Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-06-11

1.-THE sight that enchanted DR.. Talmage.]
sides. He has stamped upon each page his
strong personality and frightened every
paragraph with thebrillianoy of his image
ry and artistic depletion and warmed Il
with the fervor of his dauntless optimism.
In the pursuance of his great purpose
he carefully studied Mohammedanism
Confueianism, Hindooism, Buddhism
fakirism, lamaism, fetichism, cannibal
ism, fatalism, savagery and all the differ.
ent shades of fanatioism that curse and
degrade the peoples of the heathen world
His pilgrimage was out of the ordinary
lines of travels, and his experiences were
striking and unique, and this fact, sup
ported by his natural originality of thought
and expression, gives his book a peculiar
and delightful freshness and novelty which
cannot be found in other books of travel
With that direotness and strong earnest
ness for which he is noted, the author
plunges at once into the current Of hia
subject and puts into sentence or two his
tender leave taking of his family. Its very
abruptness makes 1t tenderer. He tells Of
his panied thoughts of the possibilities Of
misfortune to his family and casualties to
himself that may transpire during the ac
complishment of the long journey that is
before him and stops suddenly with MAY
the God who holds the winds in one fist
and the ocean In the hollow of the other
hand protect US"
AS complex instance Of graphic de.
scription, wonderful imagery and dramatic
apostrophe, perhaps no filter citation could
be made than that passage Of the book in
which DR.. Talmage describes his sensa-
tions as he stood ON Lookout mountain,
TENNESSEE, and lost himself in solemn ret
respect.
''I took carriage and wound UP Look
out mountain. Up, up, upl Standing
there on the tiptop rock saw five states
of the Union. Scene stupendous and over
OF bis hat in the presence Of what seems to
be the grandest prospect on this continent.
There Is Missionary Ridge, the beach
against which the red pillows Of Federal
and Confederate courage surged and broke.
There are the Blue mountains of North
and South Carolina. With strain of VI
sion, there is Kentucky, there Is Virginia.
At our foot, Chattanooga and Chickamau-
ga, the pronunciation of which proper
names will thrill ages to come with
thoughts of valor and desperation and
agony. Looking each way and any way
from the top of that mountain, earth
works, earthworks-the beautiful Tennes-
see winding through the valley, curling
and colling around, making letter after
letter 8, as II that letter stood for shame
that brothers should have gone into mas
sacre with each other while God and ma
tioDs looked on.
II have stood Oh Mount Washington,
and on the Sierra Nevadas, and on the
Alps, but never saw so far as from the
top of Lookout mountain. looked back
81 years. and saw rolling up the side of
that mountain the smoke of Hooker S
storming party while the foundations of
eternal rock quaked with cannonade.
Four years Of interneoine strife seemed to
come back, and without any chronological
order / saw the events: Norfolk navy yard
on fire, Fort Sumter ON fire, Charleston ON
fire, Chambersburg ON fire, Columbia, S.
c., on fire; Richmond ON fire And saw
Ellsworth fall, and Lyon fall and Nc
Pherson fall, and Bishop Polk fall, and
Stonewall jackson fall. And I saw hun
dreds of grave trenches afterward cut into
two great gashes across the land, the one
for the dead men Of the north, the other
for the dead men of the south. And my
sar as we'll as.my eye was quickened, and
heard the tramp of enlisting armies, and
heard the explosion Of mines and gunpow-
der magazines, and the crash of fortitica-
tion walls, and tho swamp angel, and
the groan Of dying hosts falling across the