With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . e year, but also the character of theChristmas tree suggests something. With the long nights comesalso the cold winter. The earth is wrapped in snow. The trees,which a few months ago were green and beautiful and in the fallall laden with fruit, are now all naked and bare, and if you wereto go out into the orchard or forest you could not tell the differencebetween a dead tree, and all the others which seem to be all the trees you would only find such as the pine, the hem-lock, the fir and other
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . e year, but also the character of theChristmas tree suggests something. With the long nights comesalso the cold winter. The earth is wrapped in snow. The trees,which a few months ago were green and beautiful and in the fallall laden with fruit, are now all naked and bare, and if you wereto go out into the orchard or forest you could not tell the differencebetween a dead tree, and all the others which seem to be all the trees you would only find such as the pine, the hem-lock, the fir and other varieties, such as are known as evergreentrees, that would be green and give evidence of life. So you will seeagain how the Christmas tree fittingly represents Christ, becausethese evergreens, in the field and in the forest, seem to be the onlythings that have greenness and life ,while all else around them seemsto be dead and laid in a shroud of white snow. The custom of setting up a tree at Christmas time and loadingit with fruit and gifts seems to have originated in Germany, and the. Copyrighted, 1911, by Sylvanus Stall. The Christmas Tree THE CHRISTMAS TREE. 315 thought of these people in introducing this custom centuries ago, wasthat they might teach their children this very lesson to which I havereferred. Now, I desire to call your attention also to the fruit which isso often hung on the Christmas tree. The Bible tells us that a treeis known by its fruit. If you go into the orchard you could tell theapple tree from the pear tree, and you could tell the plum tree fromthe peach tree. If you did not know them by their leaves, youwould at least know them by their fruit. But when you come tolook at this tree you find oranges upon it. Now, this is not an orangetree. You find dolls upon it, but it is not a doll tree. Here are apair of skates, but it is not a skate tree. Here are some candies, butit is not a candy tree. Neither can it be known by the name of anyone of these vario
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