The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-22

mics OF water QelNeeu llGcc tNO con-
tinents 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
is only about 90 fAthoms deep
The AmericO-Asiatic bridge which
will yet span those straits will make
America, Asia Europe, and Africa ona
continent So. You see, America evan
gelized, Asia will be evangelical.
Europe taking Asia from one side and
America taking II from the other side.
Your children will cross that bridge.
America and Asia and Europe all one.
what substraction from the pangs of
~seasickness, and the prophecies in
Revelation viii be fulAlled, there
shall be no more sea" But do | mean
literally that this American continent
is going to be all gospelizeds | do.
Christopher Columbus, when he went
ashore from the Santa Maria, aud his
second brother, AlonEo, 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 country than l have to
your pocketbook. To hear him talk
on the roof of the temple, where he
proposed to give Christ the kingdoms
Of the world and the glory of them,
you might suppose that satan was a
great capitalist OF that he was loaded
up with real estate, when the old mis-
ereant never owned IN acre or an inch
of ground on this planet For that
reason l 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 10 many places in the west and
northwest
As soon as you get in Yellowstone
Park or California you have pointed
out to 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,n 1.-THE DEVILS
Machine-Shop." 1.-THE DEVILS Gate
and 70 on. Now it is very much needed
that geological surveyor or congress
sional committee or group of distin-
guished tourists go through Montana
and Wyoming and California and Colo
RADIO and give other names to these
places All these regions belong
to the Lord, and to q Chris
tian nation; and away with such
plutonic nomenclature But how is
this continent to be gospelized? The
pulpit and a Christian printing press
harnessed together will be the miphti-
est team for the first pillow. Not by the
power Of cold. journalistic theology,
not by ecclesiastical technicalities l
am sick Of them, and the world is sick
OF them. But it will be done by the
warm-hearted, sympathetic p~resenta-
tion OF the fact that Christ Is ready to
pardon all our sins, and heal all our
wounds, and save us both for this
world and the next Let your religion
OF glaciers crack off and fall into the
Gulf stream and get melted. Take all
your creeds OF all denominations and
drop out OF them all human phrasool-
ogy and put in only Scriptural phrase
ology, and you will see how quick the
people will jump after them.
On the Columbia river we saw the
salmon jump clear out of the water In
different places, | suppose for the pur-
pose Of getting the insects. And II
when We wan 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 associa-
lions OF America will also do part of
the work They are going to take the
young men Of this nation for God.
These institutions seem in better favor
with God and man than before. Bust.
ness men and capitalists are awaking
TO the fact that they can do nothing
better in the way OF living benefcence
or in last will and testament than TO
do what Mr.. Marquand did for Brook.
Ign when he made the Young Mems
Christian palace possible. These in
stitutions will get our young men all
over the land into a stampede for
Heaven. Tn us we will all in some
way help on the work, you with your
ten talents, | with FIVE, some body else
with three. 1t is estimated that TO ir.
rigate the arid and desert lands of
America as they ought to be irrigated. |
1t will cost about 500, 900, 900 to gather
the waters into reservoirs. As much
contribution and effort as that would
irrigate with gospel influences all the
waste places of this continent. Let us
by prayer and contribution and right
living all help to fill the reservoirs You
will carry a bucket, and you a cup.
and even a thimbleful would helm,
And after a while God will send the
Hoods 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, I'm the wilder
ness waters have broken out, and
streams in the desert" and with David,
There Is a river the streams whereof
b make glad the sight of God.S
Oh, fill up the r~eservoirsi America for