The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-10-03

neither the sapphire nor the crysolite nor
the jacinth nor the amethystic nor the JASPER
nor the twelve gates Of the twelve pearls
wanting. If spirits bound from earth to
heaven could pass Us by way of this canyon
the dash of heavenly beauty would not be 80
overpowering. It 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 At preparation
for the sea of glass mingled with fire." -,
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of the
Yellowstone park on the morning Of Aug. 8,
ter q while it flashed upon me with such pow
or / could not help but say to my comrades:
"What q hall this would be for the last judg-
ment!" See that mighty cascade with tho
rainbows at the foo of it. Those waters
CONCEALED and transdxed with the agitations
OF that day, What q place they would make
for the shining feet Of o Judge Of quick and
dead. And these %rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at his feet. At the bottom
of this great canyon is q aoor ON which ma
tions of the earth might stand and all up
and down these galaries Of rock the nations
of the heaven might sit. AndNthat rsverber-
alton of archengel's trumpet there would be
caverns and over oil these heights. Why
should not the greatest of all the days the
world shall ever see close mid the grandest
scenery o~mnipotence ever built?
Oh, the sweep of the American continentl
Sailing up Puget sound, its shores SO bold
touch the shore before it's keel touched the
bottom, I said: "This ia the Mediterranean
of America" Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Fort Townsend
and Vancouver and other cities ofthat north.
west region I thought to myself: "These are
the Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons, and
Savannans of the Pacific coast" But after
all fhi1 Q0mnorSa i0vurnovinr md INV ofhav
journeys westward in other summers, found
that / had seen only q part of the
American continent, for Alaska is as far west
of San Francisco as the coast of Maine is
east oft, SO that the central city of the
American continent 10 San Francisco.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will yet
span those straits will make America, Asia,
Europe, and Africa one continent. So you
see America evangelical. Europe taking
Asia from one side and America taking Il
from the other side. Our great grandchil-
dren will cross that bridge. America and
Asia and Europe all one, what subtraction
from the pangs ofseasickness! and the proph-
ecies of Revelation will be fulfilled: "There
shall be no more sea-" But do 1 mean liter
ally that this American continent is going to
be all gospellzed? do. Christopher Colum-
bus, when he Q ashore from the Santa
Maria, and his second brother, Alonzo, when
he went ashore from the Pinta, and his third
AoOAOl VAASSAVy "u0n u0 NOuU dolkOT0 lEOUu
the Nina, took possession of this country in
the name Of the father and the son and the
holy ghost.
As soon as you get in Yellow stone park or
California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as 1.-THE
DEVILS Thumb" "The DEVILS Pulpit" The
DEVILS Mush:Pot "The DEVILS Tea-Kettle,"
Machine shop" "The DEVILS Gate" and
SO On. Now it il very much needed that
geological surveyor or congressional COM
%ittee or group OF distinguished tourists g.
fornia and Colorado and give other names to
these places. All these regions belong to the
Lord and to o Christian nation, and away
with such plutonic nomenclature,
But how is this continent to be goepelized?
The pulpit and q Christian printing press
harnessed together will be the mightiestt team
malistic theology not by ecclesiastical technic
alties. lam sick ofthem underworld is sick OF
them. But it will be done by the warm-hearted
sympathetic presentation of the tact 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 of and fall into the gulfstream
and get melted. Take all your creeds of all
denominations and drop out of them all hui
man phraseology and put in only scriptural
phraseology and you will see how quick the
az ths roinmh;n rirer e Z a. lon. .
saw the salmon ;nmn cIeor low ONT ~ tbs as v.t we
in d;ffarent nIaces eunnn.o foro ~. - m"o
Of cettinc The insects And - wbsn % pa, aomt
to fssh fog man umS we could 1 hovo t noer r;o Is w YAM
Of halt thew vii, snr;nr ahovo tba anod ~
their Gins and snrroys ~ r.anb ~ rha
Yonng Mans Chr;sta ;ns .s.oo;o+;on. ~ y. 1m m
erica viii aiso 40 nsrt Of ths warE AZ ouar
tha cont;nant 7 saw this srmma. TIT vsSr
hniId;nu rising In Vancnnuers T. s.LaI.
"What are Won roina to mt ON that s;~htiv,
nlsca3" T5e answar wo.. "a ynmnn Wy
Ehr;st;an associat;on hn;idin~ y : ;nonin
Neb.. I said: ssWhat are thew MAKING thess
Excavations for?" Answar: HsFnr onr yonn~
Mans Chr;stian association hn,,JJ;n. touf :
Dos Moines Iowa ! sa~ -" nohIa stS,+n AZ
r;s;n~ and I asEej, Tor wbat nMrnose - wao
heinz bm;It and tbay tod ma PfS nr tha Yor "as
Tenss Christian as:ociatinn' ~ ''u"s
y ;nst;fgt men o. ss Ems II ns hsttnr f9 9ave God III, These aas