The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-11-28

nentl Sailing up Puget Sound, its shores
so bold that for fifteen hundred miles q
ships PROV would touch the shore Def g
its keel touched the bottom, I said:
"This is the Mediterranean of America. "
Visiting Portland and Tacoma and Seat
tie and Victoria and Fort Townsend and
VaIcouVer's and other cities of that
Northwest region l thought to myself:
These are the Bostons, New Yorks,
Charlestons aud Savannahs of the Pacific
coast. But after all this summers jour-
neying and my other journeys Westward
in other summers, l found that l had
seen only a part of the American con-
tinent, for Alaska is as far west of San
Francisco as the co st of Maine is east OF
1t, so that the central city of the Ameri-
can continent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent and given you q
few specimens of some of its wonders tc
let you know the eomprehensiveness 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 Be.
sides that, the salvation of this continent
means the salvation OF Asia, for we are
only thirty-six miles from Asia at the
northwest. Only Behring Straits sepa-
rate us from Asia, and these will be
spanned by great bridge before another
century closes, and probably long before
that. The thirty-siX miles of water be-
tween these two continents are not all
deep sea, but has 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 America -Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make Amer
lea, ASIA Europe and Africa one con-
tlnent. So, you see, America evangel.
lied, 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.
A m erica and Asia and Europe one, wha,
subtraction from the pangs of seasick-
ness. And the prophecies In Revelation
will be fulfilled: 'There shall be no more
sea-" But do l mean literally that this
American Continent is going to be all
gospelized? 1 do. Christopher Columbus,
when he went ashore from the Santa
Maria, and his second brother, Alonzo,
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 coun-
try than Ihave 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 aud the glory of
them, you might suppose that Satan was
a great capitalist or that he was loaded
up with real estate, when the old mis-
creant never owned an acre or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that rea-
son protest against something | heard
ard saw this summer and other summers
lfg 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 Kitch-
en," 1.-THE DEVILS Thumb" 'sThe DeviI's
Pulpit" ''The DEVILS Mush Pot" 1.-THE
DEVILS Teakettle," 1.-THE DEVILS Saw
Mill, :" ''The DeviPs Machine Shop" 1.-THE
DEVILS Gate" and so on. Now it is very
much needed that geological surveyor
or congressional committee or group of
tourists go through Mon
tana and Wyoming and 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 Plutonic nomen clature.
But how is this continent to be Cos
pelized? The pulpit and a Christian
printing press harnessed together will be
,he mightiest team for the first pillow.
Not by the power of cold, journalistic
theology, not by ecclesiastical technical
ties. l am sick of them, and the world
S sick of them. But it will be done by
he warm-hearted, sympathetic pre-
'entation of the fact that Christ is ready
% pardon all our sins and heal all our
Wounds and save us both for this world
md the next. Let your religion of
glaciers crack off and fall into the Gulf
stream and get melted. Take all your
reeds of all denominations and drop out
If them all human phraseology and put
n 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, l suppose for
he purpose of getting the insects. And
!, when we want to fish for mon, we could
'nly have the right kind of bait thew
will spring out above the food of their
sins and sorrows to reach it. The Young
Mems Christian Association of America
will also do part of the work. All over
he continent / saw this summer their
lew buildings rising. In Vancouver'5 l
asked: "What are you going to put on
hat slightly placer" The answer was:
"A Young Mems Christian Association (
building" At Lincoln, Neb., l said: /
What are they making those excavations
or" Answer: ''For our Young Mems |
Christian Association building" At Des !
doines, Ia, saw noble structure ris
ng, and l asked for what purpose it was
)eing built and they told me for the !
Young Mems Christian Association.
These institu tions are going to take the |
-oung men of this Nation for God These |
Institutions seem in better favor with |
Tod and man than ever before. Business
men and capitalists are awakening to |
he fact that they can do nothing better |
n the way of living beneficence or in last
will and testament than to do what Mr. |
farquard did for Brooklyn when he /
made our Young Mems Christian palace |
'ossible. These institutions will get our /
Dung men all over the land into a SIAM /
EIDE for Heaven. Thus we will all in |
ONE way help on the work, Won with |
our ten talents I with 1--WE roroabo5--