The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-04

only BE- from glory TO glory. Ascent
| through such earthly scenery In which
the crystal 10 20 bright and the red 30
flaming would be 6t preparation for the
''sea Of glass mingled with fire."
Standing there In the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone park on. the morning Of
August 8, for the most part We held our
peace, but after awhile Il flashed upon me
with such power could not help but cay
to my comrades: "What hall this
| would b for the last judgmsntW Bee
that mighty cascade with the rsinbows 81
the foot Of It Those waters CONCEALED
and transAxsd with the agitations Or that
day. what . placs they would make Tor
the shining feet of Q judge Of quick snd
dead. And those rainbows look now like
the crowns TO 30. SAst Ct BIB fest. At the
bottom of this great canyon Il 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 archangel's
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 of the world
shall ever see close amid the grandest
scenery Omnipotence ever builtf
0, the sweep OF the Amer lean con tinenti
Sailing up Puget sound, its shores 30 bold
that for 1,600 miles q ships PROV would
touch the shore before its keel touched the
bottom, said: "This Is the Med terran.
can of America" Visiting Portland, and
Tacoma, and Seattle, and Victoria, and
Fort Townsend, and Vancouvers and other
cities of that Northwest region thought
to myself: These are the iBostons, New
Yorks, Charlestons and Savann abs of the
Pacific coast. But after all this summers
jourreying and my other ,urneys west.
ward in other summers found that had
| seen only a part Of the American cont.
| nent for Alaska 10 as far west of San
Francisco as the coast of Maine Is east Of
it so that the central city of the Ameri.
can continent 10 San Francisco. ,da
have said these things about the mag
| nitude Of the continent and given you q
few specimens of some Of its wonders to
let you know the comprehensiveness Of
the text when 1t says that Christ is going
to have dominion from sea to sea; that IL,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Beside
that, the salvation Of this continent means
the salvation Of Asia, for we are only
thirty miles from Asia at the North.
west Only Behring straits separate us
from Asia and these will be SPAWNED by Q
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 Il
only about twenty fathoms deen "A.
The America. Asatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So you see America evangelical, 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 prophe.
cies In Revelation will be fulfilled, There
shall be no more sea-" But do ! mean
literally that this American continent IL
going to be all gospelized? l do. Chris.
topher 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 he Nina, took
possession Of this country in the name Of
the Father and the Son and the holy
Ghost. seas es- TR
Satan has no more right to this country
than have to your pocketbook. To hear
him talk on the root 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 miscreant never
owned an acre nor an inch of ground on
this planet For this reason I protest
against something I heard and saw this
summer 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 .re rrygi
As soon as you get in Fellows tone park
or California you have pointed out to
you places cursed with such names as
''The DEVILS Slide" "The DEVILS
Kitchen" 1.-THE DEVILS Thumb" "The
DEVILS Pulpit" "The DEVILS Mush Pot"
"The DEVILS Tea Kettle" ''The Devils
Saw Mill, THE DEVILS Machine Shop"
THE DEVILS Gate" and so on. Now it 10
very much needed that geological sur.
veyors or Congressional committees or
groups of distinguished tourists who 60
through Montana, and Wyoming, and
California and Colorado give other names
to these places. All these regions belong
to the Lord and to q Christien Nation,
and away with such Plutonic nomen.
clature.
But how 10 this continent to be gospel.
isedi The pulpit and Q Christian printing
press harnessed together will be the
mightiest team for the first pillow. Not by
the power of cold, journalistic theology,
not by ecclesiastical technicalities. I 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 ali our sins and
heal all our wounds and save Us, both for
this world and the next.
On the Columbia river q few days ago
we saw the salmon jump clear out Of the
water in different places, suppose for
the purpose Of getting the insecta
And il when we want to fish for men
we could only have the right kind Of bait
they will spring out above the Hood Of
their sins and sorrows to reach ii.
The Young Mems Christian Associa.
tons Of America will also do part Of the
work. All over the continent I saw this
summer their new buildings rising. In
Vancouver I asked: "what are you go
ing to put on that slightly place" The
answer was: "A Young Mems Christian
Association building" At Lincoln, Neh.
said: "What are they making those ex-
cavations for:" Answer: 'For our
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing" At Des Moines. Iowa, saw Q noble
structure rising and asked for what pur-
pose it was being built and they told me
for the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. ftfEfs at g..
- These institutions are going to take the
young men OF this Nation for God. These