Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-06
CEDARS OF LEBANON
DR.. TALMAGE'S TWELFTH SERMON
ON THE HOLY LAND.

4 ing countries. After delivering it in
/ the morning in the Academy of Music
/ in this city, he preached it again in the
/ evening in New York at the service
/ held under the auspices of The Chris
4 tan Herald Before commencing his
/ sermon DR.. Talmage stated that in
| spite of all the efforts that were being
/ put forth to hasten the completion of
/ his new Tabernacle, the work was on
so magnificent scale, and the neces
/ sity for care in its construction so i'm
perative, that judging by present indi-
cations it would not be ready for dedi
cation before Easter.
1 lie was happy to say, however, that
| the hospitality of The Christian Herald,
/ through which these Sunday evening
/ services in New York had been held.
would be continued, and the publisher
| Of that journal had already secured an
extension Of the lease of the Academy
/ of Music He would therefore be able
/ to hold services there every Sunday
/ evening until the new Tabernacle was
+ finished
Owing to the inclemency Of the
weather he would discontinue the Gus
tom of giving an address out of doors
after the regular exercises to the crowd
Of people who had been unable to gain
admission to the Academy, but the
publisher Of The Christian Herald
was endcavoring to obtain the use Of
church or public building in the
IL, taI,
vice could be held DIR. TaImage then
announced as his text Psalms civ, 1G
"rhe cedars Of Lebanon which he hath
planted" and preached the following
sermon;
In our journey we change stirrup for
wheel 1t is 4 o'clock in the morning
at Damascus, Syria, and we are among
the lanterns Of the hostelry waiting for
the stage TO start A Mohammedan in
high life is putting his three wives on
board within an apartment by them
selves, and our party occupy the main
apartment Of one of the most uncom
Portable vehicles in which mortals were
ever jammed and half strangulated.
But we must not let the discomforts
annul or disparage the opportunities
We are rolling on and out and up the
mountains of Lebanon, their forehead
under II crown of snow, which coronet
the fingers of the hottest summer can
not cast down.
We arc ascending heights around
which is garlanded much Of the finest
poesy of the Scriptures, and are rising
toward the mightiest dominion that
/, botany over recognized, reigned over
, by the most imperial tree that ever
0 swayed leafy scepter-the Lebanon
cedar; tree eulogized in my text a.
: having grown from II nut put into the
!, ground by God himself and no human
, hand had anything to do with its
, planting "The trees Of Lebanon which
he hath planted.
THE ARBOREsCENT GIANTS.
The average height of this mountain
l is seven thousand feet but in one place
: it lifts its head to an altitude of ter
!, thousand No higher than six thou
, sand feet can vegetation exist, but be
e low that line Mt the right season arC
= vineyards and orchards and olive
groves and flowers that dash tin,
mountain side VIII II very carnage O
n color, and I'LL the air with aromatc
V that Hosea, the prophet, and solomon
y the king celebrated as the smell o
o Lebanon" Alta height of six thousanC
: feet is grove of ccdars, the only de
a scendunts of those vast forests from
= which Solomon cut his timber for til,
y temple at Jerusalem, and whore at ON,
: time there we're one hundred thousanC
" axnen hewing out the beams from
G which great cities wero constructed.
e But this nation of trees has by hu
: man iconoclasm been massacred unit
o only small group is left. This rae
:, of giants is nearly extinct, but | hay
5 no doubt that some of these We're her
) when Hiram, king of Tyre, ordered TN
i assassination of those cedars of Leb
! anon which the Lord planted. From
!, the multitude OF uses to which it ma
o be put and the employment of it l.
the Scriptures the cedar is the divin
favorte When tine plains To be seei
from the window of this stage in whicl
: we ride today are parched under sum
# mer heats and not a grass blade SUI
70 wives the fervidity this tree stands il
l. luxurianco, de1ying the summer sun.
10 And when the storms of winter ten
;, rfy the earth, and hurl the rocks i
4 avalanche down this mountain side
&c this tree grapplcs the hurricane of sno'
d in triumph, and leaves the spent fur
1t at its feet From sixty to eighty fec
a high are they, the horizontal brancht
Il of great sweep with their burden c
e. leaves needle shaped, the top of tn
lie tree pyranidal, throne of foliage o
&c which might and spleudor and glor
10 sit But so continuously has the e,
ir termination Of trees gone ON, that fC
S. the most part the mountains of Lei
re- anon are bare of foliage, while, | III
sorry to say, the earth in all lands
being likewise denuded,
70, The aX is Staying the forests all roun
". the earth. 70 stop the slaughter Go
m opened the coal mines of England an
=, n0 Scotland and America and the worl,
of practically saying by that, Here
n fuel; as far as possible let my tre
'p, alone" And by opening for the huma
ne race the great quarres of granite an
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