The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.
TALMAGB breaches ON THE DO
MINION OF GOD.

Years-What Has Already Been
Done on Irrigated Land-The Ser
mon Based on the Preachers Trans
Continental Journey.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 22.-It was a great
anthem of praise that went up from the
crowded throngs at the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle this morning, where the Rev. t. De
Witt Talmlge, ID. D., preached as usual.
The opening h mn wa
No more let human blood be split
| Vain sacrifice for human guilt:
| But TO each conscience Ue applied
| The blood chat flows from Jesus side
| The subject OF the sermon was: From
Ocean TO Ocean, or Ny rfaasc ln Inc tai
Journey" Text: Psalms lxxii, s. "He
| shall have dominion from sea to sea- The
| pre- lcher sad:
What two seas are referred toa Sons
might say that the text meant t at Christ
was 20 reign over all the land bet cen the
Arabian sea and Caspian sea, or between
| the Red sea and the Mediterranean sea. or
between the Black sea an North sea. No:
IN such case my text would have named
them. 1t meant from any large body OF
| water on tbs earth clear across to any other
| large body of water. And SO | have a
right to read it: He shall have dominion
from the Atlantic a to the Pacific sea.
/ MY IL, AuloTIca tTOuI
First, cons der the mmensity Of this Dos
session. II It were only small tract of
la ID capable OF nothing better tia sage
rush and with ability only to support
prairie dogs, should not have much en-
tluslasm in wanting Christ to have it
added to his dom nion. But its immensity
and atiiuelce no Que can lima zine unless. In
immigrant wagon or age coach or in rail
| train of the Union Pacific or the North
| Pacific nr hn "a Iia
| Southern Pacific, he has aversed it, Hav-
ing been privileged six times to cross this
| continent, and twice this summer | have
como to some appreciation of its magnitude.
Calf lrnia, which | supposed la boyaood
from its size on the map, was a few Yards
across, arldge of land on which one must
| walk cautiously lest he hit MS head against
vue Sierra Nevada on one side or slip of
into the Pacific waters on the other-Cali-
fornia, the thin slice Of land as I supposed
| IL TO Oe In boyhood-I have found il TO be-
larger than ali the states of New England
and ali NV York state and all Pennsyl-
vania added together; and If you ada them
together their square miles fall far
hort of California. North and sDuth
Dakota, Montana and Washington terri
tory, to be launched next winter into state
hood, will DO giant at their bi tn. Let the
congress Of the Unto States strain poilt
and soon admit also Idaho and Wyoming
and, New Mexico. What is Q u o keeping
them out in the cold aiy loogsra Let us
have the whole continent divided into states
with senatorial and congressional repre-
happy together. If sons Of them
have not quite the requisite
lunber OF people, nx up the cousOita5ion
suit these cases. Even Utah will by
lropping polygamy soon be ready to enter.
Monoga ny has triu nphed in parts OF
Utah and will prob bly, triumph at this
fall election in Salt Lake CITY.
Turn all the territories into states, aud
If some of the sisters are smaller than
the elder sisters, give them time and
they will soon DO as large as any Of
the n. Because some of % a .usn.ers II a
family may be five feet In stature anu the
others only four feet, do not let the daugh-
Cers five feet high shut the door in the faces
of those VINO are only four feet high.
Among the dying utterances Of our good
| friend, the wise statesman aud great author.
the brilliant orator and magnificent sjul, s.
). Cox, was the expressed determination to
move next winter in congress for the trans
.erence Of other terri sor:es to states.
But" says some one, sin calculating
the immensity Of our continental acreage
you must remember tnat vast reaches OF
| our public domain are uncultivated, heaps
of dry sand, and the bad lands o. Montana
and the great A lsrican DESERT" am
glad you mentioned that. Witnin tweaty-
| five years there will not be oetween the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts hundred
niles OF la not reclaimed either by
farmers plow or miners crowbar By
| irrigati n, the waters Of the rivers and
he showers of heaven in whas are called
tue rainy season will be gathered into great
reservoirs and through aqueducts let down
waere and wnen the people want them.
Utah is an object lesson. Some part Of
hat territory which were 50 barren that a
spear Of grass 'uld no rave b,fn ra sed
there In hundred years are now rich az
Lancaster county farms Of Pennsylvania or
" estchester farms of New York or Somer-
set county farms Of New Jersey.
Expe iments have proved that ten acres
# ground irrigated from waters gathered
n great Neurological basins will D oduce as
much as fifty acres from the downpour Of
rain as seen in our regions. We have our
freshets and our drougnts. but in those lands
which are to be scientifically irrigated there
will be neither freshets nor droughts. As
you take a pitcher and get it full Of water
and then set it on a table and take drink
ut of it when you arc thirsty and never
| think OF drinking pltcherful all at once,
50 Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will
| cat b the rains of their rainy season and
take up all the waters Of their rivers in
great pitchers Of reservoirs and drink out
| OF Cnem WneneVSr tney VIII dn0 refresh
their land whenever they VIII.
The work has already been grandly begun
by the United States COVE e'nmsnt. Over
four hundred lakes have already been Off
ally taken possession Of by the nation for
the great enterprise Of irrigation. Rivers
at have been rolling idly through these
regions, doing nothing on tut ir W " to the
sea, will be lassoed and c,rr.llled and
penned up until such time as the farmers
need them. U Idsr the same processes
The Ohio, the Mississippi, and a the other
ivers will be taught to behave themselves
better. and great basins will DO mAde to
catch the surplus Of waters In times OF
fires and keep them for times Of drought.
The irrigating process by W Ich al the arid
lands uetweeI the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans are TO be fertiiizsd is no new expert
cent 1t has been going on successfully
hundreds If years In Spain, in China, in
India, in Russia, ia Egg pit
Abou eignl hundred million OF people OF
the earth ,o-day are kep6 alive by food
raised on irrigated land. And re we
nave allowed to lie waste. given up to rat
tlesaake and bat aud prairie dog, lands
enough to su port who.e uati)ns OF indus
trious pop luton. The work begun will
be consunmated. Here a ID there excep-
tional lands may be stubborn aud
efuse to yield wheat or corn from
their hard fists, but if the hoe fail
TO make an impression the miners pick-ax
will "a cJ.e. Jne reason for it and bring up