Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-18

politicians clap their hands and say
"Just as I expected.' When a grea,
minister of religion falls. many little
ministers laugh up their sleeves and
think themselves advantaged. All, be-
loved brethren, no one makes ANYTHING
out of moral shipwreck. Not willow
by the rivers OF Damascus, not q syca-
more on the plains OF Jericho, not an
olive tree in ell Palestine is helped by the
fall Of Lebanon cedar. Better weep
and pray and tremble and listen 10
Paul. e 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 E.
4 greater thinker than Lord Francis
Bacon the world never saw, and he
changed the worlds mode of thinking
| for all time, his Novum Organum a
miracle of literature. With S3S, 900 SAL
airy, 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 was SEN
fenced to the tower and the scorn Of
! centuries. Howl fir-tree for the cedar
| is fallen.
WARREN HASTINGS.
rising until he became encouragement
OF India, and the envy OF the chief public
men of his dsy, plunses into crueltIes
against the barbaric people he has been
sent TO rule, until his name is chiefly
associated with the criminal trial in
Westminster hall where upon him came
the anathemas of Sheridan, Fox, Ed
! mund Burke, the English nation. and
all time. Howl fr-tree for the cedar is
fallen! AS eminent instances of moral
| disaster are found in our own land and
| our own time, instances that l do not re-
cite lest l 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 this experience. In re-
spectacle but poor family, daughter
was getting musIcal education. She
needed one more cOuree of lessons to
complete that education. The fathers
means were exhausted, and so great was
his anxiety TO help his daughter
that he feloniously took some money
from his employer and going
home to his daughter said: ''There is the
money to complete your musical educa-
ton. The wife and mother suspected
something wrong, and obtained from her
husband the whole story, and that night
went around with her husband to the
merchants house aud surrendered the
whols amount of the money and asked
forgiveness. Forgiveness was denied,
and the man was arrested. The judge,
knowing the circumstances and that the
money had all been returned, suggested
to the merchant he had better let the
matter drop for the sake of the
WIFE AND THE DAUGHTER.
No! he would not let it drop, and he
did all ne could to make the case conspi-
cuous and blasting. The judge says that
afterward that same ineXorable merchant
was before him for breaking the law OF
the land. 1t is poor rule that will not
work both ways. Let him that standeth
take heed lest he fall. Not congratula-
ton, but tears when a cedar Is fallen!
Yet there is one cedar of Lebanon that
always has and always will overtop all
others. 1t is the Christ whom Ezekiel
describes as Roodly cedar and says:
"Under 1t 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 aud down Palestine
and Syria nothing more impressed me
than the trees-the tere5inths, the syce-
Elo-es, the tamarisks, the oleanders, the |
mulberrTs, the olives, tho myrt!es, the
palms, the cedars-alI of them explana-
tory of so much of the Scriptures. And |
the time ia coming when, through an |
improved arboriculture, the round world |
shall be circumference, engirdled, en- |
bosomed, unparalleled in shade trees, !
and fruit trees, and flower trees. Isaiah |
declares in one place "The glory of |
Lebanon shall be given unto it," aud in |
another place, GAN the trees of the |
field shall clap their hands. Instead of |
the thorn shall come up the fir tree. In |
stead OF the briar shall come up the |
myrtle tree. oh, grandest arbor-
escence of all time
BEGIN! BEGIN!
Oh! am so glad that the Holy Land |
of heaven like the Holy Land of Pales-
tine and Syria, ia q great place for trees,
an orchard of them, a grove of them, a
forest of them. SAINT John saw them
along the streets, and on both sides the
river, and every month they yielded
great crop of fruit. You know what IN
imposing appearance trees give to q city
on earth, but how it eXalts my idea of
heaven when Saint 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 foun-
tains, the temples were not enough.
There would have been something want
ing yet. So to complete all that pomp
and splendor, l behold the upbranching
trees of life. Not like those
stripped trees now around US,
which like banished Ministries
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 leas 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 srees, or
along the Palace of the King Immortal
under trees. "Blesssd are they that do
his commandments that they may have
right to the Tree of Life. - "Stonewall
ackson's dying utterance was beauti-
fully Suggestive: 'Let us cross over
and lie down under the trees!'
Batchelor Burned Out,