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FOOTSTEPS OF GOD. » 1 • • REV. DR. TALMAGE FINDS HIS IM PRINT EVERYWHERE. Th* Beauties «f Mature Faraiah * Theme F*r a Pawerfal leraea. Weald Abolish AU Creeds wad »♦- aemlaatioas. [Copyright. 1898, at^« rlcan I>reM A ”°' Washington, Oct. 10.—Dr. Talmage in Sta foaiah xxxv, «’ “ Streamß ln the dooert; p g “He toucheth the Jrfy first text means irrigation. It means the water* at the Himalaya or the Pyre neesor the Sierra Nevadas poured through and aqueducts for the fertilization of the valleys. It means the process by which the last mile of American barren ness will be made an apple orchard, or an orange grove, or a wheat field, or a cotton plantation, or a vineyard—“streams in the dtaert.” My second text means a volcano lite Vesuvius or Cotopaxi, or it means the geysers of Yellowstone park or of California. You see a hill calm 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 impres sive vapors. “He toucheth the hills, and they smoke I” Although my journey across the con tinent 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 arid more am I thrilled with the fact that it [s all to be irrigated, glorified and Eden i«od. What a change from the time when Di nisi Webster on yonder Capitollne hill M d to the American senate in regard to th > center of this continent and to the re gions on the Pacific coast: “What do you want with this vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of des erts and cactus, of shifting sands and prairie dogs? To what use oould We ever put these great deserts or these great niouptains, impenetrable and covered with eternal snow? What can we ever hope toido with the western coast, rook 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 nearer Boston than it now is." What a mistake the great statesman made when he said that 1 AU who have crossed the continent realize that the states on the Pacific ocean wUI have quite as grand op portunities as the states on the Atlantic, and all this realm from sea to sea to be the Lord’s cultivated possession. A Cross oa the Mountain. Do you know what In some respects Is the most remarkable thing between the Atlantic and Pacifier It is the figure of a cross 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 daytime within many miles are compelled to see it. There are some figures, some contours, some moun tain appearances, that you gradually make out after your attention is called to them. 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 out it there and set it up for the na tion to look at Whether set up in rock before the cross of wood was set 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 nota ble 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 vocal at our Saviour’s birth, the rooks rent at his martyrdom, why not the walls of Colorado bear the record of the crucifix ion?. First, consider the immensity of this continental possession. If it were only a small tract of land, capable of nothing better than sagebrush and with ability only to support prairie dogs, I should not have much enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have it added to his dominion. But its immensity and affluence no one can imag ine 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 Southern Pacific he has traversed it. ~ A Vast Domain. I supposed in my boyhood, from Its size on the map, that California was a few yards across, a ridge of land on which one must walk cautiously lest he hit his head against the Sierra Nevada on one side or slip off Into the Pacific waters on the other. California, the thin slice of land, as I supposed it to be iff 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 if you add them together their square miles fall far short of California. And then all those newborn states of the Union, North and South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Each state on em pire in size. -nV? L - “Butk”says someone, “in calculating 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 Mon tana and the Great American Desert.” I am glad you mentioned that. Within 95 yean there will not be between the Atlan tic and Pacific coasts 100 miles of land not reclaimed either by farmers* plow or mlnen* crowbar. By irrigation, the wa ters of the rivers and the showers of heav en, 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 han object lesson. Some parts of that territory which were so barren that a spear grass could not have been raised there m 100 yean are now rich as Lancaster county farms of Pennsylvania or Westches ter faring of New York or Somerset ooun ty farms of New Jersey. Experiments have proved that ten acres of ground irri gated from waters gathered in great hy drological basins will produce as much as , aores from the downpour of rain as seen in our regions. We have our freshets and our droughts, but in those lands which "a to be scientifically Irrigated there win oe neither freshets nor droughts. 