The Penn's Grove record., 1889-10-05
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The BroO kIyn E.ivine's sum
day Sermon.


TEXT: He shall have dopunioa FROM
sea TO sea. "-Psalms Xxi, 8.
What two seas are referred to, Some
Christ was to reign over all the land
between the Arabian Sea and CaspiAn
Sea, or between the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea, or between the
Black Sea and the North Sea- No: in snch,
case my text would q v named them. 1t
meant from any large body Of water on the
earth clear across to any other Large body OF,
He shall have dominion from the Atlantic
Sea to the Pacific Sea. My theme is,
America for Cod
First, consider the immensely of this pos
session. II IL were only q small trsct Of land
capable Of nothing better than paee brush
and with ability only to SUPPORT prairie
dogs. l should not nave much e1thnsissm in
wanting Christ to have It added to his do
rpinion. But its immensity and afiuence no
one can imagine unless, In immigrant wagon
.yr stage coach or in rail train Of tho Union
Pacific or the Northern Pacific or the Can
adian Pacific or the Southern Pacific, he has
,raversed it. Having been privileged six
como appreciation of its magnitude.
California, which / supposed In boy
hood from its size on the map, was a few
Yards across. q ridge Of land on which one
must walk cautiously lest he hit his head
against the Sierra Nevada on one side or slip
off into the Pacific waters on the other, Cali
to be Ia boyhood, l have found it tobe larger
thsn all the States Of New England and all
New York State and all Pennsylvania added
together; and If you add them together their
square miles fall far short Of California.
North and South Dakota, Montana and
u---l.--k-- T---sA-- A. H. r~.--l-l -
winter into statehood, will be giants at their
birth. Let the Congress Of the United States
strain q point and soon admit also Idaho and
Wyoming and New Mexico. What Is the
use keeping them out in the cold any longer?
Let US have the whole continent divided into
States with Senatorial md Congressional
Representatives and we will al be happy
together. II some of them ave 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
Utah and will probably triumph at this
fall election in Salt Lake City.
Turn all the Territories into States and il
some of the sisters are smaller than the elder
sisters, give them time and they will soon be
as large as any of them. Because some of
the daughters Of . family may DO Eve feet
in 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 u~tterances Of
author, the brilliant orator and magnificent
soul, 8. 8. Coz, was the expressed determin-
ton to move next winter in Congress for the
tranfsrence Of other Territories into States.
sBnt," says some one, lin calculating the
immensely Of our continental acreage you
must remember that vast reaches of our pub
lie domain are uncultivated, heaps OF dry
o~-l ~-l tkA n.aI 1auHsy ~ hk- .-1 A.
great American desert" am glad you men,
TONED that. Within twenty-five years there
Pacific coasts . hundred miles of land not
reclaimed either by farmers pillow or miners
crowbar. B~yirrigation, tina waters of the
siyers and the shower Of heaven in what are
great reservoir and throueS.sauue.
let down whsre and when tho psop,s
want them. Utah u an object iessop.. Some
partpof that territory which were 80 barren
that .. spear Of nass could not have been
raised thsre In q hundred ysass are now rich
as Lancaster Codnty farms Of Fennsyivania
soms mssss cousss, f aa1%. of E! New wy yers sSfs "
Experiments have proved that ten acres of
ground irrigated from waters gathered in
great Neurological ba&ins VIII produce as
much Is atty acres from the downpour Of
rain as seem IN our regions. We have our
and our droug6tA, but in those lands
which are to be scientifically irrigated there
. pitcher and Get it full OF water and
set it q table and take q drink out Of
Il when you are thirsty and never think
Of drinking = pftcherful all at once, so
Montana and Wyoming and Idaho win 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
thnv -iu md w&fpaSh fhAfr land uyhan-
ever they viii.
The work has already been grandly begun
by tia Enitsdr ssAtn G~oyefnmspt. Over
hundred hke4 have already been of1-
cially itsken fpossesdcn 6tsby the ma
ton for the greet : enterprise %~or irrt
Rivers that have been
rolling i~dlysthEough thsse regions doing
seed and osrsalleiand pen9ed up until such
as the farn{ers need them. Under the
processes tAeOhio, tie mississippi and
the other river will be taHgAt TO behave
themselves better, and great basinsswil be
made to cAtch the hlrpffsof WINTERS b times
of freshets, andI peep them for times Of
drought. The irtigatfng process by which all
the arid landss bstween the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans Are 10 be fertilfxed Is no new
tE hAe b1Sn. going ON success
fully hundreds oe years, / n.Spein, in China,
in fndih, in us4is{ in Egyp& rto,sr ~.
!, Ab0ue- efEhe h9ndrod miltanS OF people OF
the earth today are kept alive BY food raised
On irrigated land. And here We have ar
to lie waste, given up to rattlesnake
hat and prairie dog, lands enough to sup
port whole nations OF industrious popula-
lion. rhs work begun, win be consum-
Haes and there exceptional
lands may BE- Stubborn and refuse to
yield any wheat or corn from their hard
istz, bnt II the hos fail 70 make IN impress
ion, the miners pickAx viii discover the rea-
for It and bring M from beneath those
Inproductfvs suFfaces coal and iron and lead
md copper and diver and rold, God spesd
The geofoxists and the surveyors. the engi-
neers and the ssaAtoriarcommissions and the
capitalists and the new settlers, and the hus-
Dandmen who put their brain and hand and
to this TRANSPORTATION OF the American
continent! ~ .E.
But while I speak Of the immensity of the
continent, I must remark it 4 not an i'm
Of monotone q tameness. The
some countries are, the worse for the
world. This continsnt Is not more remarka
Die for its magnitude than for its wonders of
What q pity the United States
Government did not take possession of Yose-
mite, California, as 1t has of YELLOWSTONE,
wyoming, and OF Niagara Falls. New York
Yosemite and the adjoining California re
yionsl Who that has seen them can think