The Red Cloud chief., 1889-09-27
FROM SEA TO SEA.
The Wonders OF Our Country De
picted By Dr.. Talmaga

4 Country EAshioned ny the Divine Hand
For Chfist's Domlni0n-The Groot
West-Its Natural Wouders-
America For God.
Rev. I. Do Witt Talmage, who made q
tour Of the West during the past summer,
recently preached . sermon 1t Brooklyn
apon the subjsct: 'From Ocean to Ocean,
or My TranscOntinental Journey" Text:
Psaims lxxii 8: He shall have dominion
from sea to sea" The preacher said:
What two seas are referred to? Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
was tore & 4 yer all the land between the
Arabian sea and the Caspian sea, or be-
tween the Red ssa and the Mediterranean
sea, or between the Black sea and the
North sea. No; in such case my text
would have named them. 1t meant from
any large body OF water ON the earth clear
across to any other large body Of water.
And 30 l have q right to read it: He shall
have dominion from the Atlantic sea to
the Pacific sea. Ny theme il, America for
Godl
First, consider the immensely Of this
possession. II it were only q small tract
Of LAM capable of nothing better Than
sage brush and with ability only to sup
port prairie dogs, l should not have much
enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have il
added to H sdominion. But its immensely
and & fiuence NO one can imagine unless,
n immigrant wagon or stage coach or in
rail train of the Union Pacific or the
Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pacific
or the Southern Pacific, he has traversei
it Having been privileged six times to
cross this continent and twice this sum.
mer, l have come to some appreciation of
its magnitude. California, hich I sup.
posed in boyhood from its size ON the map,
was . few yards across q ridge of land ON
which one must wax cautiously lest he
hit his head against the Sierra Nevada on
n side CT slip of into the Pacific waters
on the other. Ca. ~if0rnia, the thin slice of
land as I supposed it to be in boyhood. l
have found to he larger than ali the States
OF New England, and all New York State
and all Pennsylvania ad led together; and
il you add them together their square
miles will fall far short of Calift rnia.
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Washington Territories, to be launched
ext winter into. Statehood, will be giants
at their births Let the Congress Of the
United States strain a point and soOn ad.
init also Idaho and Wyoming and New
Mexico. What Is the use keeping them
out in the cold any longer: Let Us have
the whole continent divided into States
with Senatorial and Congressional rep
r~esentatives and we will be happy to.
gether. II some of them have not quite
the requisite number Of people fix mp the
Constitution TO suit these cases. Even
Utah will BY dropping polygamy soon b
ready 70 enter. Nonogamy has triumphed
in parts Of Utah and will probably triumph
at this fall election In Salt Lake City.
"But." says some one. Gin calculating
the immensely Of q continental acreage
you must remember that vast reaches Of
public domain are uncuitivated heaps
Of dry sand, and the bad lands Of Mon
tans and the great American desert" I
am glad you mentioned hat Within
years there will not be b.
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coast Q
hundred miles Of land o reclaimed
other BY farmers' pillow Or miners crow.
bar. BY irrigation, the waters Of the
rivers and the showers Of heaven in what
are called the rainy season will bs gath
cred into great reservoirs and through
a~queducts lot down where and when the
people want them. Utah ID IN object
lesson. Some parts Of that Territory
which were 20 barren that Q spear of
grass could not have been raised there
In . hundred years are 20 rich a. Lam
caster County farms of Pennsylvania OF
Wesichester farms Of New York or Som.
erset County farms Of New Jersey.
Experiments have proved that ten acres
Of ground irrigated from waters gathered
in great Neurological basius will produce
a. much ~ afty acrss from the dow npour
of rain As seen in u regions. W. have
our freshets and our drouybts. but in those
lands which are to be scientifically irri.
gated there will be neither freshets nor
droughts.
The work has already been grandly be-
gun BY the United States Government.
Over four hundred lakes have already
been offic; ally take p )sses sion of by the
for tho great enterprise OF irriga-
ton. Rivers that have been rolling idly
through thee regions doing nothing on
their way to the SEA, will be lassoed and
corrallei and pennel up until such time
40 the farmers need them.
About eight hundred million Of people
of the earth to-day are Kept alive on food
raised OF irrigated land. And here We have
allowed to lie waste given up to the rat
and bat and prairie dog. lands
enough to support whole nations Of indus
trious population. The work begun will
be consummated. Hero and there excep.
tional lands may be stubborn and refuse
to yield any wheato or corn from their hard
fists but il the hoe fails to make an inn
preston, the miners pickaxe will discover
the reason for IL and bring up from be-
meath those unproductive surfaces coal
and iron and lead and copper and silver
and gold. God speed the ~geologists and
lhes surveyors, the engineers and the Sena.
torial commissions and the capitalists and
the new settlers and the husbandmen
who put their brain and hand and heart
10 this TRANSPORTATION Of the American
But while I speak of the immensely Of
The continent I must remark it il not an
Of monotone or tamenesa The
larger some countries are. the worse for
the world. This continent 10 not more re.
markable for ito magnitude than for its
Of construction. What . pity
he United States did not AXE possession
Df Yosemite Cal, n it has Of Yellow.
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