The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-03
| bling on floors ofdarknsss. The brown bright

bling on floors of ofdarkness. The brown bright
ening into golden.
Snow ofcrystal melting into fire ofcarbuncle.
Flaming red cooling into russell. Cold blue
into solierino. Morning twilight flushing
midnight shadows. Auroras crouching
among rocks.
Yonder is an eagles nest on q shaft of ba-
sault. Through an eyeglass we see among ID
the young eagles, but the stoutest arm Of
to disturb the feathered domssticity. YondeH
with horror but for the warm
robe Of forest foliage with which they are en-
wrapped. Affairs of worship at which nations
might knsel. Domes OF chalcedony on tenn
color up and down the cliffs; it must have
been the battle field ofthe war of elements.
Here are all the colors Of the wall of heaven,
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 so
overpowering. 1t would only be from glory
to glory. Ascent through such earthly
scenery in which the cristal is so bright and
the red 80 flaming would be fit preparation
tor the sea of glass mingled with fire."
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of the
Yellowstone park on the morning of Aug. 8,
for the most part we held our peace, but af-
ter q while it flashed upon me with such pow
er could not help but say to my comrades:
"What hall this would be for the last judg-
mentl' See that mighty cascade with the
rainbows at the foot of it. Those waters
congealed and transfxed with the agitations
OF that day, what place they would make
for the shining feet of judge of quick and
dead. And these rainbcM We iooSnow like the
-GrrG wfiS to be cast at his feet. At the bottom
of thus great canyon is floor 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. And that reverber-
alton of archangel's trumpet there would be
through all these gorgeS and from all these
caverns and over all these heights. Why
should not the greatest of all the days the
world shall ever see close amid the grandest
scenery omnipotence ever built?
Oh, the sweep of the American continentl
Sailing up Puget sound, its shores so bold
that for ], 500 miles a ships prov would
touch the shore before its keel touched the
bottom, / said: "This in the Mediterranean
of America" Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Fort Townsend
and Vancouver and other cities ofthat north
west region l thought to myself: "These are
the Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons, and
Savannans of the Pacific coast" But after
all this summers journeying and my other
journeys westward in other summers, found
that l had seen only 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 Amedco-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 It
from the other side. Our great grandchil
dren will cross that bridge America and
Asia and Europe all one, what subtraction
from the pangs ofseasicknessl and the proph-
ecies of Revelation will be fulfilled: "There
shall be no more sea-" But do mean liter
ally that this American continent is going to
be all gospellzed? do. Christopher Colum-
bus, when he went ashore from the Santa
M"rin. md his second brother, Alonzo, when
he vent ashore from the Pinta, and his third
brother, Vincent, when he went ashore from
the Nina, took possession of this country in
the name of the father and the son and the
holy ghost.
California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as The
DEVILS Slide, "The DEVILS Kitchen" "The
DEVILS Thumb" "The DEVILS Pulpit" 'The
DEVILS Mush.P Pot, The DEVILS Tea-kettle,'"
The Devils saT.Mill" a1; The DEVILS
MaCQ1U0 BUOp, uH OeVH OAIG, anu
SO on. Now it is very much needed that
geological surveyor or congressional COM
mittee or group of distinguished tourists go
through Montana and Wyoming and Cali.
fornia and Colorado and give other names to
these places. All these regions belong to the
Lord and to 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 mightiest team
for the first pillow. Not by the power ofcold for
malistic theology not by ecclesiastical technic
alties. lam sick ofthem and theworld is sick OF
them. But twill be done by the warm hearted
sympathetic presentation of the tact that
Christ is ready to pardon oil our sins and
heal all our wounds and save us both for this
world and the next. Let your religion of
glaciers crack off and fall into the gulfstream
and get melted. Take all your creeds of oil
denominations and drop out of them oil hui
man phraseology and put in only srriptural
phraseology and you will see how quick the
people will jump after them.
On the Columbia river q few days ago we
saw the salmon jump clear out OF the water
in different places, l suppose for the purpose
of getting the insects. And if when we want
to fish for men we could have the right kind
of bait they will spring above the food Of
their sins and sorrows to reach it. The
Young Mems Christians associations of Am
erica will also do part of the work. All over
the continent saw this summer their new
building rising. In Vancouvers l asked:
placer? The answer was: "A Young Mems
Christian association building" AtLincoln,
Neb., I said: "What are they making these
excavations for?" Answer: "For our Young
Mems Christian association building" At
Dos Moines, Iowa, saw a noble structure
rising and asked for what purpose it was
being built and they told me 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 ore 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 for Brooklyn
when he made our Young Mems 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, I with five, somebody else with
three. 1t is estimat ed that to irrigats the
arid and desert lands of America as
they ought to be irrigated, it will cost
about $1O0,O00,0O0 dollars to gather the
waters into reservoirs. As much contribu-
tion and effort as that would iTrigate with
gospel influence all the waste places OF this
continent. Let US by prayer and contribu-
tion and right living all help to all the reser-
voirs. You will carry bucket and you q
cup, and even thimblefull would help. And
after while God will send the foods 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 q river the streams whereof shall
make glad the sight OF God" Oh, fll up the
ressrvoirsl American for Godl
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