Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-17

Jasper, nor the 10 gates of IL 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. 1t 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 L
could not help but say to my comrades,
"What hall this would be for the last
5udgmentr' See that mighty cascade
with the rainbows at the foot of it!
Those waters CONCEALED and transfxed
with the agitations of that day, what
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 a 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 CONT
nent Sailing up Puget sound, its shores
so bold that for 1900 miles a ships
prov would touch the shore before it's
keel touched the bottom. On one of my
visits said, 'This is the Mediterranean
of America Visiting Portland 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, Charlestons and Sa-
vannahs of the Pacific coast" But after
all this summers journeying and my
other journeys westward in other sum-
me1s, found that I had seen only
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 SO miles from Asia at the
northwest. Only Boring straits separate
us from Asia, and these will be spanned
by great bridge. The SO miles of water
between these two continents are not all
deep sea, but have three islands, and
there are also shoals which will allow
piers for bridges, and for the most of
the way the water is only about 20
fathoms deep
PIutOnic NOmencInture.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which
will yet span those straits will make
America, Asia, Europe and Africa one
continent. So, you see, America evangel-
lied, Asia will be evangelical. Europe
taking Asia from one side and America
taking it from the other side Your chill
dren will cross that bridge. America
and Asia and Europe all one, what sub
traction from the pangs of seasickness,
and the prophecies in Revelation will
be fulfilled, "There shall be no more
sea- But do [ mean literally that this
American continent is going TO be all
gospelized? l do. Christopher Column
bus when he went ashore from the
Santa Maria, and his second brother
Alonzo, when he went ashore from the
Pinta, and bis third brother Vincent,
when he went ashore from the Nina,
took possession of this country in the
name of the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost. Satan has no more right to
this country than I have to your pocket
book. To hear him talk on the roof of |
the temple, where he proposed to give |
Christ the kingdoms of this world and |
the glory Of them, you might suppose |
that satan was great capitalist or that |
he was loaded up with real estate, when
the old misoreant never owned an acre |
or an inch of ground on this planet.
For that reason protest against some
thing I heard and saw this summer and |
other summers in Montana and Oregon
and. Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado
and California. They have given devil
istic names to many places in the west
and northwest.
AS soon as you get in Yellowstone
park or California you have pointed
out to you places cursed with such
names as "The DEVILS Slide, "The
DEVILS Kitchen "'The DEVILS
Thumb, - 1.-The DEVILS Pulpit, - 1.-THE
DEVILS Mush Pot, - ''The DEVILS Tea
kettle, - "The DEVILS Sawmill, "The
DEVILS Machine Shop, " ''The DEVILS
Gate, and so on. Now, it is very much
needed that geological surveyor or con-
gressional committee or group of distin-
puished tourists 90 through Montana