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forestry associations in various parts of the United 

 States and Canada, and the modern growth of a more 

 healthy public sentiment in regard to forest protec- 

 tion, are among the hopeful signs of the times. 



Any lover of the woods who may chance to take 

 up this book will pardon me for reprinting here what 

 dear old Dr. Lundy says of Sunday among the forest- 

 trees : 



"Here the church doors are always open ; the grand cathedral 

 aisles are full of light and beauty so soft and entrancing as to fill 

 the soul with childlike delight, leading up as they do along the 

 mighty columns of evergreen life to the vast blue apse of heaven, 

 where clouds of incense are rolling away in rainbow hues, and 

 where the bright windows are gleaming with the smiling faces of 

 our dear departed ones in the blessed company of the Lord and 

 his countless host of celestial and earthly worthies." 



That accomplished botanist and brilliant writer Dr. 

 Hugh Macmillan, speaking of the influences and func- 

 tions of a pine forest, says : 



" The pine is the earth's divining-rod that discovers water in the 

 thirsty desert, the rod of Moses that smites the barren rock and 

 causes the living fountain to gush forth. . . . We see the presence 

 and hear the voice of the Lord God among the pine-trees as among 

 the trees of the garden of Eden. Each tree is aflame with Him as 

 truly as was the Burning Bush." 



Murray* contrasts the woods with the sea, and, 

 after picturing the ghastly scenes of the drowned, 

 discovered on the beach after a storm, says : 



"But the woods, the dear, frank, innocent woods. God bless 

 them ! They kill no one. At their sweet roots no lovers, sleeping, 

 die. Along their green hedges no man and maiden lie side by side, 



* Lake Ghamplain and its Shores, p. 135. 



