New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-02

s I
sponsors. For thousands OF years before
that scene was unveiled to human sight the
elements were busy and the geysers were liew-
ing away with their hot chisel, and glaciers
were pounding with their cold hammers, and
hurricanes were cleaying with their lightning
strokes and hailstones giving the finishing
touches, and after all these forces of ma
ture had done their best, in our century the
curtain dropped and the world had a new
and divinely inspired revelation, the old
testament written on papyrus, the new test a-
ment written on parchment, and now this
last testament written on the rocks. 81 4
/ Hanging over one of the cliffs looked off
until could not get my breath, then retreat
| ing to a less exposed place I looked down
again. Down there is a pillar of blood.
Yonder are fifty feet OF emerald on base of
| 500 feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on
| pedestals lof .beryl. Turrets of light tum-
bling on floors OF darkness. The bro Wn bright
ening into golden. H
IS Snow ofcr cry meltinginto fire ofearbuncle-
Flaming red cooling into russell. Cold blue
warming into saffron. Dull gray kindling
into solferino. Morning twilight flushing
midnight shadows. Auroras crouching
among rocks
YOnder is an eagles nest on shaft of ba!
sault. Through an eyeglass we see among it
our group can not hurl stone near enough
to disturb the feathered domesticity. Yonder
are heights that would be chilled
with horror but for the warm
robe offorest foliage with which they are en-
wrapped. Affairs of worship at which nations
might knsel. Domes OF chalcedony on tenn
pies of porphyry. See all this carnage of
color up and down the cliffs; it must have
been the battle field ofthe war the elements
Here are all the colors Of the wall of heaven.
neither the sapphire nor the crysolite nor
the jacinth nor the amethystic nor the Jasper
nor thn t1a,o1 ro Of
wanting. If spirits bound from earth to
heaven could pass us by way of this canyon
the dash OF heavenly beauty would not be SO
overpowering 1t would only be from glory
to glory. Ascent through such earthly
scenery in which the CRYSTAL is so bright and
for the sea of glass mingled with fire."
Standing there in the Grand canyon of the
Yellowstone park on the morning of Aug. 8,
for the most part we held our peace, but af-
ter a while it flashed upon me with such pow
er could not help but say to my comrades:
"What hall this would be for the last judg-
ment!' See that mighty cascade with the
CONCEALED and transfxed with the agitations
OF that day, what place they would make
Tor the shining feet of @ Judge of quick and
dead And these rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at his feet. At the bottom
Of thus great cany on is a floor on which ma
UlOHS Oh Uue edrtu 1ulSuU SSauu ana all up
and down these galaries of rock the nations
of the heaven might sit. And that reverber-
| alton of archangePs 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 continentl
Sailing up Puget sound, it's shores SO bold
that for 1,50O miles a ships prov would
touch the shore before it's keel touched the
| bottom, said: "This is the Mediterranean
| of America" Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Fort Townsend
| and Vancouver and other cities ofthat north
west region thought to myself: "These are
the Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons, and
Savarnans of the Pacific coast" But after
all this summers journeying and my other
| journeys westward in other summers, found
that l had seen only q part of the
American continent, for Alaska is as far west
OF San francisco as the coast OF Maine is
east oft, SO that the central city of the
American continent is San Francisco.
The Anne rico Asiatic bridge which will yet
span those straits will make America, Asia,
Europe, and Africa one continent. So you
see America evangelical. Europe taking
Asia from one side and America taking it
from the other side Our great grandchil-
dren will cross that bridge. America and
Asia and Europe all one, what subtraction
from the pangs ofseasickness! and the proph-
ecies of Revelation will be fulfilled: There
shall be no more sea-" But do mean liter
ally that this American continent is going to
| be all gospellzed? do. Christopher Column
bus, when he went ashore from the Santa
Maria, and his second brother, Alonzo. 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
As soon as you get in Yellowstone park or
California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as THE
DEVILS Slide, y 1.-The DEVILS Kitchen" 'The
| DEVILS Thumb, 1.-THE DEVILS Pulpit" s.The
| DEVILS Mush-Pot, "The DEVILS Tea-Kettle,"
3.The Devils Saw-Mil,' ''The Devils
Machine shop" "The DEVILS Gate" and
SO on. Now it ls very much needed that
geological surveyor or congressional COM
| mittee or group of distinguished tourists go
through Montana and Wyoming and Cali
fornia and Colorado and give other names to
these places. All these regions belong to the
Lord and to n Christian nation and away
with such Dlutonlc nomenclature,
But how is this continent to be gospelized?
The pulpit and a Christian printing press
harnessed together will be the mightiest team
for the first pillow. Not by the power ofcold for
malistic theology not by ecclesiastical techniC
alties. am sick OFT hem and theworld is sick of
them. But 1T wall be done by the warm hearted
sympathetic presentation of the TACT that
Christ is ready to pardon all our sins and
heal all our wounds and save US both for this
world and the next. Let your religion of
| glaciers crack off and fall into the gulfstream
| and get melted. Take all your creeds of all
denominations and drop out OF them all hui
man phraseology and put in only scriptural
phraseology and you will see how quick the
people will jump after them
| On the Columbia river few days ago we
saw the salmon jump clear out Of the water
in different places, suppose for the purpose
OF getting the insects. And if when we want
to fish for men we could have the right kind
of bait they will spring above the flood of
their sins and sorrows to reach it. The
Young Mems Christians associations Of Am
erica will also do part of the work All over
the continent saw this summer their new
building rising. In Vancouvers | asked
What are you going to put on that slightly
placer? The answer was: "A Young Mems
Christian association building" AtLincoln
| Neb., l said: What are they making these
excavations for?" Answer: For our Young
E.,.s VI. -