Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 October 1898 — Page 3

"V FOOTPRINTS OF GOD. 4cev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on Our Natural Wonders. Tk« Footsteps ml Dm Creator Upoo the JKaaatalaa and Plains at the West—The salvation at a Coo tinea t. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in the following sermon, takes his hearers among the mighty wonders of the .great west, where he finds everywhere the footprints of the Creator. The texts are: Streams in the desert.— Isaiah, xxxv„ 6; He toucheth the hills •and they smoke.—Psalms, civ., 32. My first text means irrigation. It .means the waters of the Himalaya, or the Pyrenees, or the Sierra Nevadas poured through canals and aqueducts lor the fertilisation of the valleys. It means the process by whiceh the last mile of American barrenness will be made an apple orchard, or an orange grove, or a wheat field, or a cotton plantation, or a vineyard—“streams in the desert.” My second text means di volcano like Vesuvius or Cotopaxi, or it means the geysers of Yellow«tone park or of California. You see .« hill caW and still, and for ages immovable, but the Lord out of the Heavens puts His finger on the top of It, and from it rise thick and impressive vapors: “He toucheth the hills -and they smoke!” Although my journey across the continent this summer was for the •eighth time, more and more am I impressed with the Divine hand in its •construction, and with its greatness -and grandeur, and more and more am I thrilled with the fact that it is all to be irrigated, glorified and Edenized. What a change from the time when Daniel Webster on yonder Captoline idll said to the American-senate in regard to the center of this continent, and to the regions on the Pacific •coast: “What do you want with this vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts -and cactus, of shifting sands and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever put these great deserts or these great mountains, impenetrable and

iCOverea WIUI eiernm «uuw * »» »*««■ van we ever hope to do with the western coast, rock-bound, cheerless and uninviting, and not a harbor on it? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast •one inch nestfpr Boston than it now is.” What a mistake the great statesman made when he said that! , All who have crossed the continent realise that the states od the Pacific ocean will have quite as gTand opportunities as the states on the Atlantic, and all this realm from sea to sea to be the Lord's cultivated possession. Do you know what in some respects is the most remarkable between the Atlantic and Pacific? It is the figure of a cn u on a mountain in Colorado. It is called the “Mount of the Holy Cross." A horizontal crevice filled with perpetual snow, and a perpendicular crevice filled with snow, but both the horizontal^ line and the perpendicular line so marked, so bold, so significant, so unmistakable, that all who pass in the dnytime within many miles are compelled to see it. There are some figures, some contours, some mountain appearances that you gradually make out after your attention is •called to them. So a man's face on the rocks in the White mountains. So a maiden's form cut in the granite of the Adirondacks. So a city in the moving -clouds. Yet you have to look under the pointing of your friend or guide for some time before you can see the similarity. But the first instant you glance at this side of the mountain in Colorado, you cry out: “A cross! A •cross!” Do you say that this geological inscription just happens so? No!

That cross on the Colorado mountain is not a human device, or an accident of nature, or the freak of an earthquake. The hand of God cut It there •and set it up for the nation to look at. Whether set up in rock before the •cross of wood was net up on the bluff back of Jerusalem,' or set up at some time since that assassination, I believe the Creator meant it to suggest the most notable event in all the history of this planet, and He hung it there over the heart of this continent 'to indicate that the only hope for this nation is in the cross on which our Immanuel died. The clouds were vo•eal at ourSaviour's birth, the rocks rent at His martyrdom, why not the walla ■of Colorado bear the record of the cru•cifixion? - First, consider the immensity of *his continental possession. If it were •only a small tract of land,capable of nothing better than sage-brush, and with ability only to support prairie ■dogs, 1 should not have much enthusiasm in -wanting Christ to have itadd•ed to liis dominion. But its immensity and affluence no one can imagine, unless, in immigrant wagon ►or stage coach, or in rail train of the Union Pacific or the Northern Pacific •or the Canadian Pacific or the South■ern Pacific, he has traversed it. 1 supposed in my boyhood, from its seize on the map, that California was a few yards across, a ridge of land on which one must walk cautiously lest be hit his head against the Sierra Nevada on cne side, or slip off into the l*acific waters on the other—California, the thin slice of land, as I sup•posed it in my boyhood, I have found «to be larger than all the states of New England and all New York state and •all Pennsylvania added together; and Sf you add them together their square miles fall short of California. And -then all these new-born states of the Union. North and South Dakota, 'Washington. Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Each state an empire tn Mae. “But.” says some one. % oalculat- ■ '-w

