New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-28
TRIP TO THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS.
The Excursion--M Mine Host The
Party.
BY REV. DIR. NEWMAN.


railroad, and on behalf of the company
issued Invitations to the officers of the
General Conference to accompany
him so far as the road is now COM
pleted; and we are happy to say that
he performed the part of ''mine host"
with no ordinary skill, taste, and
urbanity. True to his Down
East" nature, at first sight little
cold in manner, and at times brusque
in his replies to the many questions
of the more inquisitive of the company;
yet, on entering within we found his
heart little paradise, where the
flowers of love were blooming the
perennial springs of joyous nature
sending up their laughing waters in
the sunshine of good fellowship, and
the birds of hope and promise carol
ing their mellow, rapturous notes OF
delighted friendship, and awakening
responsive music in all hearts. I'm
firing in his efforts to make each hap
py, he was not less economical in his
arrangements than painstaking in the
performance of his task as the al
moner of the company's hospitality,
We congratulate the directors of the
Union Pacific railroad on having Sc
cured the services of a gentleman
whose intelligence, energy, and execu-
tive ability are only excelled by his
probity, courtesy, and the very high
esteem in which he is held by the
bishops and clergy ofthe most power
full of American churches.
Rarely has it fallen to the lot of
mortals to pass week of pleasure SO
unalloyed. The guests numbered
forty-four from rollicksome youth to
benignant old age; from blushing
maidenhood to matronly dignity; from
the youthful minister to the venerable
bishop. And there were those of all
Caucasian shades-from him who re-
called African TO him who constantly
suggested the red man of the forest.
There was also the grave thinker
whose smile was the whisper of a
laugh: the humorist whose quaint
suggestions touched the deeper sensi-
bilities of the soul; the poet whose
flowing rhythm was like the falling of
rain drops upon plates of silver, or
| whose Miltonic blank verse in praise
of the primordial mountains reached
the sublime; the wit whose scintilla-
tions we're like the Borean lights,
brilliant but cold, whose corruscations
were like jeweled daggers, beautiful
but piercing to the souls quick, whose
sparkles were like the rainbow bub-
bles on the cup of mirth, or whose
laughter provoking punnings were
ludicrous as the magic strokes of q
harlequin, or the grotesque carica-
lures of merry Andrew; the singer
whose rich, sweet voice now entranced
us with heavenly visions as he sang
1--WE Will gather at the river"
or stirred our patriotic souls by the
noble strains Of
"a thousand years my own Columbia"
No company ever crossed prairie
and mountain whose own resources o.
| heightened social pleasure proved Sc
axhans4lass The cum was brim-ful
at the hour Of parting. II was thu
best example of well rounded Chris
tian character, and Of the harmonious
blending of the heavenly and tht
earthly, we have ever known. Itwal
the natural manifestation Of our God
given mature, refined by piety AMI
restrained by religion. TWAS joyous
ness without leyity, and familiarity
which does not breed contempt. i
was wen that some we're there who al
their lifetime had mistaken melancholy
for piety. Of all men the Christian
should be the most joyful. He hal
the promise Of the life that now i
and Of that which is to come. Laugh
ter is no less acceptable to God thai
praise when both come from a pur,
heart. As in all companies Of NOR
tails, so in this, there were those VIII
!. we're receptive and those who werl
communicative, yet no Rocky Noun
tain party ever had fewer Of the forme
and mors Of the latter than ours. o
the forty-four, each one brought SOM
flower to the bouquet Of our delights
True, some hroaght Wild flowers, ye
they were GODS flowers. OF III
famous forty-four. tbres may Be sin
glsd out Is the punsters and rhymes
ters Of the eomPanys Two are o
near alike ID ths golden hue q hal
. and skin, IN de rstunaisy Of physiqus
Y d their azure tinted eyes, IL thei
bsur-shapsl Fps niths aiusieof thei
fsioes, "a their foillo some, laughter
bssstsing laugh, ID tlseiS quiekness !
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v BaA Rey afs nos one !
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