Democratic messenger., 1889-09-28

bridges, and for the most Of the way the
water Is only about 20 fathoms deep.
The America static bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So you see America evangclized. Asia will
be evangelical. Europe taking Asia from
one side and America taking II from the
other side Our great grand children will
cross that bridge. America and Asia and
Europe all one, what subtraction from the
pangs of scasickness! Aud the prophe-
cies In Revelation will be fulfilled, There
shall he no more sea-" But do I mean
literally that this American Continent Is
going to he all gospelized. ] do. Chris
from the Santa !iaria, aud his second bro.
ihcr Alonzo, when he went ashore from
the Pinta, and his third brother Vinccnt,
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.
DEviLisTic NAMES.
Satan has no more right To this country
than l have to your pocket.book. To 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 suppose that Satan was capitalist
or that he was loaded up with real estate.
st. ..al ,,.fsn NAL
acre or an inch Of ground on this planet.
For that reason I protest against some.
thing I heard and saw this summer and
other summers in Montana and Oregon
aud Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado
and California. They have given devilis-
tic names to many places in the West and
Northwest.
As soon as you get into Yellowstone
Park or California you have pointed out
to you places cursed with such names as
THE Devils Slide" ""Thc Devils Kitchen"
The Devils Thumb" "The Devils Pul.
pit" "The Devils Mush Pot" The De-
wills Tea Kettle" "Thc DEVILS Saw Mill,"
THE DEVILS Machine Shop "'rhe DEVILS
Gate" and so on. Now, II Is very much
needed that geological surveyor or con.
! grcssional committee or group Of distin.
guishcd tourists go through Montana and
Wyoming aud California and Colorado
and give other names To these places. All
these regions belong to the Lord and TO
/ Christian nation. and away with such Flu-
tonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be gospel.
lied: The pulpit and Christian prin-
/ ting press harnesscd together will be the
mightiesl team for the first plow. Not by
the power of cold. formalistic theology,
not by ecclesiastical tcchnicalitics. I am
sick of them, and the world is sick ofthem.
But Il will he done by the warm. hearted,
sympathetic presentation Of the fact that
Christ is ready to pardon all our sins and
heal all our wounds, aud save US both for
this world and the next. Let your religion
Of glaciers crack of and fall into the Gulf
Stream and get melted. Take all your
creeds Of all denominations and drop out
of them all human phrascology and put
in only Scriptural phraseology and you
will see how quick the people 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
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 ont abov. the Hood 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 their new
buildings rising. In Vancouver's asked:
What are you going TO put ON that sight
| " place." The answer was ~ Young
Mems Christian Association building"
AT Lincoln. Ncb., l said: What are they
making those excavations for!" Answer ::
For our Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton building. Al Dcs Moincs, Ia, saw
noble structure rising and asked for
what purpose il was being built, aud they
told me for the Young Mems Christian
Association.
WINNING yorNG MES FOR GUD.
These institutions are going TO take the
young men Of this nation for God. These
institutions seem IN better favor with
God aud man than ever before. Business
men and capitalists are awaking 10 the
fact that they can do nothing better in the
way Of living bencficencc or in last will
and testament than TO do what Mr.. Mar
quand did for Brooklyn when he made
our Young Mems Christian palace posi-.
ble. These institutions will get our young
men all over the land into n stampede for
Heaven. Thus we will all In some way
help on the wOrk-you with your ten tai
enis, l with five, somebody else with three
II is estimated that TO iiriga,e the arid and
desert lands Of America as they ought Ia
he irrigated il will cost about 800. O.0O0.OOO
Ia gather the waters into reservoirs. As
much contribution aud effort rs that would
irrigate with Gospel influences all the
waste places Of this continent. Let Us by
prayer and contribution and right living
all help to fill the reservoirs. You will
carry u bucket and you cup, and even
thimbleml would help. And aner
while God will send the floods Oi mercy
so gathered, pouring down over all the
land, and some OF us on earth and some
OF US in Heaven will sing with Isaiah
In the wilderness waters have broken
out and streams in the desert" and with
David: There is river the streams
whereof shall make glad the sigh, ofGod."
oh ill mp the reservoirs America for
God.
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