ing the immensity of our continental acreage you must remember that vast reaches of our public domain are uncultivated heaps of dry sand* and the ‘Bad Lands’ of Montana and the Great American Desert.*' 1 am glad that you mentioned that. Within twenty-five years there will not be between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts a hundred miles of land not reclaimed either by farmers’ plow or miners’ crowbar. By irrigation, the waters of the rivers and the showers of Heaven, in what are called the rainy season, will be gathered into great reservoirs, and through aqueducts let down where and when the people want them. Utah is an object lesson. Some parts of that territory which were so barren that a spear of grass could not have been raised there in a hundred years, are now rich as Lancaster county farms of New Jersey. Experiments have proved that ten acres of ground irrigated from waters gathered in great hyrological basins will produce as much as 50 acres from the downpour of rain as seen in our region. We have our freshets and our drougths. As you take a pitcher and get it full of water, and then set it on a table and take a drink out of it when you are thirsty and never think of drinking a pitcherful all at once, so Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will catch the rains of their rainy season and take up all the waters of their rivers in gTeat pitchers of reservoirs, and refresh their land whenever they will. The work has already been grandly begun by the United States government. Over 400 lakes have already been officially taken possession of by the nation for the great enterprise of irrigation. Rivers that have been rolling idly through these regions, doing nothing on their way to the sea, will be lassoed and corralled and penned up until such time as the farmers need them. Under the same processes the Ohio, the Mississippi, and all the other rivers will be taught to behave themselves better, and great basins will be made to catch the surplus of waters in times of freshet, and keep them for times of drought. The irrir gating process by which all the arid lands between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are to be fertilised is no new experiment.

U nus utrru uu hundreds of years in Spain,* China, In India, in Russia, in Egypt. AIh it 800,000,000 of people of the earth today are kept alive on food raised on irrigated laud. And here we have allowed to lie waste, given up to rattlesnake and bat and prairie dog, lands enough to support whole nations of industrious population. The work begun will be consummated. Here and there exceptional lands may be stubborn and refuse to yield any wheat or corn from their hard fists, but if the hoe fail to make an impression, the miner’s pick-ax will discover the reason for it. and bring np from beneath those unproductive surfaces coal and iron and lead and copper and gold. God speed the geologists, and surveyors, the engineers and the senatorial commissions, and the capitalists and the new settlers and the husbandmen, who put their brain and hand and heart to this transfiguration of the American^continent! “Streams in the desert!” But while I speak of the immensity of the continent, I must remark it is not an immensity of monotone or tameness. The larger some countries are, the worse for the world. This continent is not more remarkable for its magnitude than for its wonders of construction. Yosemite and the adjoining California regions! Who that has seen them can think of them without having his blood tingle? Trees now standing there were old when Christ lived! These monarchs of foliage reigned before Alexander, and the next 1,000 years will not shatter their scepter! They are the masts of the continent, their canvas spread on the winds, while the old ship bears on its way through the ages!

That valley of the losemite is eight miles long and a half mile wide, and 3,000 feet deep. It seems as if it had been the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as small a place as possible some of the most stupendous sc nery of the world. Some of the cliffs you do not stop to measure by feet, for they are literally a mile high. Steep so that neither foot of man or beast ever scaled them, they stand in everlasting defiance. If Jehovah has a throne on earth, these" ar$ its white pillars! Standing down in this great chasm of tjie valley, you look up, and yonder is Cathedral Rock, vast, gloomy, minster built for the silent worship of the mountains! Yonder is Sentinel rock, 3,270 feet high, bold, solitary, standing guard among the ages, its top seldom touched, until a bride, one Fourth of July, mounted it and planted the national standards, and the people down in the valley looked up and saw the head of the mountain turbaned with Stars and Stripes! Yonder are the Three Brothers, 4,000 feet high; Cloud's rest. North and South dome, and the heights never captured save by the fiery bayonets of the thunder storm! No pause for the eye, no stopping place for the mind. Mountains hurled on mountains. Mountains in the wake of mountains. Mountains flanked by mountains. Mountains split. Mountains ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains triumphant. As though Mont Blanc and the Adirondacka and Mount Washington were hers uttering themselves in one magnificent chorus of rock and precipice and waterfall. Sifting and dashing through the rocks, the water comes down. The Bridal Veil falls so thin you can see the face of the mountain behind It. Yonder is Yosamite falls, dropping 2,634 feet, 16 times greater descent than that of Niagara. These- waters dashed to death on the rocks, so that the white spirit of these slain waters aoosnding In robe of mist as sirs the

