The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17

Wicked Herod had put to death all the other boy
babies; but the Holy Family. fleeing forewarned,
Fastening toward Egypt. Every child knows precisely
how they fed pictures that have been so
rondly conceived and so lavishly reproduced Ever:
child knows too. tho detail of stanch Saint Joseph
leading alert to every sound behind them which
might portend the ncarncss of the pursuit
Herods saycrs. watchful OF every stone and gully.
lest harm bcfall those lie cherished.
furry as they would the danger closer:
refuge there was none 1t seemed II the
OF tho tyrant was to be stated there In the lonely wilder
ness. when. as the fuGtives passed the lofty
juniper 1t opened wide It's thIcky growing
receive them They sped within the refuge
sooner inside than tho friendly juniper
again. and the soldiers passed frenzied
cape OF their quarry.
Myth? No doubt: but really, II examine
tho Juniper bush he will comprehend the
1t the size of tree and the defense
provides with spiny leaves clustered and united
against foe. But for little hunted
is haven letting them slip within its shelter
and barring the that destroy these
days 1t has too the powerful odor that characterizes
an odor strong enough to destroy the any
druggists have used in medicine They
Lord the juniper in thanks for
Herod's men: 1t has been consecrated through
of defenders OF the faith.
VIII you have holly? is the nlencnto OF
the Burning Bush, and typhes both the Virgin
Mother and tho Divine Son Dan Chaucer. Prior
ess' Tale refers to the sacred
B Bs.S 5n Sa Msa an" aGss snsS ss ;f'
The ancient artists delighted picture Mother
a flame, enthroncd stu perpetu-
ating the the idea of the Immaculate Conception
which beautifully conveyed by fiery red Of the
berries and the fresh grecnness OF the crisp leaves
But holly is not the Burning Bush, o
England. The true Burning Bush England. like
France actually does present the possibility OF
ing radiant fire by Its spirit In England the
white dttan. always spared by nipping winter Its white
wood rising virgin from the its gstenng
in their flashing its berries blazing like
their heavy clusters When the white dtanys flowers
fade they give off strong. etherc vapor. and II
will bring close to them candle a torch, the
around them will burst into flame Provence the
ing Bush Is the Wild myrtle. bearing large berries
giving forth volatile oil that makes the air ready
to catch fire wherever II spreads.
see, a very relation to the famous
Jesse-tree. whose story far to explain
candles the Christmas 1t is the emblem Him
who became the light the world, and the holy
the divine spirit bazes from It everywhere Its
legend back the time OF Moses, and
fitting 1t has been held that the Sinai should
the Burning Bush of the Conception
The Jessetree? Why. that is beloved Christ
tree, the of light. complete among pous
Germans unless the Blessed Virgin the Infant
the of Its decoration.
AS the Burning Bush typifes virglnity the
mother who Him. the Jesse-tree is emblemac the
manhood fine Redeeme in His descent from the patrl
archs When Jacob lay dying he made the prophecy of
the Kings coming tho Advent services they
have been long fntoncd fail commemorate
the branch Jesse. mind the savior's
Old church windows picture the vine springing
jacobs lons and rising like family until
summaries Its flower In whose chace Jesus and His
mother Brass candeabra showed the form OF the
Jcssetree in Canterbury in the 1897 they show 1t
in Belgium and Germany still. The that have
fixed the intimate coseness mother and Son popular
recollection have been quoted thus: