Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-06

vears of age, and / am very poori ou'
am, by the grace OF Nod' iiie "AFi''e'
man in Chicago.
The Bible speaks of the SHOWS OF
Lebanon, and at this season OF the year
fine SHOWS there must be tremendous
The deepest snow ever seen IN America
would be insignificant compared WIN
the mildest winter of SHOWS on those
Lebanon mountains. The cedars catcn
that skyfull Of crystals on their pro" !
and on their long arms. Plied up III
great heaps are those SHOWS, enough 70
crush other trees to the ground, sput
ting fine branches from the trunk ana
leaving them rent and torn, never TO
rise But what do the cedars care Tor
these SHOWS on LebanonE Ihey looh
mn to the winter skies and say; SNOW
onl Empty the white heavens upon
MS. and when this storm is passed
let other professions Of tempest try
to bury us in their fury. we have
for five hundred winters been ac-
customed to this, and for the next
five hundred winters we will cheertuily
take all you have to send; for that IS
the way we develop our strength, ana
that is the way we serve God and teach
all ages how to endure and conquer.
So | say: Good cheer to all people
who are showed underl Put your faith
in God and you will come out glorious
". Others may be stunted growtils
or weak jumpers on the lower levels
of spirituality, but you are going to be
Lebanon cedars At last it will be SAID
of such as you: ''These are they who
/ came out of great tribulation and had
their robes washed and made white In
/ the blood of the Lamb.
/ But while crossing over these mount
aims of Lebanon | bethink myself OF
what an exciting scene it must be when
one of the cedars does fall. 1t does not
90 down like other trees, with slight
crackIe that hardly makes the woods
man look up, or a hawk tiutter from a
neighboring Dough. When a cedar falls
it is the great event in the calendar OF
the mountains. The aXnen fly. The
wild beasts stink TO their dens. The
partridges swoop to the valley for es-
cape The neighboring trees go down
under the awful weight of the descend
ing monarch The rocks are moved
out of their places, and the earth trcm-
bles as from miles around ali ravines
send back their sympathetic echoes.
crash crash crash! So when the
great cedars of worldly or Christian in
. fluence fall it is something terrific.
Within the past few years how many
mighty and overtopp.ng men have gone
| down.
THE PRESENT MORAL STORM.
There seems now to be an epidemic
f of moral disaster The moral world
the religious world, the political world
/ the commercial world are Quakine
2 with the fall of Lebanon cedars. Il
5 is awful We are compelled TO cry
out with zechariah, the prophet
"Howl, fir trees, for the cedar il
r fallen" Some OF the smaller trees
: are glad of it. When some grea
+ dealer in stocks goes down the small
t dealers clap their hands and say
] Good for him. When a Erea
< political leader goes down the small
politicians clap their hands and say
t Just as | expected" When a grea
J. minister of religion falls many littI
e ministers laugh up their sleeves AM
/ think themselves somehow advantaged
All, beloved brethren. no one make
r anything out OF moral shipwreck.
t Not a willow by the rivers of Da
n mascus, not Il sycamore on the plain
; of Jericho, not an olive tree in all PA
y estine is helped by the fall of q Leba
n non cedar Better weep and pray am
/ tremble and listen to Pauls advice t
n the Galatians when he says, "Consid
II ering thysclf lest thou also be tempt
Il ed" No man is safe until he is dea'
=! unless he be divinely protected. !
e greater thinker than Lord Francis Be
II con the world never saw, and h
d" changed the worlds mode of thinkin
2. for all time, his "N0vmm Organum.
n miracle of literature With S39, co
e salary and estates worth millions am
It from the highest judicial bench Of til
II world he goes down under the powe
n of bribery, and confessed his crime an,
L was sentenced to the Tower and tn
4 scorn of centuries. Howl fir tree, fo
y the cedar is fallen
IS Warren Hastings, rising until he be
T. came governor general of India am
+ the envy of the chief public men Of hi
d day, plunges into cruelties against tn
e barbaric people he had been sent t
u rule, until his name is chiefly associate
. with the criminal trial in Westmnste
q hall, whore came upon him the anath(
N mas OF Sheridan, Fox, Edmund Burke
., the English nation, and all time
: Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallenl A
= eminent instances of moral disaster ar
- found in our own land and our oE
-. time, instances that DO not recite les
y wound the feelings of those no,
A. alive to mourn the shipwrack, let you
- indignation against the fallen turn t
u pity.
- A judge in one of our America
- courts gives this experience In r,
spectacle but poor family a daughte
was getting a musical education. Sh
= needed one more course of lessons t
~ complete that education. The father
means were exhausted, and so gres
~ WAS his aDNintN- ~ I,l,, IL; L.