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A Tree Planted by the

Rivers of Water

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JOHN EDGAR

A Tree Planted by the

Rivers of Water

An Address delivered in many of the ~WM

Great Britain. and Ireland

JOHN EDGAR

MA., BSe, MJ), C.M.;

FsUors of tL Royal FacuUq of PN- and Swgwus, Gwa;

Profisor Of Midmifrry ad Disrcrvs qf Women, An-*$ Col-

.- Medical ScW; Sador Swg.on, Rayd Samamh H* fa

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rumha copies of thh hachum cm be prod bp applyi86 to:

nlorton Edgar, fP4 West Regmt Street,

Glasgow, Scotland.

A Tree Planted by the Rivers

of Water.

Bkssa is th mom that dub nd in tk covnvl oj 1k uyodly nor

ir tk rasy of sin-, run sitklh in tk smt of t~ tcok~.

But his ddight is in th law of tb Lmd; and in kit krr &h Ik

meditats day and uigki. And k [this man of God of whom tha

Psalmist speaks] Ad! &

the natural and spiritual worlds, the more we

find them in harmony with each other. Hence

we conclude that they owe their existence to the same

suthor. The natural man is apt to place the laws of

Bture first, but the man of God knows that the spiritual

laws are the more important. In fact, it would seem as

if God actually arranged every thing in nature so as to

make clear to our understanding the great spiritual trutha

which otherwise might be beyond our comprehension.

We find many examples of this in the Scriptures. For

instance, the nation of Israel is repeatedly symbolized as

a vine tree, a tree which is quite useless except for one

PTse, fruit-bearing. Turn to the 16th $apter of

zeluel, and see what the Prophet says : And the

word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man,

What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a

branch which is among the trees of the,!orest ? Shall

wood be taken thereof to do any work ? Who would

think of taking the wood of a vine tree to do any work I

-" or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel there-

on ? Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire

devaureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is

bmed. Is it meet for any work ?-Behold, when it was

a tru PhtJui by tk rivers of w,

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brangdh fadk ku fruJ 8s ku sbnron; kss leaf ah shd d Whw; d

wktsocwr k dodh sW plos#u.'l-Fkrt Psalm, 1-8.

T HE more we enquire into the laws which govern

whole, it was meet for no work : now much less shall it

be meet yet for any work; when the fire ha# devoured

it, and it is burned ? Therefore thus saith the Lord God :

as the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have

given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants

of Jerusalem." The Lord could have made the vine a

great tree like the fir or the cedar, but he did not choose

to do so, doubtless because he wished to illustrate his

purpose with regard to the nation of Israel, namely, that

the sole primary object for which he had chosen them

was that they might bear the fruits of holiness : " And

now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,

but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and

to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God wit11 all thy

heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments

of the Lord and his,;tatutes, which I command thee this

day for thy good ? (Deut. 10 : 12, 13).

Ezekiel's prophecy was fulfilled in the year 70 A.D.,

when the nation of Israel was cast into the fire of trouble

and destroyed. Our Lord Jesus explains the reason in

the 21st chapter of Matthew, 43rd verse : "Therefore I

say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from

you, and given to a nation bringing forth. the fruits

%ereof,"-the fruits of holiness.

Christendom has made the same mistake in this respect

as did natural Israel. Like the nation of Israel, the

Christian nations have depended on their own strength

and their own wisdom instead of on the Lord's, and they

have become great in the eyes of the world. They have

failed to see that the sole primary object for which the

Lord has chosen them is that they shoq!d bear the fruits

of holiness, as the Apostle explains : This is the will

of God, even your sanctification " (1 Thess. 4 : 3). For

this reason, the Lord is casting them off and is giving the

Kingdom to a nation bearing the fruits thereof, the holy

nation, redeemed out of every kindred and tongue and

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