The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-11-16

that in certain conditions of the atmosphere
looks like pillar of blood Yonder are
fifty feet of emerald on a base of FIVE hun
dred feet of opal Wall of chalk resting
on pedestals of beryl Turrets of light
tumbling on floors of darkness. The brown
Frightening into golden Snow and crystal
melting into fire of carbunele Flaming
red cooling into russet. Cold blue warm
ing into saffron. Dull gray kindIing into
solferino. Morning twilight flushing mid
night shadows Auroras crouching among
rocks
Yonder is an eagles nest on a shaft of
basalt. Through an eyeglass we see
among it the young eagles, but the stoutest
arm of our group can not hurl stone near
enough to disturb the feathered domestici-
ty. Yonder are heights that would be
chilled with horror but for the warm robe
of forest foliage with which they are en-
wrapped Affairs of worship at which ma
tions might kneel Domes of chalcedony
on temples Of porphyry. See all this car
mage Of color up and down the cliffs; it
must have been the battlefield of the war
of the clements Here are all the colors
of the wall of Heaven, neither the sapphire
nor the chrysolite nor the topaz nor the
iaciuth nor the amethyst nor the jasper
nor the twelve gates oftwelve pearls, want
ing. fspirits bound from earth to Heaven
could pass up by 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 aud 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
August 9, for the most part we held our
peace. but after 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 congealed and
transfxed with the agitatlons of that day,
what "a 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 bot
tom 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 heaven might sit. Aud what
reverberatiou of archangels' trumpet there
would be through all these gOrges and from
all these caverns and over all these heights.
Why should not the greatest of all the days
Il Ill ..io amid bn
grandest scenery 0mnipotence ever built?
@, the sweep of the American continent
Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores so bold
that for fifteen hundred miles ships PROV
would touch the shore before its keel
touched the bottom, | said: "This is the
Mediterranean Of America. Visiting
Portland aud Tacoma and Seattle and Vic
toria aud Fort Townsend and Nancouver's
and other cities of that Northwest region,
| thought to myself These are he Bostons,
New Yorks, CharlestOns, and Sayannahs Of
the Pacific Coast. But after all this sum
mers iourneying and my other journeys
westward in other summers, found that
| had seen only part Of the American
continent. for Alaska is as far west of San
Francisco rs the coast Of Name is east of
it. So that the central city of the American
continent is San Francisco,
have said these things about the
magnitude of the continent and given you
few specimens of some Of its wonders to
let you know the compreheasiveness of the
text when it says that Christ is going to
have dominion from sea to sea; that Is,
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific. Beside
that. the salvation Of this continent means
the salvation Of Asia, for we are only
thirty-six miles from Asia at the North
west. Only Behring Straits separates us
from Asia. and these viii be spanned by a
great bridge before another century closes,
aud probably long before that. The thirty
six miles Of water between these two con-
tinents are not at all deep sea, but have
three islands, and there are also shoals
which viii allow piers for bridges, and for
the most of the way the water is only
about twenty fathoms deep.
The Americo Asiatic bridge which will
vet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So YOU see America evangelical, Asia viii
be evauselized Europe taking Asia from
one side and America taking it from the
other side Our great grandchildren will
cruss that bridge America and Asia and
Europe all one, what subtraction from the
pangs Of seasickneSs and the prophecies
in Revelation will be fulfilled, There shall
be no more sea. But do | mean literally
that this American continent is going to be
all gospclized? do. Christopher Colum-
b,is, when ne went ashore from the Santa
Maria. and his second brother Alfonso,
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 pocketbook, 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
capitalist 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
against something | heard and saw this
summer and other summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California. They have
given devilistie names 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 "The
Devils Slide" The Devils Kitchen"
'The Devils Thumb" "The Devils Pull
pit" 'The Devils Mush Poi" "The
Devils Tea Kettle" 'The Devils Saw
Mill, The Devils Machine Shop, "The
Devils Gate, and so on. Now it is very
much needed that the geological surveyor
or Congressional committee or group of
/ distinguished tourists go through Montana
and Wyoming and California and Colorado
and give other names to these places. All
these regions belong to the Lord and to
Christian nation. and away with such
\ Plutonic nomenclature
But how is this continent to be gospel
lied? The pulpit and the Christian
printing press harncssed together will be
the mighticst team for the first plow Not
by the power of cold, journalistic theology,
not by ecclesiastical technicalities am