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The Beauties Of Nature Furnish Z
Theme For . Powerful Sermon
Would Abolish All Creeds and DO.
Aominations.
Copyright. 1928 By American Press Asso.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.--pr. Talmaae In
his discourse takes Us with him on Jour.
ney to tho Pacific and finds 'the footsteps
Of the Creator" everywhere, "a Hugh Mil.
ler found then, in the old red sandstone;
te1ts, Isaiah XIV, q, "Streams in the
desert; Psalms DIV, 50, "Hs touoheth ths
bills, and they smoke"
Ny first text means irrigation. IL means
tho waters Of the Himalaya or the Pyre-
nees or tho Sierra Nevadas poured through
canals and aQuoduots for tho fertilization
Of tho vallsya II means the process BY
which tho last milo Of American BARREN
ness VIII DO made an apple orchard, or an
orange grove, or wheat fold, or q cotton
plantation, on vineyard-"streams in ths
desert" Ny second tszt means volcano
like vesuvtus or Cotopaxi, or II means
the 9aysers Of Yellowstone park or Of
California. You see q hill calm and still
and for ages immovabls, but the Lord out
Of tho heavens puts his finger on tho top
Of IT, and from ID rise thick and impress
sive vapors. "He tcuchsth tho hills, and
they mokoi''
Although my journey ACROSS tho CON-
tinent this summer was for tho eighth
time, more and more am impressed with
the divine hand In its construction and
with its greatness and grandeur, and more
and moro am ! thrilled with the fact that
1t Ia all to be irrigated, gloriAsd and Eden.
lied. What a change from the time when
Daniel Webster on yonder Capitoline hill
said to the American senate In regard to
the center Of this continent and to the re-
gions on the Pacific coast: "What do you
want with this vast, worthless area, this
region Of savages and wild beasts, Of dea-
erts and CACTUS, of shifting sands and
prairie dogsf To what use could We ever
put these great deserts or these great
mountains, impenetrable and covered
with eternal snowP What can we ever hope
to do with the western coast, rock bound,
cherries and uninviting and not harbor
on itp will never vote one cent from the
public treasury to place the Pacific coast
one inch nearer Boston than 1t now is."
What a mistake tho great statesman made
when be said that! All who have crossed
the continent realize that the states on tho
Pacific ocean will have quite as grand op.
portunities as the states on the Atlantic,
and all this realm from sea to sea to be the
Lords cultivated possession.
Cross ON the Mountain.
Do you know what In some respects 10
the most remarkable thing between the
Atlantic and Paclflcs 1t Is the figure of
q cross on a mountain in Colorado. 1t Ia
called the "Mount Of the Holy Cross"
A horizontal orevics filed with perpetual
snow and Q perpendicular orevioe filed
with snow, but both the horizontal line
and the perpendicular line 90 marked, SO
bold, SO significant, 50 unmistakable, that
ali who pass In the daytime within many
miles are compelled to see 1t. There are
some figures, some contours, some noun
lain appearances, that you gradually mako
out after your attention is called to them.
30 mans face on the rocks in the White
So a maiden's form cut in
he granite of the Adirondacks. So city
IN the moving clouds. Yet you have to
ook under the pointing Of your friend or
,uide for some time before you can see the
similarity. But the first instant you
glance At this sido Of the mountain in
Colorado, you cry out: "A GROSS! A
ross" Do you say that this geological
inscription just happens sos MOI That
ross on tho Colorado mountain IL not a
luman device or an accident Of nature or
he freak Of an earthquake. The hand of
bod cut it there and set IT up for the ma
ion to look at. Whether set up In rock
'efore the cross Of wood was set up on the
'luff back Of Jerusalem or set up at some
ime since that assassination, I believe tho |
,reator meant 1t to suggest the most nota-
10 event in all the history Of this planet,
nd he hung 1t there over the heart Of this
to indicate that the only hope
Or this nation 10 In the cross on which
ur Emmanuel died. The clouds were
ooal at our Saviour's BIRTH the rocks
emit at his lnartyrdom, why not the walls
I Colorado bear the record of the cruoiax-
IN?
Firct conridar TIM ;,,man,;t,, ~ AL,
,nt,nent.i nossession to =, .1sro W n,,na o
mall tract of land, capable Of nothing
NV RI snnrort NO ,,ia A.. T"h.,',s y
NV, ,nnch snthps,as,s u, -. s H,, Lov
have ~ oJdad 10 ~ a. ~ "ans oni.s0
n nons;tn onS ,a,ro,'o a.o. nu0 avs
70 nn,es: IN ,,nninnant ~ s o.lo oan i!nos'
,och Nv IN vail .na,n ~ NV, "" fTni VI s'ase.
. tho Nnrtha,n pao;ae wv G ~ n aoino
ac;ao or tha Sorthan' y Due. .nH o' hu IAN
n ysrsod i. ''" "'"'0 "0 h"S
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'3' Domain'
suppossa In my noyhood. from Its size
tho map that California was few
'ras across " ridge OF land on which one
ust Walk cautiously lest he hit his head
:alhsg the sierra Nevada on one side or
lp OH into tho Pacific waters on the
her. California, tho thin slice of land,
supposed 1t to DO In boyhood, have
una to be larger than all the states Of