The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-06

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 1.-THE Devils
Sliden "The Devils Kitchen" ''rhe Devils
Thumb. ''The Devils Pulpit, The Devil
Mush Pot - 'sThe Devils Tea Kettle ''The
Devils Saw Mill ''The Devils Machine
Shop" "The DEVILS Gate. and so on. Now.
it Is very much needed, that geological sur
veyor or congressional committee or group
Of distinguished tourists 90 through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and Col
orado and give other names to these places.
An these regions belong to the Lord and 70
Christian nation, and away with such Plu-
Recommendations.
But how IS this continent to be gospelizeds
The pulpit and Christian printing press har
messed together viii be the mightiest team
for the first plow hot by the power Of cold.
journalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalltleS ! am sick OF them aud the
world Is SICK Of them. But If viii be done by
the warm hearted sympathetic presentation
OF the fact that Christ is ready to pardon al
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 ont of
them all human phraseology and put in only
scriptural 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 ont of the water
in different places, I suppose for the purpose
Of getting Che insects And if when we want
to fish for men we could only have the right
kind of 5ait they will spring out above the
flood Of their sins and sorrows 70 reach it.
The Young Mems Christian Associations OF
America will also do part Of the work. All
over the continent l saw this summer their
new buildings rising In Nancouvers l
asked: 'AYhat are you going to put on that
slightly placer The answer was: "a Young
Mems Christian Association building" At
Lincoln. Neb.. 1 said: what at they making
those excavations forg Answer: For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing At Des Moines, Iowa, / saw a 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 Gsd
and man than ever before Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way of
living beHeficence or in last will and tesla
ment than to do what Mr. Marquand did for
A'AbNhAf II NAAGll nc lAlttAtI NtAA -AI-A
Christian palace possible. These IN
stitutions win get our young men all
over the land into a stampede for
heaven. Thus we VIII 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 as they ought to be II
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 and
contribution and right living all help 10 fill
the reservoirs. You viii carry bucket and
you a cup. and even thiInbleful would help.
And after a while God will send the floods Of
mercy so gathered, pouring down all over tn E
land. and some of uson earth and some of Us
in heaven viii sing with Isaiah: In 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 Cod Oh, fill up the reservoirs
America for God.