Milford chronicle., 1905-06-30


0 were to ME libraries Of the past cen
turies and Of the millenniums. YOu
I and have read about the famou
libraries Of ancient Alexandria anC
] Nineveh and Babylon. We have heart
that these ancient books We're so many
! that in Alexandria alone it took siS
months to destroy part of them wheI
those parchments and manuscripts
were used for common fuel to light the
fires of the 1000 bathrooms of that
great city. But l 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 a
greater library than all the books of Mn
eyeh, Babylon or Alexandria combined
There he is looking upon the millions
Of open leaves Of rock written upon
by the pen of but one Author, and
that pen is the finger of Cod"
II the recorded pages Of the books
Of rock found among the shelves of
rock and upon the floors of rock and
lying open upon the tables of rock Of
Yosemite valley do not teach us that
God as an author has been living CEN
turtles upon centuries and millenniums
upon millenniums ago and that he will
also live and work through the cen
turies and the millenniums to come.
then l say the Yosemite rocks teach
us nothing" Then we have eyes to see
and we will not see, and we have ears
to hear and we will not hear. Every
step you take, every move you make, |
presses home the one truth-that the |
Creator Of this region is eternal In his |
own life and eternal in his purposes.
MaripOsa grove, which grows just
outside of this valley and practically
under the shadow Of II Captain, as
living orators teach the eternal pur-
poses and workings Of the Divine Pa
ther. My, what big preachers they arey
About GOO Of them grow near together,
as though they We're ashamed of their
big girths and ashamed because, like
Saul, they raise their huge bodies not
only head and shoulders above all 9TH
er trees, but because they make other
trees look like pygmies beside them.
Grizzly Bear" Columbia" ''HaYer-
ford" "Alarposa," "WawOnay7 Cali
fornia," Telescope" The Three
3raees, 4" are some of themoderIz names
given to, these famous trees. Some of
ken are over 300 feet tall. One is 1O4
'eet in circumference and. 30 feet from
Iide to side One is cut in the middle
It the base and has square cut ont of
t so large that great, three seated
tagecoach with top covering drawn
" four horses, can be driven through
t. This tree was on the right of us, it
vas to the left of us, it was above us,
was underneath us. One of this same {
ind of trees in a. neighbOring grove {
vas cut down a few years ago that its !
tump might be used as. dancing /
OOr by visiting tourists. So huge, sol
igantic Is "Old Grizzly that it hasai :
ne branch, one right arm, alone twen-l
Y feet in circumference When L c
TODD under this huge monster it liftedil 1
self so high and so wide that L felts S
IS size almost passed human eOncep-t (
ion. Why, a wart on one of. 'Old. t
lrizzly's" cheeks would. be large'l d
nOugh to be used for an, Indian wig t
'am. A goiter on his neck would be- 4
ig enough to house whole family of Q
-hite folks and give to them a cellar a
arlor and bedroom floors, attic and. a. c
lpOla besides. And its mYriads Of
,ots are almost enough to fence in the v
elds of an ordinary farm. 8