The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-12-20


OF trouble | 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 H. Which OF
these ccdars grew in the warm valley?
\ Not one OF them. Honeysuczles thrive
best on the south side OF the house. but
cedars Ia n Syrian whiriwind. Men and
4 women who hear this or read this. instead
OF your grumbling because you have II hard
thank God that you are In Just the best
school for making heroes and hcroines. IL
Is true both for this world and the next.
Rock that baby In q cradle cushioned and
canopicd; graduate him from that into
costly high chair and give him gold
/ spoon: send him 10 school wrapped In furs
enough for an arctic explorer; send him
through n college where he will not have 10
study la order 10 get n diploma. because
his father Is rich; start him In profession
where he begins with an ofii,e tho floor
covered with Administer, and a library OF
books Ia Russian morocco, and IN arm chair
| upholstered like throne, and an ombrod-
cred ottoman upon which TO put his twelve
dollar CATERS, and they lay upon his table
the best ivory cigar-holdcr you can import
! from Brussels, aud have standing outside
his door prancing span that won the prize
at tho horse fair. and leave him estate
enough 10 make him Independent OF all
struggle. and what viii become Of him
II he do not die carly Of hamilton or dissi-
patton he will live useless life. and die
an unlamcntod death and go into a FOOLS
eternity.
Thirty years from now the foremost
men In all occupations and professions will
be those who are this hour In awful strug-
gle of early life. many OF them without
| five dollars 10 their name. So in spiritual
life IL takes a course OF bcrcavements,
prosecutions. slcknesscs and losses 10 do
velon,talwrrt Chr'st''n character. got
a letter few days 40 saying: ~ hayc
hardly seen well day since l was born.
and could not writc my own name until
was ATTY years OF age and am very poor,
bNt am, by the grace OF God. the hap
piest man In Chicago" The Bible speaks
of the SHOWS OF Lebanon, and at this
season OF the year the SHOWS there must be
tremendous. The deepest snow ever seen
| I'm America would be insignificant com
pared with the mildcst winter OF SHOWS on
those Lebanon mountains. The ccdars
catch that slsyfull OF crystals on their
brow and on their long arms. Piled up In
great hefts are those SHOWS. enough 10
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the branches from the trunk and leaving
them rent and torn mover 10 rise. But
what do the codars care for these SHOWS
on Lebanon? They look up TO the winter
skies and say: "Snow on Empty the
white heavens upon US, and when this
storm is passed, let other professions OF
tcmpcsts try 20 bury as I'm their fury. We
have for i've hundred winters been ac-
customed 20 this, and for the next five
hundred winters we win checrfully take all
YOU have 20 send for that 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 under.
Put your faith in God and you will come
out gloriously Others may be stunted
growths, or weak jumpers on the lower
levels OF spirituality, but you are going 10
be Lebanon ccdars. Al last IL will be said
OF such as you: These are they who
came out of great trlhulation and had their
robes washed and made white in tho
blood OF the Lamb
But while crossing over these mountains
OF Lebanon | bethink myself OF what an
exciting scene IL must be when one OF the
cedars docs fall. II does not go dewn like
other trees with slight cracklc that hard
ly makes the woodman look up, or hawk
fluttcr from neighboring bough. When n
cedar falls IL Us the great event In the calcn-
dar OF the mountains. The axcmcn fly.
The wild beasts stink 20 shcir dcns. The
partrldgos swoop 10 the valley for escape.
The neighboring trees 90 down under the
weight OF the descending monarch. The
rocks are moved out OF their places, and
the earth tremblcs as from miles around
all ravines send back their sympathetic
echoes. Crash. Crash. Crash So when
the great ccdars OF worldly or Christian i'm
fluence fall IL Is something terrific With
in the past few years how many mighty
and overlapping men have gone down.
There seems now 10 be an epidemic OF NOR
al disaster. The moral world, the religious
world, the political world. the commercial
world are quaking with tho fall OF Lebanon
ccdars. II Is awful. We arc compelled "a
cry out with Zccharish the prophet Howl
iir-trccs for the cedar is fallcn' Some OF
tho smaller trees arc glad or H. When
some great dealer In stocks goes down. the
small dealers clap their hands and say
Good for him p When great political
leader eocs down tho small politicians clap
their hands and say "Just as ] expected y
When q great minister OF religion falls.
many little ministers laugh up their sleeves
and think themselves somehow Advantagcd.
All. beloved brethren. no one makes any
thing out Of moral shipwrccl. Not a vii.
low by the rivers OF Damascus, not syca.
more on tho plains 81 Jericho. not an olive
tree in al Palestine Ia helped by tho fall OF
a Lebanon cedar. Better weep auo pray
aud trcmblc and listen 10 Pnul's advice 20
the Galatians when no says: Considering
thvself hest thou also be tempted Nc
man "a safe until he Ia dead, unless nc Is
divincly protected. A greater thinker than