A thousand years In God's sight aro
but ns yesterday, or as l watch In the
night. If the treos of Mnrlposa grove
teach us this, how much more must
the libraries of rock among the shelves
of Yosemite hills teach the same les?
sons. We look with wonderment upon
seme of the vases or tho household
pottery used by tho American or Mex?
ican aborigines. You say, "They were
heated lu tires thousands of years ago.*
Yes, hut hu ve you ever stopped to think
when the Ares were lighted by the
hands of God which hardened yonder
rocksV Have you ever stopped to
reckon how old must have been those
pencils of Ice which wrote yonder
chapters upon those hillsides and
which, millenniums ago, us glaciers,
polished those walls until today they
reflect the light of tho' rising sun as
burnished mirrors? Cnn you see with
naked eye the star as a signal fire
burning on the picket line at the far?
thermost outer edge of all stars? Can
you, at a mere haphazard guess, state
tile direct distance between this earth
and that star? Can you go up and up
in imagination until you see the zenith
for a footstool and the nadir for a
bright jewel In your coronet. Then, If
you cnn, you may estimate how long lt
took God, In his eternal purpose, to pro?
duce yonder rocks nnd how long that
eternal purpose shull live after the Yo?
semite valley Itself shall be cremated
In the furnace of the earth's last con?
flagration. If these rocks teach us that
thousands and millions of years in
God's sight are as but a second of time,
do you not believe we can trust to his
care the few years we are upon this
planet? If God can use the ages for
playthings, may wo not be satisfied to
let him do with us as he will for the
short space of threescore years and
ten, which ls man's allotted span upon
earth? "God ls a spirit, Infinite, eter?
nal." Yes, the everlasting rocks of Yo?
semite prove lt. These rocks shall echo
the Judgment call In that day, when
the angel shall stand with one foot
upon the land and the other foot upon
the sea, and swear that time shall be
no longer. 