The Forrest City times., 1890-12-20
pie,t man In chicasus Tho Bible speaks

Suten tT"t thy luu VI CfysbtiS ou tutii brew and on their long arms Piled ep In great hefts are those ssosss, enough to crush cther t,,@sc .o the ground. splitting the hraAvhes from the trunk and leaving them rent and torn never to rise. But what do the cedars care for these snows on Lebanon? They look up to the winter skies and say; "Saow cA. Empty the white heavens epon us, and when this | storm is passed, let other processionc of tempcsts try to bury us in theft fury. We have for five hundred winters been ac- customed to this, and for the next fire hundred winters we will chesrf,illy take all you have to send. for that is the way we develop our Strength, and that is the way WI serve God and teach all ages bow to endure and conquer" So 1 say, Good cheer to all people who axo showed under
 Put your faith in God and you will come out gloriously Others tiiHy be stunted growths or weak iampers on the lower levels of spirituality, bat you arc going to Do Lebanon r,sdars. At last it will be said of such as yoN: ''These are they who robes washed and made white in the blood of tho Lamb"
 | But while crossing over these mountains ! ph A<tbalou pttuluh ny ~til VI Nutt exciting scene it must be when one of the ccdars does fall. It docs not go down like other trees with slight crac,le that hard | ly makes the woodmaa look up, CT a hawk tutter from neighbering bcugh. When a cedar falls it Is the great event in the calen- dar of the mountains. Tho axemen fly. Tho wild beasts slink .c their dens. The partridgcs sweep to the valley for escape t,,
 weight of the descending monarch. The rocks are moved out of their places, and the earth trembles as from miles around all ravincs send back their sympathetic echoes. Crash, Crash! Ccash So when l the great cedars of worldly or Christian in
 iiuencc fall it is something terrific With l in thC past few years how many mighty and overlapping men have gone down.
 There seems now to be m epidemic of nor
 al disaster. The moral world, the religious
 world, the political world. tho commercial
 world are quaking with the fall of Lebanon cry out with zcchariah the prophet, Howl
 tir-trees for the cedar is fallen" Some of 1 the smaller trees are glad of 1t. When
 some great dealer in stocks goes down, the
 small dealers clap their hands and say 1
 leader goes down the small politicians clap
 their hands and say 'Just as l expected r' When q great minister of religion falls.
 many little ministers laugh up their sleeves and think themselves somehow advantaged. l Ah. beloved brethren. no one makes any thing out of moral shipwrcck Not will
 low by the rivers of Damascus, not syca- more on the plains of Jericho, not an olive | tss., m all Iulesftp.s is halrNl bp faIl ,f Lebanon cedar. Better weep and pray and hemble and listen to Paurs advice to
 .he Galatians when he says: Considering
 thvself lest thou also be tempted.' No
 man is safe until he is dead. unless he is divinely protected. A greater thinker than
 Lord Francis Bacon the world never saw.
 and he changed the worlds mode ot
 thinking for all time, his "Novam Organ
 um, a miracle of literature With thirty eight thousand dollars salary, aud estates
 worth millions, and from the highest
 judicial bench in the world he goes down
 under the power of bribery and confessed
 his crime and was sentenced to the Tower,
 and the scorn of centuries. Howl tir-trees l for the cedar is fallen,
 Yet there is one cedar of Lebanon that
 always has and always will overtop all others. It is the Christ whom EzeSiel | describes us a goodly cedar and says; Under it shall como 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 well.
 Oh. l am so glad that the Holy Land of heaven like the Holy Land of Palestine and Syria, is great place for trees. m
 richard of them, grove of them, forest If them. Saint John saw them along the streets, and on both sides the River. and | every month they yielded a great crop of | ruit. You know what m imposing l appearance trees give to city on earth. | out how it exalts my idea of heaven when ! Saint John describes the city on high as 1 having its streets and it's rivers lined with 1 them Oh, tho trees, the trees. The l Jasper walls. the fountains, the temples were not enough. There would have been | something wanting yet So to complete
 all that ponp and splendor. behold the I upbranching trees of life. Not like those | stripped trees now around us, which kke 1 banished minstrels through the ! long winter night utter their dolor- ! ous lament, or in the blast moan like 1 lost spirits wandering up ari down the ] siile, but their leaf shall never wither i Whether you walk on the banks of the 1 River you will be under trees, or by the homes of martyrs under trees, or by the heavenly temple under trees. or along the Palace of the King immortal under trees Blessed arc they that do his command
 nents that they may have right to the Tree of Life.n Stoncwall Jacksons dying ut terance was beautifully suggestive, Let us cross over and lie down under the trees"