Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-22
TIE TROWEL OF GOD.
DIR. TALMAGE TELLS HOW AMERICA
WAS MADE.

WAC MHOG.
The Vnstncss of Our Continent-The
wonder. OF the west-The beauties
of Yellowstone Pnrk-The Garden
of the Gods-pIutonic Applications.
Copyright. 1885, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Dr. Talmage,
in this discourse, takes us with him on
u journey to the Pacific, and finds 1.-THE
footsteps of the Creator" everywhere,
as Hugh Miller found them in the old
red sandstone; texts, Isaiah xxxv, 6,
STREAMS i'll the DESERT" Psalms civ,
8a, "Ie toucheth the hills and they
smoke. -
My first text means irrigation. 1t
mears the waters of the Himalaya or
the Pyrenees or the Sierra Nevadas
poured through canals and aqueducts
for the fertilization Of the valleys. 1t
means the process by which the last
mile of American barrenness will be
made an apple orchard or an orange
grove or q wheat6eld or Il cotton plan
tation or vineyard" streams in the
desert. My second text means vol
cano like Vesuvius or Cotopaxi, or 1t
means the geysers of Yellowstone park
or of California. You see hill calm
and still and for ages immovable, but
the Lord out of the heavens puts his
finger on tho top of it and from it rise
thick and impressive vapors. lie
toncheth the hills and they smoke!'
Although my journey across the con-
tinent this summer was for the eighth
time, more and more am l impressed
with the divine hand III its construction
and with its greatness and grandeur,
and more and more am thrilled with
the fact that it is all to be irrigated,
elorified and Edenixed What q change
from the tire when Daniel Webster on
yonder Capitolino hill said to tie Amer
lean senate in regard To the center OF
this continent a:,d 10 the regions on the
Pacific coast: Nv li.t do YOU want with
this vast, worthless area, this region OF
savages and Will bee SIS, Of deserts aud
cactus, of shifting sa"ds and prairie
dogs? To what use & I'D vo ever Put
these great deserts o. ia,s Sc great nonn-
tains, impeuctr&b!a AID Covered with
eternal snow? What can &c e"er hcpe
to do with the western caast, rocl;
bound, chcorless ard uGinviting aid not
a harbor Oh it? willrever vote ore cent
from the public treasury to place the
Pacific coast cEe inch nearer Boston
than it now is. :" What mistake the
great statesman made when he said that
All who have crossed the continent
realize that the states on the Pacific
ocean will have quite as grand opIor-
tunities as the states on the Atlantic,
and all this realm from sea to sea to be
the Lord's cultivated possession.
The Colorado Cross.
Do YOU know what in some respects
is the most remarkable thing between
the Atlantic and Pacific? 1t is the fig
ure of u cross on mountain III Colo.
RADIO. 1t is called the "Monnt of the
Holy Cross. - a horizontal crevice filled
with perpetual snow and perpendicu-
lar crevice filled with snow, but both
the horizontal line and the perpendicu.
lar line 50 marked, SO hold so signifi-
can't, so unmistakable, that all who
pass in 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 tc
them. So u mans face on the rocks III
the White mountains. So maiden s
form cut in tho granite Of the Adiron'
dacks. So city in the moving clouds.
Yet you have to look under the point,
ing 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, GA cross, a cross!" Do you
say that this geological inscription just
happens go? No. That cross on the Col
orado mountain is not q 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 i'll rock before
the cross Of wood was set up on the bluff
back of Jerusalem or set up at some
time since that assassination l 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 IL
the cross on which our Emmanuel died.
The clouds were vocal ct our Saviour
birth, the rocks rent at his martyrdom,
why not the walls of Colorado bear the
record of the CrucifXion?
First, consider the immensely of this
continental possession. If it were only
a small tract of land, capable of moth
ing better than sagebrush, and with
ability only to support prairie dogs,
should not have much enthusiasm Ill
wanting Christ to have it added to bis
dominion. But its immensely and afflu.
ence no one can imagine, unless in i'm
migrant wagon OF stagecoach or i'll raj
train of the Union Pacific, or the
Northern Pacific, or the Canadian Pa
cifc, or the Southern Pacific. he has
traversed it,
An Edeniaed Continent.
supposed in my boyhood, from it,
size on the map, that California was
few yards across, a ridge of land Oh
which one must walk cautiously lest be
hit his head against the Sierra Nevada
on one side or slip off into the Pacific
waters on the other. California, the
thin slice Of land, as supposed it to be
in boyhood, have found to be. larger
than all the states of New England ane
all New York state and all Pennsylva
MIA added together, and if you add then
together their square miles fall far shor'
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