Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-19

ing pillars Of the Aimighty's sculptur-
ing. There are rossttes f asns thyst IA
halls Of gypsum. As the guide carries
bis lantern ahead Il yoU. tbs shadows
have an apIsesr4I-.s supernatural aud
spectral The darkness Is fearful
Two people. getting lost FROM their
guide only for few hours. years ago,
were demented, and for years sat Ia
their insanity. Yoa feel hike holding
your breath as you walk across tie
bridges that seem 10 span the bottom
less abyss The guide throws bis cal
cum light down into tho caverns, and
the light rolls and losses from rock 10
rock and from depth 10 depth, making
AT every plunge a new revelation OF the
awful power that could have made
such place as that. A sense Of snt-
location comes upon you as you think
that you are two hundred and fifty feet
ia q straight line from the summit sur
face of the earth.
The guide after awhile takes You into
what is called the ''star chamber" and
then he says TO YOU, ''Sit here" and then
he takes the lantern and goes down un-
der the rocks, and il gets darker and
darker until the night is 70 thick that
the hand an inch from the eye Is unob-
seryable. And then, by kindling one Of
the lanterns and placing IL IN cleft OF
the rock there, is reflection east on the
dome of tho cave, and there are stars
coming out in constellations-a brilliant
night heavens-and you involuntarlly
exclaim, Beautiful, beautiful"
Then he takes the lantern down in
other depths Of the cavern aud wanders
on and wanders off until he comes up
from behind the rocks gradually, ana it
seems like the dawn Of the morning and
it gets brighter and brighter. The guide
is skilled ventriloquist, and he initiates
the voices Of the morning, and soon the
gloom is all gone and you stand con-
graduating yourself over the wonderful
spectacle.
FROM THE GRAVE To GLORY.
Well, there are a great many people
who look down into the grave as great
cavern. They think it is a thousand
miles subterraneous, and all the echoes
seem to be the voices Of despair, and the
cascades seem to be the falling tears
that always fall, and the gloom of earth
seems coming up in stalaglnite, and the
gloom of the eternal world seems de.
scending in the stalactite, making pill
lars of indescribable horror. The grave
is no such place as that to me, thank
God! Our divine guide takes us down
into the great caverns, and we have the
lamp to our feet and the light 10 oul
path, and all the echoes in the riffs OF
the rock are anthems, and all the fall
! ing waters are fountains of salvation
and after awhile we look up, and be
hold! the cavern of the tomb has be
come Kings star chamber.
And while we are looking at the pomI
! of it an everlasting morning begins Il
rise, and all the tears of earth crystal
lie into stalagmite, rising up in a pillar
ON the one side, and all the glories O
heaven seem to be descending in sta
lactite, making pillar on the other side
and you push against the gate tina
swings between the two pillars. and a
that gate flashes open you find it as on
of the twelve gates which are twelv
pearls. Blessed be God that through
this Gospel the mammoth cave Of tn
sepulcher has become the illumined sta
chamber of the King! Oh, the palaces
the eternal palacesl the Kings palaces!