Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03

eartn 10 heaven could pass up DIV way OK
this canyon, the dash Of heavenly beauty
would not be so empowering. 1t would
only be from glory to glory. Ascent
through such earthly scenery in which
the crystal is so bright and the red so
! flaming would be fit preparation for the
''sea of glass mingled with fire."
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone park on the morning OF
| August 9, for the most part We held our
peace, but after awhile it flashed upon nae
with such power ] could not help but say
to my comrades: "What a hall this
would be for the last judgmentp See
that mighty cascade with the rainbows as
the foot OF it Those waters CONCEALED
and transixed with the agitations OF that
day. what q place they would make for
the shining feet Of Judge Of quick and
dead. And those rainbowS look now like
the crowns to be cast at his feet At the
bottom Of this great canyon is a door on
which the nations OF the earth might
stand and all up and down these galleries
Of rock the nations of Heaven might sit
And what revsrberation Of archangel's
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 of the world
shall ever see close amid the grandest
scenery Omnipotence ever built?
o, the sweep of the American continentl
Sailing up Puget sound, its shores so bold
that for 1, 800 M les a ships PROV would
touch the shore before its keel touched the
bottom l said: "This is the NJ d terrain
can Of America" Visiting Portland, and
Tacoma, and Seattle, and Victoria, and
Fort Townsend, and Vancouvers and other
cities of that Northwest region thought
to myself: These are the Bostons, New
Yorks, Charlestons and Savannahs Of the
Pacific coast. But after All this summers
journeying and my other journeys west
ward in other summers l found that hsd
seen only a part of the American conti-
nent for Alaska is as far west of San
Francisco as the coast of Maine is east Of
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 comprehensiveness OF
the text when it 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 at the North.
west Only Behring straits separate US
from Asia and these will be spanned by
great bridge before another century closes
and probably long before that 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
only about twenty fathoms deep
The America Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent
So you see America evangelical, 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. America and Asia
and Europe all one, what subtraction from
the psngs of seasicknessi and the prophe-
cies in Revelation will be fulfilled, There
shall be no more sea-" But do l mean
literally that this American continent Is
going to be all gospelized? l do. Chris
| TOPPER Columbus, when he went ashore
from the Santa Maria, and his second
brother AlonZO, when he went ashore from
| the Pinta, and his third brother Vincent
when he went ashore from he Nina, took
possession of this country in the name Of
the Father and the Son and the Holy
| Ghost
Saten has no more right TO this country
than have to your pocketbook. To 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 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 l protest
against something l heard and saw this
summer and otb'r summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California They have
given devilistic names to many places in
the West and Northwest
As soon as you get in Fellows tone park
or California you have pointed out to
you places cursed with such names as
''The DEVILS Slide" ''The DEVILS
Kitchen" The DEVILS Thumb" THE
DEVILS Pulpit" The DEVILS Mush Pot"
'The DEVILS Tea Kettle" ''The DEVILS
Saw Mill, THE DEVILS Machine Shop"
1.-THE DEVILS Gate" aud so on. Now it is
very much needed that geological sur
veyors or Congressional committees or
groups of distinguished tourists who go
through Montana, and Wyoming, and
California and Colorado give other names
to these places. All these regions belong
to the Lord and to a Christian Nation,
and away with such PlutonIc nomen-
clature.
But how Is this continent to be gospel
izedf The pulpit and 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 technicslities I am
sick of them and the world is sick Of them.
But it will be done by the warm hearted,
sympathetic presentation Of the fact that
Christ is ready to pardon all our sins and
heal all our wounds and save US, both for
this world and the next
On the Columbia river q few days ago
we saw the salmon jump clear out Of the
water in different places, l suppose for
the purpose of getting the insects.
And if when we want to fish for men
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 Associa-
tions of America will also do part Of the
work All over the continent 1 saw this
summer their new buildings rising. IN
Vancouver 1 asked: What are you go
ing to put on that slightly place" The
answer was: "a Young Mems Christian
Association building" At Lincoln, Neh,
1 said: what are they making those ex-
cavations for?" Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing" At Des Moines- Iowa, 1 saw a noble
structure rising and l asked for what pur-
pose it was being built and they told me
for the Young Mems Christian Assocfa-