The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-10-10
AMERICA FOR GOD.
Or. Talmago DisoHrs esq ION The
Immensity of Chr oshHy.# {.
A Graphic RescriptlonIp IpEsth he, ,sN ondesfui.
Scenery of the GreaN Mes sS9hgI Ia =
Boundless ResoSress Hoy n g,
the Continents4ssseo fasfsS zs!
Gospelized.

"OSpehLeNs
In his recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tab
ernaclc, Rev. T. Dewitt Tslmage chose for
his subject, From Ocean to Ocean, or My
Trarscontincntal Journey" Text: Psalms
lXXii s: He shall have dominion from sea
to sea-" The eloquent divine spoke as fol-
lows:
What two seas are referred toa Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
was to reign o. or 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 such cases my text would havenamed
them. 1t meant from any large body Of
water on the earth clear across to any other
large body of water. And so have right
to read it: He shall avodominion from the
Atlantic Sea TO the Pacific Sea. Ny theme
is. America for God
First, consider the immcnsity of this pos
session. If it were only small tract OF
land capable of nothing better than sage
brush and with ability only to support
prairie dogs, should not have much en-
thusiasm in wanting Christ to have it added
to His dominion But It's immenst Nandtssfz.
grant wagon or stage coach or i'll r&l trxab6
of the Union Pacific or the Northern Pacific
or the Canadian Pacific or the Southern Pa
cifc, he has traverscd it. Having been
privileged six times TO cross this continent,
and twice this summer, have come to sonic
appreciation of its magnitude. California,
which supposed. in boyhood from its size
on the map, was few yards across, ridge
of land on which one must walk cautiously
lest he hit his head against the Sierra Neva-
da Oh the one side or slip off into the Pa
citic waters on the other; California, the
thin slice of land as supposed it to be in
nv boyhood, / have found to be larger
than all the States of New England and all
, New York State and all Pennsylvania
added together; and if you add them to-
gether their square miles fail far short OF
California North and Souih paketas Mons
tana, and Washington Territory, to be
launched next winter into statehood, will
be giants at their birth. Let the Congress
Of the United States strain point and soon
admit also Idaho and Wyoming and New
Mexico. What is the use keeping them out
in the cold any longera Let. US have the
whole continent divided into !States with
Senatorial and Congressional Nreprese nta:"
IlNcS anu VIZ Will all DS udppy NSF S'hSh' -
some of them have not quite the requisite
number Of people, fix up the Constitution to
suit these cases. Even Utah will by dropping
polygamy soon be ready to enter. Monoga-
nv has triumphed in parts of Utah and will
probably triumph at this fall election Ill
Salt Lake City. Turn all the Territories
into States and if some Of the sisters are
smaller than the elder sisters, give them
time and they will soonihe as large as anY.S
of them. Because some Of the daughters
of family may be five 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 utteranccs OF our
good friend, the wise statesmaH FeRd4 great
author the brilliant orator and magnificent
soul, S. s. Cox, was the expressed deter
mination to move next winter in Congress
Tor the transference of othefc EcaTtorfes
into States. .l!r.z,
But saws some one, "in calculating the
immensity Of our continental acreage YOU,
must remember that vast reaches Of our
public domain are uncultivated heaYE OF
dry sand and the bad lands OF Montana
Saathe great American desert" am glad
YOU mentioned that. Within twenty-five
wears tnSiS "tlt ttCC UC Uel"cSu lLS 2attal-
tic and Pacific coasts hundred miles of
land not reclaimed either by farmers plow
or miners crowbar. BY irrigation, the
waters of the rivers and the showers OF
heaven in what are called the rainy season
will be gathered into great reservoirs and
through aqueducts let down where ana
when tlse people want them. Utah is an OBJ
iect lesson. Some parts Of that Territory
which were so barren that spear OF grass
could not have been raised there in hun.
dred years are now rich as Lancaster County
farms of Pennsylvania, or Westchester
farms of New York, or Somerset County
farms OF New Jersey.
Experiments have proved that ten acres OF
ground irrigated from waters gathered in
great Neurological basins will produce as
much a5 fifty acres from the downpour OF
rain as seen in our regions. We have our
freshets and our droughts, but in those
lands which are to bescientitically irrigated
there will be neither freshets nor droughts-S
AS you take pitcher and get it full OF
water and then set it on table and take
drink out of it when you are thirsty, and
never think Of drinking pitcherful all at
once, so Montana and Wyoming and Idaho
will catch the rains of their rainy season
= and take up all the waters of their rivers in
great pitchers of reservoirs and drink out
of them whenever they will, and refresh
their land whenever they will.
The work has already been grandly begun
by the United States Government. Over
four hundred lakes have already been OFF,
cially taken poss ession offby the nation for
the great enterprise ofeirrigatipn RgeR
that have been rolling idly through these re-
gions, doing nothing on their way to the sea,
will be lassoed and corralled and pcnned up
until such time as the farmers need them.
Under the same processes the Ohio, the Mis-
sissipp; and all the other rivers will be
taught TO behave themselves better, and
great basins will be made to catch the sur
plus of waters in times of frcshet and keep
them for times of drought The irrigating
process by which all the arid lands between
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are TO be fer
:ilizcd is no new experiment. 1t has been
foing on successfully hundreds of years in
Spain. in China, in India, in Russia, in
Cgypt.
About eight hundred million Of people of
the earth TO- day are kept alive by food
raised on irrigated land. And here we have
allowed 10 lie waste, given un to rattlesnake
end bat and prairie dog, lands enough to
support whole nations OF industrious pOpu.
lation. The work begun will be consum-
mated Here and there exceptional lands
NAV be stubborn and refuse to yield any
wheat or corn from their har: hstS, but if
Inc hoe fail TO make an Impression, the
miners pick-axc will discover the reason
for it and bring up from beneath tAsset-sn;
productive surfaces coal and iron, and lead
End copper, and silver and gold God speed
the eeologists and the surveyors, the engi-
neers and the Senatorial commissions, and