Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-09-28

natural enlbalnment. In some places
waters as innocent and smiling as a
child making first attempt to walk
from its mothers lap, and not far off
as foalning and freilzied and ungov-
ernable as Il maniac in nlurderous
struggle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along
the geyscrite cnchantmcnt for days
and begin To feel that there can be
nothing more Of interest to see, you
suddenly come upon the peroration Of
all majesty and grandeur, the Grand
canyon. II is here that it seems 10 ME
and speak it with reverence-Jeho-
val seems to have surpassed himself.
1t seems u great gulcli let down into
the eternities. Here, hung up and let
down and spread abroad, are all the
colors of land and sea- and sky Up
holstcring of the Lord God Almighty.
Best work of the Architect of worlds
Sculpturing By the Infinite. Masonry
by all omnipotent trowcl. Yellowl
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.
sfgln q cathedral of basal Sunrise and
Sunset married by the setting of rain.
bow ring
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals
and Egyptian basilicas built before
human architecture was born Huge
Notifications of granite constructed
before war forged its first cannon.
Gibraltars and Sebastopols that never
can be taken Alhambras. where kings
Of strength and queens of beauty
rcigned long before the first earthly
crown was cmpearletl. 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 staEd round as
sponsors For thousands of years be.
fore that scene was unveiled To human
sight, the clements were busy, and the
geysers were hewing away with their
hot ciisel, and glaciers were pound.
ing with their cold hammers and hur.
ricanes were cleaving with their light
ming 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 Il new and divine
ly inspired revelation, the Old Tesla
ment written on papyrus, the New
Testament written or parchment. and
now this last Testament written Oh the
rocks
Hanging over one of the cliffs l
looked of until could not get my
! breath, then rctrcating to a less OK
posed place l looked down again
Down there is pillar Of rock that in
certain conditions OF the atmosphere
looks like Il pillar of blood. Yonder
are fifty feet of emerald on 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 molting.into
lire of carbunele. Flaming red cool
ing into russell. Cold blue warming
into saffron. Dull gray kindling into
solferino. Morning twilight flushing
midnight shadows. AuroMs crouch
ing among rocks.
Yondcrls all eagles nest on shaft
OF basalt Through an cyeglass we
see among it the young eagles, but the
stoutest arm Of our group cannot hurl
y stone near enough to disturb the
fcathercd domesticity. Yonder arc
heights that would be chilled with
horror but for the warm robe Of for
est foliage with which they are en-
wrapped Affairs of worship at which
nations might knecl. Dolnes of chal
ccdony OH temples of porphyry. See
all this carnage of color up and down
the cliffs; it must have been the bat
tie field OF tic war of the elements.
Here are I'll the coors Of the wall OF
heaven, neither the sapphire nor the
cbrysolifc nor the topaz nor the ja-
cinth. nor the amethyst nor the jas
per nor tho 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 over
towering. 1t would only be from
! glory TO glory. Ascent through such
earthly scenery i'll which the crystal
is so bright and the rcd 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 morn.
ing Of Aug. 0, for the most part we
held our peace, but after a while it
flashed upon me with such power |
!, could not help butsay TO my comrades:
"What /; Hall this would be for the
lastJudgmcnt" Sec that mighty cas-
cade with the rainbows at the foot OF it.
Those waters CONCEALED and transfiXed
with the agitations of that day, what
! place they would make for the shin
ing feet Of a Judge OF quick aud dead.
| And those rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at his feet. at the
Lotion 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
arcbangcls' trumpet there would be
through all these gorges and from all
these cavcrns and over all these
uelpllS. w lly SuOulO iOI eHC SA1Ss'e
of all the days the world shall ever
see close amid the grandest scenery
Omnipotence ever built9
Oh, the sweep Of the American con-
tinent Sailing up Puget sound, its
shores so bold that for fifteen hum
dred miles ships Prov would touch
the sl.ore before its keel touched the
bottom. said This is the Mcditcr'
ralrcan Of America Visiting Port.
land and Tacoma and Seattle and
Victoria and Fort Townsend and
Vancouvers and other cities OF
that northwest region | thought
to myself: These are tie Bos'
tons. New Yorks. Charlestons and Sa.
vannahs Of the Pacific coast. But
after all this summers journeying