The Bible Christian Magazine, a Continuation of the Arminian Magazine (1882) Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Honolulu, in the cool, green loveliness one could imagine oneself in the temperate zones. The peculiarity of the scenery is, that the hills, which rise to a height of about 4,0oo feet, are wall-like ridges of grey or coloured rock, rising precipitously out of the trees and grass, and that these walls are broken up into pinnacles and needles. At the Pali (wall-like precipice), the summit of the ascent of toooft., we left our buggy, and passing through a gash in the rock, the celebrated view burst on us with overwhelming effect. Immense masses of black, and ferruginous volcanic rock, hundreds of feet in nearly perpendicular height, formed the pali on either side, and the ridge extended northwards for many miles, presenting a lofty, abrupt mass of grey rock, broken into fantastic pinnacles, which seem to pierce the sky. A broad, umbrageous mass of green, clothed the lower buttresses, and fringed itself away in clusters of coco-palms, on a garden-like stretch below, green with grass and sugar-cane, and dotted with white houses, each with its palm and banana grove, and varied by eminences which looked like long extinct tufa cones. Beyond this enchanted region stretched the coral reef, with its white wavy line of endless surf, and the broad blue Pacific." The long day, amidst so much lovliness and grandeur, passed all too quickly, but by six o'clock on Monday, May 8th, we had to be on board again, and soon after we were again on our way, reaching San Francisco on the Monday evening following, but after dusk, so that I got but a dim view of the famous " Golden Gates." F. W. Bourne. POWER OF THE WORD. Dr. MARSH became acquainted with two intelligent young Jews, first cousins to each other, who were then residing in Colchester. Both held sceptical views. Relying upon the power of ...Read More