The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-26


tinont, for Alaska is as far west OF San
Francisco as the Coast Of Maine Is east OF IL
so that the central city Of the American Con-
tinent 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
II 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 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
spanned by great bridge before another
century closes, and probably long before
that. The thirty-siN miles of water between
these two continents are not 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 America 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 il from the other
side. Our great-Tandchildren will cross
that bridge America and Asia and
Europe all one, what satisfaction from
the pangs OF seasickncSs! and the prophe.
cies in Revelation will be fulfilled,
There shall be- no more sea-" But do 1
mean literally that this American continent
Is going TO be nll gospelizeds | 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.
Rattan has no NOR, ri,,h, g., .Lf. oo,,,,,.-
than | have 70 your pocketbook To hear
him talk on the roof of the Temple where he
proposed 10 give Christ the kingdoms Of this
world and the glory of them. you might sup
pose that Satan was great capitalist 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 I heard and saw
this summer and other summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California. They have given
dovilistic names to many places in the West
and Northwest
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Park OF
California, you have pointed out TO YOU
places cursed with such names as THE Devil,
Slide The DEVILS Kitchen" "The Devils
Thumb" ''rhe DEVILS Pulpit" "The Devili
Mush Pot, "The Devils Tea Kettle" 'Ths
Devils Saw Mill. "The Devils Machine
Shop" "The Devils Gate" and so on. Now.
IL is very much needed, that geological sur
veyor or congressional committee or group
OF distinguished tourists 20 through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and Col.
orado and give other names to these places
All these regions belong 10 the Lord and 10 a
Christian nation, and away with such Plu
tonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent 70 he gospelzei'
The pulpit and n Christian printing press har
messed together will be tho mightiest team
for tho HrQf tlntv Not ht.t tk, -
journalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities am SICK Of them and the
world is sick of them. But IL will br done by
the warm hearted sympathetic presentation
or the fact that Christ is ready To pardon all
our sins and heal all our wounds and save u,
both for this world and the next. Let youi
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
scriptural phraseoogy and YOU will SEQ how
quick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia River n few days ago W,
saw the salmon jump clear out of the water
In different places, | 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 t.
The Young Mems Christian Associations OF
America will also do part of the work AD
over Tue fpHllneul 1 saw lnlS SUMMER tneu
new buildings rising. In Nancouver's ]
asked: What are You going 10 put on that
slightly placeY The answer was: "A Young
Mems Christian Association building Al
Lincoln, Ncb., said "What at they making
those excavations forY" Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing At Des Moines, Iowa. | saw noble
structure rising and asked for what pur
pose IL was being built, and they told me for
the Young Mems Christian Association.
These institutions are going 10 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 10 the fact that
OF the Architect OF worlds Sculpturing by
the Infinite. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow You never saw yellow
unless you saw IL there. Red You never
saw red unless you saw IL there. Violet
You never saw violet unless you saw il there.
triumphant banners of color. In cathe.
dral Of basalt sunrise and sunset married
by the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basilicas build before human archi
lecture was born. Huge Notifications OF
granite constructed before war forged its
Iirst cannon. Gibraltars and Sebastopols
that never can be taken. Alhambras wher,
kings OF strength and queens OF beauty
reigned long before the first earthly crown
was empearled. Thrones on which no ons
but the King of heaven and earth ever sat
Fount Of waters at which the lesser hills ar,
baptized while the giant cliffs stand round al
sponsors. For thousands of years be
Tore that scene was unveiled 10 human
sight, the elements were busy, and the gey
sers were hewing away with their hot chise |
and glaciers We're pounding with their cold
hammers, and hurricanes were cleaving with |
their lightning strokes, and hailstones giving |
The finishing touches and after all these forces
)f nature had done their best In our century |
The curtain dropped and the world had new |
and divinely inspired revelation, the Old |
Testament written on papyrus the New I
Testament written on parchment, and now |
his last Testament written on the rocks.
Hanging over one of the cliffs looked of |
until could not get my breath, then retreat !
ng To less exposed place | looked down I
again. Down there is pillar of rock that |
n certain conditions Of the atmosphere looks /
Ike pillar of blood. Yonder are fifty feet |
II emerald on base OF five hundred feet OF |
pal. Wall of chalk resting ON pedostals of I
'eryl. Turrets of light tumbling on floors |
Il darkness The brown Frightening into |
,olden. Snow of crystal melting into fire OF |
arbuncle Flaming red cooling into russet
old blue warming into saffron. Dull gray |
,indling into solferino Morning twilight
erness waters have broken out and streams
n the desert, and with David: There Is
liver the streams whereof shall make glad ,
he sight of tod Oh fill M the rf,seryoirsi