The palm tree . S^Ij£ Similitittre of th ^igbf^ The righteous shall flourish like the palm trec.—Ps. xcii. 12. HOMELESS nation wanders through the earth;a dead city hars risen from its grave to provethe prophetic truth of Scripture—to establishit as the Word of God. There are rich lessonscontained not only in the solemn precepts andprecious promises of Sacred Writ, but also inits lovely similitudes they are ever living andsurround us on all sides. No obsolete figuresare they, requiring commentaries to explain them, which mustbe dug out of mouldering volumes of the past. In theunchanging E
The palm tree . S^Ij£ Similitittre of th ^igbf^ The righteous shall flourish like the palm trec.—Ps. xcii. 12. HOMELESS nation wanders through the earth;a dead city hars risen from its grave to provethe prophetic truth of Scripture—to establishit as the Word of God. There are rich lessonscontained not only in the solemn precepts andprecious promises of Sacred Writ, but also inits lovely similitudes they are ever living andsurround us on all sides. No obsolete figuresare they, requiring commentaries to explain them, which mustbe dug out of mouldering volumes of the past. In theunchanging East the greater part of them are as fresh andforcible now as when they were uttered centuries ago. Bible images are the home pictures of every day ; they arewith us in our dwellings, or about us in our walks. If attimes they are peculiar in their eastern origin, talking otlands more sunny than our own ; yet they are still so easy tobe described, so capable of being brought before our minds,that throughout the whole world little children are qui
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