Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-24
IN FAIR AUSTRALIA.
DR.. rALMAGE IMPRESSED BY IT'S
BEAUTY AND GRANDEUR.
bydney Harbor, the Magnificent Gate to n
Wonderful Country--A Beautiful Picture
of the Breaking Day-Sweet Voices of t;,e
Postoffce Chimes.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894. ]

| twisted, flung, sickened, bruised, dis
mayed, alarmed, are some Of the words
| which describe our feelings while cross
ing from New Zealand to Australia We
heard that the passage was like CROSSING
the channel at Calais from France tt
England, but that, instead Of the hour
and q half, it would be four days and {
half 1t was worse than we expected and
days Of it. The only alienation of the
voyage was the captain, who was jolly al
the time to be jolly, serious at the time
to be serious and deeply religious at ali
times. Converted III a Presbyterian
church in New Zealand, he has become
a flaming evangel, preaching Oh board
his steamer once or twice every Sabbath
Our rough sea experience prepared ua
for full appreciation Of one Of the
brightest panoramas Of the land and
Sky that ever unrolled before mortal vi
sion. Captain Neville said to Us, I'VE
Will soon be in sight Of the Australian
coast, and when we approach the harbor
OF Sydney come up on my bridge, and I
Will point out to you the objects of in
terOst. THANK you, was our reply
to the unusual invitation, for sea cap
tain3 do not ordinarily like to have
company on the steamers bridge In a
few moments we climbed to tho side Of
the captain. Great walls Of rock buiI It
by the eternal God reached along the
coast and stopped only wide cnoa:.,,l
apart to allow ships to enter and D Keep
the boisterous ocean out.
Wonder, said the captain, lis the
retreat i'll the rocks which in the ty;i-
light deceived the captain Of the Dan
can Dunbar to mistake it for tho harbor
and to aim for it, crashing into destruc-
ton All on board persisted savo one
man, who was picked up after he had
foated down onto the shelving. -
Safely we rode in between the two
great brown pillars of Hawkesbury
sandstone, and then began the revola-
ton Of q harbor such as nowhere else IN
che wide world is to be found The
whole scene is an Odyssey, 'Di-
VIVA Comrnelia,'' an Old Testament
and a New Testament Of grandeur and
loyelincss. You cannot for o moment
relax your energy of watching without
something which you cannot
see again. The white palaces of the
princes of Sydney shine
through the foliage of the trees Dip
ping to the bay are gardens abloom III
winter and lawns with an emerald like
unto the fourth layer of the wall Ct
heaven. Tropical plants and tropical
flowers stand side by side with the
growths Of more rigorous climates.
Vineyards and orange groves, polno-
granates and guavas and pineapplos
growing in a revelry of luxuriance.
Norfolk pines, palm, Moreton bay Jig
and Eucalyptus trees, stretch theirscop-
ters over the scene Complete bewitch-
nelt Of laudscapesl Steady cried
the captain to the man at the wheel
'StcaGy!' Bat no observer can keep
very steady while watching this ever
changing, ever inspiring, ever ench2. :
ing scene. ~ Onder is the monaa-s1,,.
YoEler, just coming III sight, is the il.
2li-&I's house. Yonder is the univezsi
y. Yonder are the houses Of parlia
olcnt. Yonder are the old prisons
There is the governors residence. >
Here, sweeping up close to our steamer,
ire launches with excursIonists Yondcr
re sailing boats so small they suggest
sea gulls. While the area G :
he harbor is said to be nine squa~o
niles, the water line of it, if followed |
- and down all it's inlets, would be |
, 500 miles The ripping waters kiss
he beach, and the beach embraces the
ay. AT the next turn of our steamers
Wheel moro garniture OF island and har-
or and inlet and prOmontozy Oh,
ow the marine loneliness played ''hide
nd seek" amid the islands, Five
rim batteries pointing their Armstrong
us at Us, but only in play. ''Yon
er, - says the captain, is French
teamer, yonder an American and yon-
er an Englishman.
Sydney harbor is SO broad and honest
nat no pilot was needed to come on
GARD. Room here for all the navies of
10 earth to ride in and secrete them
elves SO that they could not be found
7ithout much search. Room for the
treat Easterns Of the past and the
Of the present to wheel
'itho1t peril. Room to welcome all tho
9nturies and generations and ages
hich are yet to drop anchor in its
ear depths. He only belittles and be-
warts and bemeans Sydney har Dor who
onpares it to the bay of Naples or the
ltrance to Rio Janeiro
God works by no model, and this har
1r was Of divine origination. He
Cr1s with rocks and waters and skies
easily as architects work with pencil
Id rule and compass, and he intended
lis harbor not to be a repetition of
lything that had ever been done and
gineering or landscape gardening or
7draulics TO initiate It is a winding
lendor, an unfolding glory, tran
endent illustration of what omnipo-
nee can do in the architecture of all
can gate.
The day we entered it clouds Of all