The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-12
DAY IN YELLOWSTONE
TOUR OF 4 PARTY OF EPWORTH
LEAGUERs DESCRIBED.
Rev. ID. A.. Robertson Says Night
Brought the Bears Out of
Their Caverns.

The Rev. d. a. Robertson described a
Sundays journey in the Yellowstone Park
by a party of Epworth tourists. at the East
Park NJ. L. Church last night. In part he
said:
LAS a cup Of water dipped from a lake
a single leaf .plucked from a tree-or a sim
gle feather from the wing of a bird-so i
bring you a single day of our journeyings
IN the wilds Of the West. reserving more
extended report for some future provided
occasion.
1T was a party of thirty who. grouped
together as a single band. was doing the
lark. of whom / speak. We journeyed by
means of carriages and am furnished
us by the Wylie Company. A week had
sped by-a week among boiling springs,
rushing rivers, lofty mountains and roaring
geysers. bounding deer ard scampering
bears-amidst the tangled forests of that
wild country that the United states govern
ment has seized and devoted 10 a park. The
end of such a week found us camped beside
a quiet lake.
Sabbath morning came to us with I'm
usual brightness and beauty. Breakfast
over we gathered about a blazing fire in the
center of the camp, observe. a fire quite
necessary. because of the GOODNESS of the
morning. Here we sang. Nearer, my God,
to Thee There is Sunshine In my Soul To-
day 'Blest be the Tie that Binds and
many other such songs. followed by earnest
| prayers, not forgetting the dear ones al
home" and imploring Gods blessings for
the day.
Then the drivers shout all aboard and
we hustle into the carriages and speed
away into the wilderness again. following
the course of the river, which
furnished constant pleasure to- Us on our
right. The mountain on our left with beau
tiful cascades with an occasional oeer
springing up, to plunge the party INFO
rapturous shoutings of delight. Now and
then we come to a boiling spring, We stand
amazed. if not dazed before this freak of
nature. and let our hearts go up to the
God who formed the deep. and holds the
mountains as in the hollow of his hands
who created the waterspOuts. And singing
by the wayside, We journey on till MONDAY,
when we come TO our camp on the side or
the Great C-anyon-perhaps the greatest in
the world.
Cur teams are put away and, dinner over.
we are free to spend the remainder OF the
day as We will. One suggests we receive
our sermons from the rocks to-day. Wan
dering along the ragged sides of the heights
above the roaring waters, we seek other
points of vision. Climbing down from crag
to crag. perhaps a thousand feet below the
topmast peak we reach what is called Point
Lookout. Looking downward beneath US
500 feet We see "A towering crag-a shaft Of
rock of perhaps fifty feet upon which the
old eagle has built her nest and Matched her
young-a place unapproachable by any
thing. Then we gaze from this point down
yonder LOCO feet deeper and there goes that
Yellowstone river leaping this time over a
falls COS feet high. making a mass of white
foam i'm the gorge below.
Now We stand appalled, at the magnitude
-sublimity-of what we behold. But on we
go till we find q half mile further down the
canyon and sit down on Inspiration point.
Here the whole VISION opens out 10 Us in
panora mic scene and we gaze and gaze in
utter bewilderment Of thought and speech
less we listen for the footsteps of the AL
mighty. who weighs the mountain as i'm a
balance. The varied hues of the cliffs about
us and below us sent raptures of delight TO
many of our party.
1t was an afternoon OF beholding the
wonders of Gods footsteps, and the lessons
We're indellibly fixed in our hearts. The
shadows of night gather about US. the bears
hid in their dens in the mountain ~fastness
come forth to our camp Tor their evening
preN-the meats we have left.
Then sitting about a blazing log fire in
a circle OF fifty or mOre-that hail from
many States. songs break forth on the
mountain air. Such singing is seldom
heard. 1t Is purely spontaneous and hearty.
! Christian testimony and experience then
followed for an hour. of a marvellous sort.
Queen among Us was the venerable and
much-loved Mrs. Bishop Joice. OF Mime
apolis. We were uniformly constrained to
say that Gods temple was here and we
had made a Sabbath day tourney with Him.
such echoes of the great California Ep-
worth convention are heard North. South.
East and West. And one of the best fruits
of the convention is the genuine fraternaI
spirit kindled between the sections OF coun-
try as also between the churches. Chris
tianitN was given an emphasis on the pa
cihc coast such as il never had before by
the presence OF such a host of Christian
young people. The hospitality OF the coast
was unDounded.'