The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-09-29

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| these great sheets OF rock upon which
God bad registered the histories Of the
ages seemed 90 boz object lessons. IL
was As though the Creator had opened
MS treasure vaults just IA little that we
might peer IA and see his unlimited re-
sources.
As the evening hours settled into the
night the last thought inspired 10y such
sublime surroundings more and more
took possession Of my soul. There as
lay upon my pillow under the shad-
ow OF Sentinel rock and gazed at FL
| CAPTAIN aud Washington column and
HalfD Dome and Grizzly peak. and while
listening 20 the evening lullaby Of the
Yosemite falls. l said 20 myself III
God Wills. / will try 20 tell 20 my peo-
Die the wonders OF Yosemite valley. /
VIII try 20 show them that the strength
Of the hills there revealed is the sym
Dol OF the divine strength" The psalm
lists words. spoken thousands of years
ago. were my words In the darkness
Of that night and they are my words
now. "Thc strength Of the hills or. as
the revised version puts IT, "The heights
Of the hills are his also
Great is Yosemite valley. Great In
lis heights. great It's depths, great It's
lengths and lis hreadths But great
MS is Yosemite valley. you must re-
member that the same heights and
depths ana lengths and breadths Of
rocks are directly under your feet and
mine. although we cannot see them.
They are here 20 hold MS mp Just as
much as the foundation stones of our
church are underneath our feet 10 bear
tho church up. They are here just as
much as q solid cornerstone had 20 be
placed NO the base of Washington mon
1mcut iu our national capital or as the
foundation stones were placed under
hc ahutments of the Brooklyn bridge
Dr. the solid rock is under Einel tower
.n Paris
As climbed the awful. dizzy
heights Of one Of the Sierra Nevadas
by the edge Of an appalling precipice
10 Glacier point. this one thought was
uppermost In my mind Bending and
winding we 20. Up and up the sure
footed beasts carry Us. higher and still
higher Then the rocks by the side OF
the precipice grow deeper and deeper
ut each step. AZ last We are at the
top. after a long five mile pull. Then
by holding on 20 a railing you can look
straight down $3.50 feet At this al
dtude of nearly twO-thirds Of a mile
looked straight down and saw the Mer-
ced river II was not a silver thread
bending and winding among the many
trees in the valley; Il was green
snake beautiful. but green Its surface
reflected every shade OF green, from
.he darkest green, dark as Emerald
pool. 10 the lightest shades Of aqua
marine and chrysophrase. Yosemite
falls white garments alone have a fall
If 300 feet. or nearly One-half Of a
nile Then. while kept looking down
nto that awful precipice looking
Town a palisade so deep that ! seemed
70 be looking into space itself-a still.
,mall voice seemed 20 talk 10 me
When God called TO Samuel. he called
1t night To me, standing there upon
The pulpit of Glacier point. II seemed
that be called in the daytime. That
voice was so real to my Imagination
that turned TO my wife and asked.
Were you speakingf' mo; did you
hear any one talking?' she replied
Yes" / answered; u thought ! heard
A voice and that 1t must be the voice
If the Lord
Then the mysterious voice seemed to
address me in these words: when you
20 back to your pulpit you will walk
the stone streets of a great city. You
will climb these, the beautiful noun
tains from the tops Of which you can
see the sun setting among the heaving
waves of the western Pacific. To the
east you can see the sunbeams of the
early morning burning themselves into
the golden nuggets of many orange or
chards You can hear the moving ma.
chimes fighting their way through the
harvest fields at your feet. But re-
member underneath you Is the same
rock. the same depths Of rock, the
same immensities Of rock you now see
from Glacier point in Yosemite valley.
Remember. O man. that l put those
rocks underneath thee that the waters
Of the Pacific might be an aquarium
FOR thee and that the fields might feed
thee and that thy home might not be
built upon the sinking sands Even In
the unseen rocks l am ever near thee,
loving. caring, sustaining and protect.
ing my children"
Does this voice of the unseen rocks
speak 10 you Of Gods love, as on the
panoramic rocks seen from Glacier
point II seemed 10 speak to me Of the
divine love when / stood in old Yoseui.
Ite7
But the heights Of the hills and the
depths Of the valleys Of Yosemite teach
more than the ever present sustaining
care Of Divine Father Those rocks
were TO me libraries Of the past cen.
turtles and OF the millenniums You
and have read about the famous
libraries Of ancient Alexandria and
Nineveh and Babylon We have heard
that these ancient books were so many
that 10 Alexandria alone II took ak
months to destroy part Of them when
those parchments and manuscripts
were used for common fuel 10 light the
fires of the 1000 bathrooms OF that
great city. But want TO tell you that
when a man rides through Yosemite
valley and climbs its dizzy heights he
is looking upon the historic pages Of
books older than the oldest tablets Of
stone eXhumed from amid the ruins Of
an ancient Troy. He is looking at
greater library than all the books Of Mn
eveh Babylon OF Alexandria combined.
There he is looking upon the millions