Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-03

OF quick and dead. AND those rAlnDoWS
look now like the crowns to be cast 1t his
feet At the bottom OF this canyon is "A
floor on which the nations OF the earth
might stand up and down these galleries OF
rock the nations OF heaven might sit. And
what roverberation OF archangcls' trumpet
there would be through all these gorgos and
from all these scaverns and over all these
heights " ny should not the greatest or
Gil the days the world shall ever see close
amid the grandest scenery Omnipotence
ever builtl
oh, the sweep Of tho American CONT
nenti Sailing up 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" Visit
ing Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and
Victoria ana Fort Townsend and Van
couTers and other cities OF that northwest
region | thought TO myself: These arc the
Bostons, New Horks and Savannahs or the
Pacific coast But after all OF their sum
mers lourneying and my other journeys
westward in other summers, | found Lhat l
had seen only "a part OF the American con-
tlnent, for Alaska is as Tar west or Gan
Francisco as the coast OF Maine is east OF
it, so that the central city OF the American
continent is San Francisco.
i have said these things about the ma=nt-
tude Of the continent and civcn you few
specimens OF some OF It's wonders and let
you know the ComprehonsivcneSs OF the text
Wnen IL says tnaJ CHRIST IL going 10 nave
dominion from sea 10 sea; that is, from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific. Beside that, the
salvation OF this continent means the saliva
ton OF Asia, for we aro only thirty six
miles from Asia at tho northwest Only
Behring straits separate Us from Asia and
these will be spanHed 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
all deep sea, but have three islands and
for bridges, and for the most OF the way
the water Is only about twenty fGthoms
deep.
The America Asiatic bridge which will
yet sran 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
othor side. Our grcatgrandchildrcn will
cross that bridge. America and Asia and
Europe all one, what subtraction from the
panRs OF seaSickpeSS! and tho pr9pheses in
Revelation will be fulfilled. There shall be
no more sea But do l moan literally that
this American continent Is going to be all
gospclIzed! | do. Christopher Columbus,
when he went ashore from the Santa Maria
and his second brother Alonzn, when he
went ashore from the finta ana 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 tho
Holy Ghost
Satan has no more right TO this country
than have 10 your pocket book TO hear
him talk on the roof OF the Temple, where
he proposed tn give Christ the Kingdoms Of
this world aud the glory OF them, YOU might
suppose that Satan was great capitalist or
that he was loaded mp with real estate,
when the old miscreant never owned an
inch OF ground on this planet. For that
reason | protest against something l heard
and saw this summer and Other summers
in Montana and Oregon and Wyoming and
Idaho and Colorado and California They
have given devilistic names TO many places
in the west and northwest.
AS soon "a you get in Yellowstone park
or California you have pointed out To YOU
places cursed with such names a. The
tine Devils Thumb" Tho DEVILS Pull
pit" The Devils Mush Pot, >" 1.-The Devil $
Tea Kettle" "The DEVILS Saw Mill 4"
1.-The Devils Machine Shop" ''Th5 DEVILS
Gate and so on. Now it is very much
needed that geological surveyor or congress
slonal committee or group Of distinguished
tourists 90 through Montana and " yom ng
and California and Co orudo and give other
names TO these places. All these regions
belong TO the Lord and to Christian ma
ton, and away with such Piutonic nomen-
clature.
But how is this continent to be gospel
lied! TIE pulpit and Christian printiny
press hsrnesscd together will DO the
mightiest team for the first plov. Not by
the power Of cold, journalistic theology not
by ecclesiastical tochnicalities. | am sick
OF them and the world is sick of them. But
II Will be done by the warm hearted SYM
pathetic presentation OF the fact that Christ
Is ready to pardon all our sins and heal all
our wounds ana 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
crccds 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 few days ago vo
saw the salmon jump clear out of the water
IL different places, suppose for the purpose
OF getting the insects. And if when we
want 10 fsh Tor men we could only have
the right kind OF bait they will spring out
above the flood of their Gins and SORROWS
to reach it. The Young Mems Christian
associations of America will also do
part OF the work. All over the cent?
new buildings rising. In Vancouver
asked: ~ hat are YOU going to put on that
slightly placer The answer was: "A
Young \ ems Christian association build
ing" AT Lincoln, Neo., said: "N hat arc
they making those excavations forp
Answer: For our Young Mems Christian
association building" At Des Moines Ia ,
] saw noble structure rising and / asked
Tor what purpose IT we being built, and
they told me for the Young Mons Christ
ian association.
These institutions are going to take tho
young men OF this nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with God
and man thav ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awakng 10 the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way of
living benefcence or in last will and tosta-
ment than TO do what Mr.. Marquand did
for Brooklyn when he mad9 our Young
Mems Christian palace possible These
institutions Will get our young men
all over the land into stampede for
heaven. Thus we will all in some way help
on the work, you with your ton talents,
with Eve, somebody else with three. 1t is
estimated that to irrigate the arid and
desert lands of America "a they ought IN
be irrigated, Il will cost about one hundred
million dollars TO gather tho waters into
reservoirs. AS much contribution and
effort as that would irrigate with Cos
pei influences all the waste places OF
this continent Let us by prayer and
contribution and right living all help
to ill the reservoirs You will carry
bucket and you a cup, and even a
thimbleful would help And after while
God will send the floods OF mercy so gather
ed, pouring down over all the land, and
some OF US on eurth and some OF us in
heaven will sing with Isaiah: "In the
wilderness waters have broken out and
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