Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-05

straction from the pangs of sickness
and the prophecies In Revelations will
be fulfilled. There shall be no more
sea-" But do / mean literally that THU
American continent Is going to be al
g~ospelized? i do. Christopher Colum
bus, when he vent 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 the Nina,
took possession OF this country in the
name of the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right to this coun.
try than / have to your pocketbook. To
hear him talk on the roof Of the temple,
where he proposed to give Christ the
kingdoms OK 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 or an
inch Of ground on this planet. For that
reason | protest against something /
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.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone
park or California you have pointed out
70 you places cursed with such names as
THE DEVILS Slide" THE Devils
Kitchen. :" ''The Devils Thumb" ''The
Devils Pulpit, 'The Devils Mush Pot"
''The Devils Tea Kettle, - THE DEVILS
Saw Mill, The Devils Machine Shop"
1.-THE Devils Gate" and so on. Now 1t
is very much needed that geological
surveyor or congressional committee or
group of distinguished tourists go
through Montana and Wyoming and
California and Colorado and give other
names TO these places. All these re-
gions belong to the Lord and TO a Chris
tian nation, and away with such Plu-
tonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be Cos
pelized? The pulpit and a Christian
printing press harnessed together will
be the mightiest team for the first pillow.
Not by the power of cold, journalistic
theology, not by ec~clesiastic TECHNICAL
ties. / am sick Of them and the world
is sick of them. But it will be done by
the warm hearted, sympathetic presenta-
ton Of the fact hat Christ is ready TO
pardon all cur sins and heal all our
wounds aud save us both for this world
and the hex Let your religion of gla-
ciers crack of and fall into tho gulf
stream and get melted. Take all your
creeds of all denominations and drop
out Of them all human ~phraseology and
put in s%criptural p~hraseology and you
will see how quick the people will jump
after them.
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 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 it. The
Young Mems Christian associations of
America will do some O; the work. All
over the continent / saw this summer
their new buildings arise. In Van
couver l asked: What arc you going
to put IN that slightly placer" The an
swer was: "a Young Mems Christian
association building" AT Lincoln, Neb.,
l said: What are they making those
excavations for?" Answer: For our
Young Mems Christian association
building" At Des Moines, Ia, l saw a
noble structure rising and l asked for
what purpose it was being built, and
they told me for the Young Mems Chris.
tian association.
These institutions are going TO taks
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 awak,
ing to the fact that they a do nothing
better in the way Of living beneficence
or in last will and testament than to dc
what Mr.. Marquand did for Brooklyn
when he made our Young Mems Chris
tian palace possible. These institu.
tions will get our young men all over
the land into a stampede for heaven.
Thus we will in some way help on the
work, you with your ten talents, l with
five, somebody else with three.
1t is estimated that 70 irrigate
the arid and desert lands of Amer,
lea as they ought to be irrigated.
it will cost about 500, 900, O0c
dollars TO gather the waters into reser
voirs. AS much contribution and effort
as that would irrigale vita gospel in
huences all the waste places of this con
tinent. Let US by prayer and contribu'
ton and right living all help to fill the
reservoirs. You will carry q bucket
and you a cup, and even a t~himblefu,
would help. And after awhile God will
send the floods of mercy so gathered
pouring down over all the land. and
some OF US on earth and some of US In
heaven will sing with Isaiah: ''In the
wilderness waters have broken out and
streams in the desert" and with David
There is q river the streams whereo.
shall make glad the sight Of God" Oh
fill up the reservoir! America for God