Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-08

| SAMOAN GIRLS MAKING KAvA.
lumbia, S. c., on fire; Richmond on
| fire. And I saw Ellsworth fall, and
| Lyon fall. and Mcpherson fall, and
| Bishop Polk fall, and Stonewall Jackson
| fall And I saw hundreds 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 ear as
well as my eye was quickened, and /
heard the tramp of enlisting armies, and
I heard the explosion of mines and gun
powder magazines, and the crash of for
LITIGATION walls, and the swamp an
gel, and the groan of dying hosts fall
ing across the pulseless heart of other
dying hosts. And I saw still farther out,
and / saw on the banks of the Penobscot,
and the Oregon, and the Ohio, and the
Hudson, and the Roanoke, and the
Yazoo, and the Alabama, widowhood
and orphanage and childlessness-som
exhausted in grief and others stark and
I seen into the past from the top of
Lookout mountain. 0 God, show me
the futurep -
Great nature has never found an apter
pupil than DR.. Talmage. Her handi-
work is plain to him, her hieroglyphs
and monuments ON rocky wall or noun
tain top are to him filed with deep sig
nifcance. Thus when a grand landmark
of western state met his eye it was
hailed as but another special revelation
of Omnipotence.
stDo you know" says he, "what in
some respects is the most remarkable
thing between the Atlantic and Pacific?
1t is the figure of a cross on mountain
in Colorado. Tt is called the Mount of
the Holy Cross. A horizontal crevice
filled with perpetual snow and a per-
pendicular crevice filled with snow, but
both the horizontal line and the perpen-
dlcular line SO marked, SO bold, SO sig
nificant, so unmistakable that all who
pass i'll the daytime within many miles
are compelled to see it. There are some
figures, some contours, some mountain
appearances, that you gradually make
out after your attention is called to
them. So man S face on the rocks in
the White mountains. So maiden's
form cut in the granite of the Adiron-
dacks. So a city in the morning clouds.
Yet you have to look under the pointing
of your friend or guide for some time
before you can see the similarity. But
the first instant you glance at this side
of the mountain in Colorado you cry out,
"A cross! crossP Do you say that
this geological inscription just happens
SO? No! Nothing in this world just hap
pens SO. That cross on the Colorado
mountain is not human device, or an
accident OF nature or the 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
the cross of wood was set up ON the bluff
back of Jerusalem or set at some time
since that assassination, I believe the
Creator meant it 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 birth,
the rocks rent at his martyrdom-why
not the walls of Colorado bear the record
of the crucifxion?'
Down in the southwestern sea DIR.
Talmage found Hawaii-found it in
sense that perhaps no other has found it
AS the very heaven of flowers. How
his whole sentient soul revels in the
bounteous richness and variety of floral
exuberance of this sun kissed isle! Hear
him:
''Banks of flowers white as snow, or
blue as skies, or yellow as sunsets, or
starry as November nights, or red as
battleields. A heaven of flowers. Flow
ers entwined in maidens' hair, and
twisted round hats, and hung ON necks,
and embroidered on capes and sacks.
Tuberoses, gardenias, magnolias, passi-
foras, trumpet creepers, oleanders,
geraniums, fuchsias, convolvuli and hi
discus red as fire. Jasmine, 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.
Might blooming cereus, SO rare il
our northern latitude we call in cur
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 garniture, mango and
orange and bamboo and alligator pear