Giving Our Best to Christ

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While there was pending a bill which had been introduced into Congress to preserve as a military park the splendid and picturesque Palisades of the Hudson, the work of their destruction went forward with great rapidity. The snorting drills which pounded all day long, eating holes in the cliff-top for the explosives, were operated by a large engine, protected by an unpainted shed. This unsightly building added to the hideousness of the scarred and mournful scenery. Within a month the force of men employed was increased from seventy-five to one hundred and eighty, and the demolition went on at a disheartening rate. Heavy boulders, torn from the crags above, were blasted into fragments every few hours, and scores of men were employed loading and sending to the crusher carloads of the rock to be pulverized for road-making. A spot which should be one of nature’s most beautiful pictures became an eyesore, a sordid scene of desolation. How sad that Congress waited so long! But it is sadder still to see a young man or a young woman permitting the best years of youth and hope to be eaten up in frivolity and sin instead of giving to Christ the strength and beauty of their young souls.

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