New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-02
FROM OCEAN TOOCEAN
DR.. Talmage Makes His Recent Trip
the Subject of Very Interest,"
Ing Sermon.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Speclal:-It was g great
anthem of praise that went up from the
| crowded throngs at the Bro oklyn tabernacle,
where the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage D. D.
preached as usual The opening hymn was
mo more let human blood be split,
! Vain sacrifice for human guilt;
! But to each conscience be applied
The blood that flows from Jesus side.'
The subject of the sermon was, s'From
Journey Text: Psalms il1xu., s: He shall
have dominion from sea to sea-" The
preacher said:
What two seas are referred to? Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
was to reign over all the land between the
Arabian sea and Caspian sea, or between
the Red Sea and the Mediterranean sea, or
between the Black sea and the North sea.
No, in such case my text would have named
them. 1t meant from any large body of
water on the earth clear across to any other
large body of water, And so have a right
to read it: He shall have dominion from
the Atlantic sea to the Pacific sea. Ny
theme is, America for Godl
First, consider the immensely of this pos
esslon. Lit were only q small tract OF land
capable ofnothing better than sage brush
and with ability only tosupport prairie dogs
| should not have much enthusiasm in want
ing Christ to have it added to his dominion.
But it's immensely and afluence no one can
imagine unless, in immigrant wagon OF stage
coach or in rail train Of the Union Pacific or
the Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pacific
or the Southern Pacific, he has traversed it.
Having been privileged six times to cross the
continent, and twice this summer. l have
come to some appreciation of its magnitude.
California, which | supposed in boyhood
from its size on the map was q few yards
across, aridge OF land on which one must
walk cautiously lest he hit his head against
the Sierra Nevadas on one side or slip off into
the Pacific waters on the other; California,
the thin slice of land as supposed it to be
in boyhood have found it to be larger than
all the states of New England and all New
York and Pennsylvania added together, and
if you add them together their square miles
fall far short california. North and South
Dakota, Montana, and Washington
territory, to be launched next winter into
statehood, 3wil'be giants at their BIRTH Let
the congress of the United States strain a
point and soon admit also Idaho and Wyom.
ing and New Mexico. What is the use keep
ing them out in the cold any longer? Let US
have the whole continent divided into staUes
with the senatorial and congressional rep
resentatives and we will be able to be happy
together. If some OF them have not quite
the requisite number of people fix up the con-
stitution to suit these cases. Even Utah
will by dropping polygamy soon be ready to
enter. Monogamy has triumphed in parts of
Utah and will probably triumph at this fall
election i'll Salt Lake City. Turn all the ter
ritories into states, and ii some OF the sisters
are smaller than the elder sisters give them.
Because some Of the daughters of a family
NAV be five feet in statute and the others
only four feet do not let the daughters five
feet high shut the doorin the faces of those
who are only four feet high. Among the
dying utterances of our good friend the wise
statesman and great author, the brilliant
orator and magnificent soul, S. S. Cox, was
the expressed determination to move next
winter in congress for the transference OF
other territories into states.
But while | speak of the immensely of the
continent [ must remark that it is not an
immensely of monotone or tameness. The
larger some countries are the worse for the
world. This continent is not most remark
able for its magnitude than for its wonders
OF construction. What q pity the United
States government did not take possession
of Yosemite, California, as it has of Yellow
stone, Wyo., and OF Niagara falls, New York!
Yosemite and the adjoining California re-
gions Who that has seen them can think Of
them without having his blood tingle? Trees
now standing there that were old when Christ
lived These .monarchs of foliage reigned
before Caesar or Alexander, and the next
Thousand years will not shatter their scepter.
They are the masts of the continent, their
canvas spread on the winds while the old ship
bears ON it's way through the ages. Their
size, OF which travellers often speak. does mot
effect me SO much as their longevity. Though
so old now. the branches ofsome of them will
crackle in the lastconfagration ofthe planet.
That valley of the Yosemite is eight miles
long and a half mile wide and 3, 900 feet Deep
1t seems as if it had been the meaning of ON
impotence to crowd into as small place as
possible some of the most stupendous scene.
~ of the world. Some of the cliffs you do
not stop to measure by feet, for they are hit
terally a mile high. Steep SO that neither
foot of man or beast ever scaled them, they
stand in everlasting defanre If Jehovah
has throne on earth these are the white pill
| lars. Standing down in this great chasm of
the valley you look up and yonder is Cathe-
dral rock, vast, gloomy minister built for the
silent worship of the m mountains. Yonder is
Sentinel rock, 3,270 feet high, bold, solitary,
standing guard among the ages, its top sell
dom touched until a bride one Fourth OF Ju-
| " mounted It and planted the national
standards. and the people down in the valley
looked up and saw the head of the mountain
turbaned with stars and stripes. Yonder are
the Three Brothers." 1000 feet high;
Clouds Rest North and South Dome, and
heights never captured save by the fiery bay
onets of the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place for
| the mind. Mountains hurled on mountains.
Mountains in the wake ofmountains. Noun
tains fanked by mountains. Mountains
| spuG. MOuHIllnS ground AOuH aims 1dilen.
Mountains triumphant. AS though Mount
| Blame and the Adirondacks and Mount Wash
ington 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 fails, SO thin you can see the face of the
| mountain behind it, Yonder is Yosemite
falls dropping 2,6a4 feet. sixteen times
greater descent than that of Niagara. These
| waters dashed to death OH the rocks, SO that
| the white spirit of the slain waters ascend
ing in the robe of mists seeks the heaven.
| Yonder is Nevada falls, plunging 700 feet,
| the water in arrows the water in rockets,
| the water in earls, the water in ametnysts,
water in diamonds. That cascade filings
down the rocks enough jewels to array all
the earth in beauty, and rushes on until it
| drops into a very hell ofwaters, the smoke of
| their torment ascending forever and ever
Butafter you have wandered along the gey-
serite enchantment for days and begin to
| feel that there can be nothing more ofinterest
to see. you suddenly come upon the perora-
ton of all the majesty and grandeur, the
| Grand canyon. 1t is here that it seems to