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tae raaisheF q tAag Journal had already
secured "a extension II the lease q the
Academy - Music. lie would therefore
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evening uulii the new Isbernecle Was fia-
ished Owing to the inclsmency Of the
weather he would discontinue the custom
Of giving an address Out of doors after the
regular exercises 70 the crowd of people
who had been unable g gain admission 10
The Academy, bat the publisher OF The
Christian Herald was eadeayOrlng 10 OBJ
tain the use Of a church or public building
Ia the neigh ghborh0od ia which an overflow
service e0ald be held. DIR. Ialnage then
announced as his text Psalm civ, 10, The
cedars Of Lebanon which he hath planted" "
and preached the following sermon:
ia our journey we change stirrup for
wheel IL is four o'clock ia the morning
az Damascus, Syria. and we ara among the
lanterns Of the hostelry waiting for the
stage 20 start. a Mohammedan in high
life is putting his three wives on board
within an apartment by themselves, and
our party occupy the Inain apartment Of
one Of the NEST uncomfortable vehicles ia
which mortals were ever jammed and half
stranGulated. But we must not let the dis
comforts annul or disparage the oppor-
tunitios. We are rolling out and up the
mountains OF Lebanon, their forehead
under a crown Of snow, which coronet the
fingers Of the hottest summer cannot cast
down
CLIMBING UP LEBANON.
We are ascending heights around which
Is garlanded much of the finest poesy Of
the Scriptures, and are rising toward the
mightiest dominion that botany ever recOg-
nized, reigned over by the most imperial
tree that ever swayed a leafy scepter-the
Lebanon cedar; a tree eulOgized in my text
as having grown from a nut put into the
ground by God himself, and no human
hand had anything 20 do with It's planting:
'',The trees of Lebanon which be hath
planted"
The average height of this mountain is
seven thousand feet, but in one place it
lifts it's head TO an altitude of ten thou
sand. No higher than six thousand feet
can vegetation exist, but below that line
at the right season are vineyards and orch
ards and olive groves and flowers that
dash the mountain side with very car
mage OF color and I'LL the air with aromatics
that Hosea, the prophet, and Solomon, the
king, celebrated as 'the smell of Lebanon. !"
AT height of six thousand feet is grove
OF cedars, the only descendants of those
vast forests from which Solomon cut his
timber for the temple of Jerusalem, and
where at one time there were one hundred
thousand axmen hewing out the beams
from which great cities were constructed
But this nation Of trees has by human
iconoclNsm been massacred until only n
small group is left. This race of giants
Is nearly 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 planted
From the multitude OF uses 10 which it
may be put and the employment Of it in
the Scriptures, the cedar is the divine IA
vorite. When the plains to be seen from
the window Of this stage in which we ride
today are parched under summer heats.
and not grass blade survives the fervid-
fly, this tree stands in luxuriance, defying
the summer sun. And when the storms
OF winter terrify the earth and hurl the
rocks in avalanche down this mountain
side, this tree grapples the hurricane Of
snow in triumph and leaves the spent fury
at its feet. From sixty to eighty feet high
are they, the horizontal branches Of great
sweep, with their burden of leaves needle
shaped. the top of the tree pyramidal, a
throne Of foliage on which might and
splendor and glory sit. But so continu-
ously has the determination of trees gone
on that for the most part the mountains OF
Lebanon are bare OF foliage, while. am
sorry to say, the earth in all lands is being
likewise denuded.
BB sPARIEG OF GODS TEEEs
I The ak is Staying the forests All round
the earth. To stop the slaughter God
opened the coal mines Of England and
Scotland and America and the W Id, prac-
tically saying by that. Here Is lst4; as far
/ as possible let my trees alone And by
/ opening for tho human race the great
! quarries Of granite and showing the human
+ family bow to make brick God is practi-
F caliy saving. Here IL building material;
+ let my trees alone" We had better stop