Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26

mug up ana let gown ana spread aDTOau ,
are all the colors of land and sea and
sky. Upholstering of the Lord God
Almighty. Best work of the Archi-
tect of worlds. Sculpturing by the
Infinite. Masonry by an omnipo-
tent trowel? Yellowl 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
cathedral OF basalt, sunrise and sunset
married by the setting of rainbow ring
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basiicas built before human
architecture was born. Huge fortifca-
tons of granite constructed before war
forged its first cannon. Gibraltars and
Sebastopols that never can be taken.
AlhambTas, where kings of strength and
queens of beauty reigned long before the
first earthly crown was empearled.
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 with their hot chisel,
and glaciers were pounding with their
cold hammers, and hurricanes were
cleaving with their lightning strokes and
hailstOnes giving the finishing touches,
and after all these forces of nature had
done their best, in oar century the cur
tain dropped and the world had a new
and divinely inspired revelation, the Old
Testament written on papyrus, the New
Testament written on parchment, and
now this last testament written on the
rocks.
Hanging over one of the cliffs I looked
off until l could not get my breath. then
retreatIng to a less exposed place I looked
down again. Down there is a pillar of
rock that in certain conditions of the at
mOspheTe looks like a pillar of blood.
Yonder are fifty feet of emerald on
base of five hundred feet of opal. Wall
of chalk resting on pedestals of berYl.
TuTrets Of light tumbling on floors of
darkness. The brown Frightening into
golden. Snow of crystal melting into
fire of carbuncle. Flaming red cooling
into russell. Cold blue warming INTO
saffron. Dull gray kindling into SOL
ferino. Morning twilight flushing mid
night shadows. Auroras crouehing
among rocks
Yonder is an eagles nest on q 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 heights that
would be chilled with horror but for the
warm robe of forest foliage with which
they are wrapped. Affairs Of worship at
which nations might kneel. Domes of
chalcedony on temples of porphyry. See
all this carnage of color up and down the
cliffs; II must have been the battle field
Of the war of the elements. Here
are all the cOlOrs of the wall of
heaven, neither the sapphire nor the
chrysolite nor the topaz nor the jacinth
nor the amethyst nor the jasper nor the
twelve gates of twelve pearls, wanting.
If spirits bound from earth TO heaven
could pass up by way of this canyon the
dash of heavenly beauty would not be so
OTerpOWerin&. 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
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 awhile it flashed upon
me with such power I could not help but
say to my comrades: ''What q hall this
would be for the last judgment!'' See
that mighty cascade with the rainbows
at the foot of it. Those waters CONCEALED
and transhXed with the agitations of that
day, what place they would make for
the shining feet of a judge of
quick and dead. And those
raiubOws look now like the
crowns to be cast at His feet. At the
bottom of this great canyon is a floor on
which the nations of the earth might
stand, and all up and down the galleries
Of rock the nations of heaven might sit.
And what Teyerberation OF archaugels'
trumpet there would be through all these
gorges ana 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 con-
-inent! Sailing up Puget sound, It's
shores so bold that for fifteen hundred |
miles a ships PROV would touch the |
said: ''This is the Mediterranean of !
America - Visiting Portland and |
Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and |
Fort Townsend and Vancouvers and !
other cities of that northwest region [ |
thought to myself: These are the Bos- |
ons, New Yorks, Charlestons and Sa- |
7annahs of the Pacific coast. But |
after all this summers jOurneying |
Ind my other Journeys westward in other |
l found that l had seen only a |
)art of the American continent, for |
Alaska is as far west of San Francisco as
he coast of Maine is east of it, so that |
he central city of the American CONT |
lent is San Francisco.
1 have said these things about the mag |
litude Of the continent and given you a |
ew specimens of some of its wonders to !
ct you know the comprehensivenes of |
he text when it says that Christ is going |
o have dominion from sea to sea: that is,
rom the Atlantic to the Pacific Beside |
hat, the salvation of this continent |
means the salvation of Asia, for we are
My thirty-s1X miles from Asia at the
northwest. Only Behring straits sep
rate us from Asia, and these will be
panned by a great bridge before another
entuTy closes, and probably long before
hat. The thirty-siX miles of water be-
ween these two continents are not all