Page 7 - 22 The Tree and the River of Life

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 22 – The Tree and the River of Life
either side of the river of life; its branches

bowed to the place where we stood; and the

fruit was glorious, which looked like gold

mixed with silver.” — Experience and Views,

pp. 12, 13. And why should such a tree be

looked upon as unnatural or impossible, since

we have an illustration of it here upon earth?

The banyan tree of India is of precisely the

same nature in this respect. Of this tree the

Encyclopedia Americana thus speaks: “The

ficus Indica (Indian fig, or banyan tree) has

been celebrated from antiquity from its letting

its branches drop and take root in the earth,

which in their turn become trunks, and give

out other branches, a single tree thus forming

a little forest.” In just this way the tree of life

could extend and support itself.