Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-03
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. TALMAGE's
STERLING DISCoURSES.
Subject: "From Ocean TO Ocean; or, |
MyTranscontinentai Journey"

night saw that the text meant that
Christ was to reign over all the land
Between the Arabian Sea and Caspian
Sea OF between the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea. or between the
BIack Sea and the North Sea- No: in such
81 Sc my text would have named them. 1t
meant from any large body of water on the
sarth clear across to any other large body of
water. And so l have a right to read it:
BE shall have dominion from the Atlantic
Sea to the Pacific Sea. My theme is,
america for Godl
First, consider the immensely of this pos
SESSION II it were only small tract of land
capable of nothing beGter than sage brush
md with ability only to support prairie
dogs. | should not have much enthusiasm in
wanting Christ to have it added to his do
uinion. But its immensely and affiuence no
one can imagine unless in immigrant wagon
81 stage coach or in rail train of the Union
Pacific or the Northern Pacific or the Can
dian Pacific or the Southern Pacific, he has
Haversed it, Having been privileged six
flmes to cross this continent, and twice
this summer, | have come TO
sorne appreciation of its magnitude.
california, which l supposed in boy
hood from its size on the map, was Few
Yards across, a ridge of land on which one
unst walk cautiously lest he hit his head
against the Sierra Nevada on one side or slip
off into the Pacific waters on the other, Cab
fornia the thin slice of land as l supposed it
To be in boyhood | have found IL TO be larger
than all the States Of New England and all
New York State and all Pennsylvania added
tooether; and if you add them together their
sQl1are miles fall far short of California.
Nofth and South Dakota, Montana and
washington Territory, TO be launched next
uinter into statehood will be giants ct their
BIRTH Let the Congress Of the United States
strain point and soon admit also Idaho and
:. ~
use keeping them out in the cold any longerg
Let us have the whole continent divided into
States with Senatorial and Congressional
Representatives and we will all be happy
fogether. If some of them have not quite the
requisite number of people, fix up the Con-
stitution to suit these cases. Even Utah will
by dropping polygamy soon be ready to
enter. Monogamy has triumphed in parts of
Jfah and will probably triumph at this
fall election in Salt Lake City.
Turn all the Territories into States and if
some of the sisters are smaller than the elder
sisters give them time and they win soon be
as large as any of them. Because some of
The daughters of family may be five feet
10 stature and the Others only four feet do
not let the daughters five feet high shut the
door in the faces of those who are only four
feet high. Among the dying utterances of
our good friend, the wise statesman and great
1uthor, the brilliant orator and magnificent
soul, s. S. Cox, was the expressed determin-
non to move next winter in Congress for the
trRnference of other Territories into States
H "Butn SAYS some one, Sin calculating the
lmmensity of our continental acreage you
must remember that vast reaches of our pub
he domain are uncultivated. heaps of dry
and, and the bad lands of Montana and the
great American desert" am glad YOU men
Honed that. Within twenty-five years there
vii not be between the Atlantic and the
ID. 4
r8claimed either by farmers pillow or miners
crowbar By irrigation. the waters OF the
MYERS and the showers of heaven in what are
called the rainy season viii be gathered
INTO great reservoirs and through aque-
ducts let down where and when the people
want them. Utah is an object lesson. Some
parts of that territory which were SO barren
that spear of grass could not have been
raised there in hundred years are now rich
s Lancaster County farms of Pennsylvania
Cr Westehester farms of New York or
Somerset County farms Of New Jersey
Experiments have proved that ten acres of
ground irrigated from waters gathered in
great Neurological basins will produce as
much as fifty acres from the downDour of
rain as seen in our regions. We have our
freshets and our droughts. but in those lands
which are to be scientifically irrigated there
will beneither freshets nor droughts As YOU
take a pitcher and get it full of water and
then set it on a table and take a drink out of
ID when you are thirsty and never think
OF drinking pitcherful all at once, so
Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will catch
the rains Of their rainy season and take up
all the waters Of their rivers in great pitch
ers of reservoirs and drink out of them when
ever they will and refresh their land when
ever they will
The work has already been grandly begun
by the United States Government Over
N..1aa
cially taken possession of by the ma
ton for the great enterprise of irri-
CATION. Rivers that have been
rolling idly through these regions, doing
nothing on their way 10 the sea- will be las
seed and corralled and penned up until such
time as the farmers need them. Under the /,
same processes the Ohio. the Mississippi and Z
all the other rivers win be taught to behave /
themselves better, and great basins will be I
made to catch the surplus of waters in times I
of freshets and keep them for times OF 4
drought. The irrigating process by which all 4
the arid lands between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans are TO be fortified is no new
experiment. 1t has been going on success
fully hundreds of years, in Spain, in China,
in India, in Russia, IN Egypt.
About eight hundred millions of people OF I
the earth to-day are kept alive by food raised
ON irrigated land And here we have al
lowed to lie waste, given up to rattlesnake /
ana Dat and prairie dog, lands enough 70 sup I
port whole nations of industrious popula- 4
ton. The work begun viii be consum-
mated. Here and there exceptional {
lands may be stubborn and refuse TO 4
yield any wheat or corn from their hard
lists, but if the hoe fail TO make an impress
'lon, the miners picSax wiz discover the rea-
son for it and bring up from beneath those
lnproductive surfaces coal and iron and lead
ND copper and silver and gold. God speed
He biologists and the surveyors, the engi-
GERS and the senatorial commissions and the
= pftalists and the new settlers and the hus-
'andmen who put their brain and hand and
art to this TRANSPORTATION of the American
.sntinentl
But while | speak Of the immensely of the
'ontineut / must remark il is not an i'm
Hensity OF monotone OF tameness. The
zrger some countries are, the worse for the
world This continent is not more remarka-
Ne for its magnitude than for its wonders Of
construction. What pity the United States
government did not take possession of Yose-
Mic. California it has Of Yellowstone
Y yoming and of Niagara Falls New York
Yosemite and the adjoining California re-
ions, Who that has seen them can think
( them without having his blood tin
les Trees now standing there that ,
-ere old when Christ lived These monarchs
foliage reigned before Cesar or Alexan-