Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-18

tree in all Palestine il helped by the fall OF
a Lebanon cedar Better weep and pray
and tremble and listen to Paul's advice TO
the Galatians when he says, Considering
thyself lest thou also be tempted" No
man is safe until he is dead unless he be
divinely protected. A greater thinker than
Lord Francis Bacon the world never saw
and he changed the worlds mode of think
ing for all time-his "Novum Organum" a
miracle of literature. With $4,000 salary
and estates worth millions and from the
highest judicial bench of the world, he
goes down under the power of bribery ana
confessed his crime and was sentenced 10
the Tower and the scorn of centuries
Howl, fir tree. for the cedar is fallen!
WIDE WASTING MORAL EUINs.
Warren Hastings, rising until be became
governor general of India and the envy OF
the chief public men of his day, piunges
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 upon him came
the anathemas of Sheridan, Fox, Edmund
Burke, the English nation and all time
Howl. fir tree for the cedar Is fallen! As
found in our own land and our own time.
instances that 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 n respectable but poor
family daughter was getting musical
education She needed one more course OF
lessons TO complete that education Inc
fathers means were exhausted, and 50
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 something
wrong and obtained from her husband the
whole story, and that night went around
with her husband to the merchant house
and surrendered the whole amount Of the
money and asked forgiveness. Forgive
ness was denied and the man was arrested
The Judge, knowing all the circumstances,
aud that the moucy had all been returned,
suggested to the merchant he had better
let the matter drop for The sake of the wife
and the daughter. Mol hewould not let il
drop. and he did all he could TO make the
case conspicuous and blasting. The judge
saws that afterward that same inexorable
merchant was lefore him for breaking the
law of the land II is a poor rule that will
not work bo, ways Let him that stand
eth take heed l,yt he fall Not congratu
lation. but tears. when a cedar has fallenl
Yet there is one cedar Of Lebanon that
always has ami always will overtop all
l.. -, Il do
scribes rs a goodlycedar, and says, Under
it shall come all fowl ofcvery wing. Make
your nest IN that ;reat cedar Then lei the
storms beat, aud the earth rock. and time
end, and eternity begin, all shall be well
ALL NATIONS TO REST N HIS SHADOW.
In my journey up and down Palestine
and Syria nothiag more impressed me than
the trees-the tcrebinths. the sycamores
the ramarisks. the oleanders, the mul
bcrrys, the olives the myrtles. the palms
the cedars- an Of them explanatory Of so
much Of he Scriptures And the time is
coming when, through an improved arbori
culture, the round world shall be circum
ferenced, engirdled, embosomed. empara
dsed in shade trees and fruit trees and
flower trees Isaiah declares in one place,
"The glory Of Lebanon shall be given unto
it:n 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 Of the briar shall come up the
myrtle tree" Oh, grandest arborescenee
Of ali time Begin Begin!
Oh, ! am SO clad that the holy land OF
heaven. like tie holy land Of Palestine
and SYRIA is great place for trees. an or
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OF them ST. John saw them along the
streets, aud on both sides Of the river, and
every month they yielded great crop OF
fruit You know what Jan imposing ap
pearanee trees give to ei.y on earth, but
how il eNalts my idea Of heaven when
ST. John describes the city on high as
having It's -sts and its rivers lined with
them. Oh lhe lreesl the trees. The jas.
per walls. the fountains, the TEMPLES We're
not enough. There would have been some
thing wanting set. So TO complete all that
pompand splcndor behold the up branch
ing trees Of life Not like those stripped
trees now around US, which like banished
MINISTRIES through the long winter ni.h4
utter their dolorous lament or in the
blast moan like lost spirits wandering
up and down the gale. their leaf shall
never wither Whether you walk on the
banks OF the river You will be under trees,
or 10y the homes Of martyrs under trees, or
by the heavenly temple under trees, or
along the palace Of the King immortal un-
der trees. blessed are they hat do his
commandments tha; they may haze right
to the tree of life" Stone .call Jackson's
dying utterance was beautifully suggest
i've Il set us cross over and lie down under
the treesF