The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-26

WGlcI CoiicS uuNu IL l I4G i't4N't't S't
falls so thin You can see the face OF
the mountaip behind it londer is
Yosemite falls dropping :. 63l feet. 10
times greater descent than that OF Ma
gara. These waters dashed to death on
the rocks. so that the white spirit OF
these slain waters ascending III robe OF
mist seeks the heavens. lonGcr Is
Nevada falls, plunging 400 feet. the
water in arrows. the water in rocks, the
water in pearlS. the water in amethystS,
the water in diamonds That cascade
tiinrs down the rocks enough jewel to
array al the earth in beauty ana rush
es on until it drops into 1 Very hell OF
waters, the smoke Of their torment as
ccnding forever and ever.
Vide reaches Of stone of intermin-
sled colors. blue as the sky, green as
the foliage. crimson as the dahlia, white
as the SNOW, spotted as the leopard,
tawny as the lion. grizzly as the bear,
in circles, in angles, in stars, IN
coronets. in stalactites. in stalagmlteS.
Here and there are petriGed growths. or
the dead trees and vegetables OF other
ages. kept through 4 process OF natural
enbalmment. In some places waters as
innocent and smiling as child making
a first attempt to walk from its mother $
lap. and not far of as foaming and
frenzied and ungovernable as maniac
in struggle with his keepers.
But after you have wandered along
the geyserite enchantment for days and
begin to feel that there can be nothing
more Of interest to see YOU suddenly
come upon the peroration Of all majesty
and grandeur, the Grand canyon: 1t IS
here that it seems TO me-and | speak
it with re ;erencc-Jehovah seems to
have surpassed himself 1t seems a
great gulch let down into the eternltles:
Here. hung up and let down and spread
abroad, are all the colors Of land and
sea and sky. Upholstering Of the Lord
God Almighty. Best work OF the
Architect of words. Sculpturing by
the Infinite. Masonry by an Omnipot-
ent trowel Yellow. You never saw
yellow unless you saw it there. Reo !.
You uever saw red unless YOU saw 1t
there. Violet! You never saw violet
unless you saw it there. Triumphant
banners Of color. In a cathedral OF
basalt, sunrise and sunset married by
the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals
and Egyptian basilicas built before hu-
nan architecture was born. Huge forti-
fcations of granite constructed before
war forged its first cannon. Gibraltars
and Sevastopols that never can be
taken. Alhambras, where kings OF
strength and queens of beauty reigned
before the first earthly crown was en-
pearled. Thrones on which no one
but the King Of heaven and earth ever
sat. Fount Of waters at which the hills
are baptized, while the giant cliffs stand
around as sponsors. For thousands Of
years before that scene was unralled to
human sight the elements were busy,
and the geysers were hewing away with
their hot chisel, and glaciers were
pounding with their cold hammers, and
hurricanes were cleaving with their
lightning strokes, and hailstones CIV
ing the finishing touches, and after all
these forces of nature had done their
best IL our century the curtain dropped.
and the world had new and dlvlnely
inspired revelation, the Old Testament
written on papyrus, the New Testament
written on parchment and this last
Testament written on the rocks.
Oh, the sweep of the American con-
tinent: Sailing up Puget sound, its
shores 50 bold that FOR 1900 miles
ships Prov would touch the shore be-
fore its keel touched the bottom. On
one Of my visits I said This is the
Mediterranean of America. Visiting
Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and
Victoria and Port Townshend and Van
couyer and other cities Of the northwest
region I thought to myself, ''These are
the Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons
and Savannahs Of the Pacific coast.
But after all this summers journeylng
and my other journeys westward IN
other summers, found that l had seen
only part of the American continent,
for Alaska is as far west Of San Fran
cisco as the coast of Maine is east of it,
so that the central city Of the American
continents San Francisco.
l have said these things about the
Of the continent and given
you few specimens Of some Of its Won
ders to let you know the comprehen-
siveness CT Christs dominion when he
takes possession Of this continent. Be-
sides that, the salvation Of this contin-
ent means the salvation of Asia, for We
are only 36 miles from Asia atthe north
west. Only Bering straits separates US
from Asia, and these will be spanned
by a great bridge. The SO miles Of
water between these two continents are
not all deep, sea, but have three is
ands. and there are also shoals which
will allow piers for bridges, and for the
most of the way the water is only about
20 falhoms deep.
The America Asiatic bridge which
viii yet span those straits will make
America, Asia, Europe and Africa one
continent. So, you see, America
eyangelized, Asia will be evangelical:
Europe taking Asia from one side and
America taking it from the other side.
i our children will cross that bridge.
America and Asia and Europe all one,
Shat subtraction from the pangs Of sea-
sickness and the prophecies in Revela
ion will be fulfilled, there shall be
10 more sea-" But do mean literally
hat this American continents going
o be all gospelized? do. Christie
,her Columbus, when he went ashore
rom the Santa Maria, and his second
brother Alonzo, when he went ashore
rom the Pinta, and his third brothe'
1o from hh