Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-15
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THE LEADERS OF THE FUTURE.
Thirty years from now the foremost men in
all occupations and professions will be those
who are this hour in awful struggle of early
life, many of them without IS to their name.
So IN spiritual life it takes course Of bereave-
ments, prosecutions, sicknesses and losses to
develop stalwart Christian character. 1 got
letter few days ago saying: ~ have hardly
seen well day since 1 was born, ard could
not write my own name until was 80 years OF
age and am very poor, but am, by the grace
of God. the happest 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 deenest snow ever seen in
Amcrlca would be insignificant compared with
the mildest winter of SHOWS on thuse Lebanon
mountains. The cedars catch that skyful of
crystals on their brow and on their long arms
Piled up in great hefts are those SHOWS. enough
TO crush other trees to the ground splitting
the branches from the trunk and leaving them
rent and torn never to rise.
But what do the cedars care for these SHOWS
on Lebanon? They look up to the winter skies
and say: .'Snow oni Empty the white heavens
upon us. and when this storm is past, let
other professions of tempest try to bury US In
their fury. We have for $40 winters been ac-
customed to this, and for the next 500 winters
we will cheerfully take all you have to send.
for that is the way we develop our strength,
ages how to endure ard conquer" So l say:
Good cheer to all people who are showed un-
der. Put your faith in God and you will come
out sloriously. Others may be stunted growths,
or weak jumpers on the lower Levels of spirit
uality. but you are going to be Lebanon cedars.
At last IL will be said of such as you: These
are they who came QUO OF great tribulation and
had their robes washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb" .l.
But while crossing over these mountains of
Lebanon bethink myself of what an exciting
nf F1an hFahS
fall. 1t does not go down like other trees with
slight crackle that hardly makes the woods
man look up, o. a hawk futter from neigh
boring bough. When 3 cedar falls it is the
great event in the calendar of the mountains.
The axInen fly. The wild beasts stink to their
dens. The partridgeS swoop 10 the valley for
escape. The neighboring trees go down under
the awful weight of he descending monarch.
The rocks are moved ont of their places, and
the earth trembles as from miles around all
ravines send back their sympathetic echoes.
Crash! Crash Crash!
SOME TERRIFIC FALLS.
So when the great cedars of worldly or Chris
tian influence falit is something terrific With
in the past few years how many mighty and over
topping men have gone down! There seems
now to be an epidemic of moral disaster The
moral world, the religious world the political
world, the commercial world are Quaking with
the fall of Lebanon cedars. 1t is awful. We
are compelled to cry out with Zachariah the
prophet Howl. fir trees, for the cedar is
fallenr' Some of the smaller trees are glad
of il When some great dealer in stocks goes
down. the small dealers clap their hands and
say, Good for him." When great political
leader goes down, the small politicians clap
their hands and say. Just as 1 expected"
When great minister of religion falls, many
little ministers laugh up their sleeves and
think themselves somehow advantaged. All,
beloved brethren, no one makes anything out
of moral shlpwreCk.
Not willow by the rivers of Damascus, not
a asycamore on the plains of Jericho, not an olive
tree in all Palestine is helped by the fall of a
Lebanon cedar
Better weep and pray and tremble and listen
to Paul's advice to the Galatians when he says:
Considering thyself lest thou also be tempted"
No man is safe until he is dead, unless he be
divinely protected. A greater thinker than
Lord Francis Bacon the world never saw, and
he changed the worlds mode of thinking for all
time his "Novum Organum" miracle of liter
AZURE. With SIS 600 salary. ana estates worth
millions, and from the highest judicial bench
of the world, he goes down under the power of
bribery and confessed his crime and was SEN
fenced to the Tower and the scorn of centuries
Howl, fir tree. for the cedar is fallen!
Governor General Of India and the u envV S Of the
chief public men of the day, plunges into
cruelt1es against the barbaric people he had
been sent to rule, until his name is chiefly as
sociated 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, fr tree. for the
disaster are 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.
AN IMPRESSIVE FEATURE.
In my journey up and down Palestine and
Syria nothing more impressed me than the
trees-the terebnths the sycamore the tama- |
risks. the oleanders, the mulberrys, tho olives,
the myrtles, the palms. the cedars-all of them |
explanatory of SO much of the Scriptures. |
And the time is coming when, through i'm |
prove arboriculture, the round world shall be |
circumferenced, engrdled. embosomed, em- |
paradlsed in shade trees, and fruit trees, and |
flower trees. Isaiah declares in one place .'The |
glory OF Lebanon shall be given unto it, and |
shall clap their hands Instead of the thorn |
shall come up the fir tree, Instead of the briar |
shall come up the myrtle tree" Oh, grandest |
arborescence of all tInel Begini Begin!
Obi L am SO glad that the holy land of |
heaven, like the holy land of Palestine and |
Syria is great place for trees. orchard /
of them, forest of them. st. John saw |
them along the streets and along the river, and |
every month they yielded great crop OF fruit. |
You know what an imposing appearance trees |
give to a city on earth. but how it e1alts my |
idea of heaven when St. John describes the |
City on High as having its streets and its rivers
lined with them. Oh, the treesi the |
trees! The jasper walls, the fountains. the |
temples were not enough. There would have |
been something wanting yet. So to complete |
all that pomp and spendor. behold the up |
branching trees Of life. Not like those stripped
trees now around US, which like banlshed min |
strels through the long winter night utter their |
dolorous lament, or in the blast moan like lost |
spirits wandering up and down the gale but |
their leaf shall never wither. Whether you |
walk or 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 along |
BLESSED are they that do His commandments !
that they may have right to the Tree of Life" |
Stonewal Jackson's dying utterance was beau |
tlfully suggestive: Let us cross over and lie |
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