Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-09-28
NUMBER 10

the niOSI or tile way Inc wafer 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. Soyoulsee America evangcl
lied. Asia will be evangelical. Europe
taking Asia from one side and America
taking it from the other side. Our
great grandchildren will cross Chat
bridge. America and Asia and Europe
all one, what subtraction from the
pangs of seasickncssl and the prophe-
cies iii Revelation will be fulfilled.
There Shall be no more sea. But do
mean literally that thisAmcrican contl-
nenti is going to be all gospelizeda do.
Christopher Columbus, when lie went
ashore from the Santa Maria. and his
second brother Alomzo. when he went
ashore from the liiita, and his third
brother Vincent. when lie went ashore
from the Nina, took possession OF this
country in the name Of tile Father and
the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right TO this
country than shave to- your pocket
book. To5hcar him talk;%ollsithe roofs
OF the Temple, where; lie proposed TO {
give Christistli eszllzsii gacalsa ef this;
world and the glory Of tllefn, you
might suppose tlint Satan was a great
capitalist or that lie 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
reason protest arainst something
heard and saw this summer and other
summers in Montana and Oregon and
Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado
and California They lave given
devilistic names 10 many places III the
west and northwest.
AS soon us you get i'll Yellowstone
park or California you have pointed
out to you places cursed with such
names Us ''Ihe Devils Slide, !" The
Devils Kitchen. THE Devils
thumb, Tile DEVILS Pulpit, THE
Devils Mush Pot, The Devils Tea
Kettle, The DEVILS Saw Mill" The
Devils Machine Shop .The Devils
Gate" and So OH. Now it isvery much
needed that geological surveyor or
congressional committee or group of
distinguished tourists go through hlon-
tana and Wyoming and California
and Colorado and give other names TO
these places. All these regions be-
long to the Lord and to-a Christian
nation, and away with such Flutonic
nomenclature.
HOW TO DO THE GOOD WORK.
But how is this continent TO be Cos
pelized2 The pulpit and Christian
printing press harnessed together will
be the mightiest team for the first
pillow. Not by the power OF cold, for
malistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities. am sick of them and
the world is sick of them. But it will
be done by the warm hearted, sympa-
thctic presentation Of tile fact that
Christ is ready 10 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 off and
fall into the Gulf Stream and get
melted. Take all your creeds OF all
denominations and drop out Of them
all human phrascology and put in
only scriptural pllraseology 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, | sup
pose for the purpose Of getting the in
scots. And if when we want to fish
for men we could only have the right
kind Of bait they will spring out above
81 g nd n
reach it. The Young Mems Christian
associations of America will also do
part Of the work: all over the CONT
Lent saw this summer their new
buildings rising LII Vancouver's
asked: ''What are you going to put
ON that slightly placer" The answer
was: "a Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION building" AT Lincoln, Neb.,
| said: What are they making those
excavations for2" Answer: "Efor our
Young Mems Christian association
building At Dcs Mnincs, Ia, | saw
q noble structure rising 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 mon Of this nation for God
These institutions seem III better favor
with God and man than ever before.
Business rncn and capitalists arc awak-
ing to the fact that they can do notllilg
better in the way Of living bencliccnce
Or in las, will and testament than to
10 what Dir. hlar1uand did for Brook
Ign when he n,odlc our Young Mems
Christian palace possible. These in
stitutions will get our young men all
orer the land into stampede for
heaven. THUS zee will all in some way
help on the work, you with your ten
talents, with five. somebody else
with three 1t is estimated that to IT,
rigalc the arid and desert lands OF
America as they ought TO be irrigated,
it will cost about one hundred million
dollars to gather the waters into reser.
voirs. 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
a bucket and you cup, and even a
thimbleful would help. And after a
while God will send the floods of
mercy SO gathered. pouring down
over all the land, and some of lis OH
earth and some of us in heaven will
sing with Isaiah: I'm the wilderness
waters have broken out and streams in
the desert, and with David: There
is river the streams whereof shall
make glad the sight of God" Oh. ill
up the reservoirs America for Cod
Coffee Test.
The chief analyst Of the Dominion
department of inland revenue pub
fishes the following directions to his