love with an Arab prince who was an officer among the invaders, and to win him found opportunity to deliver the castle into his hands. Curious to learn the motive of such treachery he asked the maiden why she had betrayed her father. "For love of you," was the answer. The prince enraged at such guilt ordered his men to bind her with cords, face downward, on the back of a wild horse and turn horse and rider into the desert. So perished without pity the beautiful traitoress of Kerman—an example of remorseless retribution.
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TREASURES LAID UP
During the reign of King Munbaz there
came a most grievous famine. The people
had parted with their all and were in the utmost
distress. The king, touched by their
affliction, ordered his minister to expend the
treasures which he and his ancestors had
amassed in the purchase of corn and other
necessaries and distribute among the needy.
The king's brothers were not of a generous
disposition, being grieved to see such
vast sums of money spent, reproached him
with want of economy. "Thy forefathers,"
said they, "took care to add to the treasures
which were left them, but thou—thou not
only dost not add, but dost squander what
they have left thee." "You are mistaken, my
dear brethren," replied the generous king,
"I, too, preserve treasures, as did my ancestors
before me. The only difference is this:
they preserved earthly, but I heavenly treasures;
they preserved gold and silver, but I
have preserved lives."—Baxendale.
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We allow no immigrant to land in New York as a pauper. He is admitted only when he brings with him a little store, and can be self-supporting. Do not, I beseech of you, go toward the end of your career without having laid up much treasure in heaven, and sent forward great possessions, having made yourself to be waited for, expected, beyond, as you enter into glory and honor and immortal life.—N. D. Hillis.
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See Rewards, Spiritual.
Treatment All-important—See Tact.
TREE A SPIRITUAL SYMBOL
Undoubtedly you know how it feels to behold
a cluster of young birches bending
gracefully over a sky-mirrowing sheet of
blue water. Other trees are somberly beautiful
like the pines, or inspiringly majestic
like the elms, both of which I love dearly.
But the sharply pointed cone of the pine
suggests the earth on which its broad base
rests rather than the sky toward which its
top tends a little too urgently. And the
elm represents the material side of man in
the utmost development attainable, while the
spirit still remains in comparative subordination.
The birch, on the other hand, is all
spirit, it seems to me—but without sacrifice
of the indispensable material foundation. Its
subtly tapering lines send the eye irresistibly
upward and onward to the things that lie
ahead and above—things which are neither
alien nor hostile to those of the present
place and moment, but which, instead, represent
the ideal fulfilment of the latter. The
birch, therefore, approaches more closely
than anything else I can think of toward
being a true symbol of life at its best.—Edwin
Bjorkman, Collier's Weekly.
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TREE AND FRUIT
There is no frost hath power to blight
The tree God shields;
The roots are warm beneath soft snows,
And when spring comes it surely knows,
And every bud to blossom grows.
The tree God shields
Grows on apace by day and night,
Till sweet to taste and fair to sight
Its fruit it yields.
There is no storm hath power to blast
The tree God knows;
No thunderbolt, nor beating rain,
Nor lightning flash, nor hurricane—
When they are spent it doth remain.
The tree God knows
Through every tempest standeth fast,
And from its first day to its last
Still fairer grows. (Text.)
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TRIAL A MEANS OF GRACE
Troubles and afflictions are intended under the dispensation of divine grace to bring out the deeper capacities of the soul. Experiences which are calculated to deaden the careless mind will develop consecration, zeal, and devotion in the thoughtful.
Scientists subject radium to every conceivable
test. In an ordinary temperature
it never ceases emitting light, heat, and electricity.
It was at first imagined that this perpetual
threefold emanation would cease, or
at any rate be diminished, if the substance
