When some great dealer
in stocks goes down the small dealers clap
their bands and gay, Good for him!
When great political leader gots down the
small politicians clap their hands and say,
Just as | expected When great min.
lister OF religion ialls msnv little ministers
laugh up their sleeves and think themselves
somehow advantagcd. All, beloved brethren,
II" nne makes anything out OF moral
shipWreck. Not Il willow by the rivers
OF Damascus, not sycamore
the plains of Jericho. not an olive
tree in u Palestine is helped BY the fall oil n
Lebanon cedar. Better weep and pray ard
trembe and list n to Pauiis advice to the
Ga.aiians when he says, considering thy
self lest thou III o be tempted No man s
safe until he is dead unless he be diviuely
protected A greater thinker than Lord
Francis Bacon thu world never saw and he
changed the world $ mode ol thin sing for all
time-his "Novum Organum "a miracle of lit
eTuIHTei Win SoNtuOb salary ana estates
worth millions and from the higaes judicial
bench of the world, he goes down under the
power OF bribery and con essed his crime and
was sentenced to tie Tower and the scorI OF
centuries. Howl. fir tree. for the cedar is
fallen
In my journey mp an down Palestine and
Syria nothing more impressed me than the
trses-ths tere inthS, the syeamores, the
tamarisks, tine oeanders. the mulberr, s, the
olives the myrtes. the palms, tine cedars--
all o: them explanatory of SO much Of the
Scriptures. And the time is eo1ins when,
through an improved arborculture, th.
round world shall be cirenn erenced. en-
girdled, embosomed. emparadsed in shade
trees and fruit trees aud flower trees Isaiah
declares in one place. The glory of Lebanon
snail be given unto it; and IN another place;
IAN the trees of the field shall clan their
hands instead OF the thorn snail come up
the fir tree. instead OF the briar shall come
NJ the myrtle tree" Ga. grdudest arboF-
essence OF all time. Peginl Begin
Oh, | am so glad that the holy land of
heaven, like the holy land of Palestine aud
$, ria, is great place for trees. an orchard
of them, a grove nf them. n forest Of them
st. John sew them along The streets and on