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 arc thirsty and never think of drinking a piteherful all at once, so Montana and Wyoming and Idaho wIU catch the rains of their rainy season and take up all the waters of their riverain great pitchers of reservoirs and refresh their land whenever they will. The work has already been grandly be gun by the United States government. Over 400 lakes have already been officially taken possession of by the nation for the great enterprise of irrigation. Rivera that have been rolling idly through these re gions, doing nothing on their way to the sea, will be lassoed and corralled and pen ned up until such time as the farmers need them. Under the same processes the Ohio, the Mississippi and all the other rivers win 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 Irrigating process by which all the arid lands between the Atlantic and Pa cific oceans are to be fertilized is no now experiment. Jehovah’s Throne. It has been going on successfully hun dreds of years in Spain, in China, in In dia, in Russia, in Egypt. About 800,000,- 000 of people of the earth today are kept alive by food raised on irrigated land. And here we have allowed to Ho 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. Hero and there exceptional lands may be stub born and refuse to yield any wheat or corn from their hard fists, but if the hoe fail to make an impression the miner’s pickax wi|l discover the reason for it and bring up from beneath those unproduc tive surfaces coal and iron and lead and copper and silver and gold. Godspeed the geologists and the surveyors, the engi neers and the senatorial commissions, and the capitalists, and the new settlers, and the husbandmen, who put their bibln and hand and heart to this transfiguration of the American continent. “Streams in the desert!” .OC.-T] I ■ 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 re markable 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 that were old when Christ lived! These monarchs of foliage reigned before Cmsar or Alexander, and the next 1,000 years will not shatter their scepter. They are the masts of the con tinent, their canvas spread on the winds, while the old ship bears on its way through the ages. That valley of the Yosemite is eight miles lohg and a half mile wide and 3,000 feet deep. It seem* a* if it had been the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as small a place as possible some of the most stupendous scenery 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 nor beast ■ ever scaled them, they stand in everlast ing* defiance. If Jehovah has a throne on earth, these are its white pillars. Stand ing down in this great chasm of the val ley, you look up, and yonder is Cathedral rock, vast, gloomy minster built for the silent worship of the mountains. Yonder is Sentinel rook, 8,870 feet high, bold, soli tary, standing guard among the ages, ita top seldom touched until a bride one Fourth of July mounted it and planted the natfonjd 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 broth ers, 4,000 feet high; Cloud’s rest, North and South dome, and the heights never captured save by the fiery bayonets of the thunderstorm. He Toucheth the Hili*. No pause for the eye, no stopping place for the ipfod. Mountains hurled on mountains. Mountains in the wake of mountains. Mountains flanked by moun tains. Mountains split. Mountains ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains triumphant. As though Mont Blanc and the Adirondacks and Mount Washington were here 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. Yon der is Yosemite falls, dropping 2,684 feet, 16 times greater descent than that of Ni agara. These waters dashed to death on the rocks, so that the white spirit of these slain waters .ascending in robe of mist seeks the heavens. Yonder is Nevada falls, plunging 700 feet, the water in ar rows, the water in rocks, the water in pearls, 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 torment 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 Monelda route as we did this summer and save 250 miles of railroading, your stagecoach taking you through a day of sce*ery as captivating and sublime as the Yellowstone park itself. After all poetry has emanated itself concerning Yellowstone park, and all the Moran* and Blerstadta and the other enchanting artiste 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 cheap ening 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 fne vapor born of that marriage, terrific. Geyser cones or hills of crystal that have been over 5,000 years growing! In places’the earth, throb bing, sobbing, groaning, quaking with aqueous paroxysm. At the expiration of every 65 minutes one of the geysers toss ing ita boiling water 185 feet in the air and then descending into swinging rain bow* “He toucheth the hills and they smoke. ” Caverns of pictured walls large enough for the sepulcher of 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 hill* into a Luxemburg or a Vatican pic ture gallery. The so called Thanatopsi* geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was named after, and Evangeline geyser, lovely as the Longfellow heroine it oom memorates. Sunrise and Sunset. Wide reaches of stone of intermingled colors, blue as the sky, green as the foliage, crimson as the dahlia, white as the snow, spotted as tbo leopard, tawny as the lion, gristly as the bear, in circles, In angles, in stars, in coronets, in stalactites, in stalagmite* Here and there are petrified growths, or the dead trees and vegetables of other ages, kept through a nrocess of natural embalmment. In some places wa ters as innocent and smiling as a child making* first attempt to walk from ita mothers lap, and not far off as foaming and frenzied and ungovernable as • maniac in struggle with his keepers. But after you have wandered along the geyserite enchantment for days and begin to feel that there can bo nothing More of interest to see you suddenly ocrae upon the peroration of all majesty and gran deur, the Grand canyon. It is here that it seems to mo—and I speak it with rever ence—Jehovah seems to have surpassed him self. It seems agreat 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. Bost work of the Architect of worlds. Sculpturing by the Infinite. Masonry by an Omnipotent trowel Yellow! You never saw yellow untesa you saw it there. Red I You never saw rad unless you saw it there. Violet! You never saw violet unless you saw it th«M> Triumphant banners of color. 