The Progress., 1897-01-23


lr1pbiads above umbiads, "a FOUNDERS
ehovs ~ rouuders, wrecked nations above
Wrecked nations.
This mountain Of war is not only loaded
To cannonade the earth, but 1t is also
Cemetery, holding the corpses OF 30, 600
slain in the wars Of Alexander and Cyrus,
so 600 900 slain in Roman wars, ISL, Co.,
o0o slair, in war with Turks and Saracens
and holding about So, 0O0, 100000 corpses,
not million but billion, which was the es-
innate made By Edmund Burke more than
100 wears ago Of those who hao peen oe-
/ stroyeG by war, SO that you would nave to
] add more millions now. Twenty years ago
! a careful author estimated that about ii
times the then population OF the world
/ had zone down in battle or in hospital att
/ or battle All, this mountain OF war Is
| not like an ordinary mountain! IL is IKE
IZiIauea, one of the Sandwich Islands,
| which holds the greatest volcano In all the
| earth, and concerning which l wrote from
! the Sandwich Islands few years ago.
"What a Kissing, believing, tumbling.
| soaring force is kilauca! Lake OF I'M
! uuenchable fire; convoluJions and paro3-
! ysrns of flame; elements of nature In tor
ture; torridity and luridity; congregation
of breads; molten horrors; sulphurous
| sbysms: syvirling mystery OF all time; in
finite turbulence; chimney of perdition;
wallowins terrors; Is acres of threats;
slooras insufferable and Dantesque; cal
dron stirred by the champion witch OF pan
demoniun; campfire of the armies OF ~.
abclus; wrath of the mountains In 1ull
bloom: shimmering jncandescence; pyro-
technics of the planet; furnace blast OF the
| ages; Kilauear' But, my friends, n'ght-
| Ter higher yaster, hotter, more raging Is
| the volcanic mountain of war. 1t has heen
blazing for hundreds CT years and Will
keep on blazing until, until-but L care
not hazard prophecy. Can 1t be tha' JUS
1 O1,fs n
/ it's roar will ever be silenced? Can it be
that before our Zerubbabel that blazing
| mountain will ever become plain:
, A Long Range.
, There is also the long range CT Inoun'
! tains longer than Appalachian range, lon
| ger than Caucasian range, longer than
: Sierra Nevada range-the piled up OPPOSE
a ton of bad literature, bad homes, bad IN
! | situations, bad amusements, bad centuries
q ! bad religions Paganism, Hindoolsm
J. ! Buddhism, Mohammedanism and out
f | tressed and enthroned godlessness, deNo1e1
a | to ambition and lust and hydra headed, ar
a | gus eyed abomination, as IL stands WIKI
| lifted fist and knocking lips, challenging
| Jehovah upon the throne of the universe Z
. 1 strike if he dare. Oh, it is a great noun
"a / tain as my text declares. There is no US
| in DENYING it. The most authentic Stalls
a tics declare it. The signs OF the time
n prove it All Christian workers realize II
: | 1t is mountain. The mountain ca
"a never be brought down." says world!
"a | speculation. The mountain can never
=. | made a plain" says a small faith in tn
"a | churches Well, let Let US loo
o. | about for the implements we can lay OF
: | hands on. Let us count the number o
"a / our side who are willing to dig with
H. shovel or bore tunnel or blast roci
n Let Us see if there is any foreign help tn;
- | will come in to REINFORCE do N
10 | want to make myself absurd by attemp
Y ing an impossibility. II it is only CT
MT l spade at the foot of Mount Blanc, II Ii
of only one arm, capa bic of lifting but Il lie
k. l pounds, against mountain that we's'
in 100, 000, 900 tons, let us quit before Y
~ | make ourselves the trarcsty aGd oaricaeu
nc of the universe. If We are to undertii
% l this job, first of all we must have col
u 4 petent engineer, one who knows al abo
o0 1 excavations, about cmbankments, apo
,st 1 tunnels, about mouTt:ils. ! Know ems
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