Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-01

enough 1Or an 0rcViC explorer; send him
through college where he will not have to
ttudy in order to get diploma, because
his father is rich; start him in a profession
where he begins with an Office the floor
tovered with Administer, and library Of
books in Russian morocco, and an arm chair
upholstered like q throne, and an cmbroid-
cred ottoman upon which to put his twelve
dollar CATERS, and they lay upon his table
the best ivory cigar-holder you can import
from Brussels, and have standing outside
his door prancing span that won the prize
at tho horse fair, and leave him estate
enough to make him independent Of all
struggle, ard what will become Of him
If he do not die early of inanition or dissi-
patton, he will live useless life, and die
an unlamentcd death and 70 into FOOLS
eternity.
Thirty years from now the foremost
men in all occupations and professions will
be those who are this hour in awful strug-
gle Of early life. many Of them without
five dollars to their name. So in spiritual
life it takes course Of bereavements,
prosecutions. sicknesses and losses to de-
velop stalwart Christian character. got
letter few days ago saying: II have
hardly seen q well day since was born,
and could not write my own name until I
was fifty years Of age and am very poor,
but l am, by the grace of God. the hap
piest man in Chicago" The Bible speaks
of the SHOWS of Lebanon, and at this
season of the year the SHOWS there must be
tremendous. The deepest snow ever seen
in America would be insignificant COM
pared with the mildcst winter Of SHOWS on
those Lebanon mountains. The cedars
catch that skyfull Of crystals on their
brow and on their long arms. Piled up in
great hefts are those SHOWS, enough to
crush other trees to the ground, splitting
the branches from the trunk and leaving
them rent and torn never to rise. But
what do the cedars care for these SHOWS
on Lebanon? They look up TO the winter
skies and say: ''Srow on! Empty the
white heavens upon us, and when this
storm is passed, let other professions of
tempests try to bury US in their fury. We
have for five hundred winters heen ac-
customcd TO this, and for the next five
hundred winters we will cheerfully take all
you have to send, for that is tho way we
develop our strength, and that is the way
we serve God and teach all ages how to
endure and conquer" So l say, Good
cheer to all people who are showed under.
Put your faith in God and you will come
out goriously. Others may be stuntcd
growths. 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 arc 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 mountains
Of Lebanon / bethink myself OF what all
exciting scene it must be when one of the
cedars does fall. 1t does not go down like
other trees with slight crackle that hard
ly makes the woodman look up, or a hawk
futter from ncighboring bough. When q
cedar falls it is the great event in the calen-
dar of the mountains. The axemen fly.
The wild beasts stink to their dens. The
cartridges swoop to the valley for escape.
The reighboring trees go down under the
weight of the descending monarch. The
rocks are moved out of their places, and
| the earth trembles as from miles around
all 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. With
| in the past few years how many mighty
and overlapping men have gone down.
| There seems now to be an epidemic Of NOR
al disaster. The moral world, the religious
world, the political world. the commercial
| world are quaking with the fall of Lebanon
| cedars. 1t is awful. We are compelled to
cry out with Zcchariah the prophet, Howl
fir-trces for the cedar is fallenw Some Of
| the smaller trees are glad of it. When
some great dealer in stocks goes down, the
small dealers clap their hands and say
Good for him ~ When a great political
leader goes down the small politicians clap
their hands and say 'Just as I expected p
| ,.,.sc of Col.
| many little ministers laugh up their sleeves
and think themselves somehow advantaged.
| All, beloved brethren, no one makes any
thing out of moral shipwreck. Not will
low by the rivers of Damascus, not syca-
more on the plains of Jericho, not an olive
tree in all Palestine is helped by the fall Of
| Lebanon cedar. Better weep and pray
| mud tremble and listen to Paul's advice to
tho 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 OF
thinking for all time, his ''Novum Organ
um," miracle of literature. With thirty
eight thousand dollars salary, and estates
worth millions, and from the highest
judicial bench in the world he goes down
under the power OF bribery ana confessed
his crime and was sentenced to the Tower,
and the scorn Of centuries. Howl fr-trees
for the cedar is fallen!
Yet there is one cedar Of Lebanon that
always has and always will overtop all
others. II is the Christ whom Ezekiel
describes as 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
Garth rc.k. and timo end, and eternity
begin, all shall be well.
Oh!I am SO glad that the Holy Land Of
heaven like the Holy Land Of Palestine
and Syria. is great place for trees. al
orchard Of them, grove Of them, fores
Of them. Saint John saw them along thu
streets. and on both sides the River, ant
every month they yielded great crop o.
fruit. You know what an imposing
appearance trees give to q city on earth
but how it exalts my idea Of heaven wher
Saint John describes the city Oh high a.
having its streets and Its rivers lined witt
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