Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-23


usual. The opening hymn was:
No more let human blood be split,
Vain sacrifice for human guilt;
But 10 each conscience be applied
The blood that flows from Jesus side.
The subject Of the sermon was, From
Ocean to Ocean, or My TranscOntinental
Journal" Text: "Psalms Xxi, 8: "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 the Caspian sea, or be-
tween 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 tmesnt from
any large body of water on the earth clear
across to any other large body of water
And so have right to read it: He shall
have dominion from the Atlantic sea to
the Pacific sea. My theme is, America for
God
LET THEM COME IN.
First, consider the immensity of this
possession. II it we're only q small tract
Of land capable Of nothing better than
sage brush ard with ability only TO sup
port prairie dogs, should not have much
enthusiasm in wanting Christ 10 have il
added to his dominion. But its immen.
sity and sttluence no one can imagine un-
less, in immigrant wagon or stage coach
or in rail train of the Union Pacific or the
Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pacific
or the Southern Pacific, he hss trayersed
il. Having been privileged six times TO
cross this continent, and twice this sum-
mer, have come TO some appreciation Of
its magnitude California, which l sup
posed in bOyhood from its size on the
map was a few yards across, ridge Of
land on which one must walk cautious
" lest he hit his head against the Sierra
Nevada on one side or slip off into the
Pacific waters on the other, Califor-
MIA, the thin slice of land as l sup
posed it TO be in boyhood, have found 1t
to be larger than oil the States of New En-
gland and all New York State and all
Pennsylvania added together; and if you
add them together their square miles fsli
far short Of California. North and South
Dakota, Montana and Washington terri
tory, TO be launched next winter into |
Statehood, will be giants at their birth. |
Let the Congress Of the United States |
strain point and soon admit also Idaho |
and Wyoming and New Mexico. What IS |
the use keeping them ont in the cold any |
longer? Let as have the whole continent |
divided into States with senatorial and |
representatives and We will |
all be happy together.
But" says some one, sin calculating |
the immeDsity of our continental acreage |
YOU must remember thst reaches of our
public domain are uncultivsted, heaps Of
dry sand, and the bad lands Of Montana |
and the great American desert" am
clad you mentioned that. Within twen-
ty-five years there will not be between the |
Atlantic end Pacific coasts a hundred |
miles Of land not reclaimed either by farm |
ers' plow or miners crowbar, By irigs-
ton. the waters of the rivers and tie show
ers of heaven in what are called the rainy |
season will be gathered into great reser-
voirs and through squeducts let down |
where and when the people want them.
Utah is an object lesson. Some parts Of
that territory which were so barren that |
a spear of grass could not have been raised |
there in a hundred years are now rich as
Lancaster county farms of Pennsylvania or
Westchester farms Of New York or SOmer-
set county farms Of New Jersey.
AN IMMENSELY OF BEAUTY.
But while speak of the immensity Of
the continent, l must remark it is not an
immensity of monotone or tameness. The
larger some countries are, the worse for the
world. This continent is not more remark
able for its magnitude than for its wonders
Of construction. What pity the United
States government did not take possession |
of Yosemite, California, as il has OF Yellow
stone, Wyoming, and of Niagara Falls,
New York! Yosemite and the adjoining |
California regions 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 |
Cesar or Alexander, and the next thousand
wears will not shatter their scepter. They |
are the masts of the continent, their canvas
spresd on the winds while the old ship |
bears on it's way through the ages. Their |
size. of which travellers often speak, does
not affect ne 80 much as their longevity. |
Though so old now, the branches OF some
of them will crackle in the last conf gra-
tion of the planet. ,.
But the most wonderful part Of this
American continent is the Yellowstone
park. My visit there last month made
upon me an impression that will last for
ever. After ali poetry has exhausted itself
and all the Moran and Bierdstadts and the
other enchanting artists have completed
their canvas, there will be other revels- |
tions to make and other stories of its beauty |
and wrath, splendor and agony, to be re-
cited. The Yellowstone Park is the geOl-
ogist's paradise. By chespsning of travel
may it become the nations play ground
In some portions OF il there seems to be
the anarchy of the elements. Fire and |
water, and the vapor born Of that mar
riage. terrific. Geyser cones or hills of
crystal that have been over five thousand |
wears growing. In places the earth, throb-
biug, sObbing, groanirg, quakiDg with
squeous paroxysm.
THE GEYsER WONDER.
At the expiration of every sixty-fye
minutes one of the geysers tossing its
boiling water 1s5 feet in the air and then
descending into swinging rainbows. Cav
erns of pictured walls large enough for the
sepulcher of the human race. Formations
of stone in shape and color Of Gala lily,
of heliotrope, of rose, Of cowslip, of sun
flower and of gladiola. Sulphur and ar
senic and oxide of iron, with their delicate
pencils. turning the hills into Luxem-
burg or a Vatican picture gallery. The
40 called Thanatopsis geyser, exquisite as
the BRYANT poem it was named after, and
the so called Evapgeline geyser, lovely as
the LouRfellow heroine 1t commentaries.
The so called Pulpit Terrace from its
white elevation preaching mightier ser
mons of God than human lips ever ut.
tered. The so called Bethesda geyser, by
the warmth of which invalids have al
ready been cured, the Angel Of Health
continually stirring the waters. Enrsged
craters, with heat at five hundred degrees,
only little below the surface.
Wide reaches of stone of intermingled |
colors, blue as the sky, green as the foli-
age, crimson as the dahlis, white as the
snow, spotted as the leopard, tswny as the
lion. grizzly as the bear, in circles, in an
giles, in stars, in coronets, in stalactites, in |
stalagmites. Here and there are petrifed |
growths, or the dead trees, and vegetation