The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-03

that nightly cascade with the rainbows at the foot of it. Those waters congealed aud transfixed with the agitations ot th at day, what a place they would make for
 the shining feet of Judge of quick and
 dead. And those rainbows look now like
 the crown 10 be east at His feet Al the
 bottom of the great canyon is a floor on
 which the nations of the earth might
 stand and all up and down these galler-
 ies of rock the nations of Heaven might
 sit. And what reverberation of archan-
 gels trumpet there would bs through all
 these gorges and from all these oayerns and over all these heights. Why should not the greatest of all the days the world shall ever see close amid the grandest scenery Omnipotence ever builtf
 Oh, the sweep of the American conti- nentl Sailing up Puget Sound. its shores so bold that for fifteen hundred miles ships prov would touch the shore before it's keel touched the bottom, I saids
 "This is the Mediterranean of America" Visiting Portland aud Tacoma and Seat tie and Victoria and Fort Townsend and
 Vaucouver's and other cities of that Northwest region l thought to myselfi These are the Bostons, New Works, Charlestons and Savannahs of the Pacific coast But after all this summers jour- neying and my other journeys Westward in other summers, I found that l had seen only part of the American con- unent, for Alaska is as far west of San Francisco as the cost of Maine is east of it, 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 few specimens of some of it's wonders Co V. Ns 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 st the northwest. Only Behring Straits seps- 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 fothoms deep.
 The America -Asiatie bridge which will yet span those straits will make Amer ica, Asia, Europe and Africa one con- tinent. So, you see, America evangel- ized, Asia will be evangelized. Europe taking Asia from one side and America taking it from the other side. Our great grandchildren will cross that bridge. | A In erica and Asia and Europe one, what subtraction from the bangs of seasick- ness. And the prophecies In Revelation will be fulfilled: 'There shall be no more sea-" But do 1 mean literally that this American Continent is going to be all | gospelized? I do. Chris topher Columbus, l when he went ashore from the Santa Maria, and his second brother, Alonzo when he went ashore from the Nina, l 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 coun- 1 try than Ihave to your pocket book. To hear him talk on the roof of the Temple, where he proposed to give Christ tho kingdoms of this world and the glory of them, you might suppose that Satan was 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 I heard and saw this summer and other summers | in 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 10 you places cursed with such names as | '.The Devils Slide" "The Devils Kitoh. en-" "The Devils Thumb" i" "The Devils 1 Pulpit" "The Devils Mush Pot" "The | Devils Teakettle," ''The Devils Saw Mill, .The Devils Machine Shop" "The Devils Gate" and so on. Now 1t is very much needed that geological surveyor | or congressional committee or group of distinguished 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 nomenclature.
 But how is this continent to be gos- pelized, The pulpit and Christian printing press harnessed together will be tue mightiest team for the first blow. Not by the power of cold, formalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical technical ities. I am sick of them, and the world is sick of them. But it will be done by the warm hearted, sympathetic pre-, sentation 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 ereeds 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 tho water in different places, suppose for | .t-- lao. svsa A,.1 | if, 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 it. The Young Mems Christian Association 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., l said! "What are they making those excavations | forsn Answer: ''For our Young Mems l Christian Association building" At Des Moiues, Ia, I saw a noble structure ris
 ing, and asked for what purpose it 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 institutions seem in better favor with | God and man than ever before. Business men and capitalists are awakening to the fact that they can do nothing better in the way of living benefcence or in last will and testament than Co do what Mir. Marquard did for Brooklyn when he made our Young Men's Christian palace | possible. These institutions will get cur young men all over the land into stam- pede for Heaven. Thus we will all in some way help on the work, you with your ten talents, l with five, somebody else with three. It is estimated that Co l i1rinntn Ina arid and desert lands of