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Picture No. 198
Denver, Colorado
September 18, 1953
To the Christians at
Northwest Church of Christ,
1147 North 81st Street,
Seattle, Yfashington.
One month ago, Aug. 18, while yet dark we left Seat-
tle, Though the city was yet dark, Mount Rainier had re-
ceived its messenger of light aurorated in the rosy dawn.
Swiftly the light sent forth heralds from far and near,to
tell the hue and distance of everything in the range of
vision. Some of the messengers brought their tidings in-
stantly, and some had been on their way a million years,
when God's breath blew millions of suns to shine among
the rival spheres of heaven. (Isa. 48:3; Ps. 33: 7-9).
Mount Rainier stood above a glimmering haze of blue in
the dreamy air of rosate pink of the dawn, quickly chang-
ing to glistening white of her snow.
I wished that I might have stilled the sun so I could
transfer in color that scene at 6 A. 11. I could only
sketch on a pad the outline of the layer upon layer of
mountains and hills, each a mistier blue as it neared the
height of that lofty and glorious mountain. Between each
a shroud of fog in the vale reminding of the veil of my-
stery between each dispensation as the Kingdom of God
arose among men from Abel to Enoch,when men began to call
upon God. Then the Kingdom was as a small hill that grew
higher after the flood under the patriarchs to the mount-
ain of the 1st covenant. Since Christ was "offered to
bear the sin of many" and God did "set him King on his
holy hill zion", that higher mountain so different and
more glorious, even as the height of Rainier is above her
foot hills.
The Lord's house was established above the mountains
and exalted above the hills, which all nations flowed in-
to. (Isa. 2:2,3). Uhat better than the sublime height
and glistening beauty can illustrate "the mountain of His
