Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-23

Almighty. Best work of the Archi-
tect of worlds. Sculpturing by the
Infinite. Masonry by an omnipo-
tent trowel? Yellow, 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
a cathedral of basalt, sunrise and sunset
married by the setting OF rainbow ring
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basilicas built before human
architecture was born. Huge fortiica-
tons of granite constructed before war
forged its first cannon. Gibraltars and
SebastopOls that never can be taken
sAlhambras, 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, geysefs
We're hewing away with their hot chiseI,
ana GLACIERS were pounding; with their
cold balpme rs, and hurricanes were
.eleaving<Bith their lightning Stokes and
7nailstoueS7gfvipg the finishing touches,
and after ali these forces of nature had
done their best, in our century the cur
tain dropped and the world had q new
and divinelE inspired revelation, the Old
Testament written On papyrus, the New
Testament written on parchment, and
now this last testament written on the
rocks.
HANGING o,-ar ono Of +r,a oi;ffs 7 1oolye1
off until I could not get my breath, then
retreatlng TO n less exposed place I looked
down again. DOVE 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 q
base of five hundred 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 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 crouching
among rocks.
Yonder is an eagle's nest on a shaft of
basalt. Through All eyeglass we see
among it the young eagles, but the stout
est arm of our group cannot huTl stone
near enough to disturb the feathered do
mesticity. Youder 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
al this carnage of color up and down the
cliffs; 1t must have been the battle field
of Of ha al
are all the coIors 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
overpOweTing. 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
mingled with fire.
Standing there in the Grand canyon of
the Yellowstone park on the morning of
August 8, for the most part we held our
peace, but after awhile it flashed upon
me with such power 1 could not help but
say to my comrades: "What a hall this
would be for the last judgment!3 See
that mighty cascade with the PainboWs
at the foot of it. Those waters CONCEALED
and transfixed with the agitations of that
day, what 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
bottom of this great canyon is a floor on
n of hn iCrht
stand, and all up and down tha galleries
of rock the nations of heaven might sit.
And what reverberation 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 the world
shall ever see close amid the grandest
scenery Omnipotence ever built?
Oh the sweep of the American con-
tinent! Sailing up Puget sound, It's
shores so bold that for fifteen hundred
miles a ships PROV would touch the
shore before its keel touched the bottom,
1 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 1 |
thought to myself: These are the BOs-4
tons, New Gorks, CharlestOns and Sa-
yannahs of the Pacific coast. But |
after all this summers journeying |
and my other journeys westward in other |
summers, found that [ had seen only q !
part of the American continent, for |
Alaska is as far west of San FL ancisco as |
the coast of Maine is east of it, so that |
the central city of the American CONT |
nent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the mag !
nitude OF the continent and given you a |
few specimens of some of its wonders to |
let you know the cOmprehensivenes of |
the text wnen 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-slx miles from Asia at the |
northwest: Only Behring straits sep
arate us from Asia, and these will be t
spanned by great bridge before another
century closes, and probably long before |
that. The thirty-six miles of water be-
tween these two continents are not all |
deep sea, but have three islands, and |
there are also shoals which VIII allow
piers for bridges, and for the most of the