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


Roanoke, and the Yazoo, and the Ala
bama, widowhood and orphanage and
childlessness-some exhausted In grief
and others stark and mad, and said:
Enough, enough have seen into the past
from the top of Lookout mountain. o.
God, show mo tho futureP"
Great nature has never found an apter
pupil than DR.. Talmage. Her handiwork
is plain to him, her hieroglyphs and mon-
uments on rocky wall or mountain top
are to him filed with deep significance.
Thus when q grand landmark of a western
state met his ego it was hailed as but an
other special revelation Of Omnipotence.
"Do you know" says he, "what in
some respects is tho most remarkable
thing between tho Atlantic and Pacific?
1t is tho figure of a cross on a mountain
In Colorado. 1t is called tho Mount of the
Holy Cross A horizontal crevice filled
with perpetual snow and perpendicular
crevioe filed with snow, but both the hor-
izontal line and the perpendicular line so
marked, so bold, so significant, SO unmis-
taxable, that all who pass in the daytime
within many miles are compelled to see it.
There arc some figures, somo contours,
some mountain appearances, that you
gradually make out after your attention is
called to them. So a mans face on the
rocks in the White mountains. So maid
| ems form cut in the granite of the Adiron-
dacks. So city In the morning clouds.
Yet you have to look under the pointing
| of your friend or guide for some time be-
fore you can see the similarity. But the
| first instant you glance at this side of the
mountain in Colorado you cry out: "A
cross! A crossl' Do you say that this
| geological inscription just happens sof
| No! Nothing in this world just happens
| SO. That cross on the Colorado mountain
| is not human device, or an accident of
nature, or tho freak of an earthquake.
| The hand of God cut it there and set it up
| for the nation to look at. Whether set up
| there in rock before tho cross of wood was
| set up on the bluff back of Jerusalem or
set at some time since that assassination
| / believe the Creator meant 1t to suggest
the most notable event in all the history
of this planet, and he hung it there over
the heart of this continent to indicate that
the only hope for this nation is in the cross
on which our Emmanuel died. The clouds
were vocal at our Saviour's birth, the
rocks rent at his martyrdom. Why not the
|
crucifxion"
Down in the southwestern sea DR.. Tai
mage found Hawaii-found it in a sense
that perhaps no other has found it-as the
very heaven of flowers How his whole
sentient soul revels in the bounteous rich
ness and variety of floral exuberance of
this sun kissed isle Hear him:
"Banks of flowers white as snow, OF
blue as skies, or yellow as sunsets, or star
ry as November nights, or red as battle
fields A heaven of flowers. Flowers in.
twined in maidens' hair, and twisted
round hats, and hung on necks and EN-
broidered on caps and sacks. Tuberoses,
gardenias, magnolias, passifloras, trumpet
creepers oleanders, geraniums, fuchsias,
convolyuli and hibiscus red as fire. Jas
mine, which we in America carefully coax
to climb the wall just once, here running
up and down and jumping over to the
other side and coming back again to jump
down this side.
| "Night blooming cereus, so rare in our
northern latitude we call in our neighbors
| to see it, and they must come right away
or never see it at all, here in these islands
scattering it's opulence of perfume on all
| the nights, and, not able to expend enough
in the darkness, also flooding the day.
Struggling to surpass each other all kinds
| of trees, whether of fruit or of rich garni-
ture, mango and orange and bamboo and
alligator pear and umbrella trees and
breadfruit and algaroba and tamarind anG
| all the south sea exotics. Rough cheek of
| pineapple against smooth cheek of melon.
The tropics burning incense OF aromatics
to the high heavens"
| In another vein the doctor writes of the
degraded Samoans, the murderous Maoris
and the general racial characteristics OF
the other natives of those odd, picturesque
islands.
Farther along we find him weaving in
imitable word garlands about his memo
ries of Australia and the beautiful harboy
of Sydney. But he finds that tropic land
too prolific of snakes and in a species Of
half abhorrent humor disoourses of the 81
kinds of reptiles Australasia affords.
An intensely interesting and instructive
chapter is the one devoted to description
of the authors visit to a Buddhist college
in Ceylon. A portion of this may be
quoted:
"Among the first visited was Buddhist
college. About 100 men studying to be-
come priests gathered around the teachers.