The Brookhaven leader., 1889-10-03

at the foot of 10. Those waters cOngealeu
and transfixed with the agitations OK th al
day, what place they would make for
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 IL hOor on
which the nations Of the earth might
stand, and all up aud down these CALLER
les of rock the nations Of Heaven might
sit. And what reverberation OF archan
gels trumpet there would be through oil
these gorges and from all these caverns
and over all these heights. Why should
not tho greatest OF all tho days the world
shall ever see close amid the grandest
scenery Omnipotence ever built?
Oh, the sweep of the American conti-
nent! Sailing up Puget Jund, its shores
so bold that for fifteen hundred miles
ships Prov would touch the shore before
its keel touched the bottom, l said:
This is the Mediterranean OF America"
Visiting Portla Id aud Tacoma and Seat
tie and Victoria and Fort Townsend and
Vaucouver's and other cities of that
Northwest region l thought to myself:
These are the Bostoas. New Yorks,
Charlestous aud Savannahs of the Pacific
coast. But after all this summers jour-
uellnB anu my OiHcI JOdiH . w "a v
in other summers, l found that l had
seen only q part OF the American con-
tinent, for Alaska is as far west OF San
Francisco as the cost of Maine ts east OF
it, so that the central city of the Ameri-
can continent is San Francisco.
l have said these things about the inag-
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. Be-
sides that, the salvation OF this continent
means the salvation OF Asia, for we are
only thirty-six miles from Asia at the
northwest Only Behring Straits sepa-
rate us from Asia, and these will be.
SPARED by 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 Asiatc bridge which will
yet span those straits will make Amer
lea, Asia, Europe and Africa one con-
tinent. So, you see, America evangel-
lied, Asia will be evangel LIED. Europe
taking Asia from one side and America
taking it from the other side. Oar great
grandchildren will cross that bridge,
A IN erica and Asia and Europe one, what
subtraction from the pangs OF seaslck-
ness. Aud 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. Christopher Columbus,
when he went ashore from the Santa
Maria, and his second brother, Alonzo,
when he went ashore from tho 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 conn
try than Ihave to your pocket book. 10
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 mis-
creant never owned an acre or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that rea-
son | protest against something l heard
and saw this summer and other summers
in Idaho and Colorado and California.
They have given devilisuc 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 a.
THE DEVILS Slide" "The DEVILS Kitch.
en-, THE DEVILS Thumb" "The DeVil's
Pulpit" "The DEVILS Mush Pot" "Tht
DEVILS Teakettle," ''The Devils Saw
Mill" 1.-THE D3yil's Machine Shop" The
DEVILS Gate" and so on. Now it is very
much needed that geological surveyor
or congressional committee or group or
distinguished tourists go through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and
Colorado and give other names to these
places. All these regions belong to tho
Lord and to Christian nation, and away
with such Plutonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be Cos
pelized? 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 technical
tiles. | am sick of them, and the world
is sick of them. But it will be done by
tho warm hearted, sympathetic pre-
sentation Of the fact that Christ is ready
to pardon all orr sins and heal all our
wounds and save us both for this world
and the next. Let your religion OF
glaciers crack off aud 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 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, / 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 Association of America
will also do part of the work. All over
the continent l saw this summer their
new buildings rising. In Vancouver'S l
asked: "What are you going to put on
that slightly placer" The answer was:
ga Young Mems Christian Association
building" At Lincoln, Neb., l said:
"What are they making those excavations
for?" Answer: 'For our Young Mems
Christian Association building" At Des
Moines, Ia, saw a noble structure ris =
ing. and asked for what purpose 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 awakening to
the fact that they can dc nothing better
IN the wav of living baneficence or in Ia ST