The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-10-29

fotti'i2 VI IL tueIe seems TO be the anarchy
OF the elements. Fire and water, and the
'apor porn OF that marriage, terrific. Gey.
! ser cones or nils OF crystal that have been
over hve thousand years growing! In
places the earth, throbbing, sobbing ,groan-
.ns' quaKlng with aqueous paroXysm. At
the expiration OF every sixty-hve minutes
one OF the seysers tossing its boiling water
loo leet IN the air and then descending into
swinging rainbows. He toucheth the
Hills and they smoke" Caverns Of nictured
Wais large enough for the sepulchre of
the human lace. Formations OF stone in
shape and color of Gala lily, OF helotrope,
OF rose, OF cowslip, of sunnower and OF
SlaoiolUs. Sulphur and arsenic and oyido
OF IRON, with their delicate pencils, turniu.
the hills into Il Luxembourg, or a Vatican
picture-Sallery. The so-called Thanatopsis
Geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was
named after, and Evangeine Geyser, love.
~ as the LongfelloW heroine it commemo-
| rates.
iiut after you nave 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 Canon. 1t is here that it seems
to me-and speak it with reverence-Je-
hovah seems to have surpassed Himself, 1t
seems great gulch let down into the
eternities. Masonry by an omnipotent
troWel. Yellow! You never saw yellow
unless you saw 1t there. Red You never
saw red unless you saw it there. Violet!
You never law violet unless you saw it
there. Triumphant banners of color, Ina
cathedral of basalt, Sunrise and Sunset
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Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals. and
Egyptian baslicas built before human
architecture was born. Huge Notifications
OF granite constructed before war forged
its first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebasto-
polls that never can be taken. 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
or years before that scene was unveiled to
human sight, the elements were busy. and
the Geysers were hewing away with their
not chlsel, and glaciers were pounding with
their cold hammers, and hurricanes were
cleaving with their lightning strokes, and
hallstones 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 d.
Vlnely inspired revelation, the Old Tesla
ment written on papyrus, the New Testa-
ment written on parchment, and this last
Testament written on the rocks.
Standing there in the Grand Canon Of
the Yellowstone Park for the most part we
held our peace, but after awhile it flashed
upon me with such power could not help
out say to my comrades: "What hall this
would be for the last Judgment" See that
mighty cascade with the ranbows at the
1901 OF 1t? Those waters CONCEALED and
Eransiixed with the agitations of that day,
what place thu y would make for the shin,
ing feet OF Judge Of quick and dead!
And those rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at His feet. At the bot |
tom or this great canon is 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 shOulC not the greatest OF
all the days the world shall ever see close
amid the grandest scenery Omnipctence
ever built?
| have said these things about the mag
nitude Of the continent, and given YOU a
lew specimens OF some OF It's wonders, to
let you know the prehensveness of
Christ's dominion when He takes possess
sion Of this continent. Besides that the
salvation of this continent means the sal.
1ation of Asia, for we are onlv thirtv-siy
niles from Asia at the northwest, ONLY
BehrinS Strait separates us from Asia. and
hese will be spanned by great bridge.
The thirty-six miles Of water between these
Wo continents are not all deep sea, but
lave three islands, and there are ole,
hoals which will allow piers of bri ..;es,
md for the most of the way the water is
'nly about twenty fathoms deep.
The America Asiatic bridge which will
'et span those straits will make America
asia, Europe and Africa one continent
30, you see, America evangelical, Asia
will be evangelical. Europe taking Asia
rom one side and America taking it from
he other side. Your children will GROSS
hat bridge. America and Asia and Eu-
ope all one, what subtraction from the
'angs OF seasickness! and the prophecies
n Revelation will be fulfilled, 'sthere shall
70 no more sea-" But do I mean literally
hat this American continent is going to
70 all gospelized? ! do. CHRISTOPHER Co.
lmbus, when he went ashore from the
ANITA Maria, and his second brother
llonzo, when he went ashore from the
'inta, and his third brother Vincent. when
10 went ashore from the Nina, took pos.
ession of this country in the name of the
'ather and the Son and the Holy Ghost.
atan has no more right to this country
han have to your pocket-book. To hear
i'm talk on the roof of the temple, where
o proposed to give Christ the Kingdoms
I this world and the glory Of them, you
hight suppose that Satan was a great cap
:alist or that he was loaded up with real
state, when the old miscreant never :
wned an acre or an inch of ground on ,
his planet. For that reason I protest
gainst something heard and saw this =
lmmer and other summers in Montana ,
nd Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and ,
dorado and California. They have given ..
evilistic names to many places in the !
Test and Northwest. :
AS soon as you get in Yellowstone Park :
California you have pointed out to you :
laces cursed with such names as "The :
evils Slide," "The DEVILS Kitchen" !,
The DEVILS Thumb" "The DEVILS Pull :
n - sHTho novil,o Much Dat sfnL.