The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16
THE STORY or TREE PLANT
ING ANCIENT AND MODERN.

and imminence of his Creator.
Their great towering trunks, hNn-
dreds of years in rearing, their
thick lenfy boughs, the homes of
birds and squirrels and insect life.
their fruitful stems, providing food
for beast and man. how eloquent
ly they speak the goodness and
providence of God The savage ma
tions speak Of spirits in the trees
and, indeed, is not the great Spirit
of their Maker in them? With Lub-
book, one can say. MY first feeling
would be one of delight and inter
est rather than of surprise. If some
day when I ain alone in a wood one
of the trees should speak to me-"
But indeed do they not speak in
their feathered sonsters, the praise
Of God: hs- -Tennyson says,
'srhe woods were filled so full OF
song,
There seemed, TO be no room for
sense 81 wrong
The Pr iimist says of man, He
shall be like a tree, planted by
the, streams of Watar" 1t Is curious
'ifw like is tree to man. The
trees grow. breathe through their
leaves, feed from the soil and the
lir,haye eirclllatory system with
sap In place pt blood, sleep at night
and In cloudy weather, reproduee
their:kind, and finally die from old
age. accident Or disease.
There are various kinds of trees
as there are various kinds of men.
Tferei 8 tn comforting tree" as
incur common: shade tree: there Is
the faithful tree like the olive.
bearing fruit even in the poorest
soil and through long life OF six
or seven hundred years; there is the
''rovengeful tree" which grows In
the Far East, and II molested after
night-faa gives forth bad odOr
causing sick headache; there is the
travellers tree furnishing water
in its wide.nedIneles for the; thirsty
in the deserts Of Madagascar; and
titere III the ..lleaiing tree the. Kat
lab, that cures the fever In those
who sleep Under its branches So
every man should be like a tree
that bringeth forth Its fruit IN its
season" PISS.
1t is significant that we read OF
tile Tree of Life In the midst of the
Garden, both in Genesis and Revela-
tion. The tree of Paradise reap
pears In the New Jerusalem, whose
leaves are for the healing OF the
nations. vi
This Tree of Life appears in sym,
bel in the cross on which the Re
deomer hung, for from Him came all
that fruitf,rlness and life and power
that feeds the soul and heals the
hurt of mankind
70. rich and fruitful .branchesl
o, sweet and noble tree!
What new and precious fruit
hangs,
For the world on Thee.
Over four thousand acres OF de-
nrdSdana treeless lands within the
NATIONAL Forests of Colorado, Wy
o,miing, Nebraskasa Minnesota and
Michigan wore iaforested during
1921. Aside from their beauty the
itrees thus usahsea by the Forest
service shoyid' Ht&duee in rs to 100
.yeafs, about. fifty ahiilion hard feet
ri lumber !ss,iHleient to build
aBaiu $500 fiiR, raSsp frame houses. !
tln the part saisxhe home-maker'
hoWaNsr. :s,gseJgshot usually plant
trees 45isstti1jer but to beauti-
~ the home surroundings, furnish
shade, conserve the moisture and
Incidentally add to the value of the
homestead. Plant few trees every
year and thus add to your own COM
fort and profit and to that OF the
humbles wayfarer: who may pass
yonr door,
The office building south OF the
Post Office occupied by Messrs'
Demaray and Smith is being reno
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