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 ita first cannon. Gibraltar* and Sevasto pol that never can be taken. Alhambras, where kings of strength and queens of beauty reigned long before the first earth ly crown was empparled. Thrones on which no one but thaKing of heaven and earth ever sat. Fount of waters at which the hills are baptized, white the giant cliffs stand around as sponsors. For thou sands of years befoae that boom was un veiled to human sight the elements were busy, and the geysers were hewing away with their .hoi chisel, and glaciers were pounding with their cold hammers, and . hunteanes were cleaving with their light ning strokes, and hallstones giving the finishing andafter all these forces of nature had done their beet in our cen tury the curtain dropped, and the world had a new and divinely inspired revela tion, the Old Testament written on papy rus, the New Testament written on parch ment and this last Testament written on the rocks. A Hall of Judament. Hanging over one of the cliffs, I looked off until I could not get my breath; then, retreating to a less exposed place, I looked down again. Down there is a pillar of rock that In certain conditions of the at mosphere looks like a pillar of blood. Yonder are 50 feet of emerald on a base of 500 feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on pedestals of beryl. Turrets of light trem bling on floors of darkness. The brown heightening into golden. Snow of crys tal melting into fire of carbuncle. Flam ing red cooling into meet. Cold blue warming into saffron. Dull gray kin dling into solferjno. Morning twilight flushing midnight shadow* Auroras crouching among rock* Yonder is an eagle’s nest on a shaft of basalt. Through an eyeglass w* see among it the young eagles, but the stout est arm of our group cannot hurl a stone near enough to disturb the feathered do mesticity. Yonder are heights that would bp chilled With horror but for the warm robe ot forest foliage with which they are enwrapped. Altars of worship at which nations might kneel. Domes of chalced-1 ony on temples of porphyry. See all this oarnage of color up and down the cliff* It must have been the battlefield of the war of the elements. Here are all the col ors of the wall ot hoaven, neither the sap phire, nor the chrysolite, nor the topaz, nor the jacinth, nor the amethyst, nor the jasper, nor the 12 gates of 12 pearls want ing. If spirits bound from earth to heav en could pass up by Way of this canyon, the dash of heavenly beauty would not be so overpowering. It 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 mingled with fire,” 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 I could not help but say to my comrades, “What a hall this would be for the last judgment 1” * See that mighty cascade with the rainbows at the foot It. Those waters congealed and transfixed with the agitations of that day, what a place they would make for the shining feet ot a Judge of quick and dead I And those rainbow* look now like the crown* to be oast 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£he*e galleries of rock the nation* of heaven might sit. And what reverberation of archangel*’ trumpet there would be through all these gorge*and from these cavernsand over all these height*. Why should not the great est of all the days the would shall ever see close amid the grandest scenery Omnip otence ever built? Christ’* Dominion. Oh, the sweep of the American conti nent I Sailing up Puget sound, its shores so bold that for 1,500 miles a ship's prow would touch the shore before Its keel touched the bottom 1 On one of my visits I said, “This is the Mediterranean of America.” Visiting Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and Port Towns hend and Vancouver and other cities of tbo northwest region I thought to myself, “These are the Bostons, New Yorks, Charleston* and Savannahs ot the Pacific coast. ” But after all this summer’s jour neying and my other journey* westward in other summers, I found that I had seen only a 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. I have said these things about the mag nitude of the continent and given you a few specimen* of some of ita wonders to let you know the comprehensiveness of Christ’s dominion when he takes posses sion of this continent. Besides that, the salvation of this continent means the sal vation of Asia, for we are only 86 mile* from Asia at the northwest. Only Bering straits separates us from Asia, and these will be spanned by a great bridge. The 36 miles of water between these two conti nent* are not all deep sea, but have three islands, and there are also shoals which will allow pier* for bridges, and for the most of the way the water is only about 20 fathoms deep. The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will yet span those straits will make America, Asia, Europe and Africa one continent. So, you see, America evangelized, Asia Will be evangelized, Europe taking Asia from ore side and America taking it from the other aide. Your children will cros> that bridge. America and Asia and Eu rope all one, what subtraction from the pangs of seasickness and the prophecies in Revelation will he fulfilled, “there shall be ho more fittt do I msaa literally that this AmeHcan continent is going to be all gospel! -<>d? Ido. Christo pher Columbus, when he went ashore from the Santa Maria, and his second brother Alonzo, when he went ashore iron the Pinta, and his third brother Vincent, when be went ashore from th* Nina, took possession of this country tn ths name of the Father and th* Son and the Holy Ghost. Satan has no more right to this country than I have to your pocketbook. To hear him talk on the roof of the tern- C* where he proposed to give Christ the ngdoms of this world and the glory of them, you