Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-20

nothing more of interest to see, YOU
suddenly come uron the peroration of
all ma iesty and grandeur.
The great canyon. J. is h 7, that
il :Cc.as 10 Inc-and | speak it with
rcvcrcncc-JchCvah seems TO have sur.
passed himself Ii : ems great
gu.ch let down into the eternitic..
Here. hung up and let down, and
spread abroad are ali the colurs of
land. sea ami SKY. Uphu,Stering of
the lord tod Almighty. Best work of
the architect of worlds. Scn.pturinG
by the Infinite. Masonry tyan omuin-
otent trowel yellow! You never saw
yellow unless you saw it there. X ii
You never saw red unless You saw it
there. Violet, You never saw violet
unless you saw il there. Triumphant
banners of color. In a cathedral of
basait Sunrise and Sunset married
by the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals
and Egyptian ha>iiicnS built before
human architecture was born. Huge
forti iiCations of granite constructed
before war forged its first cannon.
Gihraltars ami SrbastOpols that never
can he taken. Alhambras. where
kings of strength and queens If beauty
rrigncd long before the first earthly
crown was cml carried Thrones ON
which no one but the King of Heaven
and earth ever sat. Fount of waters
at which the hill, are baptized, while
the giant cliffs stand around rs spon-
sorS. For thousands of years
before that scene was unveiled to
humnn sight, the elements were busy,
and the Ceyscrs were hcwinr away
with their hot chisel. and glaciers
were pounding with their cold ham,
mcrs, and hurricanes were clcaving
with their lightning strokes nnd hail
stones giving the finishing touches,
and afr all these forces of nature
mad done their best, in our century
the curtain dropped, and the world
had new and divinclv inspired rev.
citation, the Old Testament written on
papyrus. the New Testament written
on parchment, ami this last testament
written on the rocks.
Hanging over one of the cliffs look
ed of unit could not get my reath,
then retreatjng to n less exposed place
| looked down again. Down there is a
pillar of rock that in certain condi-
tons Of the atmosphere looks like n
pillar of blood Sundcr are 30 feet of
emerald on a base of 300 feet of opal.
Wall of chalk resting On pcdcs;als of
heryl. Turrcts of light trembling on
floors Of darkne>s. The brown bright
ening into golden. snow of crystal
melting fire of carbunc,c. Flaming
red cooling into ru- set. Cold blue
warming into saffron. Dull gray
kindling into solferIno. Morning twi-
light flushing midnight shadows
Auroras crouching among rocks.
Wonder j. an eagles nest on Il shaft
of basalt. through an cycglas> we
see among it the young eagles, but the
stSutcst arm of our group can not hurl
Stone near enough to disturb the
feathered )mesticity. Wonder are
heights that would he chilled with hor-
ror but for the warm robe of forest
foliage with which they are unwrap-
ped. Affairs of worship at which ma
tions might linecl. ID mes of chalce-
dony on temples of porphyry. See all
this carnage of co,or up and down the
cliffs; it must have been the battle field
of the war of tine elements. Here are
all the coiors of the wall of Heaven,
neither the saffron. nor the cnry>olitc,
nor the topaz, nor the jacintn, nor the
AMETHYST. nor the jasper. nor the y
gates of Il rearls. wanting. | spirits
bound from earth to Heaven could
pass up by way of this canyon, the
dash of heavenly beauty would not be
so overpowering. 1t would only be
from glory to glory. Ascent through
such earthly scenery, in which the
crystal is so bright, would he fit prep
aration for the "sea of glass mingled
with fire "