Nevada x uisi* plunging TOO feet, the water in arrows, the water in retorts, the water in pearla, the water in amethysts, the water in diamonds. That cascade flings down the rocks enough jewels to array all the earth in beauty, and rushes on until it drops into a very hell of waters, the smoke of their tor* ment ascending forever and ever. But the most wonderful part of this American continent is the Yellowstone park. My two visits there made upon me an impression that will last forever. Go in by the Moneida route, as we did this summer, and save 250 miles of railroading, your stage coach taking you through a day of scenery as captivating and sublime as the Yellowstone park itself. After all poetry has exhausted itself concerning Yellowstone park, and all the Morans and Bierstadts and the other enchanting artists have completed their canvas, there will be other revelations to make, and other stories of its beauty and wrath, splendor and agony, to be recited. The Yellowstone park is the geologist’s paradise. By cheapening of travel may it become the nation’s playground! In some portions of it there seems to be the anarchy of the elements. Fire and water, and the vapor born of that marriage, terrific. Geyser cones or hills of crystal that have been over 5,000 years growing! In places the earth throbbng, sobbing, groaning, quaking with aqueous paroxysm. At the expiration of every 65 minutes one of the geysers tossing its boiling water 185 feet in the air and then descending into swinging rainbows. “He toucheth the hills and they smoke." Caverns of pictured walls large enough for the .sepulcher the human race. Formations of stone in shape and color of calla lily, of heliotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of sunflower and Of gladiolus. Sulphur and arsenic and oxide of iron, with their delicate pencils, turning the hills into a Luxemburg, or a Vatican picture gallery. The so-called Thanatopsis geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was named after,, and Evangeline geyser, lovely as the Longfellow heroine it commemorates. Wide reaches of stone of interminggled color, blue as the sky, green as the foliage, crimson as the dahlia, white as the spow, spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles, in stairs, in coronets, in stalactites, in stalagmites. Here and there are petrified growths, or the dead trees and vegeta

Dies oi otner ages, Kept tnrougn a process of natural embalmment. In some places waters as innocent and smiling as a child making a first at* tempt to walk from its mother’s lap, and not far off as foaming ;fcnd frenzied and ungovernable as a maniac in struggle with his keepers. But after you have wondered 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 canyon. It is here that it seems to me—and I speak it with reverence—Jehovah seems to have surpassed himself. It seems a great gulch let down into the eternities. Here, hung up and let down, and spread abroad, are all the colors of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord God Almighty. Best work of the Architect of worlds. Sculpturing by the Infinite. Masonry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow unless you saw it there. Red! You never saw red unless you saw it there.. Violet! You never saw violet unless you saw it there. Triumphant banners of colors. In a cathedral of basalt, Sunrise and Sunset married by the setting of rainbow ring. Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, and Egyptian basilicas built before human architecture was born. Huge fortifications of granite constructed before war forged its first cannon. Gibraltar* and Sebastapols that never

Iran uc uinru. aiuauuiac, of strength and queens of beauty reigned long- before the first earthly crown was empearled. Thrones on which no one but the King of Heaven and earth ever sat. vFount of waters at which the hills are baptized, while the giant cliffs stand around as sponsors. For thousands of years before that scene was unveiled to human sight, the elements were busy, and the geysers were hewing away with their hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding with their cold hammers, and hurricanes were cleaving with their lightning strokes, and hailstones 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 a new and divinely inspired revelation, the Old Testament written on papyrus, the New Testament written on parchment, and this last Testament written on the rocks. It is estimated that to irrigate the arid and desert lands of America as they ought to be irrigated, it will cost about $100,000,000 to gather the waters into reservoirs. As much contribution and effort as that would irrigate with Gospel influences all the waste places of this continent. Let us by prayer and contribution and right living all help to fill the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket, and you a cup, and even a thimbeful would help. And after awhile God will send the floods of mercy so gathered, pouring down over all the land, and some of us on earth and some of us in Heaven will sing with Isaiah: “In the wilderness the waters have broken out, and streams in desert,” and with 9|$vid: “There ia a river the streams thereof shall make glad the sight of God." Oh. fill up the reservoirs! America for God! The Bible is not a treatise, not a dictation. It was written out of the mind and hefkrte of men, helped by God.—Bee. F. W. Whippen, Universal1st. Scranton, Pa. i

