St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-05
THE NEW AND THE OLE
Brought Face to Face in Rev.
Walls Trip to the
Coast.
An Interesting Description and
the Lesson 1t Sug-
gested.

heV. w. .. vail preached Ills hrSt ser
mon after his vacation, on 1.-The West
ward Course of Empire" taking for a
text the words "Replenish the Earth,
and Subdue It." He said: "The West
ern movement of man began on the
plains of the far East. He did not stop
when he came to the sea, and to Egypt,
but moved onward; and then crossed
the great Atlantic, to make his home on
our eastern border and to begin the life
OF the new world. The Connecticut
river was once the far West. The GEN
esee river took that position by and by.
Then it was the valley of the Ohio
Later the Western plains; aud now it
is California" The speaker, standing
on the rear platform of car on the
plains of Nevada. had reconstructed in
imagination the picture of the emf
grant with his span Of patient oxen
drawing the covered wagon; the women
riding inside, the young man walking
apart on the virgin prairie, while the
hunting dog was looking for game in
the grass. All were moving toward
sunset over plain that seemed bound
less, and underneath the picture was
written the legend, "Westward the
the speaker thought of this as fitting
symbol of mans tendency.
And he had thought Of the primary
motives and the secondary conditions
that grew out of them. Men were lured
by the sheen of gold. That was the
stimulus that carried families like the
Donners to the sacrifice of cOmfort-the
rude march can only be appreciated by
viewing the territory. And many
grave marks the place where violence
fired the death-ShOt. or where hunger
stified the dying sufferer, and where
| weary with mis- burden he gladly LAID it
| down.
We see all the sudden Kaleidoscope
| changes that come with vIcissitudeS of
Western development. We are CLAM
! CURED by the story of men who, with the
| touch of pick. rise from poverty to the
wealth of Cr9sus. We are saddened | Y
the arrogance and ignorance that in
| such cases too often go together. We
are gladdened by the relief that comes
| when we see the noble gift of Stanford
| in the endowment OF a university of tie
largest magnitude; in the magnificent
| gift of James Lick both Of the obServa-
| tory and the academy of sciences: in the
magnificent gardens that Mr.. SutrO has
opened to the public and intends to give
to the city. Then the sadder fortunes
of men also move us. We read the wild
adventures of men who have been eli
| Off from the checks imposed by civiliZa-
ton and understand how the mills OF
! retrlbution often grind both swift and
fine.
The speaker thought that his hearers,
as well as himself, had been often moved
by the tragedies of the pioneer settle
ment. 1t seems sad, unSpeakably sad,
to read the stories of a rude time when
men were a law unto themselves. and
their savagery threw gloom over every
| pioneer camp. These tragedies moaned
| in the dying man on the disputed claim.
They cry in the pitiful voice of the dis
| crowned woman: who is losing her hold
OH world that now trampIes her under
Its feet; who is dying there by the flick
ering lamp in the cabin, dressed in taw-
dry finery, and bejeweled with tinsel.
They sneer in the voice of sardOnic
doubt. They pray in the faith that
kneels over the dying. But in all this
life there is the promise of hope. The
historian of the Californian life in the
camps of the primitive age
was bret more Haf of the H.he's outw maS
conditions, but he has shown us what?
The love of baby that transformed
Roaring Camp unselfsh fidelity that
! nearly redeemed Tennessee" spirit
of sacrifice that almost reaches the halo
in "Miggles." and makes US feel that
| even the outcaSt may have the germ of
| goodness left.
And then the preacher said he wanted
to rise still higher with his thought and
ask what it was that prevented our hu-
man life from becoming one tragedy,
| for tits certain that any review of any
| ground brings with it the story of one
perpetual struggle. But back of the
| bad stands the good. Back of the pio-
neer stands the ideal citizen. You see
it in everything. You see it in the old
mining district, the most interesting
thing saw, for here are re-
mains of great mines. of shanty
villages where millions were piled
up remains of the rudest of rude
life; and just over the mountains the
| orchards are climbing up the foothills,
! and every kind OF fruit, even the orange,
| is being produced, and there are the
school. the church and the newspaper.
And down at Pasadena we had, per-
haps, the most notable illustration of
this. The place is most remarkable for
location. A mountain rises on one side
that in any other country would attract
universal attention. The fruits and
of the most stolid. Work was being
done on the new Throop university. In
the distance stood other institutions
%o rfsF on liz D os%Rss{s!s Tbs
Of the day from aif pIacey Fl Energy gys was
pushing out in all directions. 1t was
the spirit of the age. But an arrows
flight from this scene is the old San
Gabriel mission. The houses surround
ing it are adobe; the people are Mexi-
can; the atmosphere OF the place is of
| the Middle Ages. Inside the church