The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-10-10

sofbrighrsnd the red 80 'ffttar1fng would be
At preparation for the "sea Of glass mingled
@itRfNresss
.aStgndH there in the Grand canyon OF
thefsY NDWatone Park on the morning OF
HuRh AZ, CIR the most part we held our
peace, bat Mter while it flashed upon me
wiM suM m,ver I could not help but say to
mycpmratleS "What hall this would be
fofssfie iastg Judgment" See that mighty
cascade with tho rainbows at tho
foot OF it. Those waters concealed
and transfxed with the agitations of that
day, what place they would make for
the shining feet Of 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 a floor
on which the nations of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these galleries
of rock the nations Of heaven might sit.
And what reverberation of archangels'
trumpet there would be through all these
gorges and from all ithcse caverns and tSar
all these heights. Why should not the
greatest of all the days the world shall ever
see close amid the grandest scenery Omnlp'
oteuce ever builtf
o, the sweep Of the American continent!
Sailing up Puget Sound its shores so bold
that for fifteen hundred miles ships Prov
would touch tho shore before its keel
touched the bottom, said: This is the
Mediterranean of America" Visiting
Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Vic
toria and Fort Townsend and Vancouver's
and other cities of that Northwest region,
thought to myself: These are the BoStons,
New Yorks, Charlestons, and Savannahs OF
thtSPacifc Coast. But after all this sum-
ner,S journeying and my other journeys
Westward in other summers, l found that
had seen only part of the American contl-
nent, for Alaska is as far west Of San Fran.
cisco as the coast of Maine is cast OF 1t, so
that the central city Of the American CONT
nent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the maSni-
tude of the continent and given you a lew
specimens Of some of its wonders to let you
know the comprehensiveness Of the text
when it says that Christ is going to have
dominion from sea 10 sea; that is, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Beside that, the
salvation of this continent means the saliva
tion of Asia, for we are only thirty-si1
miles from Asia at the Northwest Only
Behring Straits separates US from Asia, and
these will be spanned by great bridge be.
J fore another century closes, and probably
Z long before that The thirty-slX miles OF
water between these two continents arc not
at 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 -Asiatic bridge which will
vet SPAN those straits will make America,
Asia; ppe,anlt Africa one continent. So
You see America caevangelizcd Asia will be
evangelical Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking it from the other
side. Our great.grandchildren will cross
that bridge America and Asia and Europe
all one, what subtraction from the pangs Of
seasickness and the prophecies in Revela-
tion will be fulfilled, There shall be no
more sea-" But do l mean literally that
this American continent is going to be ar.
gospelizedl =, !. do. Christopher Columbus,
When he lweht7ashore from the Santa Maria
and his. second. brother Alfonso, when he
went ashore from the Pinta, and his third
brother INinqeut, when he went ashore from
the Nina, took possession OF this country III
Sthe name ofathe Father, and the Son and
the Holy Ghost
{! t!TsSssstan has no. more right to this country
than haYe. to your pocketbook. To hear
Ihiirn talk On the roof Of the temple, where he
,proposed. o,siYe Christ the kingdoms of this
world, and the glory of them, you might sup
pass pnNt; 5asp was ngrcaU cur1uaiisJ Or
that he was loaded up with real estate,
waepi the: old (miscreant never owned an
acre or an inch of ground on this planet.
,FGttaaB heasSh protest against something
heard and saw this summer and other
surbih6rs'in Montana and Oregon and Wyo.
ming and Idaho and Colorado and Californi
they have given devilistic names to many
placesia1heW West and Northwest.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Park
Oh Cali fbrh he Iou have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as "The
bs4i{'s 'shde;''s "The DEVILS Kitrhen,'
pisIS a'Thl BSsiv{7's Mush Pot" the DEVILS
Tea .Kettlsn HThe DEVILS Saw Mill" "The
beEffs Machine shop" "The DEVILS
Gate,n and so on. Now it is very much
needed that the geological surveyor or Con
gressional committee or group Of distin-
guished tourists go through Montana and
Wyoming and California and Colorado and
give other names to these places. All these
regions belong to the Lord and to Chris
vian nation, and away with such Plutonic
nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be gospelizedi
The pulpit and the Christian printing press
harnessed together will be the mightiest
team for the first plow. Not by the power
of cold journalistic theology, not by ecclesi-
astical technicalities. am sick Of them and
the world is sick of them. But it will be
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 de-
nominations and drop out of them all human
phraseology and putin only scriptural phra-
seology and you will see how quick the peo-
pie will Jump after them.
l. ON the Colun BiasRive few days ago we
Aha Fldp clear out Of the water
in different places, suppose for the pur-
pose y getting the insects. And II when
we want to fish for men we could only have
the right kind Of bait, they will spring
Mt above the flood of their sins and sorroWs
TO reach It. The Young Men, Christian
Associations of America will also do part OF
the work. All over the continent saw this
summer their new buildings arising. In
Vancouver's asked: "What are you going
to put on that slightly place" The answer
was: "a Young Mems Christian Assocla
ton building" At Lincoln, Neb., said
"What are they making those excavations
for!n Answer: For our Young Mems
Christian Association building" AT Des
Moines, Ia, saw a noble structure rls.hg
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