Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-12-26

The moral world. the religious world, the
political world, the commercial world, are
quaking with the fall of Lebanon cedars. It
is awful We are compelled TO cry out with
Zachariah, the prophet. "Howl, ir trees, for
the cedar is fallenl" Some OF the smaller
trees are glad oft When some great dealer
in stocks goes down the small dealers clap
their hands and say. Good for hiIni
When a great political leader goes down the
small politicians clap their hands and say.
Just as | expected " When n great min
lister 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
shipwreck. Not willow by the rivers
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 thy
self lest thou al so be tempted" No man 10
safe dntil he Is dead unless lie be divlnely
protected greater thinker than Lord
Francis Bacon the world never saw, and he
changed the worlds mode OF thinking for all
time-his "Novum 0rganum" a miracle uf lit
eraturv. With &36. 900 salary and 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
wSs sentenced to the Tower and the scorn of
centuries. Howl, fr tree, for the cedar is
fallenl
In my journey up and down Palestine ana
Syria nothing more impressed me than the
trees-the terebinths, the syeamores, thr
tamarisks. tbs olsspdsrs. tbs mulberrys. tho
olives, the myrtles, the palms, the cedars--
oil OF them explanatory of so much OF the
Scriptures. And the time is coming when.
through an improved arboriculture, the
round world shall be circumfsrenced, en-
girdled, embosomed empsrndised in shade
trees and fruit trees aud flower trees. Isaiah
declares in one place, "Ths glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, and in another place.
"Ah the trees of the field 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 arbor-
escence of all time. Begin Beginl
Oh, | am so glad that the holy land OF
heaven, like the holy land Of Palestine and
Syria, Is o great place for trees, an orchard
OF them, a grove Of them, a forest Of them
St. John saw them along the streets, and on
both sides Of the river anG every month
they yielded q great crop OF fruit. You
know what an imposing appearance trees
give to city on earth. but how it exalts my
idea of heaven when st John describes the
city on high as having its streets and it's rivera
lined with them. Oh, the treesl the trees!
The jasper walls. the fountain the temples
were not enough. There would have been
something wanting yet, So to complete all
that pomp and splendor behold the up
branching trees Of life. Not like those
stripped trees now around us, which like
banished minstrels through the long winter
night, utter their dolorous lament, or in ths
blast moan like lost spirits wandering up
and down the gale, their leaf shah never
wither. Whether you walk on the banks
nf tho rlver vOu will he under freps nv
the homes of martyrs under trees, or by
the heavenly temple under trees, or
along the palace OF the Kings imm ortal uu-
der trees, Blessed are they that do His
commandments that they may have right to
the tree OF life. Stonewall Jackson's dying
utterahce was beautifully suggestive, Let
us cross over and lie down under the trees !"