The Red Cloud chief., 1889-09-27

Standing there In the Grand canyon Of
the YelloWstooe park On the morning 81
August 9, for the most part We held our
peace, but after awhils it flashed upon ma
with such power I could NOT help bat say
to my comrades: what . hall this
would b for the last judgment"
q, the sweep Of the American continent!
Sailing up Puget sound. iss shores 20 bold
for 1,5OO m les . ships PROV would
touch the shore before its keel touched the
bottom. I said: "This 10 tbs Ned terrain
can Of America" Visiting Portland, and
Tacoma, and Seattle. and Victoria, and
Fort Townsend, and Vancouver and otheE
cities Of that Northwest region ! thought
to myself: These are the Bostons, Now
Yorks, Charlesfous and Savannahs Of the
Pacific coast. Bat after all Ibis summers
j~ourneying and my Other j,urneys west-
ward in other summers l found hat ] had
seen only . part Of the American cOnti-
nent for ALASKA ID a. far west of San
Francisco as the coast Of Maine is eass Of
it, 30 that b central city OF the Ameri-
can continent Is San Francisco.
have said these things about the mag
nitUde OF the continent and given you q
few specimens of some Of it, wonders to
let you know the compreheusiveness OF
the text whom IL says that Christ Is going
to have dominion from sea to sea; that is.
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Beside
that, the salvation Of this continent means
the salvation Of Asia, for We are only
thirty-six miles from Asia ct the North
west Only BehriDg straits separate Us
from Asia and these will be spanned by q
great bridge before another century c'Oses
and probably long before hat The
thirty six miles of water between these
two continents are not all deep sea, but
have three islands. and there are also
shoals which will allow piers for bridges
and for the most Of the way the water is
oily about twenty fathoms deep
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So you see America evangelizsd, Asia
will be evangelical. Europe taking Asia
from one side and America taking il from
the other side. Our great grandchildren
will cross that bridge America and Asia
and Europe all one, what subtraction from
the psnys of seasickness! and the prophe-
cies in Revelation will be fulfilled, There
shall be no more sea" But do I mean
that this American continent is
going to be all gospelized? / do Chris
topher Columbus, when he went ashore
from the Santa Maria, and his second
brother A!onzh when he went ashore from
the Pinta, and his third brother Vincent,
WHEN be vent ashore FRI m he Nina, took
possession of this country in the name OF
the Father and the Son and the Holy
Gbost
Satan has no more right to thi, country
than l have to your pocketbook. To hear
him talk on the root of the temple. where
he proposed to give Christ the Kingdoms
Of this world and the glory Of them, you
might suppose that Satan was a great
or that he was loaded up with
real estate. when the old miscreant never
owned an acre nor an inch Of ground on
this planet For this reason / protest
against something I heard and saw this
summer and 9th r summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and Calf ornia They have
given devilistic names to many places in
the West and Northwest
A soon as you get in Fellows lone park
or California you have pointed out to
you places cursel with such names as
''The DEVILS Slide" The DEVILS
The Devils Thumb" THE
DEVILS Pulpit" The DEVILS Mush Pot"
"The Devils Tea Kettle" 1.-THE Devils
Saw Mill. The DEVILS Machine Shop"
The Devils 0ate'' and 80 on. Now il 10
very much needed that geological sur.
veyors or Congressional committees or
groups Of distinguished tourists who 60
Montana, and Wyoming, and
and Colorado give other names
these places All those regions belong
TO the Lord and to . Christian Nation,
and away with such Plutonic omen
But how Is this continent to be gospel
izedi The pulpit and . Christian printing
press harnessed together will be the
power Of cold, journalistic theology,
not by ecclesiastical t~echnicalitiea ! am
Iick Of them and the world il sick Of them.
But it will be done by the warm.hearted,
presentation Of the fact that
Christ 10 ready to pardon all % sins and
heal all our wounds and ave US, both for
his world and the next. Let your religion
II glaciers crack OF and fall into the Gulf
stream and get melted. Take all your
,reeds Of all denominations and drop out
II them all human p~hrase0logy and put
only ~Scrip,ural ~phrsssology and you
will see how quick the people will jump
them.
On the Columbia river Q few days ago
saw the salmon jump clear ont Of the
in d Rerent places, I suppose for
he purpose Of getting the insects.
And il when We want to f1sh for men
70 could only have the right kind Of bait
hoy will spring o above the food Of
heir sins and sorrows to reach it.
The Young Mems Christian Associa.
of America will also do part of the
work All over the continent ! saw this
hummer their new buildings rising. In
/ asked: What are you 20
to put ON that slightly placef" The
answer was: "A Young Mems Christian
building" At Lincoln, Neh,
said: "What are they making those OK.
.avations fort" Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
n.y." At Dos Moines lows. I saw . noble
~.ructure rising and ! asked for what pur-
,ose it was being built and they told mo
or the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ion.
These institut' ons are going to take the
.oung men OF this Nation for God. These
Institutions seem in better favor with Col
nd man than ever before. Business men
nd capitalists are awake to the fact that
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