The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-09

until l could not get my breath, then re-
treating to less exposed place looked
down again. Down there is pillar of rock
that in certain conditions of the atmosphere
looks like . pillar of blood. Yonder are
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 and crysral
melting into fire Of carbuncle. Flaming red
cooling into russell Cold blue warming into
saffron. Dull gray kindling into solferno.
Morning twilight flushing midnight shad-
Ows. Auroras crouching among rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on o shaft Of ba-
salt. Through an eyeglass we see among it
the young eagles, but the stoutest arm Of
our group can not hurl 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 porphyry.
See all this carnage Of color up and down
the cliffs; it must have been the battle field
Of the war of the elements. Here are all
the colors Of the wall of Heaven, neither
the sapphire nor the chrysolite nor the
topaz nor the jacinth, nor the amethyst nor
the jasper nor the twelve gates of twelve
pearls, wanting. II spirits bound from
earth to Heaven could pass up 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 the red so flaming would be
ft preparation for the 'sea of glass mingled
with fire."
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone Park on the morning Of
August 8, for the most part we held our
peace, but after while it flashed upon me
with such power could not help but say to
my comrades: '4.What hall this would be
for the last judgmentw See that mighty
cascade with the rainbows at the
foot Of it, Those waters concealed
and transfxed with the agitations of that
day, what place they would make for
the shining feet Of q Judge Of quick
and dead. And those rainbows look now
like the crowns to be cast at his feet. At
the bottom 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 archangels'
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 Omnip-
otenoe'ever built2 w.
o, the sweep Of the American continent!
Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores so bold
that for fifteen hundred miles ships prov
would touch the shore before its keel
touched the bottom, said: "This is the
Mediterranean of America" Visiting
Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Vic
toria and Fort Townsend and Vancouver's
and other cities of that Northwest region, l
thought to myself These are the Bostons,
New Yorks, Charlestons, and Savannahs Of
the Pacific Coast. But after all this sum-
mer's journeying and my other journeys
westward in other summers, found that
had seen only part of the American conti-
| nent, for Alaska is as far west of San Fran
cisco as the coast of Maine is east of it, so
that the central city of the American CONT
nent Is San Francisco.
| have said these things about the magni-
tude Of the continent and given you few
specimens of some of it's wonders to let you
4 know the comprehensiveness OF the text
when 1t says that Christ is going to have
| dominion from sea to sea that Is, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Beside that, the
salvation of this continent means the saliva
ton Of Asia, for we are only thirty six
miles from Asia at the Northwest. Only
Behring Straits separates us from Asia, and
| x,,tl1 ho NV q nraof h,i1na hn.
fore another century closes, and probably
long before that. The thirty-six miles OF
water between these two continents are not
at all deep sea, but have three islands, and
there are also shoals which will allow piers
for bridges, and for the most Of the way the
water is only about twenty fathoms deep.
The America Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent Sc
YOU see America evangelical, Asia will be
evangelical. Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking it from the Other
side. Our great grandchildren will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and Europe
all one, what subtraction from the pangs Of
seasickness! and the prophecies in Revela
ton will be fulfilled, There shall be nj
more sea-" But do l mean literally tina
this American continent is going to be al
gospelized! / do. Christopher Columbus
when he went ashore from the Santa Maria
and his second brother Alfonso, when hi
went ashore from the Pinta, and his thirC
brother Vinceut, when he went ashore from
the Nina, took possession of this country il
the name of the Father, and the Son ant
the Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right to this countr,
than have to your pocketbook. To hea
him talk on the roof of the temple, where h,
proposed to give Christ the kingdoms of thi
world, and the glory Of them, you might sup
pose that Satan was great capitalist O.
that he was loaded up with real estate
when the old miscreant never owned al
acre or an inch of ground on this planet
For that reason protest against somethin!
heard and saw this summer and othe
summers in Montana and Oregon and Wyo
ming and Idaho and Colorado and California
They have given devilistic names to man,
places in the West and Northwest.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Par
or California you have pointed out to yo
places cursed with such names as 18th
DEVILS, Slide" THE. DEVILS Kitchen,
.'The DEVILS Thumb" 1.-THE Devils, Pul
! nit" "The Devils Mush Pot" THE Devil
Il Tea Kettle" THE DEVILS Saw Mil, /" 9Th
DEVILS Machine, Shop" THE Devil
Gate" and SO on. Now it Is very muc
needed that the geological surveyor or Con
gressional committee or group Of distin
guished tourists go through Montana an
wyoming and California and Colorado an
: give other names to these places AL thes
regions belong to the Lord and to Chris
l tian nation, and away with such Plutoni
: nomenclature.
( But how is this continent to be gospelized