The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-02

ana spread abroad, are all the colorS
OF land and sea and sky. Upholstering of
the Lord God Almighty. Best work of
the architect of worlds. Sculpturing by
the infinite Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there Red You
never saw red unless you saw it there.
Violet. You never saw violet unless you
saw it there. Triumphant banners OF
color. In a cathedral of basalt, sunrise
and sunset married by the setting OF rain
bow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basilicas built before human
architecture was born. Huge fortitica-
tions of granite constructed before war
forged its first cannon. Gibraltars and
Sebastols that never can be taken. Al
hambras, where kings of strength and
queens of beauty reigned long before the
first earthly crown was impaired. Thrones
on which no one but the king OF heaven
and earth ever sat. Fount OF waters at
which the lesser hills are baptized, while
the giant cliffs stand round as sponsors.
For thousands of years before that scene
was unveiled to human sight the elements
were busy, and the geysers were hewing
away " h their hot chisel, and glaciers
were pounding away with their cold ham,
mers, and hurricanes were cleavlng with
their lightning strokes, and hailstones Civ
ing the finishing touches, and after all
these forces of nature had done their best
in our century the curtain dropped, and
the world had new and dlvinely IN
spired revelation, the old testament writ
ten on papyrus, the new testament written
on parchment, and now this last testament
written on the rocks.
Hanging over one of the cliffs | looked
off until / could not get my breath, then
retreating to less exposed place looked
down again. Down there Is a pillar OF
rock that in certain conditions of the at
mosphere looks like a pillar OF blood.
Yonder are fifty feet OF emerald on a base
of 800 feet of opal. Wall of chalk rest
ing ON pedestals OF beryl. Turrets OF
light tumbling on floors of darkness. The
brown Frightening into golden. Snow OF
crystal melting into fire OF carbunce
Flaming red cooling into russell. Cold
blue warming into saffron. Dull gray
kindling into solferino Morning twilight
flushing midnight shadows. Auroras
crouching among rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on shaft OF
basalt Through an eyeglass we see
among it the young eagles, but the stout
est arm of our group cannot hurl stone
near enough to disturb the feathered do
mesticity. Yonder are nights that would
be chilled with horror but for the warm
robe of forest foliage with which they are
enwrapped. Affairs of worship at which
nations might kneel. Domes OF chalcedo-
nv on temples of porphyry See all this
carnage of color up and down the cliffs;
it must have been the battlefield of the
of the elements. Here are all the colors
of the wall of heaven; neither the sap
phire nor the chrysolite nor the topaz nor
the jacincth nor the amethyst nor the jas
per nor the twelve gates OF twelve pearls
wanting. If spirits bound from earth to
heaven could pass up by the way of this
CANYON the dash OF heavenly beauty would
not be so overpowering 1t would only
be from glory to glory. Ascent through
such earthly scenery in which the crystal
is so bright and the red so flaming would
be fit preparation for the = sea of glass
mingled with fire"
Standing there in the grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone park on the morning of
Aug. 8, for the most part we held our
peace, but after a while it flashed upon me
with such power | could not help but say
to my comrades: "What hall this would
be for the last Judgment See that mighty
cascade with the rainbows at the foot of it.
Those waters CONCEALED and transixed
with the agitations OF that day, what
place they would make for the shining
feet of judge OF quick and dead. And
those rainbows look now like the crowns
to be cast at His feet At the bottom Of
this great canyon is floor on which the
nations of the earth might stand, and all
up and down these galleries OF rock the
nations OF the heaven might sit. And
what reverberation of archangel's trumpet
there would be through these gorges and
from all these caverns and over all these
heights. Why should not the greatest of
all the days the world shall ever see close
amid the grandest scenery omnipotence
ever built?
Oh, the sweep of the American CONT
nentl Sailing up Puget sound, its shores
so bold that for 800 miles a ships prov
will touch the shore before its keel touched
the bottom, said "This is the Mediter-
ranean of America" Visiting Portland
and Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and
TT. Townsend and Vancouver and other
cities of that northwest region, thought
to myself: "These are the Bostons, New
Yorks, Charlestons and Savannahs of the
Pacific coast" Bat after all this summers
iourneylng and my other journeys west
ward in other summers, | found that |
had seen only part of the American con-
tinent for Alaska is as far west as San
Francisco as the coast OF Maine is east of
of it, so that the central city ofthe Ameri-
can continent is San Francisco.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent. So
you see America evangelical, Asia will be
evangelical. Europe taking Asia from
one side and America taking it from the
other side. Our great-grandchildren will
cross that bridge. America and Asia and
Europe all one, what subtraction from the
pangs of seasickness! and the prophecies
of Revelation will be fulfilled: There
shall be no more sea-" But do / mean
literally that this American continent is
going to be all gospelized? | do. Christie
pher Columbus, when ne went ashore
from the Santa Maria, and his second
brother, Alonzo, when he went ashore
from the Pinta, and his third brother,
Vincent, when he went ashore from the
Nina, took possession of this country in
the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right to this country
than / have to your pocket-book. To hear
him talk on the roof OF the temple. where
he proposed to give Christ the Kingdoms
of this world and the glory of them, you
might suppose that Satan was great capt.
talist, or that he was loaded up with real
estate, when the old miscreant never
owned an acre or an inch of ground on
this planet For that reason / protest