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The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.
Indeed , a young lady friend of mine , —artless and blushing as all our young ladies are , —says that she never could have supposed I Avould Avrite so uninteresting a chapter . I accept the compliment Avhile I deplore her disappointment . But , after all , which is the best—Patriotism or Love . As a hopeless old bachelor , I think it safer , in these excitable times , to go in for Patriotism . A young " fellah " of niy acquaintance remarks to me , " It ' s not a question of love , just now Avith us , old boy ,
its only a cpiestion of ' Tin !'" Well , I hope my fair readers will not deem me very unsentimental . But yet as variety is pleasing , ancl change is often Avelcome , I may not have disp leased some of my more serious readers , ancl , whether or no , they like still to folloiv the adventures of "Don Pasquale , " they will yet , I venture to hope , agree in the main Avith the opinions I have expressedancl the theories I have propounded . If they
, do not , if to them my free-spoken opinions savour a little of heterodoxy , let them bear in mind that we cannot ever here affect to settle Avhat another person ' s " Doxy " shall ancl must be , and if they do not relish any such remarks on my part , Avhy , then , —yes , they can and may , Avith my full permission , skip the entire chapter 1 ( To be Continued . )
A Chapter On Oaks.
A CHAPTER ON OAKS .
BY BRO . K . U . BANCROFT , Member of the Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society . IN" the early books of Scripture the oak is ahvays mentioned as connected with some sacred place , rendered holy by the near neighbourhood of a sanctuary , au altar , a pillar of memorial , or the grave of some remarkable person . After Abraham had left the land of Haranat God's commandand had journeyed into Canaanhis first resting
, , , place was at the Oak of Moreh , * Genesis xii . 6 , and in the place of Sichem , which oak , even at that time , probably marked a sanctuary , for Avhen Joshua made a covenant at Sichem Avith that numerous people descended from Abraham , which Moses had led up out of Egypt , he placed the pillar of the covenant " under an oak that Avas by the sanctuary of the Lord . " Josh . xxiv . 26 . Again , Abraham came and dwelt in the
oak-grove of Mamre , | and built an altar unto the Lord . "And the Lord appeared unto Abraham in the oak-grove ( Plain ) of Mamre , ancl he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day . " Gen . xviii . 1 . Abraham ' s hospitable reception of the three strangers who bore the message of the Lord is thus related : —• " He said , let a little water , I pray you , be fetched , and wash your feet , ancl rest yourselves under the TREE . " He does not say " on the plain , " or ' * in the tent , " but " under the tree , " the chief tree of the grove .
The first time that our version mentions the oak , it refers to the oak in Sichem . When Jacob learned that his Avives , on leaving Padanaram , had brought away the famil y teraphim , or sacred images , of their father Laban , he collected them , and buried them under the oak in Sichem , already a consecrated place . Gen . xxxv . 4 . A feAV verses on we read of the death of Deborah , Rebekah ' s nurse ; ancl that Jacob buried her under the oak that was in Bethel , that is the very place where Abraham had rested , and built an altar to the Lord . And the place where Deborah was buried Avas called Alton
Bachuth , or , the Oak of Tears . Gen . xxxv . S . Under a peculiar oak the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon , and gave him the divine commission to set Israel free ; and under the same oak Gideon built an altar to the Lord . But the grove hard by , belonging , as it would appear to his father's house , Gideon was commanded to destroy , because tbe offerings of Baal had polluted it . Judges vi . 25 . In the First Book of Samuel , chap . x . 3 , Saul is directed to go to the Oak of Tabor , J at which spot he should meet a man to conduct him to the high place of the
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The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.
Indeed , a young lady friend of mine , —artless and blushing as all our young ladies are , —says that she never could have supposed I Avould Avrite so uninteresting a chapter . I accept the compliment Avhile I deplore her disappointment . But , after all , which is the best—Patriotism or Love . As a hopeless old bachelor , I think it safer , in these excitable times , to go in for Patriotism . A young " fellah " of niy acquaintance remarks to me , " It ' s not a question of love , just now Avith us , old boy ,
its only a cpiestion of ' Tin !'" Well , I hope my fair readers will not deem me very unsentimental . But yet as variety is pleasing , ancl change is often Avelcome , I may not have disp leased some of my more serious readers , ancl , whether or no , they like still to folloiv the adventures of "Don Pasquale , " they will yet , I venture to hope , agree in the main Avith the opinions I have expressedancl the theories I have propounded . If they
, do not , if to them my free-spoken opinions savour a little of heterodoxy , let them bear in mind that we cannot ever here affect to settle Avhat another person ' s " Doxy " shall ancl must be , and if they do not relish any such remarks on my part , Avhy , then , —yes , they can and may , Avith my full permission , skip the entire chapter 1 ( To be Continued . )
A Chapter On Oaks.
A CHAPTER ON OAKS .
BY BRO . K . U . BANCROFT , Member of the Civil and Mechanical Engineers' Society . IN" the early books of Scripture the oak is ahvays mentioned as connected with some sacred place , rendered holy by the near neighbourhood of a sanctuary , au altar , a pillar of memorial , or the grave of some remarkable person . After Abraham had left the land of Haranat God's commandand had journeyed into Canaanhis first resting
, , , place was at the Oak of Moreh , * Genesis xii . 6 , and in the place of Sichem , which oak , even at that time , probably marked a sanctuary , for Avhen Joshua made a covenant at Sichem Avith that numerous people descended from Abraham , which Moses had led up out of Egypt , he placed the pillar of the covenant " under an oak that Avas by the sanctuary of the Lord . " Josh . xxiv . 26 . Again , Abraham came and dwelt in the
oak-grove of Mamre , | and built an altar unto the Lord . "And the Lord appeared unto Abraham in the oak-grove ( Plain ) of Mamre , ancl he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day . " Gen . xviii . 1 . Abraham ' s hospitable reception of the three strangers who bore the message of the Lord is thus related : —• " He said , let a little water , I pray you , be fetched , and wash your feet , ancl rest yourselves under the TREE . " He does not say " on the plain , " or ' * in the tent , " but " under the tree , " the chief tree of the grove .
The first time that our version mentions the oak , it refers to the oak in Sichem . When Jacob learned that his Avives , on leaving Padanaram , had brought away the famil y teraphim , or sacred images , of their father Laban , he collected them , and buried them under the oak in Sichem , already a consecrated place . Gen . xxxv . 4 . A feAV verses on we read of the death of Deborah , Rebekah ' s nurse ; ancl that Jacob buried her under the oak that was in Bethel , that is the very place where Abraham had rested , and built an altar to the Lord . And the place where Deborah was buried Avas called Alton
Bachuth , or , the Oak of Tears . Gen . xxxv . S . Under a peculiar oak the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon , and gave him the divine commission to set Israel free ; and under the same oak Gideon built an altar to the Lord . But the grove hard by , belonging , as it would appear to his father's house , Gideon was commanded to destroy , because tbe offerings of Baal had polluted it . Judges vi . 25 . In the First Book of Samuel , chap . x . 3 , Saul is directed to go to the Oak of Tabor , J at which spot he should meet a man to conduct him to the high place of the