The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23

and promotory. OH how the marine
loneliness played "hide-and-seek" amidst
the islands! Five grim batteries pointing
their Armstrong guns at us, but only in
play. "Yonder," says the captain, lis a
French steamer, yonder an American and
yonder an Englishman." Sydney harbor
is SO broad and honest that
NO PILOT WAS NEEDED
to come on board. Room here for all the
navies Of the earth to ride in and secrete
themselves so that they could not be found
without much search. Room for the
"Great Easterns" of the past and the
'Campanias'' of the present to wheel
without peril. Room to welcome all the
centuries and generations and ages which
are yet to drop anchor in its clear depths
He only belittles and bedwarfs and be-
means Sydney Harbor, who compares it
to the Bay of Naples or the entrance to
Rio Janeiro.
God works by no model, and this harbor
was of divine origination. He works
with rocks and waters and skies as easily
as architects work with pencil and rule
and compass; and he intended this harbor
not to be a repetition of anything that had
ever been done, and TO make it impossible
for any human engineering or landscape
gardening or hydraulics TO initiate IL is
winding splendor, an unfolding glory,
transcendent Illustration of what omni-
potence can do in the architecture of an
ocean gate.
The day we entered ii clouds of all
hues were looking down into its mirror,
beauties of all styles were walking its
opaline pavement; grandeurs of all char
lots were rolling across its crystalline
highway. On the captains bridge we
stood until near enough to the wharf to
see the deputation of clergymen and
prominent citizens who were waiting to
come aboard to greet us, and when they
thronged the cabin of the steamer, aud
addressed us in welcoming words we
were compelled by our own feelings to re-
ply, Brethren and friends! after sailing
against head winds and over very rough
seas. il is most delightful TO get into this
beautiful harbor of Sydney, and into the
still more beautiful harbor OF Christian
fellowship"
But | was up before daybreak next
morning looking at the harbor. The
window of my room in the Australia
hotel takes in the enchantment and l
watched the coming of the day in the
harbor. The whole sky first took pal
lor, not sickly, but healthful. as though
there were white wings from the other
side shining through. Then there came
coruscations, and deep indigoes, and IRA
diations, ana sadness of color, and
UNROLLING SCROLLS PROPHETIC
of more light, and sombre and holy
CLEANS and rhapsodies of advancing day
aud then, banners Of victory over the
darkness Then in this wall OF heaven
the gates began to swing open 1t was
no sudden swinging back of the panels of
fire. There was no grinding OF the gates
on the amethystine hinges there was no
clang of bolts hurled back from the i'm
perial portals but a slow grad dual and over
towering movement that made me feel
there was more to come. ana | wondered
if | could endure the expanding vision.
AS looked into the gate ! saw what de-
scribed to my son afterwards as
sceptre. sceptre of great length and
briiliance. Such sceptre as no
earthly emperor ever had in his throne
room The handle Of the sCeptre had all
the colors of the prism. The edges of it
were translucent. the point OF II was
timed with waving light all the time
changing. Yet what scepter! What
king would dare TO handle IT! What
monarch would dare TO lift II! But while
wondered. the question was answered.
THE King of Day, the rising sun, took
hold OF il and the scepter which had
seen a few seconds before lying on the
shelf of heaven, was first hoisted as
tbough To command the hidden glories Of
line slies to come down, and then it was
pointed 10 the harbOr as the place OF thelr
destination. and on that sapphire Of the
waves, both the scepter that had seen
and the crown of the king who tooh IT
were nut down; and from green island to
Green island. and from beach 10 beach,
And All up and down the promoutories,
and from sky to water and from water to
81 vii was morning ia sydney harbor.
Have you ever realized that there is
oniv one Being IN the universe who can
SCOOP out and mold and buttress and build
a harborl Al Napier, New Zealand,