Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-04

at the northwest. Only Behring Straits
separate us from Asia, and these viii be
spanned by n 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.
The America siatic bridge which viii
yet span those straits win make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
you see America evangelical, Asia will 10
evangelical. Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking il from the other
side. Our great-gandchildren will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and
Europe all one, what satisfaction from
She pangs of seasclness! and the prophe-
cies in Revelation viii be fulfilled,
"There shall be no more sea-. But do
mean literally that this American continent
Is going TO be all go5pelized? | do. Christie
pher Columbus wien 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 10 this country
than | have to your pockethook. To hesr
him talk on the roof of the Temple where ne
proposed to give Christ the kingdoms oc this
world and the glory of Them you might sup.
pose that Satan was great capitalist or tina
he was loaded up with real estate, when tina
old miscreant never owned an acre or in inch
of ground on this planet For that reason /
protest against something heard and saw
this summer and other summers in Montana
and Or con and Wyoming aud 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 to you
places cursed with such names as 'The Devils
Slide" 1.-THE Devils Kitchen "The Devils
Thumb" "The DEVILS Pulpit 'rhe DeviPi
Mush Pot :" 1.-The Devils Tea Kettle" ''fhe
DEVILS Saw Mill y "The DEVILS Machine
Shop" "The DEVILS Gate" and so on. Now,
IL is very much needed, that geologic sur
veyor or congressional committee or group
of distinguished tourists go through Mon.
tana and Wyoming and California and Col.
orado and give other names to these places.
All these regions belong to the Lord and to a
Christian r-tion, and away with such Ply
tonic nome' latura
But how is this continent to be gospelizad9
The pulpit and Christian printing press har
messed together will be tha mightiest team
for the first pillow Not by the power of cold,
sDTuldllSllt JneOlORF, nbb ny tCtleSltSItfu
technicalities. / am sick of them and the
world is sick of them. But it will be dOneby
the warm hearted, sympathetic presentation
Of the fact that Christ is ready to pardon all
our sins and heal all our wounds and save III
both for this world and the next. Let you
religion of glaciers crack or 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
erpiOtr,ro1 mira ceoI11v and Won will how
quick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia River few days ago VIC
saw the salmon jump clear ont of the water
in different places, | suppose for the purpose
of getting the insects. And if when we want
to fish for man we could only have the right
kind of bait Vnsy will spring out above the
food Of their sins. and sorrows to reach it,
The Young Mems Christian Associations Of
America will also do part of the work. All
over the continent | saw this summer theiI
new buildings rising In Vancouvers ]
asked: "What are you going to put on that
slightly placer The answer was IA Young
Mems Christian Association building" Al
Lincoln, Neb.. I said; "What at they making
those excavations for?' Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build.
ing" At Des Moines, Iowa, saw noble
structure rising and asked for what pur
pose it was being built and they told me for
the Young Mems Christian Association.
These institutions are going to take the
young mon of this nation fer God These
institutions seem in better favor with Coo
and msa than ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact thai
they can do nothing better in the way Of
living benefcr- - 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
stitutions will get our young men all
over the land into q stampede for
heaven Thus we will oil 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 She 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 Ct
this continent Let us by prayer an
contribution and right living all help to fiji
the reservoirs. You will carry bucket art
you cup, and even thimbleful would help
And after while God will send the foods o.
mercy so gathered, pouring down all over tht
land, and some of us on earth and some of l.
IN heaven will sing with Isaiah: I'm the will
uerness waters nave broken out ana streams
in the desert, and with David: "There is a
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the sight of God" Oh, fill up the reservoirs
America for God!