The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-12-26


hell. A Lebanon cedari John Milton on his
way up to the throne Of the worlds sacred
Poesy: must sell hts copyright Of Paradise
Lost for &12 In three payments. And vii.
liam Shakspere on Ills WY up to bs knowl.
edged tile greatest dramatiet ofal ages must
hold horses at tho door of the London then.
ter for u sixpence, and Homer must struggle
through total blindness to mortality, aud
Johii buHyan must cheer himself on the wny
UP by making flute out Of his prison stool,
md Canova the sculptor must toll ON
through, orphanage, modelling a lion in but.
ter before lie could cut his statues in marble.
And tho great Stephenson must watch COWS
in the field for few pennies and then become
stoksr. and afterward mend clocks before
le puts the locomotive on its track aud calls
forth plaudits from parliaments, aid medals
from kings. Abel Stevens Ia picked up a
neglected child Of the street. and rises through
lis consrcrated genius to l,e one Of the most
illustrious clergymen und historians Of the
century. And bishop james Of tho same
church in boyhoo,l worked hiS passage from
Ireland to America, antl up to u usefulness.
where, in the bishopric, he was second to n.'
one who ever adorcd 1t.
Thirty yoars from now the foremost men
~ all occupations and professions will bs
those who are this hour In awful struggle o!
early lie. many Of them without Is to their
name. So in spiritual lie it takes course
OF bereavements. prosecutions, aickness.s.
and losses to develop stalwart Christian
character: got letter IL few Days ago say.
ing: ~ have hardly seen IL we'll day sinc,
was born, md l could not write my own
hume until was so yoars Of age and am
very poor, but am, by the grn:e ofGoi, th
hapPiest man in Chicago" The BiLle spsakn
Of the snows of Lebanon, and ut this Se,.son
OF the year the snow there must be tremeu,l.
Gus. The deepest snow ever seen In America
would be insignificant compared with tina
m!ldest winter Of SHOWS OH those Lebanon
mountains. The cedars catch the skyiul oi
crystals on their brow mud on their long
SHOWS, enough to crush other trees to the
ground. splitting the branches from the
trunk nnd loaving them rent and torn never
to fise. But what do tho cmlnrs care :or
these t' SHOWS on Lebanon? They look up TO
tho winter skies md sny: "Snow on!
Empty the whito heavens upon us.
other procea4ions Of tenpest try s to bury ,as %s
IN their fury. We have for 500 winters been
accustomed to this. and for the next 500
winters we will clIcerfully take oil you have
TO send. for that IL the way We develop our
strength, and that is the WY We serve God,
and teach all ages how to endure and CON.
qucr." So l say: Good cheer to all people
who aro showed under Put your faith in
.s's~ SOu Wus GOtuG OuG AlOrlOUkly,
others may tie stunted growths, or weak
jumpers OH tho lower levels Of spirituality.
but you aregoing to be I.ebnnon cc,lurs At
last u will t'e said Of such aa you: "Tl,ess
IRE they who camo out Of grent tribuiatiUn
nni ha.i their rol'"s washed and made white
In tho blood Oft 1ml."
but while crOssl., over these mountains
o. Lebanon l'ethink myself of what an ex.
citing scene it must he when one Of these
ce,lars does fall. II does not go down like
other trees with u slight crackle that hnr,ily
makes thu woo,lslnan look ul. or u hawk
t!nt ter from neigl,boring bouKh When a
ce'inr fnlls 1t is the great event In the chlen.
mnr On o! tho mountains. The nxemen fly.
Tho wild boasts slimk to their dcns The par.
triigrH swoop to the valley for escape. The
n',gilhoring trees go dc-n under the awful
weight OF the descending monarch. The
rocks ars moved out OF their places, and
the earth trembles as from niles around nli
rnvinos send bnek their Eympnthe cchoea
Crash! Crash! Crash! SO when the great
ce.iars or worldly Christian influence
inli it in something terrific. Within
the I'nst few years how many mighty
nM nnd overlapping men have gone down.
moral disnster. Tho moral world. the rrlK-
eous world. the political world. the CONNER.
cini world are qunking with the fall of l.el,.
anon cetlnrs. 1t il nw.ul, We nre coml.lI., Il
70 cry out with Zecllnrinh the prophet.
Howl fir trees for the ce.lnr is fnlien!''
Some OF the smaller trees are GLAD ot it,
When some great dealer in stocks gOex down
the small dealers clap their hands and sny
Good for him!" When grant political
lrIl'ier gots down the small politicians
clnp their hands md say 'Just as OK.
l@cted!" When IL great mini.ter Of religion
fnlls. many little ministers lnuyh un their
slcev CO ind think themselves somehow ad.
vantaged. Alb, beloved brethren, no nns
makes anything out OF moral shipwreck.
Not IL willow by the rivcrs oi Damascus not
u sycamore on the plains Of Jericho. not an
olivs tree in all Palestine is helpei by the
full Of Lebanon cedar. Better weep aud
prny and .rrn,l'ls and listen to Paul's advice
to tho Gnlatinns when .hs ,ssaays. "c9n.!er cn 4:
1*.salthrfl ho ir dsad, unless he is iiyineiv
protected. A greater thinker than Lord
Francis Bacon. the world meyer saw. nn,i he
has changed the worlds mode of thinking
for nll time, his NOvum Or1nnum, n miracle
Of Literature. With $4,000 salnry, and
estates worth millions, aud I, ON the highest /
judicial bench Of tho world. he goes down
under the power Of bribery nn,i confessed
hia crime and was sentenced to the Tower.
and tho scDrn of centuries. Howl fir tree .or
the cedar is fnllenl