The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-05-20

osIho, tnns living n0o glorious pillnx IN
the eastern gardens, a. seen Ia olden
times-the palm tree; I must not be
tempted by what tho Old Testament
says of IL 10 lessen my emphasis of what
John, the Evangelist, says of IL in my
text
Notice that IL was q beautiful and
lawful robbery of the palm tree that
helped make the Christ's triumph on
the road TO Jerusalem that Palm Sum
day. The long, broad, green leaves
that were strewn under the feet of the
colt and in the way of Christ were torn
of from the trees. What pity, some
one might say, that those stately and
graceful trees should be despoiled. Tho
sap oozed out at the places where the
branches broke.
The glory of the palm tree was APP
propriately sacrificed for the Saviour's
triumphal procession. So 1t always
was, so 1t always will be in this world
no worthy triumph of any sort with
out the tearing down of something else.
Brooklyn Bridge the glory Of our CONT
nent, must have two architects pros
trated, the one slain by his tolls and
the other for life time invalided. The
greatest pictures of the world had, in
their richest coloring, the blood of the
artist who made them. The mightiest
oratorios that ever rolled through the
churches had, in their pathos, the signs
and groans Of their composers, who
wore their lives out in writing the
harmony. American independence was
triumphant, but it moved on over the
lifeless forms of tens of thousands of
men who fell at Bunker hill and York
town and the battle between, which
were the hemorrhages of the nation.
The kingdom of God advances in all
the earth, but it must be over the lives
of missionaries who die of malaria in the
jungles, or Christian workers who
preach and pray and toll and die in the
service. The Saviour triumphs in all
directions, but beauty and strength
must be torn down from the palm trees
of Christian heroism and conservation
and thrown in His pathway. To what
better use could those palm trees on the
southern shoulder of Mt. Olivet and
clear down into the valley of Gethse-
name put their branches than to sur
render them for the making of Christ's
journey toward Jerusalem the more
memorable and the more triumphant?
And to what better use could we put
our lives than into the sacrifice of
Christ and His cause and the happiness
of our fellow-creatures? Shall we not
be willing to be torn down that right
eousness shall have full sway? Christ twas
L.. n.
be torn down for Him? If Christ could
suffer so much for us, can we not suffer
a little for Christ? II He can afford on
Palm Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to |
carry a cross, can we not afford few |
leaves from our branches to make |
emerald His way.
The process is going on every moment |
in all directions. What makes that
father have such hard work to find the |
hymn to-day? He puts on his spectacles
and holds the book close up, and then
holds it far off, and is not quite sure
whether the number of the hymn is 150
or 100, and the fingers with which he
turns the leaves are very clumsy. He
stoops good deal, although once he
was straight as an arrow and his eyes
were keen as hawks, and the hand
he offered to his bride on the marriage
day was of goodly shape and rs God
made it. l will tell you what is the
matter. Forty years ago he resolved
his children should be well edu-
Gated, and suffer none of the dis
advantage of lack of schooling from
which he had suffered for lifetime,
and that the wolf of hunger should new
er put its paw on his door-sill, and forty
Or fifty years he has been tearing off
rom the palm tree of his physical
strength and manly form branches to
throw in the pathway of his household.
t has cost him muscle, and brain, and
health, and eyesight, and there have
been twisted off more years from his
life than any man in the crowd on
he famous Palm Sunday twisted
If branches from the palm trees on
he road from Bethpage to Jeru-
allen. What makes that mother
ook 80 much older than she really
8? You say she ought not yet to have
me gray line in her hair. The truth Is
he family was not always as well off as
low. The married pair had hard
truggle at the start. Examine the tips :
4 the forefnger and thumb of her right
and, and they will tell You the story of !
he needle that was piled day in and ,
ay out. Yea, look at both her hands,
nd they will tell the story of the time I
,hen she did her own work, her own :
,ending and scrubbing and washing :
'ea, look into the face and read the :
tory of scarlet fevers and groups and :
lidnight watchings when none but God :