The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-19

go down like other trees. with slight
crackls that hardly makes the woods
man look up OF hawk nutter from 1
bough- When . cedar sails
it IS the great event in tho calendar OF I
the mountains So when the great I
eedars of worldly or Christian inh0enee I
fall it is something terrific Nishtn
the past few years how many mighty I
and overtopping men have gone I
down There seems now to be an epi- |
dernic OF moral disaster. The moral /
world. the religious world, the political
world, the commercial world are quak-
ing with the fall of Lebanon cedarS
We are compelled TO cry out with
zachariah, the prophet: Howl mr.
trees. for the cedar is falienF' Some OF
the smaller trees are glad OF 1t when
some great dealer in stocks goes down
the small dealers clap their hands and
say: Good for himr When a great
political leader goes down the small
politicians clap their hands aud sayt
Just as I expeetedF Whom great
minister OF religion falls. many little
ministers laugh up their s'esyes snd
think themselves somehow advantaged-
All, beloved brethren. no one makes
any thing out of moral shipwreck- Not
n willow by the rivers of Damascus, not
a sycamore on the plains OF Jericho, not
an olive tree IN all Palestine is helped
by the fall of n Lebanon dedar- better
weep ana pray anu IfctAl SaS ai.N AAoNSA u
PauPs advice to the Galatians when he
says: Consider myself lest thou also
be tempted"
Warren Hastings. rising until he be-
came GOvepuor-Genersi of India and
the envy of the chief public men Of his
day, plunges ntO cruelties against the
barb1r!c people he had been sent to
ru'e q, 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 falleni As
eminent instances of moral disaster
may be 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 III experience: In a respectable
but poor family a daughter was ge tting
musical education The fathers means
were exhausted and SO great was his
anxiety to help his daughter that he f.
lOniously took some money from his en-
pioyer, and going home to his daughter
said; There is the money to complete
your musical education" Tho wife
and mother suspected something wrong
and obtained from her husband the
WHOAG story anu lndb I NoAb AtOAlA1
with her husband to the merchants
house and surrendered the whole
amount of the money and asked for
giVeness- Forgiveness was denied and
the man was arrested The Judge,
knowing all the circumstances and that
the money had all been returned, sug-
gested to the merchant he had better
let the matter drop for tho sake of the
wife and the daugh ter. No! he would
not let it drop. and he did all he could
to make the case conspicuous and blast
ing. Tho judge says that afterward
that same inexorable merchant was be-
fore him for breaking the law of the
land It is a poor rule that will not
work both ways. let him that standeth
take heed lest he fall. Not congratuia-
ton, but tears when 4 cedar is fa!Ienl
Yet there is one cedar of Lebanon
that always has and always Will over
top all others. 1t is the Christ whom
Ezekiel describes as a gOodiy cedar,
and says: Under it shall come all
fowl of every wing" Make your nest
in that great cedar. Then let the
storms beat and the earth rock. and
time end, and eternity begin, all shall
be we'll
In my journey up and down Palestine
and Syria nothing more impressed me
than the trees-the terebinths. the
sycamores, the tamarIsks, the oleanders,
the mulberrys. the Olives, the myFrles,
the palms, the cedars-ail of them ex-
| planatory of so much of the Scriptures
And the time is coming when, through
an improved arboricGltur the round
world shall be circumferenced. engir-
died, en- bosomcd, emparadiscd in shade
| trees, and fruit trees, ana flower trees
/ Isaiah declares in one place: THE
/ glory of Lebanon shall not be given
unto it," and in another place: "All the
trees of the field shall clap their hands
/ Instead of the thorn shall come up tho
fir tree Instead Of the brier shall como
| up the myrtle tree"
| o! I am so glad that the Holy Land
of Heaven like the Holy Land of Pales-
tine and Syria, is a great place for trees,
an orchard Of them, grave OF thcm, 4
forest of them. Saint John saw them
along the streets, and on both sides tho
river, and every month they yielded q
/ great crop of fruit You know what an
| imposing appearance trees give to a city
on earth, but how It eXalts my idea of
Heaven when Saint John describes the
| city on high as having its streets and
rivers lined with them. o. the trees!
The treesi Tho jasper walls, the
| fountains, the temples were not enough.
/ There would have been some thing
wanting yet So to complete all
| that pomp and splendor, behold the
| upbranching trees of life. Not like
| those stripped trees now around US,
| which like banished minstrcis through
/ the long winter night utter their dolor-
| Gus lament or in the blast moan like
/ lost spirits wandering up and down the
/ gale, but theiE leaf shall never Wither
| Whether you walk on the banks OF the
river you will be under trees. or by the
homes of martyrs under trees, or by the
/ heavenly temple under trees, or among
the palace OF the King immortal under
trees blessed are they that do His
| commandments, that they may have
| Jackon's dying utterance was beauti-
! fully suggestive: LET us cross over
and lie down under the treesi'