The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-21

journeying, 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 it, SO that the CEN
trail city Of the American continent is
San Francisco
have said these things about the
magnitude of the continent, and given
you few specimens of some of its
wonders, to let you know the compre-
hensiveness of Christ's dominion when
He takes possession of this continent
Besides that, the salvation of this con.
tinent means the salvation of Asia, for
we are only 36 miles from Asia at the
northwest Only Behring strait sep
arates us from Asia, and these will be
spanned by great bridge. The 80
miles of water between these two 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 20 fathoms deep
The America Asiatic bridge which
will yet span those straits will make
America, Asia, Europe, and Africa one
continent. So, you see, America evan
gelized, Asia will be evangelical.
Europe taking Asia from one side and
America taking it from the other side.
Your children will cross that bridge.
America and Asia and Europe all one.
what substraction from the pangs of
seasicknessl 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 gospelizedP | do.
Christopher 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, 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 | have to
your pocketboolk 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 or that he was loaded
up with real estate, when the old mis-
creant never owned an acre or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that
reason l protest against something l
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
! AS soon as you get in Yellowstone
! Park or California you have pointed
out to you places cursed with such
J names as 1.-THE DEVILS Slide" THE
! Devils Kitchen, ""The DEVILS Thumb"
THE DEVILS Pulpit" 1.-The DEVILS
Mush. Pot" 1.-THE DEVILS Tea Kettle, "
1.-THE DEVILS Saw-Mill" THE Devils
: Machine. Shop" "The DEVILS Gate, y
and so 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 Il Chris
{ tian nation; and away with such
$ plutonic nomenclature! But how it
t this continent to be gospelizedP The
7 pulpit and Christian printing press
, harnessed together will be the might
, est team for the first pillow. Not by the
q power of cold, journalistic theology
S not by ecclesiastical technicalities.
r. am sick of them, and the world is sick
4 of them. But it will be done by the
a warm-hearted, sympathetic presenta
S ton of the fact that Christ is ready I,
e pardon all our sins, and heal all oui
z wounds, and save Us both for thu
1 world and the next. Let your religion
i of glaciers crack Off and fall into Tn,
e Gulf stream and get melted. Take al
1 your creeds of all denominations aut
, drop out OF them all human phrascol
i ogy and put in only Scripturai phrase
= ology, and you will see how quick tn,
D people will jump after them.
s On the Columbia river we saw tn
= salmon jump clear out of the water il
70 different places, | suppose for the pur
1 pose of getting the insects. And i
70 when we want To fish for men w
v could only have the right kind of bait
they will spring out above the hoo,
s of their sins and sorrows TO reach il
y The Young Mems Christian associa
C tions of America will also do part o
u the work They are going to take tn,
y Young men of this nation for God
d These institutions seem in better favo
c with God and man than before. Bust
= ness men and capitalists are awalinI
l. to the fact that they can do nothing
better in the way of living beneficenc
or in last will and testament than !,
n do what Mr.. Marquand did for Brood,
u lyn when he made the Young Mem
II Christian palace possible These in
II situations will get our young men al
y over the land into stampede TO
u Heaven. Tn us we will all in som
u way help on the work, you with you
" ten talents, | with five, some body els
q with three. 1t is estimated that to il
u rigate the arid and desert lands G
d America as they ought to be irrigated
e it will cost about 500, 900, 900 to gathe
/ the waters into reservoirs. AS niue
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