Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-04

DEVILS Pulpit" ".rhe Devils MIA 4
Pot" @The Devils Tea Kettle. The
DEVILS Saw Mill, The Devils Machine
Shop "The Devils Gate and so on
Now it is very much needed that geolo-
| glcal surveyor or congressional commute
tee or group of DISTINGUISHED tourists
! go through Montana and Wyoming and
California and Colorado and give other
names to these places. All these re-
| gions belong 20 the Lord and to Chris
tian nation, and away with such Plu-
tonne nOmenc iature.
| But how is this continent to DO gos-
pelized? The pulpit and a Christian
printing press hurncssed together will
| be the miohtiest team for the first pillow.
Not by the power of cold. journalistic
theology, nor by ecclesiastical techni-
cnlities. [ am sick of them and the
world is sick of them. But it will be
done by the warm hearted, sympathetic
presentation oil the fact that Christ is
ready to pardon all our sins and heal all
our wounds and save us both Tor 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 CT all denominations and
drop out of them all human phraseology
and put in scriptural phraseology
and you will 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, | 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 flood of
their sins and sorrows to reach it. The
Young Mems Christian Associations of
=, 4 IL
All over the continent l saw this sum-
mer their new buildings rising. In
Vancouver's asked: wv hat are you
going to put on that slightly place."
The answer was: "A Young Mems
Christian Association building" At
Lincoln, Nebraska, said: What are
they making those excavations for?"
Answer For our Young Mems Chris
tian Association building" At Des
Moines, Iowa, 1 saw noble structure
rising and asked for what purpose it
was being built, and they told nue. 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 awak-
ing to the fact that they can do nothing
better i'll the way of living benefcence
or in last will and Testament than to do
what Mr.. Marquand did for Brooklyn
when he made our Young Mems Chris
tian palace possible. These institutions
will get our young men all over the land
into 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 esti-
mated that to irrigate the arid and desert
lands of America as they ought to be il
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 gos-
pei influences all the waste places of
this continent. Let US by prayer and
contribution and right living all help to
fill the reservoirs. You will carry a
bucket and you cup, and even q
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! Amer
lea for God!