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HAT is the glory of Lebanon? If we consider Lebanon in a natural or literal point of view, we shall find that its glory consisted in the beauty and loftiness of its cedar trees. We read in the Scriptures of the lofty cedars of Lebanon; and also that the true and sincere Christian is to grow like the cedars of Lebanon. Now, when we consider that this verse contains a beautiful description of the glory of the church of God, and in a subordinate degree is descriptive of the glory and beauty of the regenerating Christian, who is a church in its least form, we are then able to discover that the cedar trees which form the glory of Lebanon, with the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, are all here mentioned to signify the orderly arrangement of those spiritual principles and affections in man, which alone can beautify the sanctuary of the Lord, and stamp the angelic quality upon the soul of man. By cedar trees we are to understand the knowledge of spiritual truth —the spiritual man, and the church established in him