Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-03

geySerlto encHAntment 1Or Gays, ana begin
to feel that there can be nothing more OF
interest to see. you suddenly come upon
the peroration OF all mai jesty and grandeur.
the Grand Canon. 1t is here that 1t seems
to me-and speak it with reverence-Je.
hovah seems to have surpassed Himself. It
seems great gulch let down into the
eternities. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellowl You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there. Red You never
saw red unless you saw 1t there. Violeti
You never saw violet unless you saw it
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 basilicas built before human
architecture WAS born. Huge Notifications
OF granite constructed before war forged
its first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebasto.
pols that never can be taken. Thrones on
which no one but the King of heaven and
earth ever sat. Fount OF waters at which
the hills are baptized, while the giant cliffs
stand around as sponsors. For thousands
OF years before that scene was unveiled to
human sight, the elements were busy, and
the geysers were hewing away with their
hot chisel, and glaciers wore pounding with
their cold hammers, and hurricanes were
cleaving with their lightning strokes, and
hailstones giving the finishing touches, and
after all these forces OK nature had done
their best, in our century the curtain
dropped, and the world had new and di-
vinely inspired revelation, the Old Testa-
ment written on papyrus, the New Testa-
ment written on parchment, and this last
Testament written on the rocks.
Standing there in the Grand Canon of
the Yellowstone Park for the most part we
held our peace, but after awhile 1t flashed
upon me with such power I could not help
but say to my comrades: "What hall this
would be for the last Judgmentl" See that
mighty cascade with the rainbows at the
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transaxed with the agitations Of that day,
what place they would make for the shin
ing feet Of Judge Of quick and deadl
And those rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at His feet. At the bot
tom of this great canon is 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 archangels' trumpet there
would be through all these gorges and
from these caverns and over all these
heights. Why should not the greatest of
all the days the world shall ever see close
amid the grandest scenery Omnipctence
ever built2
have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent, and given you
few specimens Of some OF its wonders, to
let you know the prehensiveness of
Christ's dominion when He takes possess
sion of this continent. Besides that, the
OF this continent means the SAL
vation of Asia, for we are only thirty-six
miles from Asia ut the northwest. Only
Behring Strait separates US from Asia, and
these will be spanned by a great bridge.
The thirty-six miles Of water between these
two continents are not all deep sea, but
have three islands, and there are also
shoals which will allow piers of bridges,
and for the most of the way the water Is
only about twenty fathoms deep.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will
,-a& 1Ar t%o ill
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent
So, you see, America evangelized, Asia
will be evangelzed. Europe taking Asia
from one side and America taking It 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 be fulfilled, there shall
be no more sea-" But do mean literally
that this American continent Is going to
be all gospelizeda do. Christie pher Co.
lumbus, when he went ashore from the
Santa Maria. and his second brother
when he went ashore from the
Pinta, and his third brother Vincent, when
he 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 I 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 a great cap
italist or that he was loaded up with real
estate, when the old miscreant never
owned an acre or an inch of ground on
this planet. For that reason 1 protest
against something I heard and saw this
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.
AS soon as you get in Yellowstone Park
or California you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as ''rhe
Devils slide," "Tl Devils Kitchen"
"The Devils Thumb 'The Devils Pull
pitt" The Devils Mush-Pot," ''The
DEVILS Tea.Kettle," "The Devils Saw
MILL" 1.-THE Devils Machine-Shop," "The
Devils Gate, and so on. Now 1t is very
much needed that geological surveyor or
Committee or group Of dis
ttnguished guests go through Montana
and Wyoming and California and Colorado
and give other names to these places. All
these regions belong to the Lord, and to
Christian nation; and away with such
Plutonic nomenclaturel But how is this con-
tinent to be gospelized? The pulpit and a
Christian printing-press harnessed to-
gether will be the mightiest team for the
first plough. Not by the power of cold,
theology; not by ecclesiastical
world is sick Of them. But 1t will be done
by the arm-hearted, sympathetic presen-
tation of the fact that Christ is ready to
pardon all our sins, and heal all our
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 phraseology and put in only scrip
tural phraseology, and you will see how
quick the people will Jump after them.
On the Columbia River we saw the SAL
mon jump clear out of the water in differ
ent places, suppose for the purpose OF
getting the insects. And II when we want
to fish for men and we only have the
right kind of bait, they will spring out
above the food of their sins and sorrows
to reach 1t. The Young Mems Christian
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 ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact
that they can do nothing better in the way
Of living beneficence or in last will and
testament than to do what Mr.. Marquand
did for Brooklyn when he made the Young
Mems Christian palace possible. These
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