Connecticut western news., 1898-10-20

this couhSry than have to your pUI ae,- 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 a great capitalist or that he was loaded up with real estate, when the old misereant never owned an acre or an inch of ground on this planet. For that reason protest against some thing heard and saw this summer and other summers in Montana and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado and California. They have given devil istic names to 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 Kitchsu,' "The Devils Thumb, " "The Devils Pulpit, " "The Devils Mush Pot," "The Devils Tea kettle, "The Devils Sawmill, " "The Devils Machine Shop. "The Devils Gate" and so on. Now, it is very much needed that geological surveyor or con- gressional committee or group of distin guished tourists go through Montana and Wyoming and California and O. lorpdo and give other names to these places. All these regions belong to the Lord and 10 Christian nation, and away with such Plutonic nAmenclature But how is this continent to be gospel ized? The pulpit and Christian print ing press hi.rnessed together will be the mightiest team for the first blow. Not by the power of cold, furmalistic theol- ogy, 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 presen- tation of the fact that Christ is ready Ia 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 streaL- and get melted. Take all your creeds of all denominations and drop out of them all human phraseology and put in only Scriptural phraseology, and you will see how quick the people will jump after them.
 Fishing For Men.
 On the Columbia river we saw the salmon jump clear out of the water in different places. I suppose for the nur- pose of getting the insects. And if when we want to fish for men we could only have the right kind of bait, they will spring out above the flood of their sins and sorrows to reach 1t. The Young Men's Christian associations of America ,, will also do part of the work. They are going to take the young men of this na- tion for God. These institutions seem in better favor with God and man than ever before. Business men and capital ists are awaking to the fact that they can do nothing better in the way of liv- ing tenefcence or in last will and testa- ment than to do what MT. Marquand did for Brooklyn when he made the Young Mems Christian palace possible. These institutions will get our young men all over the land into stampede for heaven. Thus we will all in some , , way help on the work, you with your ten talents, with five. somebody else with three. It is estimated that to irri- gate the arid and desert lands of Ameri- ca as they ought to be irrigated, it will cost about s1oo. 900. 900 to gather the 1 waters into reservoirs. AS much oontri- button and effort as that would irrigate with gospel influences all the waste places of this continent. Let us by prayer and contribution and right iv- ing all help to fill the reservoirs. You will carry bucket, and you cup. and even a thimbleful would help. And after awhile God will send the floods of meroy 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 river the stI cams whereof shall make glad the sight of God" Oh, fill up the reser-
 voirsi America for Godi