Voices Of Nature
T. DeWitt Talmage
Isa., 60: 13: "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary."
On our way from -Damascus we saw the mountains of Lebanon white with snow, and the places from which the cedars were hewn, and then drawn by ox- teams down to the Mediterranean Sea, and then floated in great rafts to Joppa, and then again drawn by ox-teams up to Jerusalem to build Solonion's teminnle. Those mighty t,rees- ni-,v text are called- the " glory of Lebanon." Inanimate nature felt the effects of the first transgression. When Eve touched the forbidden tree, it seems as if the sinful contact had smitten not only that tree, but as if the air caught the pollution from the leaves, and as if the sap had carried the virus down into the very soil until the entire earth reeked with the leprosy. Under that sin- ful touch nature withered. The inanimate creation, as if aware of the damage done it, sent up the thorn and briar and nettle to wound, and fiercely oppose, the human race. Now, as the physical earth felt the effects of the first transgression, so it shall also feel the effects of the Saviour's mission. As from that one tree in Paradise a blight went forth through the entire earth, so from one tree on Calvary another force shall speed out to interpenetrate and check, subdue and override, the evil. In the end it shall be found that the tree of Calvary has more potency than the tree of Paradise. As the nations are evangelized, I think a corresponding change will be effected in the natural world. I verily believe that the trees, and the birds, and the rivers, and the skies will have their millen- nium. If man's sin affected the ground, and the vegetation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ's work be less powerful or less extensive?
Doubtless God will take the irregularity and fierce- ness from the elements so as to make them congenial to the race, which will then be symmetr ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Isa., 60: 13: "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary."
On our way from -Damascus we saw the mountains of Lebanon white with snow, and the places from which the cedars were hewn, and then drawn by ox- teams down to the Mediterranean Sea, and then floated in great rafts to Joppa, and then again drawn by ox-teams up to Jerusalem to build Solonion's teminnle. Those mighty t,rees- ni-,v text are called- the " glory of Lebanon." Inanimate nature felt the effects of the first transgression. When Eve touched the forbidden tree, it seems as if the sinful contact had smitten not only that tree, but as if the air caught the pollution from the leaves, and as if the sap had carried the virus down into the very soil until the entire earth reeked with the leprosy. Under that sin- ful touch nature withered. The inanimate creation, as if aware of the damage done it, sent up the thorn and briar and nettle to wound, and fiercely oppose, the human race. Now, as the physical earth felt the effects of the first transgression, so it shall also feel the effects of the Saviour's mission. As from that one tree in Paradise a blight went forth through the entire earth, so from one tree on Calvary another force shall speed out to interpenetrate and check, subdue and override, the evil. In the end it shall be found that the tree of Calvary has more potency than the tree of Paradise. As the nations are evangelized, I think a corresponding change will be effected in the natural world. I verily believe that the trees, and the birds, and the rivers, and the skies will have their millen- nium. If man's sin affected the ground, and the vegetation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ's work be less powerful or less extensive?
Doubtless God will take the irregularity and fierce- ness from the elements so as to make them congenial to the race, which will then be symmetr ...
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