Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-20

polls that never can be taken. Alhamb bras,
where kings of strength and queens of
beauty rcgnod long before tho first earth
| ly crown was empcarlcd. Thrones on
which no ono but tho King of heaven and
| earth over sat. Fount of waters ut which
tho hills are baptized, while tho giant
cliffs stand around us sponsors. For thou
| sands of years before that scene was UNI
| yelled TO human sight tho elements were
busy, and the geysers were howing away
with their hot chisel, and glaciers were
pounding with their cold hammers, and
hurricanes wero clcaving with their light
ming strokes, and hailstonos giving the
finishing touches, and after all these forces
| of nature had done their best In our CEN
fury the curtain dropped, and the world
had a new and divincly inspired rovola-
ton, tho Old Testament written on papy
| rus, tho Now Testament written on pnrch
mont and this last Testament written on
| the rocks.
| A Hall of Judgment.
Hanging over one of the cliffs, looked
off until could not get my breath; then,
rctrcating to n less exposed place. looked
! down again. Down there is n pillar of
rock that In certain conditions of tho at
mosphcrc looks like pillar Of blood
Yondcr nro 90 feet of emerald on base of
500 feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting OH
pedestals of bcryl. Turrots Of light trom.
bling on floors of darkness. The brown
Frightening into golden. Snow of crys-
tnl melting into fire of carbuncle. Flam
ing red cooling into russell. Cold blue
warming into saffron. Dull gray kin
ding into solferino. Morning twilight
flushing midnight shadows Auroras
crouching among rocks.
ic ~ phof of
basalt. Through an cycglass wo see
among it the young eagles, but tho stout.
est arm of our group cannot hurl stone
near enough to disturb the fcathcred do
mcsticity. YoDder are heights that would
be chilled with horror but for the warm
| robe of forest foliage with which they arc
| enwrappcd Affairs of worship at which
nations might knccl Domcs of chalccd-
| ony on temples of porphyry. Sec all this
carnage Of color up and down the cliffH.
1t must have been the battlefield of tho
war of the elements. Here are all the col
ors of the wall of heaven, neither the sap
phirc, nor tho chrysolite, nor the topaz,
nor tho jacinth nor tho amethyst, nor tho
jasper, nor the IL gates of IL pearls want
ing. II spirits bound from earth to hcav-
en- could pass up by way Of this canyon,
the dash of heavenly beauty would not DO
so overpowering. 1t would only be from
glory TO glory. Ascent through such
earthly scenery, in which the crystal is so
bright, would DO fit preparation for the
"sea of glass mingled with fire"
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone park for the most part we
held our peace, but after awhile it flashed
upon mo with such power could not help
but say to my comrades, "What "A hall this
would be for the last Judgment SEQ
that mighty cascade with the rainbows Mt
the foot of it, Those waters concealed
and transtxcd with the agitations of that
day, what n place they would make for
tho shining feet of Judge of quick and
dead, And those rainbows look now like
tho crowns to be cast at his feet. At the
bottom Of this great canyon Is "a floor on
which the nations of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these galleries
of rock the nations of heaven might sit
And what rcyerbcration Of archangCls
trumpet there would be through all these
gorges and from these cavcrns and over all
these heights. Why should not the great
est of all tho days the would shall ever see
close amid the grandest scenery Omnip-
otencc ever built!
Christs Dominion.
Oh, the sweep of the American CONT
nent! Sailing up Puget sound, its shores
so bold that for 300 miles ships prov
would touch tho shore before its keel
touched the bottom! On ono Of my visits
l said. This is the Mediterranean Of
America. Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Port Towns
bend and Vancouver and other cities of
the northwest region thought to myself,
These arc the Bostons, New Yorks,
I ho Of kn no
coast" But after all this summer jour
neying and my other journeys westward
in other summers, found that had seen
only part of the American continent, for
Alaska is us far west of San Francisco as
the coast of Maine is east of it, so that the
central city of the American continent is
, San Francisco
, / have said these things about the mag
, nitude of the continent and given you a
few specimens Of some of its wonders To
let you know the mprehcnsiyeness Ci
Christ's dominion when he takes posses
, sion of this continent. Besides that, the
, salvation of this continent means the sal
. walton Of Asia, for wo are only 30 miles
from Asia at the northwest. Only Boring
straits separates lis from Asia, and those
will be SPAWNED by a great bridge. The
SO miles of water between these two CONT
, nents are not all deep sea, but have three
, islands and there are also shoals which
will allow piers for bridges, and for the
most of the way the water is only about
, 20 fathoms deep.
Tho America -Asiatic bridge which will
: yet span those straits will make America
, ASIA Europe and Africa one continent
\ So, you sec, America evangelical, Asia
: will be evangelical, Europe taking Asia
, from one side and America taking il from
. the other side. Your children will eros,
k. that bridge America and Asia and Eu
= rope all one, what subtraction from tn,
pangs Of seasicknoss and the prophecies
. in Revelation will be- fulfilled, "ther'
o shall be no more sea. But do / meal
n literally that this American continent !
A going to be all gospelized? do. Christie
{ pher Columbus when no went ashor
from the Santa Maria, and his secont
brother Alonzo, when he went ashore from
Q the Pinta, and his third brother Vincent
i. when he went ashore from tho Nina, tool
$ possession of this country in the name o
{ the Father and the Son and tho Hol
: Ghost. Satan has no more right to thi
l. country than l have TO your pocketbook
To hear him talk on the roof of the tom
pie, where he proposed to give Christ tn
A Kingdoms of this world and the glory O
!, them, you might suppose that satan was
. great capitalist or that no was loaded II
/, with real estate, when the old niscreau
never owned an aero OF an inch of groun
| Id ala Int / fou