Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26

suppose that Satan was a great capitalist
or that he 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 l protest against some
thing I heard and saw this summer and
other summers in Montana and Oregon
and Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado
and California. They have given devil
istic 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, - ''The Devil IS Kitchen ,;
1.-The DEVILS Thumb, - 1.-The Devil :
Pulpit, - ''The DEVILS Mush Pot, -
''The Devil 5 Tea Kettle, - ''The Dew
IFS Saw Mil, - t'The Devil IS Machine
Shop, 1.-THE Devil's Gate, " and
so on. Now it is very much
needed That geological surveyor or
congressional COMMITTEES or group of
distinguished tourists go through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and
Colorado, and give other names to these
places. All these regions belong to
the Lord, and to a Christian nation,
and away with such Plutonic nomencla-
ture.
But how is this continent to be gospel
lied? The pulpit and a Christian print
ing press harnessed together will be the
mightiest team for the first pillow. Not
by the power of cold, journalistic the
ology, not by ecclesiastical technical
tiles. 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
" IN arf7Or eli hoa oil
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 al
your creeds of all denominations and
drop out of them all human phraseology
and put in only scriptural phraseology
and you VIII see how quick the people
will Jump after them.
On the Columbia river a few days ago
We saw the salmon jump clear out of the
water in different places, 1 suppose for
the purpose of getting the insects. And
if when we want to fish for men we cOul1
only have the right kind of bait they wiz
spring out above the flood of their sins
and sorrows to reach it. The
Young Mems Christian associa-
tons of America will also do
part of the work. All over the CONT
nent I saw this summer their new
buildings rising In VancOuver's I
asked: ''What are you going to put on
that slightly place?' The answer was:
ga Young Mems Christian association
building.' At Lincoln, Neb. 1 said:
"What are they making those excava-
tons for?' Answer: "'For our Young
Mems Christian association building.
At Des Moines, Iowa, l saw noble
structure rising and 1 asked for what
purpose it was being built, and they told
me for the Young Men S Christian asso-
citation.
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. Bust
ness men and capitalists are awaking to
the fact that they can do nothing better
in the way of living benefcence or in last
will and testament than to do what Mr..
Marquand did tor Brooklyn when he
made our Young Men s Christian palace
possible. These institutions will
get our young men all over
the land into q 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 estimated that to IrrIgate
the arid and desert lands of America as
they ought to be irrigated, 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 con-
tributioI and right living all help
to fill the reservoirs. You will carry
a bucket and you q cup, and even a
thimbleful would help. And after a
while God will send the floods of mercy
So gathered, pouring down over all the
land and some of us on earth and some
of US in heaven will sing with Isaiah:
{ In the wilderness waters have broken
out and streams IN the desert, - and with |
David: "There Is river the streams !
whereof shall make glad the sight of |
God. - Oh, fill up the reservoirs! |
America for God!