The national leader., 1889-09-28
". DR.. TALMAGE,
BROOKLYN DlvrNE,s s,rN-
DAY SERMON.
co; From Ocean to Ocean: or.
iranseontinental journey.

sea. Psalms xxi. s A0"''''0" from
two seas are referred ~, sou.
say that the text mesn+ @ oHme that
was to reign over ali tha IanS Tn
N the Arabian Sea and 'Is Cosr;nu 1dau y
pr between the Red Sea % .nd dSpda tha
Sea and 49, oea, or between the
~ Ves teqt ahu ro117, ene North Sea. No; in such
}ron go would have named them. It
Iron from any large body of water on the
A. AoSS 10 any other large body of
an Hnu 50 | have right to read it,:
= n +ha nave dominion from the Atlantic
y o. tne t raclhc Sea. My theme is,
c9esluer The lmmenSity of this DOS.
y. II IL were only a small tract of land
~ ol noIning better than sage brush
TrIn aDihty only to support prairie
s10uia not have much enthusiasm in
~ Gnrist TO have it added to his do
~. buI It's lmmensity and affiuence no
all imagine unless, in immigrant wagon
ge coacn or in rail train of the Union
lc or the Northern Pacific or the Can
racine or the Southern Pacific he has
Prsed 1t. Having been privileged six
70 cross this continent, and twice
summer, have come to
appreciation of its magnitude.
ornla, which supposed in boy
from Its size on the map. was a few
across, ridge Of land on which one
walk cautiously lest he hit his head
pst the Sierra Nevada on one side or slip
lto the Pacific waters on the other, Cali
"a, the thin slice of land as supposed it
In boyhood, have found it to be larger
al the states of New England and all
York State and all Pennsylvania added
ther; and if you add them together their
ire miles fall far short of California.
th and South Dakota. Montana and
shlngton Territory, to be launched next
ter into statehood, will be giants at their
Fh. Let the Congress of the United States
in point and soon admit also Idaho and
Joining and New Mexico. What is the
keeping them out in the cold any longer?
us have the whole continent divided into
tes with Senatorial and Congressional
.presentatives and we will all be happy
ether. If some of them have not quite the
uisite number of people, fix up the Con-
button to suit these cases. Even Utah will
dropping polygamy soon be ready to
Ter. Monogamy has triumphed in parts of
|ah and will probably triumph at this
d election in Salt Lake City.
Irn all the Territories into States and if
|ne of the sisters are smaller than the elder
tiers. give them time and they will soon be
large as any of them. Because some of
E daughters of family may be five feet
stature and the others only four feet, do
L let the daughters five feet high shut the
or in the faces of those who are only four
ct high. Among the dying utterances of
,r good friend the wise statesman and great
thor. the brilliant orator and magnificent
nj. s. s Cox, was the expressed determin-
IN to move next winter in Congress for the
adherence of other Territories into States.
WRut u saws some one, in calculating the
,mensitv of our continental acreage you
net remember that vastreaches of our pub
= domain are uncultivated, heaps of dry
nd and tbe bad lands of Montana and the
cot American deSert.n lam glad you men
onad that Within twenty five years there
m not he between the Atlantic and the
: ~ c;f;c &C. coasts hundred miles Of land not
,cIo;ned either by farmers plow or miners
.o-Ihar Bv irrigation, the waters of the
'.n'.- ~" o ard tbe showers of heaven in what are
.1ia5 IL +ha rainy season will be gathered
ltle" tn c,roat reservoirs and through aque-
.uU ~, 17ot dawn where and when the people
toue ~. .ho,n Utah is an object lesson. Some
AnO " ot that territory which were so barren
irtS Vi aar .., Of grass could not have been
icy ';sed = there in hundred years are now rich
, Tar fancaster County farms OF Pennsylvania
. Westchester farms Oh New YORK OF
,rnerset County farmsof New Jersey.
GFHU EIneriuents ~ have proved that ten acres Of
.o,1pJ On ID irrigated rom waters gathered in
rounI root IbvdrSogcal basins will produce as
reaG aS as ffr scres from the downpour of
lucil a. saan in our regions. We have our
am a. s erjour droughts, but in those lands
'eshe's az n be scientifically irrigated there
,n1Gn 81, IL naither freshets nor droughts As you
'll De rGri nircbsr and get it full of water and
axe a pitIa II ma table and take drink out of
hen SCI Sc, = YOU are thirsty and never think
when .yg pitcherful all at once, so
t drlAnsd apd wyoming and Idaho will catch
lontana If Il their rainy Season and take up
he railsS lsotors of their rivers in great pitch
IL the NSSTis NSorroirs and drink out of them when
rs OF resFa riIl and refresh their land when
yer ver the7 t vii. H.. o1readv been orandlv beyuu
The TGsd TNIItsd States government. Over
" the Ogj 1uaj lakes have already been Off
our hulls .isn possession of by the ma
Tally IaA ne great enterprise of irri-
ion t0l Pivers that have been
ration. .,,r through these regions, doing
'olling ~! their way to the sea, will be las
nothing, ~ rallied and penned up until such
;oed ana Ss farmers need them. Under the
lime as US the Ohio, the Mississippi and
same prGS oSr rivers win be taught to behave
Ill the Cp bstter, and great basins will be
thenseN". ".tch the surplus of waters in times
made TO and keep them for times of
of fresF The irrigating process by which all
drought .nds between the Atlantic and
the ard ans ans are to be fertilized is no new
Pacific w It has been going on success
experinaj~. Ids of years in Spain, in China,
fully haD Russia, IN Egypt.
in Indla I;rht hundred millions of people of
AbCrt. asday are kept alive by food raised
the esr' u land. And here we have al
on irrss'iss waste, given up to rattlesnake
lowed tgi prairie dog, lands enough to sup
and bst " nations Of industrious popula-
mort Thg work begun will be consum-
ft;on lp Here and there exceptional
n.tsd = be stubborn and refuse to
ionds nrheat or corn from their hard
.-;aM 81. the hoe fail to make an impress
Ssts b. Ll;rers pickaxwil discover the rea-
Ion Lon. and bring up from beneath those
s, Pm tr al;%e surfaces coal and iron and lead
s'1rrop sUT and silver md gold. God speed
un5 S a app ists and the surveyors, the engi-
az az ~ l;.Se senatoriaI commissions, and the
CnO aors " md the new settlers, and the hus-
ne,i no put their brain and hand and
sndioe carioe e,;s transf guration of the American
'heaf< of *ba ;n,n,sns;+v Of tho