" THE LEAVES OF THE TREE Were FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS." 5 



Hundred parts of carbonic acid contains by weight 27 J parts of carbon; 

 if, therefore, we could remove the oxygeu (which we have not a little 

 done and still continue to do by our suicidal destruction of " clustering 

 woods" all over the earth) " carbon is left." Yes, carbon, like the poor, 

 "" ye have always with you." 



FOREST INFLUENCE IN GAI/LJLEE. 



" There was a time," declared an able writer in the New York Herald 

 of July 12th, 1891, " when every acre of G-allilee not under pasturage 

 was verdant with the foliage of trees. "When the trees re-appear, as they 

 might in a few years, Gallilee alone would be capable of maintaining an 

 immense population in rich abundance." The above paragraph from an 

 article on the probable return of the still scattered Jews to Palestine 

 speaks volumes. Palestine, like all other parts of this earth, has been 

 transformed into a barren destructive-insect and storm-breeding Sahara 

 since the forest lungs were destroyed, and deny it who may the only 

 possible remedy to restore the earth's atmospheric equilibrium there and 

 -elsewhere is to forthwith replant and properly protect our forests. On 

 this momentous question I must now solicit the readers special attention. 



THE ORDER OF CREATION. 



The order of creation or evolution upon the globe shows clearly how very 

 closely related every atom in and upon it is to each other. In each phase 

 of being the manifestation of that period that then was was apparently 

 independent of that which was to follow, but when that which was to 

 follow made its appearance it found itself dependent upon everything 

 which had preceded it or by which it was surrounded. Our dependence 

 upon creatures in a lower stage of development admonished us to protect 

 and nourish them in return to "replenish the earth and subdue it." 

 Surely, if words have any meaning at all, we cannot be blind to the ob- 

 vious signification of the replenishing condition. What is replenish but 

 to fill up again? If, according to the commonly received opinion among 

 the churches, Adam and Eve were the first human beings placed upon 

 the earth, it would be the height of absurdity to talk of them replenish- 

 ing the globe by means of their offspring. You cannot fill again that 

 which has never been full, but has always been empty before. If you set 

 a savory dish and a clean plate before a guest you do not say to him, be- 

 fore he has touched the former, " Replenish your plate," but you may do 

 so after he has filled it and eaten its contents. In that case we should 

 be greatly surprised and vexed if, after satisfying his hunger, he should 

 dash the plate to atoms on the floor and fling away the rest of the food 

 out of the dish. Nevertheless, this is what we have all been doing for 

 many centuries past, with respect to the earth, which was confided to our 

 care to keep it and to dress it for each others unstinted happiness. In- 

 stead of replenishing it, instead of cultivating it in such a manner as that 

 its fertility and productiveness should not only undergo no dimunition at 

 our hands, but should go on increasing from age to age, we have defaced, 

 deformed and devasted it. We have not been faithful stewards and hon- 

 est husbandmen, but wasters and spoilers. We have desolated what we 

 should have rendered still more fruitful and beautiful. In the impressive 

 words of the Roman historian, " We have made a solitude and have 

 called it peace." We have created a desert and charged the conse- 

 quences of our own malignity upon God. Instead of causing the wilder- 



