St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-11-19
growths, or the dead trees and veeeta.

e process OF natural embalmment. Ii
. some places waters as innocent an,
q smiling as child making first at
tempt towalk from its mothers Ian
= and not far of rs foaming and fren
! zied and ungovernable as a maniac i,
struggle with his keepers.
But after you have wondered alon.
= the geyserite enchantment for DAYS
and begin to feel that there can b,
: nothing more of interest to see, yo,
!, suddenly come upon the peroration o
all majesty and grandeur, the Crane
canyon. 1t is here that it seems t.
me-and speak it with reverence-Je
novah seems to have surpassed him
self. 1t seems a great gulch let dow
. into the eternities. Here, hung u.
and let down, and spread abroad, are
all the colOrs of land and sea and sky
uPholstering Of the Lord God Al.
mighty. Best work of the Architec,
OF worlds. Sculpturing by the In.
finite. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow! You never saw vel.
low unless you saw it there. Red!
You never saw red unless you saw il
there. Violet! You never saw violet
unless you saw it there. Triumphant
banners OF colors. In a cathedral OF
basalt, Sunrise and Sunset married by
the setting OF rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals.
and Egyptian basilicas built before
human architecture was born. Huge
fortifications of granite constructed
before war forged its first cannon. Gil
braltars and Sebastapols that never
can be taken. Alhambras, where kings
OF strength and queens Of beauty
reigned long before the first earthly
crown was empearled. 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 spon-
| sors. For thousands of years before
that scene was unveiled 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 hurri-
canes were cleaving with their light
ming strokes, and hailstones giving the
forces of nature had done their best.
in our century the curtain dropped,
and the world had q new and divinely
inspired revelation, the Old Testament
written on papyrus, the New Testa-
ment written on parchment, and this
last Testament written on the rocks,
Hanging over one of the cliffs, I |
looked off until / could not get my
breath, then retreating to a less ex-
posed place I looked down again.
Down there is = pillar of rock that in |
certain conditions of the atmosphere |
looks like a pillar of blood. Yonder |
are so feet of emerald on base of 500 |
feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on
pedestals Of beryl. Turrets of light |
trembling on doors of darkness. The
brown Frightening into golden. Snow
of crystal melting into fire of car
buncele. Flaming red cooling into
russell. Cold blue warming into SAT-
from. Dull gray kindling into sol
ferino. Morning twilight flushing
midnight shadows. Auroras crouch
ing among rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on shaft
of basalt. Through an eye-glass we
see among it the young eagles, but
the stoutest arm of our group can not
hurl stone near enough to disturb
the feathered domesticity. Yonder
are heights that would be chilled with
horror but for the warm robe of for
est foliage with which they are en-
Affairs of worship ut which
nations might kneel. Domes of chal-
cedony on temples of porphyay. See
all this carnage Of color up and down
the cliffs; it must have been the bat
tlefield of the war of the elements.
Here are the colors of the wall of ,
Heaven, neither the sapphire, nor the
.hroysolite, nor the topaz. nor the ia !,
:inth, nor the amethyst. nor the Jas
Der, nor the IL gates of 12pearls,want
ng. If spirits bound from earth to
Heaven could pass up by way of this I
'anyon, the dash of heavenly hearty
would not be so overpowering. Ascent
through such earthly scenery in which
he crystal is so bright, would be fit
PREPARATION for the ''sea of glass min 6
lied with fire." S
Oh, the sweep of the American con-
inent. Sailing up Puget sound, its
hores so bold that for 1900 miles a q
hips prov would touch the shore be-
ore the keel touched the bottom. On
ne of my visits l said: .This is the .
of America" Visiting 9
rflapd and Tonorx,, o,xl coc<&p-. - Z
'ictoria and Fort Townsend and VAN u
ouver and other cities of the north y
est region, / thought to myself: =
These are the Bostons. New Yorks, y
and Sayannahs of the Pa &
fic coast. But after all this summers q
and my other journeys .
eastward in other summers, I found u
,at / had only seen a part of the
merican continent, for Alaska is as o.
II west of San Francisco rs the coast =
Maine is east Of it. so that the CEN -
al city of the American continent is
IN Francisco.
On tie Columbia river we saw the
lmon jump clear out of the water in =,
fferent places. ! suppose for the pur- -
'se of getting the insects. And If u;
hen we want to fish for men we 49,
uld only have the right kind of Lait, ~
ey will spring out above the flood Of ~
cir sins and sorrows and reach it. ~
ne Young Mems Christian associa- .,
,ns of America will also do part of l.,
e work. They are going to take the ~
Jung men Of this nation for God. as
,ese institutions seem in better IA Ia
r with God and man than ever be- ~
re. Business men and capitalists RI
e awakening to the fact that they ba
n do nothing better in the way of mi
ing beneficience or in last will aud
than to do what Mr.. Mar mr.
and did for Brooklyn when he made Of
Young Mems Christian palace pos alb
lie. These institutions will get our sh
ung men all over the land into a pa
impede for Heaven. Thus we will Ea,
in some way help on the work, you dis
tn your ten talents, 1 with five. co
melody else with three. Thu