The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-08
GLORY OF LEBANON.
DIR. TAlMACE breaches ON "SClENCE
AND REUIGION"

Effect ON Religion.
Dr. Tnlmngc on Sunday announced
as his text Isaial TX, 13: ''rhc glory
OF lebanon shall como unto thee
tho fir tree, the pinotree, and tho
box together, to bcautify the place O.
my sanctuary" Following is his scr
mon in full:
On our way from Damascus We
saw the mountains of Lebanon whit,
with snow, and the places from whicl
the celars were hown, and then
drawn by oX-tcamS down to the Med
ittcrrancan sea, and then tloatcd il
great rafta to Joppa, and then again
drawn by OX-tramS up to Jerusalem
to build Solomon temple. ThoS,
mlShty trees III my text are called the
"GlOry of Lebanon. lnanimatc na
ttmc felt the effects OF the first trans
gression. When Eve touched the
forbidden tree, it seems rs if the sin
ful contact had smittcn not only that
tree. but as if the uir had caught the
pollution from the leaves, and as if
the sup had carried the virus down
into the very soil until the eli
tire earth reekcd with lcprosy. I'm
der that sinful touch nature withrretl.
The inanilnntc creation. as if aware of
the damage done it, sent up the thorn
and bricr and nettlc to wound. and
tiercely oppose, the human rnap. Now
ns the physical earth felt the effects
Oi the first trnISgrcSSiOnS. SO it shall
also feel the effect of the SaviOr's mis-
sion. AS from that one trco in Para
disc a blight went forth through tn"
entire earth, so from one tree TO Cal
vary another force shall sprc,i out to
interpenctratc and check, subduc and
override, the evil. In the end it shall
be found that the tree OF Calvary has
more potency than the tree of Para
disc. AS the nations are evangelical,
L think II corresponding change will
DO effected in the natural world. |
verify believe that the trees. and the
birds, and the rivers, aud the skies
will have their millennium. Ii man S
Sin affected the ground, and the vegc-
tatiOn, and the atmosphere, shall
Christs work be less powerful or less
extensive!
Doubtless God will take the il'rcgu
nnents SO rs to- make them cOngcnial
to the race, which will then be sym
mctricai and evangelical. The g!ound
shall not be SO lavish of weeds and
SO grudgcful of grain. Soils which
now have peculiar proclivitics toward
certain forms of evil production will
be delivered from their bcsctting sins.
Steep mountains, plOughcd dOw:I into
more gradual ascent, shall he gil',llrl
with hocks of sheep and Shoclis Of
corn. The wet marsh shall become
the dcep-grasscd meadow. Cattle
shall eat unhnrmcd by cnvcrns once
haunted of wild beasts. Children
will build play-houscs in what was
once n cave of sorpcntH; and, us the
Scripture saith, "The weancd child
shall put his hand on tho corkariroA II
den.
Oh, what hnrvcsts ahi,A DO 1v,apcd
when neither drouth. nor excessive
riin, nor mildow. nor mfcShnG insects
shall arrest the growth, nnd the ut
most capacity OF tho fields for pro-
dueti0n shall be tested by nn intclli-
gent and athletic yeomnry. Thrift
and competency chMacterizing the
worlds inhabitants, their dwelling
places shall be grncciul and healthy
and adorned. Tree and arbor and
grove around about will look as if
Adam md Eve had got back TO Para
disc. Great cities, now neglected and
unwashcd, shall be orderly. adornod
with architectural Symmetry and con
ncctcd with fur distant scapOits by
present modes of transportation car
ricd to their greatest pcrfcction or by
new inventions yet to spring up out
of the water or drop from tho air ut
the beck of II Morse or Robert Ful
ton belonging to future generations
Isaiah in my text seems to look for.
ward to the future condition of tho
Dhysicnl earth as Il condition OF great
beauty and excellence, and then pro
phesies that na the strongest ano
most ornamental tim' + in Lebanon
was brought down to JcruSalcm nn'
constructed into the ancient temple
so i'll that is beautiful and cXcellcn,
in the physical earth shall yet con
tribute to the church now being bull
in the world. "Tho glory of Lebanon
shall come unto thee; the fir-trec, tho
pine tree, and tho box together, tC
bcuutify the place OF my sanctuary.
Much Of this prophecy has already
already been fulfilled, and l proceed
to some practical remarks upon th'
contributions which thcnnturNl worl'
is making to tho kingdom of God, m'
draw some infcrenccs. The first con
tributim that Nature gives to tn
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