The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-03


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 OF
California, you have pointed out TO you
places cursed with such names as "The Devils
Slide,p THE DEVILS Kitchen THE DEVILS
Thumb" 1.-THE DEVILS Pulpit, 1.-THE Devils
Mush Pot "The Devils Tea Kettle. The
Shop 1.-THE Devils Gate, and so on, Now,
II is very much needed, that geological sur
veyor or congressional committee or group
Of distinguished tourists go through Mon
tana and Wyoming and California and Col
orado and give other names to these places,
All these regions belong to the Lord and toa
Christian nation and away with such flu-
tonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be gospelizedS
The pulpit and Christian printing press har
messed together will be the mightiest team
for the first pillow, Not by the power of cold
journalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities. | am sick of them and the
world is sick of them. But IL will he done by
the warm hearted, sympathetic'presentstio
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 only
scriptural phraseology and you viii see how
quick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia River a few days agowe
saw the salmon jump clear out of the water
in different places, I suppose for the purpose
of getting the insects. And IL 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 II.
The Young Mems Christian Associations OF
America will also do part Of the work. All
over the continent saw this summer their
new buildings rising. In Vancouver's l
asked: what are you going to put on that
slightly placer The answer was "A Young
Mems Christian Association building At
Lincoln, Neb., I said; "What at they making
those excavations forg" Answer: "For our
Young Mems Christian Association build.
ing" At Des Moines, Iowa, I saw noble
pose 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 awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way OF
| living beneficence or in last will and tesla
ment than to do what Mr.. Marquand did for
| Brooklyn when he made our Young Mems
Christian palace possible. These In.
situations will get our young men all
over the land into a stampede 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. 1t is es-
timated that to irrigate the arid and desert
ands of America as they ought to be ir-
sigated. it will cost about one hundred
million dollars to gather the waters
INTO reservoirs. As much contribution
Ind effort as that would irrigate with
Gospel influences all the waste places Of
his continent. Let us by prayer and
contribution and right living all help TO I'll
HE reservoirs You will carry bucket and
rou q cup, and even a thimblefui would help.
And after while God will send the foods oil
mercy SO gathered, pouring down all over th
and, and some of us on earth and some of e
n heaven will sing with Isaiah: In the will
uerness waters have broken out and streams
In the desert, and with David: There is A
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the sight of God" Oh, fill up the reservoirs
America for God.