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Matthew Arnold said: "The noblest nations are those which know how to make the best use of poetry.” At a banquet of Dutch descendants. in New York Mr. Depew opened hia remarks with “Good evening, Van.” One of Stevenson's failings was loquacity; he talked continually, was impulsive and almost hysterically excitable. When George Eliot was asked what was the chief lesson she had learned in life, she answered promptly: “Tolerance.” B. F. Meek, the inventor of the Frankfort reel, though over 80 years old, stHl works in his shop at Louisville, Ky. Rosamond Rodkins is helping hex father to translate the Babylonian Talmud into English. Sh& is an Austrian by birth, and has been in this I country for eight years. She is an expert musician, as well as an adept in | Hebrew. • Mrs. Vanderbilt is an enthusiastic collector of thimbles that have belonged to famous personages. Among others, she has a thimble that once belonged to Queen Elizabeth, who, %s history records, was very clever with her needle. Stevenson’s house at Apia, Samoa, is I built of California redwood, and cost, it is said, $15,000. The dining-room alone is something like 50 feet long, 25 broad and 15 high, and Will seat a large party. Mrs. Stevenson and her son have offered it for sale. Col. du Paty de Clam’s rise in the nobility is traced by the Paris Siecle. His great-grandfather was a judge in Bordeaux named Mercier Dupaty; his grandfather bought Clam, a little vineyard, and called himself Dupaty de Clam. His father was a general and turned his name into Count dq Paty de Clam. The colonel himself uses the title of marquis. Mrs. Stannard, whose pen names are John Strange Winter and Violet Whyte, has lately published her fiftieth book. A Boston newspaper asserts that an average writer for a daily journal would produce the same amount of literary matter in a little less than seven years. There is sfill a demand for “Booties’ Baby”—a fair specimen of Mrs. Stannard’s literary work. TWO ROYAL MATCHMAKERS* Queen Louise of Denmark Is s Littl« Ahead of Queen Victoria la This Race.

Thackeray says the knack of match* making is inherited in all good women. Queen Victoria of England, and Queen Louise of Denmark, must be very good women indeed, for these royal person* ages have met with great success in that direction. In the life settlement of her own youngerlings Victoria was much hampered by religious considerations, but she finally got through all right. In matching her grandchildren the queen has had a much freer hand. There she could leave out of account the nonconformist conscience. How well she has realized the fact may be gleamed from this incomplete reckoning of thrones present and prospective filled by her descendants. Emperor William is her grandson; his sister, Princess Sophie, will one day be queen of Greeceunless Greece get* out of the way of having queens. Emperor William has six sons, one of whom is slated to marry the young queen of Holland. Failing a Prussian prince, Wilhelmina may be mated with one of her English cousins, children of the dead Prince Leopold. Even should an earthquake engull the six young Prussian princes, Victory’s blood would hold the throne. Prince Henry is not merely her grandson, but married to her granddaughter. Irene of Hesse. The Hesse princelings, indeed, have been trump cards for the royal matchmaker. Princess Elizabeth is a Russian grand duchess, with only three lives, none of them robust, between her husband and the throne.

It was by her help—she is witty and beatitiful and just the least bit wicked —that Queen Victoria was enabled to make Princess Alix czarina. The czar Nicholas, an impassive and somewhat cold-blooded young person, was deep in forbidden toils. AUx herself, poor as princess could be, and wilful as she war beautiful, did not eare to hare greatness thrust upon her aloug with an indifferent husband. But grandmamma persisted, so the wedding came off. and that in spite of a heap of diplomatic < effort to prevent it. Of the half Russian Edinburgh prin*. cesses, one is queen of Roumania—at | least fpr so long as Roumania will tol- ] erate her new Hohenzollern king; the other is grand duchess of Hesse—having married her cousin. Grand Duke Louis, and repented it rather bitterly. The grand dukedoms of Hesse and Saxe-Coburg are for size and revenues hardly tirorth reckoning, but tbeir possessors can hold up their heads with the greyest rulers of Europe. Opportunity considered. Queen Louise of Denmark has distanced Victoria in the matter of matchmaking. She was middle-aged before her husband began to reign; she bad been poor always; she was neither brilliant nor beautiful; beyond all that, her realm vras a second rate sort of kingdom. Of her sons, the crown prince, who will reign after his father, married one of the enormously rich Bourbon princesses; the second of tl cm. Prince George, married a Prussian grand duchess, and became king of Greece. Thus it will be seen that, through a progeny far less numerous. Queen Louise can fairly reckon thrones with Queen Victoria.'*-?*. Y. Herald. Aw Honest Tradesman. Customer—What’s the difference between these woolen undershirts? Dealer—One is half cotton and the other is whole cotton.—X. Y. Weekly.

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