Milford chronicle., 1889-09-27


the amethyst, nor the jasper, nor the twelve
gates of twelve pearls wanting. If spirits
bound from earth TO heaven could pass up by
way Of this canyon, the dash Of heavenly
beauty would not be so overpowering. It
would only be from glory to glory. Ascent
through such earthly scenery in which
the crystal is so bright and the red so
flaming would be fit preparation for
the "sea of glass mingled with fire. Stand
ing there in the Grand canyon Of the Vel
lowstone park on the morning Of Aug 9, for
the most part we held our peace but after
a while it flashed upon me with such power
could not help but say to my comrade;
"What Hall this would be for the last
Judgment See that mighty cascade with
the rainbows at the foot Of it. Those waters
CONCEALED and transfxed with the agitations
Of that day, what place they would make
for the shining feet Of Judge Of quick and
dead. And those rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at his feet At the bot
tom of this great canyon is a floor on which
the nations of earth might stand and all up
and down these galleries Of rock the nations
of heaven might sit And what reverbera-
ton Of archangels' trumpet there would be
through oil these gOrges and from all those
caverns and over all these heights. Why
should not the greatest Of all the days the
world shall ever see close amid the grandest
scenery that OmnipOtence ever built
THE MEDITERRANEAN OF AMERICA.
Obi the sweep Of the American continent.
Sailing on Puget sound, its shores so bold that
for fifteen hundred miles a ships PROV would
touch the shore before its keel touched the
bottom, l said: "This is the Mediterranean Of
America" Visiting Portland, and Tacoma,
and Seattle, and Victoria, and Fort Town
send, and Vancouvers and other cities Of the
northwest region thought to myself; These
are the Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons and
Savannahs Of the Pacific coast. But after all
this summers journeying, and my other jour
neys westward in other summers, / found
that I had seen only part of the American
continent, for Alaska is as far west of San
Francisco as the coast Of Maine is east Of it,
so that the central. city Of the American con
tiuent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the magni-
tude of the continent and given you few
specimens Of some of its wonders and let you
know the comprehensiveness Of the text when
1t 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 tho salvation Of Asia, for we
are only thirty-six miles from Asia at the
northwest Only Behring straits separate us
from Asia, and these will be SPAWNED by
great bridge before another century closes,
and probably long before that. The thirty
six miles of water between these two CONT
nents are not all deep sea, but have three
islands, and there are also shoals which viii
allow piers for bridges, and for the most of
the way the water is only about twenty
fathoms deep. That Americo-Asiatic bridge
which viii yet span those straits viii
make America, Asia, Europe and Africa
one continent. So you see America
evangelical Asia will be evangelical. Eu-
rope taking Asia from one side and America
taking it from the other side Our great
grandchildren viii cross that bridge, Amer
lea and Asia and Europe all one what sub
traction from the pangs Of sea sickness, and
the prophecies in Revelation win be full
filled There shall be no more sea. But do
mean literally that this American continent
is going 70 be all gospelized} do. Christie
pher Columbus when 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 to this country than have to
your pocket book To hear him talk on
the roof of the Temple, where he pro
posed to give Christ the kingdoms OF
this world and the glory Of them, you
might suppose that Satan was a great capi-
talist 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 protest against something /
/ heard and saw this summer in Montana and
4 Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and Colo
I RADIO and California. They have given devil
istic names to many places in the west and
northwest. As soon as you get in Yellow
stone park or California you have places
pointed out to you cursed with such names as
1.-THE DEVILS Slide,n 'The Devils Kitchen"
1.-THE DEVILS Thumb" 1.-THE DEVILS Pulpit, 1"
"The DEVILS Mushpot," THE DEVILS Tea
KETTLE" 1.-THE DEVILS Sawmill," "The DEVILS
Machine Shop 1.-THE DEVILS Gate" and so
/ on. Now it is very much needed that geo
logical surveyor or congressional committee
1 or group Of distinguished tourists go through
Montana and Wyoming and California and
/ Colorado and give other names to these
/ places All these regions belong to the Lord
and to a Christian nation, and away with
such Plutonic nomenclature
HOW TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL.
But how is this continent to be gOspelzedi
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 presenta-
ton 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 of 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 scriptural phraseology and you will see
how quick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia river, a 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 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 l saw this summer their
new buildings rising. In Vancouver's
asked: "What are you going to put on that
slightly placer The answer was: "a Young
Mems Christian association building" AT
Lincoln, Neb., 1 said: What are they max
ing those excavations forp Answer: "FOr
our Young Mems Christian association build
ing" At Des Moines, Ia, saw a noble
structure rising and asked for what purpose
1t 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 in
situations 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 testament
than to do what Mr.. Marquand did for
Brooklyn when ne made our Young Mems
Christian palace possible These institutions
viii get orr yonng E-4a ~ eesr the land into
a stampede for heaven. Thus we viii all in
some way help on the work, you with your
ten talents, with five, somebody else with
three. It Is estimated that to irrigate the
arid and desert lands Of America as
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