The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-09

ht preparation for the .sea of glass mingled
with fire"
Standing there in the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone Park on the morning of
August 9, for the most part we held our
peace, but after while it flashed upon me
with such power could not help but say to
nv comrades: "What a hall this would be
for the last iudgmentI' See that mighty
cascade with the rainbows at the
foot Of it. Those waters CONCEALED
and transfxed with the agitations Of that
day, what a place they would make for
the shining feet Of a judge Of quick
and dead. And those rainbows look now
like the crowns to be cast at his feet At
the bottom Of this great canyon is floor
on which the nations Of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these galleries
of rock the nations of heaven might sit.
And what reverberation OF archangels
trumpet there would be through all these
gorges and from all these caverns and teSer
all these heights. Why should not the
greatest of all the days the world shall ever
see close amid the grandest scenery Omnip-
otence ever built2
o, the sweep Of the American continent!
Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores so bold
that for fifteen hundred miles ships PROV
would touch the shore before its keel
touched the bottom, said: This IS the
Mediterranean Of America" Visiting
Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Vic
toria and Fort Townsend and Vancouvcr's
and other cities Of that Northwest region. l
thought to myself: These are the Bostons,
New Yorks, Charlestons, and Savannahs OF
thaPacifc Coast But after all this sum-
mer's journeying and my other journeys
westward in other summers, found that
had seen only part Of the American CONT.
neut, for Alaska is as far west OF San Fran.
cisco as the coast of Maine is east OF it. so
that the central city of the American CONT
nent 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 comprehensiveness 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 saliva
ton Of Asia, for we are only thlrty-slx
miles from Asia at the Northwest. Only
Behring Straits separates US from Asia, and
these will be spsnned by great bridge be-
fore another century closes, and PROBABLY
long before that The thirty-six miles OF
water between these two continents are not
at 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 Americo-Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent. So
YOU see America evangelical, Asia will be
evangelical. Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking it from the other
side. Our great. grandchildren will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and Europe
all one, what subtraction from the pangs OF
seasickness! and the prophecies in Revela-
ton will be fulfilled, There shall be no
more sea-" But do l mean literally that
this American continent is going to be az.
gospelizeda I do. Christopher Columbus,
when he went ashore from the Santa Maria.
and his second brother Alfonso, when he
went ashore from the Pinta, and his third
brother Vinceut, 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. To hear
him tall, on tho roof OF tho teraple, whore he
proposed to give Christ the kingdoms of this
world, and the glory Of them, you might sup
pose unaL satan was great cap1JaiisJ 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 I protest against something
r AL
summers in Montana and Oregon and Wyo
ming 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 to you
places cursed with such names as "The
DEVILS Slide" "The DEVILS Kitchen
1.-The DEVILS Thumb; 1.-THE DEVILS Pull
pitt ''The DEVILS Mush Pot" 1.-THE Devils
Tea Kettle" THE Devils Saw Mill,'' "T'he
DEVILS Machine Shop" 1.-THE Devils
Gate" and so on. Now it is very much
needed that the geological surveyor or Con
gressional committee or group Of distin-
gulshea tourists go through Montana and
Wyoming and California and Colorado and
give other names to these places. Ali these
regions belong to the Lord and to a Chris
,ian nation, and away with such Plutonic
nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be gospelizeda
The pulpit and the Christian printing press
harnessed together will be the mightiest
team for the first plow. Not by the power
of cold, journalistic theology, not by ecclesi-
astical technicalities. l 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 de-
nominations and drop out of them all human
phraseology and putin only scriptural phra-
seology and you will see how quick the peo-
pie will jump after them.
On the Columbia River few days ago we
saw the salmon Jump clear out OF the water
In different places, suppose for the pur-
pose vt getting the insects. And If when
we want to fish for men we could only have
the right kind of bait, they will spring
ut above the flood Of their sins and sorroWs
TO reach 1t. The Young Men. Christian
Associations of America will also do part OF
the work All over the continent saw this
summer their new buildings arising. In
Vancouver's asked: sWhat are you going
r>.------ ist-f.--p pteee-'-cr TIC answer
was: "a Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion building" At Lincoln, Neb., said:
"What are they making those excavations
for?' Answer: For our Young Mems
Christian Association building" At Des
Moines, Ia, saw 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 are awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way OF
living benefcence or in last will and testa-
meut than to do what Mr.. Marquand
did for Brooklyn when he made our
Young Mems Christian Palace possi-
ble. These institutions will get our