The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-04


day, what place they would make Tor
the shining feet of Judge of quick and
dead. And those rainbows look now like
the crown to be cast at His feet. At the
bottom of the great canyon Is hoor on
which the nations of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these CALLER
les of rock the nations of Heaven might
sit. and what reverberation of archan-
gels trumpet there would be through all
these gorges and from all these caverns
and over all these heights. Why should
not the greatest of all the days the world
shall ever see close amid the gEsIndest
scenery Omnipotenee ever bu0ftF
Oh, the sweep of the American CONT
uent! Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores
so bold that for fifteen hundred miles
ships prov would touch the shore before
its keel touched the bottom, / said:
"This is the Mediterranean OF America"
Visiting Portland and Tacoma apd Seat
tie and Victoria and Fort Townsepa and
Vancouver's and other cities of that
Northwest region I thought to mySe1Es
These are the Bostons, New 1orxsS
Charlestons and Savannahs of the PaclE9
coast But after all this summers jour
neying and my other journeys Westward
in other summers, I found that 1 mad
seen only a part of the American con-
tinent for Alaska is as far west OF San
-
it, so that the central city of the Ameri-
can continent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent and given you
few specimens of some Of its wonders to
let you know the comprehens1veress OF
the text when it says that Christ Isl going
to have dominion from sea to sea; that
is, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Bes
sides that, the salvation of this Continent
~ l. - 1Ta qn~
only thirty-six miles from Asia at the
northwest. Only Behring Straits seps-
rate us from Asia, and these will be
spanned by a great bridge before another
century closes, and probably long before
that. The thirty six miles of water be-
tween these two continents are not all
deep sea, but has three islands, and there
are also shoals which will allow piers
for bridges, and for the most of the way
the water is only about twenty fathOms
deep.
The America -Asiatic bridge which will
vet span those straits will make Amer
lea, Asia, Europe and Africa one con"
tinent. So, you see, America evangel-
lied, Asia will be evangelical. Europe
taking Asia from one side and America
taking it from the other side. Our great
grandchildren will cross that bridge.
A m erica and Asia and Europe one, what
ness. And the prophecies in Revelation
will be fulfilled: ''There shall be no more
sea- But do 1 mean literally that this
American Continent is going to be all
oosDelized? I do. Christopher Columbus,
when he went ashore from the Santa
Maria, and his second brother, AlOnZo,
when he went ashore from the Nina,
took possession of this country in the
name of the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right to this coun-
try than Ihave to your pocket book. TIC
hear him talk on the roof 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 capitalist, or that he we's loaded
up with real estate, When the old mis-
creant never owned an acre or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that rea-
SON I protest against something I heard
and saw this summer and Other summers
in Idaho and Colorado ana CALIFORNIA.
They have given devilistic names TO
many places in the West and Northwest
AS soon as you get in Yellowstone
Park or California you have pointed Oh&
to YOU places cursed with such names as
THE DEVILS Slide," ''The DEVILS K1tch-
en-, " THE DEVILS Thumb, ''The Dev1Ps
PuIpit.D 1.-THE DEVILS Mush Pot" 1.-THE
MilI,D "The DEVILS Machine Shop" 1.-THE
DEVILS Gate" and so on. Now it is very
much needed that geological surveyor
or congressional committee or group OF
distinguished tourists go through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California ana
Colorado and give other names to these
places. All these regions belong to tap
Lord and to Christian nation, and away
with such Plutonic nomenclature.
TQt14h
pelizedf The pulpit and a Christian
printing press harnessed together will be
the mightiest team for the first pillow.
Not by the power of cold, journalistic
theology, not by ecclesiastical technical
tiles. l am sick of them, and the world
is sick of them. But it will be done by
the warm-hearted, sympathetic pre-.
sentation of the fact that Christ is ready
to pardon all our sins and heal all our
wounds and save us both for this worl
and the next. Let your religion or
glaciers crack off and fall into the Gulf
Stream and get melted. Take all your
creeds of all denominations and drop out
of them all human phraseology and put
in only Scriptural phraseology and yOts
will see how quick the people will jump
after them.
On the Colum bia river a few days ago
we saw the salmon jump clear out Of the
water in different places, I suppose for
the purpose of getting the insects. And
f,when we want to fish for mon, we could
only have the right kind of bait they
will spring out above the food Of their
sins and sorrows to reach it. The Young
Mems Christian Association of America
will also do part of the work. All over
the continent I saw this summer their
new buildings rising. In Vancouver's
asked: "What are you going to put on
that slightly placer" The answer was:
"a Young Mems Christian Association
building" At Lincoln, Neb. 1 said:
"What are they making those excavations
for?" Answer: For our Young Mems
Christian Association building" at Des
Moines, Ia, I saw a noble structure ris
ing, and asked for what purpose it wss
being built, and they told ms for the
Young Mems Christian Association.
These institutions are going to take the
young men of this Nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with
God and man than ever before. Business
men and capitals is are awakening to
thsfact that they can do nothing better
in the way of living benefcence or in last
will and testament than to do what Mr.,
Marquard did for Brooklyn when he
made our Young Mems Christian palace
possible. These Institutions will get car
Young men all over the land into sta m
pede for Heaven. Thus we will all in
some way help on the work, you with