The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-26

worship Of the mountains. Yonder Is Sem
4 tinel Rock, 1870 feet high, bold, solitary,
| standing guard among the ages its top sell
! dom touched until bride one Fourth Of July
mounted IL and planted the national stand
4 ards and the people down in the valley
| looked up and saw the head Of the mountain
turbaned with the Stars and Stripes. Yonder
nre the Three Brothers, four thousand feet
high; Clouds Rest" North and South
Dome and heights never captured save by
the fiery bayonets Of the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place for
the mind. Mountains hurled on mountains
Mountains In the wake Of mountains
Mountains fanked by mountains. Mountains
split. Mountains ground Mountains
fallen. Mountains triumphant As though
Mont Blanc and the Adirondacks and
Mount Washington were here uttering
themselves in one magnificent chorus
OF rock and precipice and waterfall,
Sitting and dashing through the rocks, the
water comes down. The Bridal Veil
Falls, 80 thin you can see the face
OF the mountain behind. Yonder Is Yose-
mite Falls. dropping 263i feet. sixteen
times greater descent than that OF Niagara
These waters dashed to death on the rocks,
30 that the white spirit of the slain waters
ascending in robe OF mist seeks the heaven.
fonder is Nevada falls, plunging seven hun.
dred feet, the water in arrows, the water In
rockets, the water in pearls the water In
smethysts, the water in diamonds That
to array all the earth in beauty, and rushe,
on until 10 drops into very he'll OF waters
the smoke Of their torment ascending forever
and ever.
But the most wonderful part of this Amer.
ican continent Is the Yellowstone Park Ny
visit there last month made upon me an I'M
preston that will last forever. After al
poetry has exhausted itself and all tn,
Morsns and Bierstadts and the other enchant
ing artists have completed their canvas
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other stories Of its beauty and wrath
splondor and agony. to be recited
The Yellowstone Park is the geol
ogist's paradise BY cheapening
travel may II become the nations play
ground In some portions of IL there SCENT
to be the anarchy OF the elements Fire and
water, and the vapor born OF that marriage,
terrific Geyser cones or hills of crystal thai
have been over five thousand years growing
in places the earth, throbbng, sobbinx
groaning, quaking with aqueous paroxysm.
At the expiration Of every sixty-hve min
utes one OF the geysers tossing its boiling
water lS5 feet In the air and then descending
into swinging rainbows Caverns Of pictured
walls large enough for the sepulcher Of the
human race. Formations Of stone In shape
and color OF Gala lily, of heliotrope of rose,
OF cowslip, of sun1ower and Of gladiola
Sulphur and arsenic and oxide Of iron. with
their delicate pencils, turning the hills into
gallery. The so-called Thanatopsis
geyser exquisite as the Bryant poem IL was
named after, and the so called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Longfeow heroine IL
commentaries. The so called Pulpit Ter.
race from its white elevation preaching
mightier sermons OF God than human lips
ever uttered. The so called Bethesda Ccy.
ser, by tho warmth of which invalds have
uready been cured. the ANGEL Of Health con.
tinually stirring tho waters. Enraged era.
ters, with heat Mt five hundred degrees only a
little below the surface.
Wide reaches OF stone of interminglei
colors, blue as the sky, green rs the foliage
crimson as the dahlia, white as the snow
spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion,
grizzly as the bear, in circles in angles in
stars in coronets, In stalacites in stalag.
mites Here and there are petrihed growths,
or the dead trees. and vegetation Of other
ages, kept through a process of natural EN-,
balmment. In some places waters as inno
cent and smiling "A child making n first at.
tempt to walk from its mothers lap and not
far OFT as foaming and frenzied and ungov,
ernable as a maniac in murderous struggle
with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days and begin 10
feel that there can be nothing more of in.
terest to see, you suddenly come upon the
peroration of all ma jesty and grandeur tho
Grand canyon. 1t is here that il seems to m.
seems to have surpassed Himself. II seem;
great gulch let down into the
eternities. Here, hung up and let
down and spread abroad, are all the
colors of land and sea and sky. Uphols,er-
ing of the Lord God Almighty. Best work
tney can do nothing better in the way of
living benehcence or in last will anl testa-
ment than TO do what Mr.. Marquand did for
Brooklyn when he made our Young Mems
Christian palace possible. These in.
stitutions will get our young men all
over tho land into stampede for
heaven. Thus we will all in some way help
on the work. you with your ten talents, I
with five, somebody else with thrse II is es.
timated that TO irrigate the arid and deseIt
lands OF America rs they ought to be II
rigated, it will cost about one hundred
million dollars to gather the waters
INTO reservoirs As much contribution
and effort that would irrisa,e with
Gospel influences all tho waste places Of
his continent Let us by prayer and
contribution and right living all help to III
the reservoirs. You will carry "A bucket md
you cup, and even thimbleful would help.
And after while God will send the foods q
mercy SO gathered, pouring down all over the
land, and some OF MS on earth and some OF Il,
N heaven will sing with Isaiah 'In the will
flushing midnight shadows. Aurorss crouch
Ing among rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on n shaft OF
the young eagles, but the stoutest arm OF our
group cannot hurl a stone near enough to
disturb the festhered domesticity. Yonder
are heights that would be chilled with hor-
ror but for the warm robe of forest foliage
with which they are enwrapped. Affairs OF
worship at which nations might knecl
Domes of chalcedony ON temples of por-
phyry See all this carnage of color up and
down the cliffs; IL must have been the bat
tie field of tho war OF the elements
Here are all the colors of the wall OF
heaven, neither the sapphire nor the
chrysolitc nor the topaz nor the
iascinth, nor the amethyst nor the jasper
nor the twelve gates Of twelve pearls, want
ing. II spirits bound from earth 10 heaven
could passup byway of this canyon, the dnshot
heavenly beauty would not bc so overpower.
ing. 1t would only be from glory 10 glory
Ascent through such earthly scenery in
which the crystal is so bright and the red So
flaming would be tit preparation for IT,
''sea Of glass mingled with fire.
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone Park on the morning Of
August ., for the most part we held our
peace, but after while it flashed npon me !
with such power | could not help but say TO
my comrades "What u Hall this would be ,
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