The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-26
IMAGINATION Run RIOT.

DIR. Talmage just returned from a
trans-eontinental trip, preached
ringing sermon Sunday on the natural
wonders of the great west. The
wealth of imagery and faneiful rhet-
ORIG employed to describe what he saw
is really charming, though overdone.
His fancy ran riot, throwing off a
wealth of SMILES. metaphors and by
perboles that fairly dazzle and bewild-
er the mind. He visited Yosemite of
which he raves in the following man
ner:
That Valley of the Yosemite is eight
miles long and a half mile
wide, and 5000 feet deep. 1t
seems as if it had been the
meaning of Omuipotence to crowd in
to as small place as possible some of
| the most Stupendous scenery of TIE
world. Some of the cliffs you do not
stop to measure by feet for they are
| literary IA mile high. Steep 50 that
neither foot of man nor beast ever
scaled them, they stand in everlasting
defiance. If Jehovah has throne on
i earth these are it's white pillars.
Standing down in this great chasm of
the valley, you look UP and wonder is
Cathedral Rock, vast, gloomy minister
built for the silent worship of the
mounts aims. Yonder is Sentinel Rock.
8 ,270 feet high, bold, solitary, standing
guard among the ages, is top seldom
touched until IA bride one Fourth of
July mounted it and planted the ma
tional standards and the people down
in the valley locked up and saw the
Ehead of the mountain tLrbaned with
stars and stripes. Yonder are the
ssThIee Brothers. - 1000 feet high;
tCloud's Rest" North and South
, Dome, and heights never captured
save by the fiery Daycne:s of the thun-
der storm.
) place for the mind. Mountains hurled
J on mountains. Mountains flanked by
f mountains. Mountains split. Noun
tains ground. Mountains fallen
Mountains triumphant. AS though
! Mount Blanc and the AdirondackS anC
5 Mount Washington were here utterinl
a themselves in one magnificent chorus
= of rock and precipice and waterfall
Sitting and dashing through the rocks
t the water comes down. The Brida
C Veil Falls, so thin you can see tn
face of the mountain behind it. Yon
der is Yosemite Falls, dropping 1858
feet, sixteen times greater descen
v than that OF Niagara. These water
e dashed to death on the rocks, so tina
q the white spirit of the slain waters de
Scending in robe of mist seeks til
/ heaven. Xonder is Nevada fall
d plunging 700 feet, the water in arrows
r the water in rockets, the water j
- pearls, the water in amethyStS, tn
water in diamonds. That cascad
Y filings down the rocks enough jewels
+ array all the earth in beauty. an
s. rushes on until it drops into yer
"a hell of waters. the smoke of their tol
L nt a aXYc
= He pictures Yellowstone Park ;
~ 'sthe geologist's paradise. Its extraoi
. binary beauties intoxicated him. e
pecialIy the geysers which he describe
" as the result of 1.-The marriage of I'll
- = and water. But he was not lifted Ell
tirely out of himself until he saw Il
- Grand canyon. The view there a
1e oused every lingering spark of fancy
the man, and he burst forth in IL
10 following hyperbole concerning it. E
says:
ee But after you have wandered aloI
= the geyserite enchantment for dal
and begin to feel that there can
n nothing more of interest to see, yC
III suddenly come upon the peroration
ms majesty and grandeur, the grand cal
4 y
and speak it with reverence-Jeht
no yah seems To have surpassed hlmsel
ne 1t seems great gulch let down in
m the eternities. Here, hung up and 1
= down and spread abroad are all Il
~ colOrs of land and sea and sky. Upht
sr- STEERING of the Lord God Almight
ms Best work OF the architect of world
of sculpturing by the infinite. Masonl
su by an omnipotent trOwel. Yellol
III You never saw yellow unless you sa
Ill it there. Redi You never saw red III
rs less you saw it there. Violet u
na never saw violet nuless you saw
: there. Triumphant banners of colo
10, In a cathedral of basalt, sunrise al
er sSnset married by the setting of raj
wv bow ring.
ha Gothic arches, Corinthian capita
and Egyptian Dasilcss built, before b
au man architecture was born. Huge fo
or tifeatioHs OF granite constructed b
be fore war forged its first cannon. Gi
n ralters. Sebastopols that can never
taken. Alhamhras, where kings
a. strength and queens of beauty reign,
q long before the first earthly crown W
empearled. Thrones on which no u
/. but the king of Heaven and earth ev
sat. Fount OF waters at which the lie
rs ser hills are baptised while the ga
NJ cliffs stand around as sponsors. f