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BY THE

REV. HARRY JONES, M.A.,

MINISTER OF ST. PHILIP'S, REGENT STREET, Waterloo flace.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS, W.C.;
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
BRIGHTON: 135, NORTH STREET.

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The writer's thanks are due specially to the Religious Tract Society, and also to Messrs. Cassell & Co. and J. Clarke & Co., for leave to use matter (now revised) which has appeared. in their several periodicals

VOICES BY THE WAY.

TREES.

REES of all sorts have been highly honoured in the Bible. They are well spoken of for the fruits which they bear, and they are used as symbols or illustra

tions of very much in the teaching of God. He not only plants the garden of Eden with such as are good for food, but employs them as the mystic vehicles or channels of spiritual life and death. As we go on with the reading of the Bible we find manifold mention of trees-their planting and their cutting down. They are associated with worship and with home life. Abraham planted a tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. Saul abode under a tree in Ramah. Some original significance or sacredness of trees appears indeed in their religious use by idolaters. We are told that Israel made a grove and served Baal. The false prophets were called the prophets of the groves.

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