The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28

"Tha Devils Tea Kettle" ''The DEVILS
Saw Mill, THE DEVILS Machine Shop"
''The DEVILS Gate" and so on. Now it is
very much needed that geological sur
veyors or Congressional committees or
groups of distinguished tourists who go
through Montana, and Wyoming, and
California and Colorado 6 o other names
to these places. All these regions belong
to the Lord and to a Christian Nation,
and away with such Plutonic nomen-
clature.
But how is this continent to be gospel
izedf The pulpit and "a Christian printing
press harnessed together will be the
mightiest 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 it will 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 Scriplural phraseology and you
will see how quick the people will jump
after them.
On the Columbia river a few days g
we saw the salmon jump clear out of the
water in d fferent places, l suppose for
the purpose Of getting the insects.
And il when we want to fish for men
we could only have the right kind of bait
they will spring out above the flood OF
their sins and SORROWS TO reach 1t.
The Young Mem Christian Associa-
tions OF America will also do part of the
$500, NI- aar- III
summer their new buildings rising. In
Vancouver / asked: what are you go
ing to put on that slightly placer" The
answer was: "a Young Mems Christian
Association building" At Lincoln. Neh,
1 said: "What are they making those eX-
cavations fort" Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing" At Des Moines, Iowa, l saw a noble
structure rising and | asked for what pur-
pose it was being built and they told me
for the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion.
These institution are going to take the
young men of this Nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with Go |
and man han ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awake to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way Of
living beneficence or in last will and tesla
Lhthb bbuu ~ w haO III. "dliuuho liz
for Brooklyn when he made our Young
Mems Christian Palace possible. These
institutions will get our young men all
over the land into a stampede for
Heaven. Thus we will all in some
way help on the work, you with your ten
talents, l with five, somebody else with
three. 1t Is est that to irrigate the
arid and desert lands of America as they
ought to be irrigated it will cost about one
hundred million dollars to gath + the
waters into reservoirs. AS much contri-
button and effort as that would irrigate
with Gospel influences all the waste places
Of this con 'inent. Let US by prayer and
contribut ion and right living all help to
fill the reservoirs. You will carry a buck
ct, and you a cup, and even a thimbleful
would help. And after awhile God will send
the floods of mercy so gathered, pouring
down and over the land. and some of us
in Heaven will sing with Isaiah in the
wilderness waters nave broken out and
streams in the desert" and with David:
'There is a river the streams whereof
shall make glad the sight of Col" Oh,
fill up the reservoirs! America for God!