Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-10-10

, ment!" See that mighty cascade with
the rainbows at the foot of it. Those
waters CONCEALED and transfxed with
: the agitations of that day, what O place
! they would make for the shining feet OF
. a Judge of quick and dead. And those
rainbows look now like the crowns to be
cast at His feet. At the bottom of this
great canyon is floor on which the ma
tons of the earth might stand and all
up and down these galleries of rock the
nations of Heaven might sit. And what
reverberation of archangeIs' trumpet
there would be through all these gorges
and from all these caverns 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 built?
Oh, the sweep of the American conti-
nent! Sailingup Puget Sound, its shores
SO bold that for fifteen hundred miles a
ships prov would touch the shore be-
fore its keel touched the bottom, said:
This is the Mediterranean of America.
Visiting Tacoma and Seattle and Victo-
ria and Fort Townsend and Vancouvers
and other cities of the northwest re-
gion thought to myself: These are
the Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons
and Savannahs of the Pacific coast. But
dittI All tulS ouiumeIo JOuIutN Jug anu
my other journeys westward in other
summers, found that had seen only
O part of the American continent, for
Alaska is as far west of San Francisco
as the coast of Maine is east of it, SO
that the central city of the American
continent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the
magnitude of the continent and given
you a few specimens of some of its Won
ders and let you know the comprehen-
siveness of the text when it 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,
ana these will be spanned by a great
bridge before 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 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 siatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe, and Africa one continent.
| Soyou see America evangelical, Asia
will be evangelical. Europe taking
Asia from one side and America taking
it from the other side. Our great grand
| children will cross that bridge. America
and Asia and Europe all one, what sub
traction from the pangs of seasickness!
and the prophecies in Revelation will
be fulfilled. There shall be no more sea.
But do 1 mean literally that this Ameri-
can continent is going to be all Cos
| pelized? do. Christopher 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.
| Satan has no more right to this coun-
try than I have to your pocket book. To
hear him talk on the roof of the Temple,
where he proposed to give Christ the
| kingdoms of this world and the glory of
them, you might suppose that Satan was
a 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 1 heard
and saw this SINNER 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 as you get in Yellowstone
Park or California you have pointed out
to you places cursed with such names as
The DEVILS Slide" The Devils
Kitchen" THE Devils Thumb" "The
Devils Pulpit" The DEVILS Mush
Pot" The DEVILS Tea Kettle" ~The
Devils Saw Mill, The DEVILS Machine
| Shop" 1.-The DEVILS Gate" and SO on.
Now it is very much needed that geolo-
gical surveyor or congressional commit
tee or group of distinguished tourists
go through Montana and Wyoming and
California and Colorado and give other
names to these places. All these re-
gions belong to the Lord and to Geris-
tian nation, and away with such Plu-
tonic nomenclature.
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, fornalistic
theology, nor by ecclesiastical techni-
calities. I am sick of them and the
WITH ID Bun VI tucms OuL Will D6
done by the warm hearted, sympathetic
presentation 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 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 scriptural pbraseology
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, 1 suppose for
the purpose of getting the insects. And
if when We want to fish for men we
could only have the right kind of bait
they will spring out above the food of
their sins and SORROWS to reach it. The
Young Mems Christian Associations of
America will also do part of the work.
All over the continent I saw this sum
mer 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, Nebraska, said: What are
they making those excavations for?"
Answer: For our Young Mems Chris
tian Association building" At Des
Moines, Iowa, saw a noble structure
rising and l 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 awak-
ing to the fact that they can do nothing
better in the way of living benefcence
or in last will and testament than to do
what Mr.. Marquand did for Brooklyn
when he made our Young Mems Chris
tian 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 ten talents, with five,
somebody else with three. 1t is esti-
mated that to irrigate the arid and desert
lands of America as they ought to be IT.
rigated. it will cost about one hundred