, 1891-11-13
A SAVAGE'S WONDER
AT the Wonderful Puget Sound
Country.
what "a Celebrated Unitarian NEin-
lister Has to say OF western
Washington and ITS
nawaInus1,oxxe


Rev. Minot J. Savage Of the Unity
church, Boston, who visited the sound
country short time ago was so much i'm
pressed with what he saw that his first
sermon on his return consisted in des-
cription of the places visited. Mr.. Saw
ages sermons are all published in pham-
hlet form as regularly as weekly newspa-
per and have worldwide circulation.
What he says about Puget Sound, Mt. Ia
coma and the twin cities of the sound will
be interesting to all readers of the TRIBUNE.
He came by way of the Canadian Pacific
and says: Pursuing my journey west
ward through some Of the most varied
of this continent, reached Seattle in the
state Of Washington, just one week from
the day ofmy starting. Branching off, be-
fore reached Vancouver, + took a steamer
and sailed all the afternoon over Puget
Sound, one Of the most beautiful sheets
of water that | have ever seen-until I
reached Seattle at ten O'Clock at night
Puget Sound and its immediate vicinity |
| believe to be that part Of our country
which is to see the
MOST WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT
inside the next fifteen or twenty years
1t is sheet of water in which there is
neither reef nor shoal throughout it's
whole extent. Any ship can sail any where
without pilot or guide.
Seattle is a beautiful city on the western
side of the sound, of about thirty miles
from its southern end-a city Of fifty thou
sand people. 1t is the best supplied with
street railways and with means of travel
of any city that | have ever seen. Its full
of life, energy, of ambition, of hope
Here there is a vigorous earnest new I'm.
itarian church. preached there Sunday
morning, the morning after my arrival
and helped install then new ministers a grand
son of old DR.. EliotofSt Louis and son of DIR.
Eliot, of Portland, Oregon / took
the steamer that afternoon, after preaching
in Seattle, and sailed for Tacoma, thirty
miles away, another city about the same
size as Seattle. + | shall not make
any comparison between these two cities
for I dlscerned the fact that they love each
other about as Minneapolis and st. Paul
| do. | wish to keep on the right side of
both Of them, for some time in my life
hope to see both Of them again, and
should not offer praise to one without du-
! plicating for the other, so perhaps had
better not enter into any extended praise
Of either. | will only say that they are
who could foretell
WHICH WILL BE THE GREATER.
Both are full Of life and power, full of that
new energy of the far northwest. / have
seen nothing quite like it anywhere else in
my trip. Tacoma also has strong, earn
est, though young, Unitarian church. All
| the leading business men of the city are
4 Unitarians; and | found that the principal
bank Of the place is called the First Uni
| tartan bank, of Tacoma, from the fact that
almost everybody connected with it is a
i Unitarian. / cannot go on without stop
ping here one moment to try to suggest to
| you the most wonderful vision of Beauty
i and magnificence / have ever seen ON any
! journey that | have ever taken around the
1 world. am glad that nobody had spoken
| to me aboutit. / was sitting on the deck
of the little steamer; and hardly left the
harbOr of Seattle before, way off against
the perfect blue Of the clear sky.
1 saw what / supposed was a cloud.
/ looked at second time, because it seemed
/ to me that its outlines were little too def
mite and that they retained their shape too
4 long for a cloud. / looked and looked
/ again, until at last it took shape, and not
settled, but reached down to the earth at
my feet, and I found myself
UPON THE GRANDEsT MOUNTAIN
upon which my eyes have ever looked
AlOullg IdCOlllds u1OaG 4uOuughl44Sj d5 you
know, we only partly see. If you wish to
see Pixies peak, for example, you must 60
to Colorado Springs, and then you are half
the height of the peak from the sea before
you see it at all, and then it is surrounded
and hidden by foothills, SO that it is only a
little Of the top that is visible. Imagine a
mountain that is IA "A feet high, twice the
height Of Mount Washington, standing
alone, unhidden by any foothills to take
\ away from its dignity, so that as YOU sit
on the deck of the steamer, you see all its
mighty bulk from from the water up,
lofty, white, glistening forth against the
the perfect sky. / do not know of any
other mountain that can be seen in pre-
ciseIy this way, and thanked God for the
strength of the hills for the suggestions
of magnifcence and power. If ! never see
it again, that vision Of might, Of loftiness
and beauty, will 60 with me as an inspir-
alton, something to make me feel the great
ness of God as almost nothing else upon
upon which my eyes have looked"