Milford chronicle., 1889-09-27
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.
SUBJECT OF DR.. TALMAeE's SER
MON SEPT. %.

He Tells the Tabernacle Congregation of
His Transoontinental Journeys-The Text
Is from Psalms lxxii, s-The Sermon
Given in Full.
Brooklyn, Sept. 29.-It was great anthem
OF praise that went up from the crowded
tlrongs at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning where the Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage, DID, preached as usual. The opening
hymn was;
No more let human blood be split.
Vain sacrifice for human guilt
But to each conscience be applied
The blood that flowed from Jesus side.
The subject of the sermon was "From
Ocean to Ocean, or ny Transcontinental
have dominion from sea to sea" The preacher
said;
AMERICA FOR GOD.
What two seas are here referred tot Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
was TO reign over all the land between the
Arabian sea and Caspian sea, or between the
Red sea and the Mediterranean sea, or be
tween the Black sea and the North sea. No;
in such case my text would have named
them. It meant from any large body Of
water on the earth clear across to any other
large body of water. And so have right
to read it: He shall have domain from the
Atlantic sea to the Pacific sea. My theme is,
America for Godl
First, consider the immensely of this pro
eession. If it were only a small tract of land
capable of nothing better than sage brush
and with ability only to support prairie dogs,
/ should not have much enthusiasm in want
/ ing Christ to have it added to his dominion.
But its immensely and afIlUence no one can
imagine unless, in immigrant wagon or in
stage coach or in rail train Of the Union Pa
cifc or the Northern Pacific or tho Canadian
Pacific or the Southern Pacific, he has trav-
ersed it. Having been privileged six times
to cross this continent, and twice this sum
mer, I have come to some appreciation of its
magnitude. California, which | supposed in
boyhood from its size on the map was few
yards across, a ridge of land on which one must
walk cautiously lest he hit his head against
the Sierra Nevadas on one side or slip of
into the Pacific waters on the other; Cali
fornia, this thin slice Of land as ! supposed it
to be in boyhood, have found to be larger
than all the states in New England and all
New York state and all Pennsylvania
added together; and if you add them
together their square miles fall far
short Of California. North and South
Dakota, Montana and Washington ter
ritory, to be launched next winter into state
hood, will be giants at their birth. Let the
congress of the United States strain a point
and soon admit also Idaho and Wyoming and
New Mexico. What is the use in keeping
them out in the cold any longerf Let US
have the whole continent divided into states,
with senatorial and congressional representa-
tives, and we will all be happy together. Ii
some of them have not quite the requisite
number of people, fix up the constitution to
suit these cases. Even Utah will, by drop
ping polygamy, soon be ready to enter
Monogamy has triumphed in parts of Utah.
and will probably triumph at this fall cleo
ton in Salt Lake City. Turn all the terri
tories into states, and if some Of the sisters
are smaller than the elder sisters, give them
time and they will be as large as any of
+ them Because some of the daughters of a
family may be five feet in stature and the
other daughters only four feet, do not let
the daughters five feet high shut the door in
the faces of those who are only four feet
/ high. Among the dying utterances of our
good friend, the wise statesman and great
author, the brilliant orator and the magni1,
cent soul, S. S. Cox, was the expressed de
/ termination to move next winter in congress
for the transference of other territories into
states.
THE CoUNTRY's POSSIBILITIES.
"But,n SAYS some one, I'm calculating the
! immensely of our continental acreage you
! must remember that vast reaches of our pub
/ lie domain are uncultivated, heaps of dry
sand. the bad lands of Montana and the
1 great American desert" l am glad you
mentioned that. Within twenty-five years
there will not be between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts a hundred miles of land not re-
I claimed either by farmers plow or miners
crowbar By irrigation the waters Of the
rivers and the showers Of heaven in what
are called the rainy season viii be gathered
into great reservoirs and through aqueducts
let down where and when the people want
them. Utah is an object lesson. Some parts
of that territory which were so barren that
spear of grass could not have been raised
there in a hundred years are now rich as
Lancaster county farms Of Pennsylvania, or
Westchester farms of New York, or Somer-
set county farms Of New Jersey. Expert
ments have proved that ten acres OF ground
irrigated from waters gathered in great
Neurological basins will produce as much
as CITY acres from the downpour of
rain, as seen in our regions. We have
our freshets and our droughts, but in
gated will be neither freshets nor droughts.
As you take a pitcher and get it full Of water
and then set it on a table and take a drink
out of it when you are thirsty and never
think of drinking a pitcherful all at once, 50
Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will catch
the rains of their rainy season and take up
all the waters of their rivers In great pitch
ers of reservoirs and drink out of them
whenever they will and refresh their land
whenever they will. The work has already
been grandly begun by the United States
government. Over four hundred lakes have
already been officially taken possession OF by
the nation for the great enterprise Of irriga-
ton Rivers that have been rolling IDLY
through these regions, doing nothing on
their way to the sea, win b6 lassoed and cor
rallied and penned up until such times
as the farmers need them. Under the same
processes the Ohio the Mississippi and
all the other rivers will be taught
to behave themselves better, ami great
basins will be made to catch the surplus
of water in times Of freshet and keep them
for times of drought. The irrigating process
by which all the arid lands between the At
lantic and the Pacific oceans are to be fertil
lied is no new experiment. 1t has been going
on successfully hundreds Of years, in Spain,
AAAAaaAHAf
About eight hundred million Of people Of the
earth today ere kept alive by food raised Oh
irrigated land And here we have allowed t.
lie waste, given up torattlesnake and bat end
prairie dog, lands enough to support whole
nations of industrious population. The work
begun will be eonsummated. Here and there
exceptional lands may be stubborn and refus'
to Weld any wheat or corn from their hare
fists, but if the whole fail to make impression
the miners pickax will discover the reason
for it and bring up from beneath those un
productive surfaces coal and iron and LEAD
and copper and silver and gold. God speed
the biologists and the surveyors, The engt
neers and the senatorial commissions and til,
CAPITALISTS and the new settlers anl the hts
bandmen who put their brain and hand anC
heart to this TRANSPORTATION Of the American
continent
NOT A HOMOGENEOUS INTENSITY.