The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-25

tuaAAn Ccrt<Aiu COnuluono OF tuc dthnO1puctC
looks like a pillar Of blood Yonder are
fifty feet Of emerald on base Of five hun
dred feet Of opal. Wall Of chalk resting on
pedestals Of beryL Turrets Of light tI,ss-
bling on floors Of Darkness The brown
Frightening into golden. Snow and crystal
melting into fireof carbuncle- Flaming red
cooling into russell Cold blue warming into
saffron Dull gray kindling into solferino.
Morning twilight flushing midnight shad-
ows Auroras crouching among rocks
Yonder Is an eagles nest on shaft Of be-
salt Through an eyeglass we see among II
the young eagles, but the stoutest arm Of
our group can not huri q stone near enough
to disturb the feathered domesticity. Yon-
der are heights that would be chilled with
horror but for the warm robe Of forest foli-
are with which they are enwrapped. Affairs
Of worship at which nations might kneel.
Domes Of chalcedony on temples ofporphyry.
See all this carnage Of color up and down
the cliffs; 1t 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 iacinth, nor the amethyst nor
the jasper nor the twelve gates Of twelve
pearls, wanting. II spirits bound from
earth 70 Heaven could pass up by way of
this canyon, the dash Of heavenly beauty
would not be 50 overpowering. II would
only be from glory to glory. Ascent through
such earthly scenery in which the crystal Is
so bright and the red 90 flaming would be
ft preparation for the "sea Of glass mingled
with fire.n
Standing there In the Grand canyon of
the Yellowstone Park on the morning of
August 9, for the most part we hell 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 iudgmentr' See that mighty
cascade with the rainbows ct the
foot Of it Those waters congealed
and transhxed with the agitations Of that
day what q place they would make for
the shining feet Of Q 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 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
And what -reverberation Of archaugels'
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 Omnip-
otence ever built
O, the sweep Of the American continenti
Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores 50 bold
that for fifteen hundred miles 4 ships prow
would touch the shore before its keel
touched the bottom, said: This Is the
Mediterranean Of America Visiting
Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Vic
toria and Fort Townsend and Vancouver's
and other cities Of that Northwest region,
thought 70 myself: These are the Bostons,
New Yorks, Charlestons, and Savannahs Of
the Pacific Coast But after all this sum
mer's iourneying and my other journeys
westward In other summers, found that j
had seen only part Of the American cont.
nent for Alaska Is as far west Of San Fran
cisco as the coast Of Maine Is east Of IL &C
that the central city Of the American cont
neut Is San Francisco.
have said these things about the magni-
tude Of the continent and given you few
specimens Of some Of Its wonders 70 let you
Know the comprehensiveness Of the text
when IL says that Christ Is going to have
dominion from sea 70 sea; that Is, from Che
Atlantic TO the Pacific. Beside that, the
salvation Of this continent means the saliva
ton Of Asia, for we are only thirty-six
miles from Asia at the Northwest Only
Behring Straits separates US from Asia, and
these will be spanned by a great bridge be-
fore another century closes, and probably
long before that The thirty-six miles Of
water between these two continents are not
at all deep sea, but have three islands, and
there are also shoals which will allow piers
for bridges, and for the most Of the way the
water is only about twenty fathoms deep.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which viii
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent So
you see America evangelical, Asia viii be
evangelical. Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking II from the other
side. Our great grandchildren will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and Europe
all one, what subtraction from the pangs OF
seasiclnessl and the prophecies in Revela-
ton will be fulfilled, There shall be no
more sea- But do mean literally that
this American continent is going to be all
gospelizedl / do. Christopher Columbus,
when he 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 sup
pose that Satan was great capitalist or
that he was loaded up with real estate.