Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-02
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unless YOU saw 1t there. Rsdl You never
saw red unless you saw it there. Violet
You never saw violet unless you saw 1t
| there. Triumphant banners OF color. Ina
| cathedral OF basalt, Sunrise ana Sunset
| married by the setting OF rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, and
| Egyptian basiiicas built before human
| architecture was born. Huge Qualifications
| Of granite constructed before war forged
its first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebasto-
! polls that never can be taken. Thrones on
| which no one but the King of heaven and
| sarth ever sat. Fouut of waters at which
| The hills are baptized, while the giant cliffs
! stand around as sponsors. For thousands
| of years before thut scene was unveiled to
| human sight, the elements were busy, and
/ The Seysers were hewing away with their
| hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding with
| their cold hammers and hurricanes wers
| .leaving with their lightning strokes, and
| lailstones giving the finishing touches, and
after all these forces Of nature had done
| :heir best, in our century tho curtain
| iror- ed, and the world had new and di-
| 7i1ely insp' ed revelation. the Old Testa-
,,ent written on papyrus, the New Testa-
nent written on parchment, and this last
Testament written on the rocks.
Standing there iu the G'and Canon OF
| he Yellowstone Park for tie most part We
| leld our pace, but after awhile 1t flashed
/ lpon me with such power could not help
| put say to my comrades: what hall this
/
! mighty cascade with the rainbows at the
| DOT OF It? Those waters congealed and
:ranstixed with the agltations OF that day,
| what place they would make for the shin
ng feet OF Judge OF quick and deadi
And those rainbows look now like the
| .rowns to be cast at His feet. At the bot
:om of this great canon is a floor on which
he nations Of the earth might stand, and
| al up and down these galleries OF rock the
! nations of heaven might sit. Aud what
' rhar arati nf nrehnnUpiS' m =
would be through all these gorSes and
| rom these caverns and over all these
heights. Why shoulG not the greatest of
| Ill the days the world shall ever see close
lmid the grandest scenery Omnipctence
sver built?
| have said these things about the mag
litude of the continent, and given you
ew specimens OF some OF Its wonders, to
ct YOU know the omprehensiveness of
| Jirst's dominion when He takes possess
sion of this continent. Besides that, the
salvation of this continent means the sal
valion of Asia, for we are only thirty-six
niles from Asia at the northwest. Only
| Behring Strait separates us from Asia, and
;hese will be spanned by a great bridge.
| The thirty-six miles of water between these
| :wo continents are not all deep sea, but
nave three islands, and there also
shoals which will allow piers Of bridges,
and for the most of the way the water is
| oniy about twenty fathoms deep.
The America -Asiatic bridge which will
set span those straits will make America,
| Asia Europe and Africa one continent.
| So, you see, America evangelical, Asia
will be evangelical. Europe taking Asia
rom one side and America taking 1t from
The other side. Your children will cross
hat bridge. America and Asia and Eu-
| .opo all one, what subtraction from the
| oangs of seasickness! and the prophecies
| N Revelation will be fulfilled, there shall
| % no more sea-" But do l mean literally
| hat this American continent is going to
De all gospelized? 1 do. Christopher Co.
umbus, when he went ashore from the
Santa Maria, and his second brother
Alonzo, when he went ashore from the
Pinta and his third brother Vincent, when
ne went ashore from the Nina, took pos
session 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 have to your pocket-book. To hear
him talk on the roof of the temple, where
he proposed to give Christ the kingdoms
Of this world and the glory OF them, you
might suppose that Satan was great cap
ltalist or that he was loaded up with real
! estate, when the old miscreant never
owned an acre or an inch of ground on
his 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 to many places In the
West and Northwest.
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Or California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as THE
DEVILS Slide,'' "The DEVILS Kitchen"
| The Eevil's Thumb ''The DEVILS Pull
oit,'' THE Devils Mush-Pot," THE
DEVILS Tea Kettle" 1.-The Devils Saw
MilI,'' 1.-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 dis
| :inguished guests go through Montana
GnI nd 40
I and give other names to these places. All
| :hese regions belong to the Lord, aud to q
Christian nation; and away with such
Plutonic nomenclaturel But how is this con-
tinent to be gospeliZed2 The pulpit and Il
| Christian printing-p press harnessed to-
yether will be the mightiest team for the
| 1rst plough. Not by the power of cold,
tormalistic theology; not by ecclesiastical
| technicaities. am sick OF them, and tho
world Is sick of them. But 1t will be done
oy the warm hearted, sympathetic presen-
| :ation 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 of and fall into the Gulf Stream and
get melted. Take all your creeds of all
| denominations and drop out OF them all
human phraseoloSy aud put In only scrip
tural phraseology, and you will see how
| luic!; the people will jump after them.
| On the Columbia River we saw the sal
mon jump clear out of the water in differ
snt places, l suppose for the purpose OF
| getting the insects. And il when we want
10 fish for men and We only have the
right kind of bait, they will spring out
above the Hood of their sins and sorrows
to reach it. The Young Mems Christian
| Associations of America will also do part
Of the work. They are going to take the
| young men of this nation for God. These
institu ions seem In better favor with God
| and man than ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact
that they can do nothing better in the way
| )f living beneilcence or in last will and
testament than to do what Mr.. MarIuand
lid for Brooklyn when he made the Young
Mems Christian palace possible. These
Institutions will get our young men all
over the land into Il stampede for
heaven. Thus We will all in some way
:alents, | with five, somebody else with
:hree. 1t is estimated that to irrigate the
| irid and desert lands Of Ameri"a rs they
ought to be irrigated 1t will cost about
)ne hundred million dollars to gather the
waters into reservoirs. As much cJntri-
oution and effort 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 M
the reservoirs. You will carry bucket,
and you a cup. and even u thimbicful
would help. And after while God will
send the floods OF mercy so gathered.
pouring down over all the land, and some
II MS on earth and some OF us in heaven
will sins, with Isaiah. I'm the Wilderness
waters have broken ont, and streams in
the desert" nhl with David, There * Il
river the streams whereof shall mako glad
thesl:cht OF God" Oh MI up the rc5er-
voj7s! America for Col!
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