The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-12-03
The branches are too heavy. The roots
are too wide TO be lifted and moved.


The imperfections of trees may be the
more readily recognizable in their old
age. but the influences which caused
the tree TO grow TO the north or to the
south nearly always do their work for
good or evil when the trees are hardly
more than small saplings. IL this fact
be true, Is IL not of utmost importance
that parents should carefully look after
the work of rearing their children?
Young people, would like TO speak
just one word TO you. You are apt to
think that tho rcriod of y%ith does not
amount 10 much. | want to tell you
that you are now forming the habits
that will grow stronger and stronger
as the years roll on. The bark of the
tree Is the place where the life is sup
/ posed TO exist. But if the inside of the
tree. or the wooden part, is allowed to
be tunneled by worm the inside OF
the tree will soon he eaten out Then
the whole tree will soon totter and fall.
One small sinful habit can destroy tn"
human heart. One little tug in youth
in the wrong direction can pull of the
branches of truth and purity and love
ard honor and make lopsidcd tree.
What you do now will decide the moral
character of your future. Trees l,OOJ
years old are neither more nor less
than the fully developed and expanded
perfections and impcrfoctons of tree
only four. five, ten. twenty, thirty
years old. Nearly al the hardened
criminals who spend aost of their lives
in the penitentiary committed their
first crime when they were nothing
more than boys under twenty years of
age. Many murderer has started OH
quick journey for the gallows by whct-
ting his taste for blood when as child
he tortured a dog or Il Gagged rat.
But though Il fallen tree is dead
tree, which nearly always falls in the
way it has grown, living tree, no
matter how young or old, can become
an ingrafted tree. Grating may be
accomplished in many different ways.
In budding grating a bud is selected
Then strong young branch is cut
crosswise with sharp knife. Then
the bud is placed upon the bare branch
and the four pieces of bark are Joined
at the buds base and the wound Is COW
cred over with Japanese mating. So
the young human trees may be ingrnft-
ed. They can have Christ's perfections
in all their freshness and fragrance
made to grow into them. They can
grow into the Christian life so gradu-
ally and sweetly that they will not be
able to tell the exact moment of their
conversion. They will be like that
young girl who was asked on joining
the church when she commenced to
love the Lord Jesus. Why" she an
swered, II never commenced to love
the Saviour. l feel that have always
loved him.
But there Is another way of grating
There is the sprouting grating. BY
this process whole limbs will be cut off
and new limbs from other trees will be
placed into the fork shaped crotches.
If necessary nothing need be left but
the trunk of the old tree. This was
the way Christ's life was ingrafted
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