Connecticut western news., 1898-10-20
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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. It is here that it seems to me-and speak it with everence-Jehovah seems to have surpassed himself. It seems a great gulch let down into the eternities. Here, hung up and let down and spread abroad, are all the oolors of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord God Almighty. Best work of the Archi- tect of Worlds. Sculpturing by the h. finite. Masonry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellow You never saw yellow unless you saw it there. Red! You nev- CT saw red unless you saw it there. Vio- letl You never saw violet unless you saw it there. Triumphant banners of color In cathedral of basalt, sunrise and sunset married by the setting of rainbow ring.
 The Archangels' Amphitheater.
 Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and Egyptian basilicas built before hu- man architecture was born. Huge forti fications 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 long be- fore the first yrthly crown was em- 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 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 hurricanes were oleaving with their lightning strokes, and hailstones giving the finishing touches, and after all these forces of nature had done their best in our century the curtain dropped, and the world had new and divinely inspired revelation, the Old Testament written on papyrus, the New Testament written on parchment, and this last testament written on the rocks.
 Hanging over one of the cliffs. l looked off until I could not get my breath, then. retreating to 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 50 feet of emerald on base of 500 feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on pedestals of beryl Turrets of light trembling on floors of darkness. The brown bright ening into golden. Snow of crystal melting into fire of oarbuncle. Flaming red cooling into russet. Cold blue warm ing into saffron. Dull gray kindling into solferino. Morning twilight flush ing midnight shadows. Auroras crouch ing among rocks.
 Wonder is an eagles nest on 8 shaft of basalt. Through an eyeglass we see among it the young eagles, but the stoutest arm of our group cannot hurl a stone near enough to disturb the feath- cred domesticity. Wonder are heights that would be chilled with horror but for the warm robe of forest foliage with which they are enwrapped. Altars of worship at which nations might kneel. Domes of chalcedony on temples of porphyry. See all this carnage of color up and down the oliffs. It must have been the battlefield of the war of the clements. Here are all the colors of the wall of heaven, neither the sapphire, nor the chry solite, nor the topaz, nor the jacinth, nor the amethyst. nor the jasper, nor the 12 gates of 12 pearls wanting. If spirits bound from earth to heaven could pass up by way of this canyon, the dash of heavenly beauty would not be so overpowering. It would only be from glory to glory. Ascent through such earthly scenery in which the crystal is so bright would be fit preparation for the 'sea of glass min gled with fire"
 The Golden West.
 Standing there in the grand canyon of the Yellowstone park for the most part we held our peace, but after awhile it flashed upon me with such power I could not help but say to my comrades "What hall this would be for the last judgmentr' See that mighty cascade with the rainbows at the foot of iti Those waters congealed and transf1xed with the agitations of that day, what 8 place they would make for the shining feet of Judge of quick and dead And those rainbows look now like the crowns to be cast at his feet. At the bottom of this great canyon is g 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 reverberation of archangels' trumpet there would be through all these gorges and from these caverns and over all these heights. Why should not the greatest of all the days the world shall ever see close amid the grandest scenery omnipotence ever built?
 Oh, the sweep of the American conti- nentl Sailing up Puget sound, its shores so bold that for l,500 miles ships brow would touch the shore before it's keel touched the bottom. On one of my visits said, "This is the Mediterranean of America. Visiting Poftlapd and Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and Port Townshend and Vancouver and other cities of the northwest region thought to myself: These are the Bos- tons, New Yorks, Charlestcns and Sa- vannahs of the Pacific coast." But after all this summers journeyixg and my other journeys westward in other sum- meIs, found that I had seen only a part of the American continent, for Alaska is as 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 magnitude of the continent and given you a few specimens of some of its wonders to let you know the compre- hensiveness of Christ's dominion when he takes possession of this continent. Besides that, the salvation of this con- tinent means the salvation of Asia, for we are only S6 miles from Asia at the northwest. Only Bering straits separate us from Asia, and these will be spanned by great bridge. The 36 miles of water between these two continents are not all