The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-05-09

up to the great American desert be
tween here and the Pacific by machi1
cry now known or yet to be invented
and, as Great Salt Lake City has nj
r.ln and could not raise an apple or {
Dushel OF wheat in hundred years
without artificial help, but is now
through such means one great garden
so all the unprOduCtiye parts of ali the
continents will be turned into harvest
fields and orchards. 4 half-dOzen De
Lesseps will furnish the world with all
the canals needed, and will change the
course of rivers and open new lakes,
| and the great Sahara desert will be cut
! up into farms with an astonishing yield
! CT bushels to the acre. The marsh will
| be drained Of its waters and cured of its
| malaria. | saw what was for many
years called the Black Swamp Of
! ONO, its chief crop chillS and feycrs,
but now, by the tiles put into the
ground to carry off the surplus mois-
tUre, transformed into the richest and
heathlest Of regions. The God who
wastes nothing. think. means that
thls world, from pole to pole. has come
toperfe2tion offoliage and fruitage. For
that reason he keeps the earth running
through space, though so many fires
are blazing down in it's timbers and
SO many meteOriC terrors have threat
ened to dash it to pieces AS soon as
the earth is completed Christ vii! d.
vide It up among the good The reason
he does not divide it now is because it
Is not done. A kind father will not d.
vide the apple among his children until
the apple is ripe In fulfilment Of the
New Testament promise, The meek
snail inherit the EARTH" and the prom
Use of the Old Testament. lie shall d.
vide the spoil with the strong" the
world will be apportioned to those
worthy to possess it.
1t is rot so now. in this country,
capable of holding, feeding, clothing
and sheltering twelve hundred million
people, and where We have only sixty
million inhabitants, we have two mil
non who cannot get honest work. I'D
with their families an aggregation of !
flVe millions that are on the verge Of |
starvation. Something wrong. most
certainly. In some way, there will be
new apDortonment. Many of the |
estates will crack to pieces
on the designations of grand children,
and then dissolve into the possession .
OF the masses who now have an INSULT
cheney.
What, you say, will become of the
expensive and elaborate buildings now
devoted to debasing amusements?
lhey will become schools, art galleries.
gymnasiums, and churches.
The world is already getting disguised
with many Of these amusements, and
no wonder. What an importation of
mclean theatrical stuff We have within
he last few years had brought to our
shores. And professors of religion
'atronizing such things! Having sold
'ut to the devil, why don't you deliver
he goods and go over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw
your name from Christian churches,
md say: Know all the world by these
PRESENTS that I am patron of unclean-
less and child Of hell" Sworn to be
he Lords, you are perjurers.
III you think these offenses are to 60
N forever, you do not know who the
Iord is. God will not wait for the Day I
t Judgment. All these palaces of sin
Will become palaces of Righteousness. {
hey will come into the possession OF
hose strong for virtue and strong for ,
'od. He shall divide the spoil with ,
he strong" ,
China and Africa, the two richest y
ortions OF the earth by reason of y
letals, and rare woods, and inexhausti- q
lie productiveless. are not yet divided r
p among Ehe good because they are not 4
eady to be divided. Wait until the e
oors that Livingstone opened In Africa r
hall be entered, and Bishop Taylor, h
18th his band Of self-supporting mis-
onaries. have done their work, and the
shantees and Senegambians shall l.
now Christ AZ well az vou knou, Eiro u
"a there shall be on the banks of the u
lie and Niger higher civilization y
ian Is now to be found on the banks OF u
e Potomac or the Hudson, then Christ =
Ill divide up that continent among
s friends. Wait until China, which n
half as large as all Europe, shall have II
her capacities for rice and tea
Id sugar among edibles; and her anne d
yst and sapphire and topaz and opal a
I'd jasper and porphyry, among pre- eI
Gus stones; and her rosewood and 81
ony and camphOr and varnish trees, OF
long precious woods; and turned up q
ON her depths half-dozen Pennsyl- OF
MAS of coal and iron, and twenty Ne o
das of silver, and fifty CALIFORNIA; OF b.
Id, and her five hundred millions of B
ople shall be evangelical; then the TT
'rd will divide it up among the good, g
II my text be not deception, but the Il
ernal truth, then the time is coming III
len all the farms will be owned nv -'l