Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-03

Cathedral Rocs vast gloomy minister
built for the silent worship OF the noun
taias. Yonder Is Sentinel Rock, 3,2O feet
high, bold, solitary, standing guard among
the ages, its top seldom touched until
bride ono Fourth Of July mounted 1t 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. Wonder arc the
"Tbree Brothers" four thousand feet high,
Clouds Rest" North and South Dome
and heights never captured save by the
fiery bayonets of tie thunder storm
No pause for the eye, no stopping place
for the mind Mountains hurled on noun
tains. Mountains in the wake Of noun
tains. Mountains fianked by mountains.
Mountains split. Mountains ground
Mountains fallen. Mountains triumphant
As though Mont Blanc and the Adiron-
dacks and Mount VI ashinglon were hero
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. Wonder is Yosemite falls, drop
ping 1854 feet, sixteen times greater descent
tnan that of Niagara. these waters dashed
TO death on the 70 ks, 80 that the white
spirit of the slain waters ascending In robe
OF mist seeks the heaven. Gonder Is Neva-
da falls plunglng se'e en- hundred feet, the
water IN arrows, the water in rockets, the
the water in diamonds. That cascade filings
down the rocks enough jewels To array all
the earth in beauty, and PUSHES on until 1t
drops into very hell Of waters, the smoke
OF their torment ascend -ng forever and
ever.
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 Tor.
ever. After all poetry has exhausted it'oif
~ Asll flN.a sgN Ito h.A
other encha ting artists have completed
their canvas. there will be other revelations
to make and Other stories OF its beauty and
wrath, splendor and agony, 10 be rcclted
The \ elOwstone park IL biologists para
disc. by cheapenng Of travel may it be-
come the nations playground! In some
portions OF IL there seems TO be the anarchy
OF the elements. Fire and water. and the
vapor born Of that marriage, terrific. Gey-
ser cones or hills OF crystal that have been
over Tive thousand years growing. In
places the earth, throbUlng, Sobblng, groan-
ing, quaking with a !ueous paroXysm.
at the eXpirat on OF every slXty-tive
MINUTES o. g of the EeYsers tossing It's boil
ing water - feet in tie air ana then de-
scending into swinging rainOows. Caverns
OF pictured walls large enough for the
sepulcher of the human race. Formations
OF stone in the shape and color OF Gala
lily, OF heliOtrope OF rose, or cowslip, OF
suniiower and of giadioa Sulphur and
arsenic and oxide Of iron, with their deli
cate pencils. turning the hills into "a
Luxembourg or "A Vatican picture gallery.
The so called ThonatopsiS geyser eX-
quisitc as the Bryant poem ii was named
after, and the so called Evangcliue Coyser,
lovely as the LongIellOw heroine IL COM
memorates. The so called Pulpit Terrace
from its white elevation preaching mightier
sermons of God than lips ever uttered.
The so called Bethesda geyser, by the
warmth of which inYalids have already
been cured, the Angel Of Health continu-
ally stirring the waters Enraged crators,
with heat AZ five hundred degree, only
little below the surface.
" Idle reaches of store OF intermingled
ColorS, blue rs the sky, green as the foliage,
crimson as the dahlia, white as the snow,
spotted as the leopard, Jawny as the lion,
grizzly as the bear, in circes. in angles, in
stars, in coronets, in stalactites, in stalSg
mites. Here and there are the petritied
growths or the dead trees, and vegetation
of other ages keut through a process OF
natural embalmment In somc places
WATERS as innocent and smiling as u child
making Il first attempt TO walk from its
mothers lap. and not far OF as toaming and
frenZed and ungovcruable as u maniac ia
m'rderous struggle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along the
geysarlte enchaacmcnt for days and begin
to feel that tnef, can be nothing more Of
interest to see, you suddenly come upon
the peroratioA OF all majesty and grandeur,
the Grand canyon. it is here that it seems
TO me and spcaA it VITA reverence-Jeho-
yah seems TO have surpassed himself.
IT seems great gulch let down into tho
eternl;ies. Here, hung up and let down
and spread abroad, are all the colors OF
land and sea and sky. Upholsicring of the
Lord Cod Almighty. Best work OF the
Architect Of worlds. Sculpturiag by the
Infinite. Masonry by an olnipotent
trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow
rtnlaea ~ tbn~a I2aA Non
never saw red unless you saw it there.
Violet! You never saw violet unless you
saw it there. Triumphant Gamers OF
color. In cathedral Of basalt, Sunrise
and Sunset married by the setting OF rain.
bow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basiliras built before human
architecture YVES born. Huge Notifications
of granite constructed before war forged
its first cannon. Gibraters and Sebasto-
polls that never can be taken. AlhHmbras,
where kings of strength and queens of
beauty rcigned long before the first earthly
crown was empCarlcd. Thrones on which
no one but the King OF heaven and earth
ever sat. Fount OF waters at which the
les aer hills are baptized while the giant
cliffs stand as sponsors. For thousands Of
wears before that scene was unveiled TO
human sight, the elements were busy and
the gevsers were hewing away with their
hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding
Win tnelr COlu hammers au0 hurricanes
were ceaving with their lightning strokes
and hailstones giving the finishing touches,
and after all these forces OF nature had
done their best, in our century the curtain
dropped and the world had new and
divinely inspired revelat on the Old Tesla
ment written on papyrus, tho New Tesla
ment written on parchment. and now this
last Testament written on the roc, 3.
Hanging over one OF the cliffs looked of
until | could not get my breath, then re-
treating 10 q less exposed place | lookel
down again. Down there is II pillar OF rock
that in certa n conditions OF the atmosphere
looks ike "A pillar Of blood. Yonder arc
fifty feet OF emerald on base of five hun
dred feet of opal. Wall Of chalk resting on
pedestals of beryl. Turrets Of light tum-
bling 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 kinding into SOL
ferino. Morning twill, flushing mid
night shadows Auroras crouching among
rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on o shaft of
basalt. Through an eyeglass we sec among
1t the young eagles, but the stoutest arm OF
our group cannot hurl a 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 foil
age with which they are enwrapped. Affairs
of worship at which nations might kneel
Domes Of chalcedony on temples OF por-