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at the northwest. Only Behring Straits
separate us from Asia, and these will be
spanned by a great bridge before al.other
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
vet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
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 substraction from
the pangs Of seasickness! and the prophe-
cies in Revelation will be fulfilled.
"There shall be no more sea-" But do
mean literally that this American continent
is going to be all gospelized? do: Christie
pher 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 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 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 sup
pose that Satan was great capitalist or that
be was loaded up with real estate, when the
old miscreant never owned an acre or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that reason
protest against something heard and saw
this summer and other 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 Yellowstone Park or
California, you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as THE Devils
Slide" 1.-THE Devils Kitchen" "The Devils
Thumb" ssThe Devils Pulpit" 1.-THE Devils
Mush Pot" 'sThe DEVILS Tea Kettle,n ''The
DEVILS Saw Mill" 1.-THE Devils Machine
Shop" 1.-THE Devils Gate" and SO on. Now,
it is very much needed, that geological sur
veyor or congressional committee or group
of distinguished tourists 60 through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and Col
All these regions belong to the Lord and to
Christian nation, and away with such Plu-
tonic nomenclature.
5ooPSASSS>'
The pulpit and Christian printing press har
messed together will be the mightiest team
for the first plow. Not by the power of cold;
journalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities 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. Let your
religion of 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
script1lral phraseology and you will see how
quick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia River 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 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 1t:
The Young Mems Christian Associations Of
America will also do part Of the work. All
over the continent 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., said; "What at they making
those excavations for?' Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing" At Des Moines, Iowa, I saw noble
structure rising and asked for what pur-
pose it was being built, and they told me 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 capitalists are awakng to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way of
living bene6cence or in last will and tests
ment than to do what Mr.. Marquand did for
Brooklyn when he made our Young Mems
Christian palace possible. These in
stitutions will get our young men all
over the land into stampede for
heaven. Thus we will all in some way help
on the work you with your ten talents,
with five, somebody else with three. 1t is es-
timated that to irrigate the arid and desert
lands Of America IS they ought to be IT.
rigated, it will cost about one hundred
million dollars to gather the waters
Into reservoirs. As much contribution
and effort as that would irrigate with
Gospel influences all the waste places of
This continent. Let us by prayer an
contribution and right living all help to fill
The reservoirs. You will carry bucket and
you a cup, and even thimbleful would help.
And after while God will send the floods Ct
mercy so gathered, pouring down all over the
land, and some Of us on earth and some Of Us
IN heaven will sing with Isaiah: I'm the vii
derness waters have broken out and streams
in the desert" and with David: ''There IS a
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the sight of God" Oh, fill up the reservoirs!
America for God!