Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-03

the naulonS OF heaven might SIT. And what
reverbration of archangels' trumpets 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 grand
est scenery Omnipotence ever built9
Oh the sweep of the American continenti
Sailing up PUGET Sound, its shores so bold
that for fiftsen hundred miles ships prov
would touch the shore before its keel touched
the bottom, | said ''This is the Mediterra-
mean of America Visiting Portland and
Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and Fort
Townsend and Vancouvers and other cities
of that northwest region / thought
TO myself These are the Bos-
tons, New Yorks Charlestons and Savannahs
of the Pacific coast But after all this sum-
mer's journeying and my other journeys
westward in other summers, found that l
had seen only part of the American Con-
tinent for Alaska is as far west OF San
Francisco as the Coast of Maine is east of it.
so that the central city of the American Con-
tinent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the magni-
tude of the continent and given you few
specimens of some of its wonders to let you
know the comprehensivenes OF the text when
it says that Christ is going TO have dominion
from sea to sea; that is from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Beside that, the salvation OF
this continent means the salvation of Asia,
for we are only thirty-six miles from Asia
at the northwest Only Behring Straits
separate us from Asia, and these will be
spanned by a great bridge before another
century closes, and probably long before
that. The thirty-six miles of water between
these two continents are not all deep sea,
but have three islands and there are also
shoals which will allow piers for bridges and
for the most of the way the water is only
about twenty fathoms deep.
ba Aut. htfa Ira rrhf will
vet span those straits viii make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So you see America evangelical, Asia will bs
evangelical Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking IL from the other
side. Our great-grandchildren will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and
Europe all one. what satisfaction from
the pangs of seasc1nessl and the prophe-
cies in Revelation will be fulfilled,
There shall be no more sea- But do
mean literally that this American continent
is going TO be all gospelizedy | do Christo-
pher Columbus when he went ashore from
the Santa Maria, and his second brother
Alonzo when he went 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.
Satan has no more right to this country
than | have TO your pocketbook. 10 hear
him talk on the roof of the Temple where he
proposed TO give Christ the Kingdoms of this
world and the glory of them, you might sup
pose that Satan was 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
protest against something heard and saw
this summer and other summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California. They have given
devilistic names to many places in the West
and Northwest.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Park or
California, you have pointed out 70 you
places cursed with such names as THE DEVILS
Slide THE Devils Kitchen, THE Devils
Thumb 1.-THE DEVILS Pulpit" "The Devils
Mush Pot ''The Devils Tea Kettle" ''rhe
DEVILS Saw Mill - 1.-THE Devils Machine
Shop" "'rhe Devils Gate" aud so on. Now,
it is very much needed, that geological sur
veyor or congressional committee or group
of distinguished tourists 90 through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and Col
orado and give other names to these places
All these regions belong 20 the Lord and 90
Christian nation, and away with such Plu-
tonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent 70 be gospelizeds
The pulpit and "A Christian printing press har
messed together will be the nnghticst team
for the first pillow. Not by the power of cold,
journalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities am sick of them and the
world is sick OF them. But twill be done by
the warm hearted, sympathetic presentation
Of the fact that Christ is ready TO pardon all
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
Gulf Stream and get melted. Take all 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 viii jump after them
On the Columbia River a few days ago we
saw the salmon jump clear out of the water
in different places, I 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
food of their sins and sorrows TO reach it.
The Young Mems Christian Associations of
America viii also do part Of the work. All
over the continent / saw this summer their
new buildings rising. In Vancouver's !
asked What are you going TO put ON that
slightly placer The answer was: "a Young
Mems Christian Association building AT
Lincoln, Neb., said; What at they making
those excavations forg' Answer: For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing At Des Moines Iowa, / saw a noble
structure rising and asked for what pur-
pose il was being built, and they told me for
the Young Mems Christian Association
These institutions are going 10 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 awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way of
living beneficence or in last will and tesla
ment than to do what Mr.. Marquand did for
Brooklyn when he made our Young Mems
Christian palace possible These in
will get our young men all |
over the land into a stampede for
heaven. Thus we win all in some way help |
on the work. you with your ten talents, | |
with FIVE, somebody else with three. 1t is es-
timated that TO irrigate the arid and desert
lands of America as they ought to be ir-
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
Gospel influences all the waste places Of
this continent Let us by PRAYER and /
and right living all help to FL |
he reservoirs You win carry bucket an d |
you a cup, and even thimbleful would help |
And after a while God will send the floods a /
mercy SO gathered, pouring down all over tia
and and some of us on earth and some of u
in heaven viii sing with Isaiah: ''In the vii |
derness waters have broken out and stream /
in the desert, and with David: There is a |
river the streams whereof shall make glad /
the SIGHT Of Cod oh I'll M, tba ,.acar.voiref