might suppose that aatan was a great capita] Ist or that he was loaded up With real estate, when the old miscreant never owned an aero or an inch of ground on thte planet. Far that reason 1 protest .against something 1 heard and saw thte sbqimer and cjj>*B Mtutuers in Montan* and UrcgorrTCul Wys.nlng and Idaho and Colorado and Cwffoi nla. They have given devil tetic nainta to many places in th* west and nori I: west. Away With Weed*. As soon as you get in Yellowstone park or California you have pointed out to you places cursed with such names as “The Devil’s Slide," “The Devil’s Kitchen," “The Devil’s Thumh,” Th* Devil’s Pul pit,” “The Devil's Mushpot,” “The Dev-. H’s Teakettle," “The Devil’s Sawmill,” “The Devil’s Machine Shop,” “The Dev il’s Gate" and so on. Now it is very much needed that geological surveyor or con gressional committee or group of distin guished tourists go through Montana and Wyoming am! California and Colorado and give other name* to these places. All these regions belong to the Lord and to • Christian nation, and away with such Plutonic nomenclature. But how is thte continent to be gospelised? The pulpit and a Christian printing press harnessed to gether will be the mightiest team for the first plow. Not by the power of cold, formalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical technicalities. I am sick of them, and the world is sick of them. But it will be done by the warm hearted, sympathetic presen tation of the fact that Christ is ready to pardon all our sins, and heal all our wounds, and save us both for thte world and the next. Let your religion of glaciers crack off and fall into the Gulf stream and get melted. Take all your creeds of all denominations and drop out of them all human phraseology and put in only scrip tural phraseology, and you will see how quick the people will jump after them. On the Columbia river we saw the salm on jump clear out of the water in different places, I suppose for the purpose of getting the insects. And if when we want to fish for men we could only have the right kind of bait they will spring out above the flood of their sins and sorrows to reach it. The Young Men's Christian associations of America will also do part of the work. They are going to take the young men of thte nation for God. These institutions seem in better favor with God and man than ever before. Business men and cap italists are awaking to the fact that they can do nothing better in the way of living beneficence or in last will and testament than to do what Mr. Marquand did for Brooklyn When he made the Young Men’s Christian palace possible, These institu tions will get our young men all over the land into a stampede for heaven. Thu* we will all in some way help on the work, you with your ten talents, I with five, somebody else with three. It.is estimated that to irrigate the arid and desert lands of America as they ought to be irrigated it wUI cost about 1100,000,000 to gather the waters into reservoirs. A* much con tribution 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 cany a bucket, and you a cup, and even a thimbleful would help. And after awhile God will send the floods of mercy so gathered pour ing down over all the land, and some of us on earth and some of us in heaven will sing with Isaiah, “In the wilderness wa ters have broken out and streams in the desert,” and with David, “There la a river the streams whereof shall make glad the sight of God. ” Oh, fill up the reservoirs. America for God! Administrator’s Sale. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. By virtue of an order granted by the court of Ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia, at the October term of said court, 1898,J will sell to the highest bidder, be fore the court house door, in Griffin. Geor gia, between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in November, 1898: Two hundred acres of land in Mt. Zion district, said county, bounded as follows : On the north by F. E. Drewry and J. F. Dickin son, on the east by Dickinson, south by Sing Dunn, and Widow Yarbrough, for the purpose of paying debts of deceased, and for distribution among the heirs. Terms cash. Oct. 8,1898. A. B. Bhackklvokd, Adm’r of J. J. Bowdoin, deceased. Guardian’s Sale. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. By virtue of an order granted by the Court of Ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia, at the October term of said court, 1898, I will sell to the highest bidder, be fore the court house door in Griffin, Ga., between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in November, 1898, fifty acres of land in Union District, said coun ty, bounded as follows: On the North by A. Ogletree, East, South and West by J. J, Elder. Bold for the purpose of en croaching on corpus of wards estate for their maintenance and education, October 3,1898. Mabtha J. Colkman, Guardian. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. E. A. Huckaby, administrator de bonis non, on the estate of Nathan Fomby, da? ceased, makes application for leave to sell forty-two acres of land off lot No. 18, in LineDreek district, of Spalding county, Georgia, .bounded as fo'lows: On the north by 0. T. Digby, east by R. W. Lynch and J. A. J. Tidwell, south and west by J. A. J. Tidwell—for the purpose of paying debt* of deceased, and tor distri bution among the heirs.\ Let,*rll persons concerned show cause, if Any there be, be fore the court of Ordinary, in Griffin, Ga., on the first Monday in November, 1898, by 10 o’clock a. m., why such order should not be granted. October term, 1898. . J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. Ito* *t Tehaee* Spit sad 8»ok» lour Ute Aw»y. 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