Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-04-14
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some mus needs iILub thSGSco~o.-.
off the leaves and throw them down,
and others make of these leaves an EN-
erald pavement for the colt TO tread on.
TIE PALM TYPICAL OF TRIUMPH.
Long before that morning the palm
tree had been tygieal ef1riaiaa -Hv-1I7
otus and Strabo had thus described ii.
Layard finds the palm leaf cut IN the
walls of Nineveh with the same signih-
canoe. IN the Greek athletic games the
victors carried palms. l am very glad
that our Lord, who FIVE days after had
thorns upon his brow, for aiitt!e while.
atleast, had palms strewn under his feet.
Oh, the glorious palm! Amarasinga, the
Hirdoo scholar, calls it 1.-The kinga3nons
the grasses Linn9us calls it 1.-THE
pr1pc.-w seuatIou. 1905 IL +ae
trees that ever cast a shadow or yielded
fruit or lifted their arms toward heaven.
it has no equal for m~ultitudinous uses.
Do you want flowers? One palm tree
will put forth a hanging garden of them
one cluster counted by a scientist con
taiaing 207, 900 blooms. Do YOU want
food? 1t is the chief diet Of whole ma
tons. One palm in Chill will yield ninety
gallons of honey. In POLYNESIA ii Is the
chief food of the inhabitants. Ia India
there are multitudes of people dependent
upon II for s~ustenance. Do YOU waA.
cable to hold ships or cords TO hold wild
beasts: 1t is wound into ropes unbreak
able. Do you want articles Of house
furniture: It is twisted into mat and
woven into baskets and shaped lato
drinking cups and swung into ham
mocks? Doyou want medicine: lis nut
is the chief preventive Of disease and the
chief cure for vast populations. Do yoa'
want houses: It's wood furnishes the
wall for the homes and It's leaves tHtch
them. De You need a suppl for the
pantry: Ityields sugar and starch and
oil and sage and milk and salt and WAX
and vinegar and candies.
:. Oh. the palm! 1t has a variety Of tn
dowments such as no other growth that
ever rooted the earth or kissed the heav-
ems. To the willow God says, Stand
by the water courses and weep. To the
cedar ne says, Gather the hurricanes
into your BOSOM To the fg tree he
says, Bear fruit and put it within reach
OF all the people" But to the palm tree
he says, ..Be garden and storehouse and
wardrobe and ropewalk and chandlery
and bread ana banquet and manuf"c-
tory; and then be type of what i meant
when l inspired Dav;J, my servant, to
say, The righteous shall flourish like a
palm tree" Oh, Lord God, give us
more palm trees; men ms women mace
for nothing but to be useful; dispositions
all abloom; branches of influence laden
with fruit; people good for everything,
as the palm tree. If kind words are
wanted, they are ready TO utter them.
If helpful deeds are needed, they are
ready to perform them. If plars of use
fitness are to be laid out, they are ready
to project them. If enterprises are to
be forwarded, they are ready to lift
them. People who say, yes! Yes"
when they are asked For assistance by
word or deed, instead of sSNo! No"
Most Of the mysteries that bother others
do not bother me because a.- adjourn
them, but the mystery that really both
ers me is why God made SO many Neo-
pie who amount to nothing so far as the
world,s-betterment is concerned. They
stand in the way. TheNob5ect. They
discuss h~indrances. They suggest pos
eimhties of failure. Oyer sthet road OF:
life instead of pulling-in the traces they
are lying back the breechings. They
are the everlasting No. They are BRAN
bic trees; they. are willows always,
mourning. or.vild cherry trees yielding
only the bitter, or crabapple trees pro.
dueing only the sour, while God Would
have.ps ali flourish like the palm tree.
Plapted in the Bible that tree always
means usefulness. But, how lRsls any
sofusor all of IS accomplish in that di-
rection. We take twenty or thirty
years to get fullyready for. Christian
waEk, and in the after part of life We
take ten OF twenty -ears for TIE gradual.