Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09

,,u anG when this storm IS passed let otnew
professions of tempest try to bury rs In
their fury. We have for five hundred winters
been accustomed to this, and TOR the next
Eve hundred winters viii cheerfully take
all you have to send. for shat is the way we
develop our strength. and 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 under! Put your
faith in God and you win come out glori-
ously Others may be stunted growths, or
weak jumpers on the lower levels of spirit
uality, but you are going to be Lebanon ce-
dars. At last it viii he said of such
a. you: These are they who came out OF
washed and made white in the blood OF
The lamb"
But while crossing over these mountains
of Lebanon ] bethink myself of what an
exciting scene it must be when one OF the
cedars does fall. 1t does not go down IKE
other trees with a slight crackle that
hardly makes the woodsman look up, or a
hawk ffutter from a neighborlng bough.
When q cedar falls it is the great event Ill
the calendar of the mountains. The axmen
fy. The wild beasts stink to their dens.
The partridges swoop to the valley for
cape. The neighboring trees go down under
the awful 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
great cedars of the worldly Christian
influence fall it is something terrific Within
the past few years how many mighty and
overlapping men have gone down. There
seems now to be an epidemic Ofmoral disaster.
The moral world. the religious world, >~ie
political world, the commercial world, Are
quaking with the fall of Lebanon cedalf. 1t
is awful We are compelled to cry OUT with
Zachariah. the prophet Howl, fir trees, fo1
the cedar is fallen!" Some or the smaller
1~,fS% Il 1oT
in stocks goes down the small dealers clap
their hands and say, Good for him!
When great political leader goes down the
small politicians clap their hands and say,
Just as l expected! When a great min
lister of religion falls many little ministers
laugh up their sleeves and think themselves
somehow advantaged. All, beloved brethren,
no one makes anything out of mora
shipwreck. Not a willow by the rivers
OF Damascus, not q sycamore on
the plains of Jericho, not an olive
tree in all Palestine is helped by the fall of
Lebanon cedar. Better weep and pray and
tremble and listen to Pauls advice to the
Galatians when he says, considering thy.
self lest thou also be tempted" No man is
safe until he is dead unless he be divinely
protected 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 lit
erature With $3S, 900 salary and estates
bench of 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, fir tree for the cedar is
falleni
In my Journey up and down Palestine and
Syria nothing more impressed me than the
trees-the teretdnths, the sycamores, the
tamarisks, the oleanders, the mulberrys, the
OHves, Une myrUles the palms, the cedars-
ell of them explanatory of so much of the
hn Ino 10 ru.hoT
through an improved arboriculture, the
round world shall be circumference, en-
girdled, embosomed, unparalleled in shade
trees and fruit trees and flo wer trees. Isaiah
declares in one place, "The glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, and in another place:
"All the trees of the field shall clap their
hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up
the fir tree. Instead of the briar shall come
up the myrtle tree" Oh. grandest arbor-
sscence of all time. Begin Begin!
Oh, am so glad that the holy land of
heaven, like the holy land of Palestine and
Syria, is a great place for trees, an orchard
Of them, @ grove of them, q forest of them.
St. John saw them along the streets, and on
both sides of the river, and every month
they yielded great crop of fruit You
know what imposing appearance trees
give to a city on earth. but how it exalts my
idea of heaven when st. John describes the
city on high as having its streets andi rivers
lined with them. Oh, the treesi the trees
The jasper walls. the fountains, the temples
were not enough. There would have been
something wanting yet. So to complete all
that pomp and splendor l behold the up
branching trees of life. Not like those
stripped trees around US, which like
banshed MINISTRIES through the long winter
night, utter their dolorous lament. or in the
blast moan like lost spirits wandering up
and down the gale, their leaf shall never
wlther. 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 trees, or
along the palace of the Kings immortal I'M
der trees. Blessed are they that do His
commandments that they may have right to
the tree of ife." Stonewall Jacksons dying
utterance was beautifully suggestive, Let
us cross over and lie down under the treesI"