The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-22
are ten thousand things l want ex-

plain path of what we know and in a
minute come up against q high wall OF
what We do not know.
1 wonder how it looks over there.
Somebody tells me it is like a paved
city-paved with gold; and another man
fells me it is like a fountain, and it is
like a tree, and it is like a triumphal
professions; and the next man l meet
tells me it is all figurative. l really
want to know, after the body is resur-
rected, what they wear and what they
eat; and l have an unreasonable Curl
osity to know what it is, and how it is,
and where it is. Columbus risked his
life to find the American continent, and
shall we shudder to go out on a voyage
of discovery which shall reveal . vaster
and more brilliant country? John
Franklin risked his life to find a passage
to eternal summer? Men in Switzer-
land travel up the heights of the Mat
terhOrn, with alpenstock and guides,
and rockets and ropes. and getting half
way up. stumble and fall down in a hOr-
rible massacre. They just wanted to
say they had been on the tops of those
high peaks. And shall we fear to go
GU for the ascent of the eternel hills
which star: one thousand miles beyond
where stop the highest peaks of the
Alps, and when in that ascent there is
no peril? A man doomed to die stepped
on the scafold, and said in Joy: NOW,
in ten minutes l will know the great
secret" One minute after the vital
functions ceased. the little child that
himself before he died
Friends, the exit from this world. or
death. if you please to call it, to the
Christian is glorious explanation. 1t is
demonstration. 1t is illumination. 1t
is sunburst. 1t is the opening OF all the
windows. 1t is shutting up the cate
chism of doubt, and the unrolling of all
the scrolls of positive and accurate in
formation. Instead of standing at the
foot of the ladder and looking up. it is
standing at the top OF the ladder and
looking down. 1t is the last mystery
taken out of botany, and geology. and
astronomy. and theology. OF. will it
not be grand to have all questions an
swered? The perpetually recurring in
terrOgatiOn point changed for the mark
of exclamation? All riddles solved.
Who will fear to go out on that dis
covery. when all the questions are to be
decided which We have been discussing
our lives? Who shall not clap his
hands in the anticipation of that blessed
,ppv 6 80 To M 1910, @I,n ,reb
holy curiosity? As this Paul of my text
did not suppress his curiosity. we need
not suppress ours. Yes. l have an I'M
curiosity about all religious
and as this city of Rome was so
intimately connected with apostolic
times, the incidents of which emphasize
and explain and augment the Christian
you will not take it as an evil
lence of a prying spirit. but as the out
bursting of Christian curiosity when l
say l must also see Rome.
Our desire to visit this city is also in
tensitied by the fact that we want to be
in the feeling that human
life is brief. but its work lasts for cent
uries, indeed, forever. Therefore
show us the antiquities Of old Rome,
about which we have been reading for
lifetime, but never seen. In our be-
loved America we have no antiquities.
church eighty years old Ovcrawes us
with its age. We have in America
cathedrals hundreds and thou
sands of years old, but they are in yell
Park or California Canyon,
and their architecture and masonry
we're by the OmnipOtent God. We want
10 see the buildings, or ruins of old
buildings, that were erected hundreds
Ind thousands Of years ago by human
hands. They lived forty Or seventy
years. but the arches they lifted, the
paintings they penciled. the sculpture
they chiseled, the roads they laid out, l
are yet to be seen. and we
want you to show them to us. l al
wait until Monday morning. 1
must also see Rome.
We want to be impressed with the
act that what men do on a small scale
" large scale lasts a thousand years,
asts forever. that we build for eternity
md that we do so in a very short space
II time. God is the only old living
But it is an old age without
of the infirmities or limitations of
Id age. There is a passage of Script
ire which speaks of the birth of the
for there was a time when
he Andes were born, and the Pyrennes
we're born, and the Sierra Nevadas were
,Orn. but before the birth of those
Mountains the Bible tells us. God was
,Orn, aye was never born at all, because
lie always existed. Psalm &c. 2: BE
ore the mountains were brought forth,
n ever Thou hadst formed the earth and
he world, even from everlasting to
Thou art God" How short
8 human life, what antiquity attaches
o its worth! How everlasting is God!
show us the antiquities, the things that
.ere old when America was discovered,
Id when Paul went up and down these
treets sight seeing, old when Christ
vas born. / must-I must also see
Rome!
Another reason for our visit to this
ity is that we want to see the places
where the mightiest intellects and the
'reatest natures wrought for our Chris
ian religion. We have been told in
America by some people of swollen