A Beautiful Scene in Norway

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 31, 1871

A Beautiful Scene in Norway.

The following paragraph is from the description of a scene witnessed in the north of Norway, from a cliff one thousand feet above the sea:

“The ocean stretched away in silent vastness at our feet; the sound of the waves scarcely reached our airy lookout; away in the north, the huge old sun swung low along the horizon. We stood silent, looking at our watches. When both hands came together at twelve, midnight, the full, round orb hung triumphantly above the wave, a bridge of gold running due north spanned the water between us and him. There he shone in a silent majesty that knew no setting. Combine, if you can, the most brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the gorgeous colors which lit up the ocean, heaven and mountain. In half an hour the sun had swung by perceptibly, the colors changed to those of morning, a fresh breeze rippled over the flood, one songster after another piped up in the grove behind us—we had slid into another day.”