The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23
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I our group cannot hurl stone near ehou "a
to disturb the feathered d"inesIic.i1y;
/ Wonder e hei III that would be chilled
With orror but for the warmr be OF forest
/ liage with winch they are enwrapped.
Z Al airs of worship at lch nations might
. kneeL DOmes of chaicedony on ten les OF
! p1rphyry. SEQ all is carnage OF color up
and d wn the cliffs; It must have been tLe
| battlefield OF the war OF the elem9 Us:
Here q q all the c1lors of the wall OF
heaven, neither the sapphire nor the chrys-
olite nor the topaz nor the jacinth, nor the
AMETHYST nor the jasper nor the twelve
Z gate of twelve pearls, Na1ting. III Spirits
I und from earth 10 neave = CO ID pass up
} by way Of this CANYON, the dash Of heavenly
! beauty would not be so overpOwerlng. IL
would on be from Il ry To glory. Ascent
/ tn ough such ear .hly scenery IN when the
crvsl al is so nrignt an the red so flaming
would be fit prepar ton for the sea Il
| glass mingled with fire."
/ Standing there IN the grand canyon OF
! the YellO wstO q park on the morning OF
| Aug 9. f r the most part we held our
! peace but after While 1t flashed upon me
| with suc1 power could not help but say 10
| my co nradas: "What a hall this would be
| for the last Judgment Sea that mighty
| cascade with the rain lows at the fooI OF
| Those aters congo lied aud translixed with
| the agitati ms of tia day, hat plaza
| they would make 70 the shining feet
| of Judge Of quick and dead.
And those rainbows look now like the
| crow IS 70 be cast at his feet. At the bottom
| { this great canyon is a flo I on which the
ations of the cart might stand, and all
10 aud down these galleries Of rock the
nAtio of heaven might sit. And what
| reverberation of archangel trumpe there
would be thro On all these g0rges and
! from all these cayerns and over all these
| nights. Why shoul not the greate OF all
| the DAYS the world shall ever see close amid
the grandess scenery omnipotence ever
built?
On, the sweep of the American continent!
| Sailing u Puget sound its iores so bold
| that for fifteen humid ed miles a ships
brow woul touch the SD re before its keel
| touched the ,ttDm said "ruis the Medl-
terranean of America" Visit g ? rita Id
and Tacoma and Sea le and Victoria d
| Fort Townsend and Vancouvers AMI other
cities Of that northwest region L Thought
| t myself: These are the Bostons, New
| Works, Cherlestons aud Savannahs Of the
! Pacific Goa t. But after all this summers
| iurneying and NY other journeys west
| ward in Other summers, | found that had
| seen only par of the American CONT ent,
, for Alaska i as far west of San Fra cisco
IS the coast of Maine IS east of it, so that
the central city of the American continent
| is San Francisco.
| L
| tude of t co tinent and given you
| f. specimens If some Of its wonders TO let
| YOU know the comprehensiveness of the
| text "hen it saws that Christ is gong to
| have dominion from sea TO sea; tn It Is,
from the Alta tic to the Pacific. Beside
| tn At the salvati n OF this continent
means the salvation of Asia, for we
are only thirty-slx miles from Asia at
the north west. Only Benring straits sepa-
| ate us from Asia and I esq will be spanned
by a great bridge before another centur
closes, a d probably long before that The
| thirty six miles of water between these two
cont ents are not all dee.J sea, but have
hree islands, and there are also shoals
which will allow piers for bridges, and for
he most of the way the water Is only about
| twent5 fathoms deep
The Ameri o-Asiatic bridge which will
vet span Tn, Sc raj will make America,
! Asia, Z irope and Africa one continent. So
sou see Anne lea evangelized, Asia will be
o. angelized. Europe taking Asia from
one 81 % and America taking it from the
other side. Our great grandchildren VIII
cross thai bridge. America ID Asia AMI
| Europe all q, what sub raction fro "A 5ne
pangS of seasicknessl and the rophecies in
Revela len will be fulfilled, here
hall be no more sea- Bat d. l
mean literally that this Am Arica co ltinent
is gong TO bs all gospelzsd! 10. Cnris-
| tupher COlum us, wAen he went ashore
ON the Sa TIA Mar a, and his econd
b o her Alonzo, when he went ashore from
the Pi ia, and his third brother Vincent,
en- he went a hore from the Nina, took
poss sslon of his country in the name of
Father and the So and the Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right to this country
than have to your pocket book. To hear
Aim talk on the roof Of the temple, where
he proposed to give Christ the klngd ms of
his world and the glory of the n, you
light suppose that Satan was great cap
ualist or tn he was loaded up with real
es ate, when the old miscrea 1t never owned
an acre or a inch of grou ID on this planet
For that reason protest against somethi e
| [ heard and saw this summer and other
summers in NJ ntana and Oregon and
Wyomi IL and Idaho and Colorado aud
California. They have given devilistlc
lames to many places in the west and
| northwest
AS soon as you get in Yellowstone park
or California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as "rhe
| Devils Slide,n This Devils Kitchen, i" ''The
| Devils Thumb, the Devils Pulpit "The
D Wis Mush Pot" THE Devils Tea Ket-
ie." The Devils Saw Mil, THE d vils
Machine Shop" The Devils Gate" and SO
on. N W it is verf much needed that geo
| logical surv syor or co gresSional committee
or group Of distinguished tourists 20 through
Montana d Wyoming and California and
Colorado and give other names to these
places. All these regions belong to the
Lord and 10 christian nation, and away
wi such Plu onic nomencsa ure.
But ho is this 'nui eat to be gospeliz ID
The pulpit and christian printing pres;
arnessed together will be the mig tiest
team for fest plow. Not by the power
of C I'D, journalistic theology. not by eccle-
>ias ical technicalities. / am sick of tuem
and the wo Id is sick of them But it vii
oe d Iue by the warm-hearted, sympathetic
presentation of the fac that Christ is ready
to pardon all our s!Is aad hea all oui
wounds and save US, botn for this worlC
and the next. Let Your religion of glacier;
crack or and fall into tue Gulf stream a c
get melted. Take al your creeds of all de
nominations and drop out Of them al
human phrassOlogy and put IN only script
ural phraseologya ID you viii seq how q Iicl
the people will jump after the n.
Oh the Columbia river a few days ago
we So n the salmon jump Gle out of thu
water il diffe. ent places, l suppose fo
the purpose of getting the insects. AnC
if wuen we want to fish fo
men we could only have tn
/ right kind of bait they will spring on
above the flood of their sins and sorrows t
reach it. The Young Mems Chnstia,
t A suciations of America will also par
{ Of the work. All over the continen
saw this summer their new
buildings rising In NanC0uver's