The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-17

onWrapped. Altaf9 OF worship at who
nations might kneel. Domes Of chalccd
ony on temples of porphyry. See all TIL
carnage of color up and down the cliffs
1t must have been the battlefield Of tn
war Of the clements. Here are all the COL
ors Of the wall of heaven, neither tho SOP
phire, nor the ohrysolite, nor the topaz
nor tho jacinth, nor the amethyst, nor TIN
jasper, nor the 12 gates Of 10 pearls want
ing. II spirits bound from earth to heav
en- could pass up by way of this canyon
the dash Of heavenly beauty would not b.
20 overpowering. 1t would only be from
glory to glory. Ascent through suct
earthly scenery, in which tho crystal Ia SC
bright would DO flt preparation for the
"sea Of glass mingled with fire."
Standing there In the Grand canyon Of
the Yellowstone park for tho most part VIC
held our peace, but after awhile 1t flashed
upon me with such power could not help
but say to my comrades, what hall this
would be for the last judgmentr' Sec
that mighty cascade with the rainbows at
the foot Of 1t. Those waters CONCEALED
and transfxed with tho aeitations Of that
day, what place they would make for
tho shining feet of Judge Of quick and
doadi And those rainbows look now like
the crowns to be cast ut his feet. At the
bottom of this great canyon Ia floor on
which the nations of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these galleries
Of rock the nations of heaven might sit.
And what reverberation of srchangels'
trumpet there would be through all these
gorges and from these caverns and over all
these heights. Why should not the great
est Of all the days the would shall ever see
close amid the grandest scenery Omnip-
otenoe ever built
! Christ's Domination.
Oh, the sweep of tho American conti-
| nenti Sailing up Puget sound, It's shores
| so bold that for / 800 miles a ships Prov
would touch tho shore before Its keel
touched the bottomi On one Of my visits
said, "This is the Mediterranean Of
America" Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Port Towns
hend and Vancouver and other cities of
the northwest region thought to myself,
THESE are the Bostons, New Yorks,
Charlestons and Savannahs Of the Pacific
coast" But after all this summers jour.
neying and my other journeys westward
IN other summers, found that had seen
only part Of the American continent, for
Alaska Is as far west Of San Francisco as
the coast of Maine is east of 1t, SO that the
central city of the American continent is
San Francisco.
I have sold these things about the mag
nitude Of the continent and given you
few specimens Of some Of its wonders to
let you know the oomprehenslvenes Of
Christ's dominion when he takes posses
sion Of this continent. Besides that, the
salvation Of this continent means the sal
walton of Asia, for we are only SO miles
from Asia at the northwest. Only Bering
straits separates us from Asia, and these
will be spanned by great bridge. The
86 miles Of water between these two CONT
nents 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 |
20 fathoms deep.
The America Asiatio bridge which will |
yet span those straits will make America, |
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So, you see, America evangelical, Asia |
will be evangelical, Europe taking Asia
from one side and America taking 1t from
the other side. Your children will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and Eu- !
rope all one, what subtraction from the
pangs Of seasickness and the prophecies
In Revelation will DO fulfilled, There
ihall be no more sea-" But do mean
literally that this American continent is
going to be all gospelizedf do. Christo-
pher Columbus, 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,
whom he went ashore from the Nina, took
possession Of this country in the pane Of
the Father and the Son and the holy
Ghost. Satan has no more right to this
country than have to your pocketbook.
To hear him talk on the roof of the tenn.
pie, where he proposed to give Christ the
Kingdoms Of this world and the glory Of
them, you might suppose that satan was q
great capitalist or that he was loaded up
with real estate, when the old miscreant
never owned an acre or all 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.
Away With Weeds.
As soon as you get In Yellowstone park
or California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as 1.-The
DEVILS Slide" Tho DEVILS Kitchon,"
"The DEVILS Thumb" "The Devils Pull.
pit, 1.-THE Devils Mushpot, 1.-THE Dew.
IFS Teakettle, ""The DEVILS Sawmill,"
The DEVILS Machine Shop, ""The Dew.
lis Gate" and SO on. Now it is very much
needed that geological surveyor or con.
gressional committee or group of dstin.
guished tourists 20 through Montana and ,
Wyoming and California and Colorado !
and give other names to these places. All
these regions belong to tho Lord and to o
Christian nation, and away with such
Plutonio nomenclature. But how Is this
to be gospelizeds The pulpit and
! Christian printing press harnessed to. !
sether will be the mightiest team for the =
1rst pillow. Not by the power Of cold, b
ormalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical e
I am sick Of them, and the y
world is sick Of them. But 1t will be done il
" the warm hearted, sympathetic presen.
alton of the fact that Christ Is ready to
'ardon all our sins, and heal all our I.
Wounds. and save us both for this world
nd the next. Let your religion of glaciers
rack of and fall into the Gulf stream and
ct melted. Take all your creeds Of all A
nominations and drop out of them all
unan phraseology and put in only scrip.
lral phraseology, and you will see how r
uick the people will jump after them.
On the Columbia river We saw the salr,.
n jump clear out Of the water in different
laces suppose for the purpose of gettiDa
10 Insects. And II when we want to fish
IF men we could only have the right kind
bait they will spring out above the
BOD of their sins and sorrows to reach II. n,
he Young Mons Christian associations =,
America will also do part of the work. Ill
hey are going to take the young men Of
Is nation for God. These institutions
EN- in better favor with God and man
an ever before Business men and cap
.lists arc awaking to the fact that they pc
n do nothing better In the way of living
nefcence or In last will and testament
an to do what Mr.. Marquand did for
'ooklyn when he made the Young Mems
tristan palace possible. These institu.
ms will get our young men all over the
I'd into stampede for heaven. Thus we II
II all In some way help on tho work, Ii
Il with your ten talents. with flvu,