Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-15
The Twelfth of DR.. Talmage's Sc.
ries On His Recent Journey.
The Magn ficent New Tabernacle Will
Not Be- Completed for Dedica-
ton Until Easter.
His Start From Damascua, syria, for the
Mountains of Lebanon "Ths Trees of
Lebanon, Which He Hath Planted"
ACROSS MOUNT LEBANON.

BROOKLYN, n. Y. Dec. l4.-To-day
DR.. Tslmece preached another sermon
OF his series on Pales tine and the adjoin =
ing countries. After delivering ii in the
morning in the academy of music in this
city, he preached 1t again in the evening
In New York, at the service held under
the auspices of the Christian Herald
Before commencing his sermon DR.. Tai
mage stated, that in spite of all the
efforts that were beng put forth TO
hasten the completion of his new taber-
narle, the ~orh was on so magnificent a
scale and the necessity for care
in It's construction 30 Imperative
TINT, judging 10y present Indications, 1t
would not he ready for dedication before
Faster. lie was happy to say, how
ever, thai the hospitality of the Chris
tian Herald through which these Sunday
evening services in New York had been
held, would be continued aud the pub
lisher of That journal has already Sc
cured an extension of the lease of the
academy of music. He would therefore
be able 10 hold services there every Sun
day evening until the new taberna' IL
was finished. Owing 10 the incemency
of the weather he would discontinue the
custom Of giving an address out of doors
after the regular exercises TO the crowd
of people " no had been unable to gain
admission 10 the academy; but the pub
Usher of the Christian Herald WAS en-
deavoring 10 obtain the use OF church
or public building in the neighhorhooh
in which au overflow service could be
held. DIR. Talmage then announced as
bis text Psalm lO4:lG-"The Cedurs of
I.l..,
CHANGE IN MODE OF TRAVEL,
IN our journey We change strrup for
wheel. 1t is o clock in the morning,
at Damascus, Syria. and we are among
The lanterns OF the hosiery waiting for
the stage to start. A Mohammedan IN
high life is putting his three wives on
board within AT apartment by them
selves, and our party occupy the main
apartment of one of the most uncomfort-
able vehicles In which mortals were ever
damned and half stranguiated. But we
must not let the discomforts annul or
disparaEe the opportunities. We are
rolling on and out aud up the mountains
of Lebanon, their forehead under
crown of snow, which corouet the
fingers of the hottest summer caunot
cIst down. We are ascending
heights around which ia garlanded much
of the finest poesy of the Scriptures, and
are rising toward The mightiest donu-
ion that botany ever recognized, reigned
over by the most imperial tree that ever
sway ed a leafy scep;re-the Lebanon ce-
dar; Il tree eulogiZed IN my text as hav-
Ing grown from II nut put into the
ground 10y God himself, and no human
hand had anything to do with It's plant
ing. ''The trees of Lebanon which He
hath planted.''
THE AVERAGE HEIGHT
OF this mountain is 1000 feet, but In one
place il lifts its hend 10 an altitude of
10, 900. No higher than COCO feet can
vegetation exist, but below that. line at |
the right season, are vineyards and |
orchards, and olive groves, and flowers |
lint dash the mountain side with u very |
cnrnage OF color. and fill the air with |
nromatics that Hosea, the prophet, ana |
Solomon, the king, celebrated as 1.-the |
smell of Lebanon At height of 6COO |
feel Is n grove OF cedars, III. only de-
ECendauts of those vast forests from which |
Solomon cut his timber fer the temple Of !
Jerusalem, and where at Que time there
were loo, 600 a1men hewing out the
beams from which great cities were con-
structed. But this nation OF trees has
by human icouoclpsm been masssrred
duAlA oh'N slHAll group ~ lelI. 1Dl2
race of giants is uenrly extinct, but |
have no doubt that some of these were
here when Hiram. King of
Tyre, ordered the assassination
of those cedars of Lebanon
which the Lord plaEteG From the null
titude of uses TO which il may be put and
the emp lovment OF il in the Scriptures,
the cedar Is the divine favorite. When
the plains TO be seen from the window of
this stage III which We ride today are
parched under summer heats, and rot n
grass blade survives the fertility, this
Tree stands in luxuriauee,
DEFYING THE SUMMER SUN.
And when the storms OF winter terrify
the earth and huri the rocks in avail
hnche down This mountain side, thi. tree
grapples the hurricane of snow in tri-
umph, and leaves the spent fury at liz
feet. From sixty 10 eighty feet high |
are they, the horizontal branches OF
great sweep, with thei: burden of leaves
Il eed!e- shaped, the top of the tree pvre-
midal, throne of foiiuge, on which
might. and splendor and glory SIT.
But so continuously has the exiermina-
lion OF trees gone on, that for the most
part, the mountains of Lebanon are bare
Of foliage, While, l am sorry to say,
Ice enrth in oil lands is being likewise
ienuded.
TIE AK is Staying the forests all round
The earth. To stop the slaughter God
opened the coal mines of England aud
Scotland and America aud the world.
practically saving by that: Here is
'uel; as far as possible let my trees
alone And by opening for the human
race the great quarrirs OF granite, and {
sho wing the human family how 10 make 1
rick, God is practically saying: Here
8 building material; let my trees
alone We had better stop the axes I
.noug the Adirondacks. We had bet
.er stop The axes IL all our forests, as II
you'd have been better for Syria il the 1
sves had long ago been stopped among
he
MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON.
10 punish us for our reckless assault I
III the forests, We have the disordered
rasons; now the drouths because the L
i lifted arms of the Trees do not pray c
o. "a II, their presence, according to v
II scientists ,disposing the descent of the s
bowers; and then we have the cyclones h
mo the hurricanes, multiplied in num- J
JET ard velocity because there Is moth