Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-23
THE GLORIOUS PALM.
DR.. TALMAeE SPEAKS OF THE TYPE
or cHRlsT's TRIUMPH.

Arhor Day Thank God Tor the Trees
The Gospel Of Self Sacrifice.
BRooKLYK, April I0.-This day is recog
nized as Palm Sunday throughout tn.
world, and that fact gave direction TO DR.
Talmage's sermon Among the hymns
sung was the hymn
clad in rafrnent pure and white.
Victor palms In every hand.
Text, John xii, IS. -They took branches OF
palm trees and went forth to meet him."
How was that possiblei How could
palm branches be cast in the way Of Christ
as he approached Jerusalemi There are
scarcely any palm trees in Central Pales-
tine. Even the one that was carefully
guarded for many years at Jericho has
gone. / went over the very road by which
Christ approached Jerusalem, and there
are plenty of olive trees and fig trees, but
no palm trees that could see. You must
remember that the climate has changed
The palm tree likes water, but by the cut
ting down Of the forests which are leafy
prayers for rain, the land has become I'M
friendly to the palm tree. Jericho once
stood In seven miles OF palm grove. Oil
vet was crowned with palms. The Dead
sea has ON its banks the trunks of palm
trees that fioated down from some oldtime
palm grove and are preserved from decay
by the salt which they received from the
Dead sea
SPARE THE TREES.
Let woodmen spare the trees OF America,
If they would not ruinously change the eli
mate and bring to the soil barrenness in
stead of fertility. Thanks TO God and the
legislatures for Arbor Day, which plants
trees, trying TO atone for the ruthlessness
which has destroyed them. Yes, my text
Is in harmony with the condition of that
country on the morning of Palm Sunday.
About three million people have como to
Jerusalem TO attend the religious festivi
ties. Great newsI Jesus will enter Jeru-
salem today The sky is red with the
morning, and the people are fiocking out
TO the foot of Oliyet. and up and on over
the southern shoulder of the mountain,
and the procession coming out from the
city meets the procession escorting Christ,
as he comes toward the city There is
turn in the road, where Jerusalem sud-
denly bursts upon the vision.
We had ridden that day all the way from
Jericho, and had visited the ruins of the
house Of Mary and Martha and Lazarus
and were somewhat weary Of sight seeing,
when there suddenly arose before our Wis.
ion Jerusalem, the religious capital of all
Christian ages. That was the point of OBJ
servation where my text comes in. Alex
ander rode Bucephalus. Duke Ellie rode his
famous Marchegay, Sir Henry Lawrence
rode the high melted Conrad, Wellington
rode his proud Copenhagen, but the con.
queror of earth and heayen rides a colt,
one that had been tied at the roadside 1t |
was unbroken, and | have no doubt frac-
tious at the vociferation of the populace |
An extemporized saddle made out Of the |
garments Of the people was put on the |
beast While some people griped the
bride OF the colt, others reyerently waited |
upon. Christ at the mounting
The two professions Of people now be- |
come one-those who came out of the city |
and those who came over the hill. The |
orientals are more demonstrative than we
of the western world, their voices louder,
their gesticulations more violent and the
symbols by which they express their emo
tions more significant The people who
left Phocea, in the far east, wishing to
make impressive that they would never
return, took a red hot bali of iron and
threw 1t into the sea. and said they would
never return to Phocea until that ball rose
and foated on the surface. Be not sur
prised, therefore, Mt the demonstration in
The text. afn
THE VISTA OF PALMS
As the colt with its rider descends the
slope Of Clivet, the palm trees lining the
road are called upon to render their contri
button to the scene of welcome and reioic-
ng. The branches of these trees are high
up, and some must needs climb the trees
md faas- of tho laoxau an1 tE..o,.. fl,.... I
Town, and others make Of these leaves an
emerald pavement for the colt to tread on.
Long before that morning the palm tree
lad been typical of triumph. Herydotus
md Strabo had thus described it, Layard
lnds the palm leaf cut in the walls of
lineveh, with the same Significance. In :
he Greek athletic games the victors car !
led palms. am very glad that our Lord,
Who five days after had thorns upon his
row, for little while at least had palms s
trewn under his feet. Oh, the glorious {
'alml Amarasinga, the Hindoo scholar, $
alls it ''the king among the grasses" Lin.
eus calls il 1.-THE prince of Vegetation
Among all the trees that ever cast a :
hadow. or yielded fruit or lifted their nrTns !
oward heaven. it has no equal for multi. '
udinous uses. Do you wantaowerss One
aim tree will put forth hanging garden G
( them, one cluster counted by a scientist
20T,O00 blooms Do you want 7
Dodfa IT. the chief diet of whole nations {
Inc palm in Chill win yield ninety gallons a
( honey In Polynesiait is the chief food Q
T the inhabitants. In India there are niII {
tuies of people dependent upon itifor sus, =
anapce, ~. -. $500 ,s-, {
Do you want cable to hold ships or cords I
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