Show see root of idolatry in worship of trees today among some of the tribes ot of africa there Is to be found a form of tree worship where here certain members of the tribe are said to acquire a very intimate communion with certain trees in the forest and to receive messages through them from another world nearly all nations have bad at some borne time a sacred shrub plant or tree and appear to have been guilty of a species of idolatry tn in worshiping it 11 it seven conjectured that the adoration of idols sprang from this practice the idol being made from the food of the sacred tree it was the custom in tie south of france to to sprinkle wine over the file maypole at the annual ceremony of its uplifting this it Is believed was derived from the ancient practice of sprinkling wine over sacred trees in englana there Is a mysterious rever anco ance for the oak though it may be trued traced in id a measure to the use of its wood in the construction of ships the from growing upon the oak partakes of a sacred character it Is considered that isaiah at alludes to this plant which he be makes symbolical of 0 the messiah our christmas tree hal ha its origin to lo egypt it was used long prior to the chr christian isthan era at the time of 0 the winter solstice as a symbol of the ending ot of the year |