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

My heartstrings round thee cling
Close thy bark, old friend.
Here shall the wild bird sing,
And st, thy branches bend
Old tree! the storm still brave
And, woodman leave the spot.
While I've hand to save.
Thy AK shall harm it not
of Lebanon we bethink how its cedars
spread their branches and breathe their
aroma and cast their shadows all
through tile Bible Solomon diseoursed
about them in his botanical works
when he spoke of trees ''from the ce
dar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto
the hyssop that springeth out of the
wall" The Psalmist says, The right
eous shall grow like IL cedar in Leba
non, and in one of his magnificent
doxologies calls on the cedars to praise
the lord. And Solomon says the coun-
tenance of Christ is excellent as the
cedars, and Isaiah declares, "The day
of the Lord shall be upon all the ce-
| dars of Lebanon And jeremiah and
Ezekiel and Amos and Haphaniah and
1 Zechariah weave its foliage into their
/ sublimcst utterances.
AS we ride over Lebanon today there
is bowling wind sweeping past and a
/ dash of rain, all the better enabling us
/ to appreciate that description of TEN
pest, which no doubt was suggested by
what David had seen with his own eyes
among these heights, for as a soldier he
Lao Il al 10,
and such poet as he, | warrant, spent
many a day on Lebanon, And perhaps
while he was seated on this very rock
against which our carriage jolts he
writes that wonderful description of a
thunder storm: The voice of the Lord
is powerful The voice of the Lord Is
full of majesty. The voice of the Lord
breabeth the cedar5 of Lebanon. Yea
the Lord breaketh the cedars of Leb
anon He lnaketh them also to Skin
like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like 6
young unicorn. Tho voice of the Lore
divideth the flames of fire.
As the lion is the monarch of the
fields and bchenoth the monarch o
the waters, the cedar is the monarch o
the trees And | think one reason why
it is SO glorIied all up and down tn,
Bible is because we need more of it
characteristics in our religious life. w,
have too much of the willow, and arr
easily bent this way or that; to,
much of the aspen, and we tremble un
der every zephyr of assault; too nucl
of the braublc tree and our SHARP
points sting and wound; but no
enough of the cedar wide branche,
and heaven aspiring and tempest crap
ping,
But the reason these cedar stand St
we'll is that they are deep rooted. The
run their anchors down into the cav
erns of the mountain and fasten to tn
twist around and clinch themselve
on the other side of the deepest laye
of rock they can reach. And that
the difference between Christians VIII
stand and Christians who fall, 1t
the difference between u superficia
character and one that has clutched il
roots deep down around and unde
the Rock OF Ages.
ABIDE N EVERLASTING STRENGTH.
One OF the Lebanon cedars was el
amined by II scientist, and from its COZ
centric circles it was found to be thirty
r five hundred years old and still stant
p ing, and there is such thing rs eve
1 lasting strength, and such a stanchne;
; of Christian character that all time AN
all eternity instead of being its dem,
! lition shall be its opportunity. NJ
! such are those vacillating Christian
] who are 50 pious on Sunday that the
. have no religion left for the weekda,
5 As the anaconda gorges itself wit
$ food and then seems for a long time
Il lie thoroughly insensible, so there a
q men who win on Sunday get such
religious surleit that the rest of Il
week they seem thoroughly dead to {
v religious emotion.
= They weep in church under chart
/ sermon, but if on Monday subject
want presents itself at the door the be
y CARS safety will depend entirely ,
4 quick limbs and an unobstructed sta
way 1t takes all the grace they c;
If get to keep them from committing {
y sault and battery on those intrude
10 who come with pale faces and stori
~ of distress and subscription papel
II The reason that God planted the
"a cedars in the Bible was to suggest tn
we ought, in our religious character.