The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-04

Rabylonlan temples,
and were a profitable possession OF
| Hiram, the Phoenician king, are only
a sad reminder Of a glory that mas de-
| parted.
The cedars have lost their claim to
| be the pride of Lebanon; barren gran
| deur and beauty of color are in these
days the leading characteristics or
| these delightful mountains, for naked
rock and sterile scree now reign
where once dark forests thrived. Yet
| sufIi cient remains to show what Leb-
anon must have been in the old days.
| a mockery, no doubt, of their ancient
| splendor, but on the other hand an
| interesting relic and a valuable herl-
| tage. Living trees such as these,
which their most sanguine admirers
| claim to have been contemporary with
| Solomon, must be reckoned as one or
| the historic treasures of the world
| Not only does their fame rest upon
traditional grounds; their beauty of
| form and power of growth have been
| extolled in psalm and verse by the
bards of many lands. while their shad.
owy groves in still earlier days were
! the object of veneration.
The primitive nature worshippers
could not have chosen a finer ideal
| than this giant tree-perfect in every
moment of it's existence. an emblem of
beauty, strength and vitality.
| 1t is easy to understand the admira-
tion that the cedars evoked in their
native land To the inhabitants of the
otherwise barren Lebanon, to the wan
derers in the deserts beyond. and even
| to the jewellers in the hill country OF
| Palestine, these trees must have been
miracles of creation. These people
| only knew the delicate palm, the
! gnarled olive and stunted scrub oak;
compared with these the gigantic
boles and spreading arms of the lordly
| cedar were indeed a mystery. In any
| land it is a tree that attracts atten-
! ton; but in such a naked. treeless
country as Syria and Palestine 1t is
| especially appreciated. Small wonder
| that it became the tree Of the Lord
anu Si i2iDOl VI po"'lr 1 li' 'do''l' -
mind could find no better smile for
expressing greatness, grandeur, ex'
! cellence OF character or lOftiness of
purpose The might Of the AssyGian
| empire was likened to the cedar in
words too wonderful to be left TN,
quoted
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar
| in Lebanon with fair branches, and
with a shadowng shroud, and of an
high stature; and his top was among
the thick boughs.
The waters made him great
| therefore his height was exalted above
all the trees of the field, and his
boughs were multiplied and his
| branches became long because of the
multitude of waters, when he shot
| forth
"All the fowls of heaven made their
nests in his boughs. and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field
bring forth their young, and under his
shadow dwelt all great nations
Thus was he fair in his greatness,
in the length of his branches: for his
root was by great waters.
THE ceodrs in the garden of God
could not hide him the fir trees were
not like his boughs, and the chestnut
trees were not like his branches, nor
any tree in the garden of God was like
him in his beauty.
Il have made him fair by the multi
tude of his branches: so that all the
of God, envied him
Again: the success of the good man