The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-28

about twenty fathoms deep.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which
will yet span those straits VIII make
America, Asia, Europe and Africa n
continent. So. you see, America
geliZed. Asia will be evangelical. Eu-
rope taking Asia from one sic and
America taking IL from the other side
Your children will cross that bridge
America and Asia and Europe all one,
what ~btraction from the pangs OF
seasickness and the prophecies in Rev
elation will be fulfilled, there Ii
be no more sea" But do I mean liter
ally that this American continent Is
going to be all gospelized? 1 do. Chris
TOPPER Columbus, when he went ashore
from the Santa Maria, and his second
brother AlonZo, when he went ashore
from the Pinta, n his third brother
Vincent, when he went ashore from
the Nina, ook possession Of this coun-
try 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 pocketbook. To hear him talk
proposed to give Christ the Kingdoms
of this world and the glory Of them.
you might p 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 I protest against something I
heard and saw this summer and 9TH
er in Montana and Oregon
and Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado
and California. They have given e
ilistic names to many places in the
west and northwest.
AWAY WITH WEEDS.
AS soon as you get in Yellowstone
n ark mr. Talifnrnia Won have nOint2d
out to you places cursed with such
rames as The Devils Slide" The
Devils Kitchen" THE Devils
Thumb" The DEVILS Pulpit" The
Devils Mushpot," 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 dis
tinguished tourists go through MOnta-
ma and Wyoming and California and
Colorado and give other names to these
places. All these regions belong to the
Lord and to a Christian nation, and
away with such Plutonic nomencla-
ture. But how is this continent to be
gospelized? The pulpit and a Christian
printing press harnessed together will
be the mightiest team for the first
plow. Not 10y the power of cold, for
malistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities l am sick of them, and
the world is sick of them. But 1T will
be lone by the warm hearted, sympa-
thetic presentation of the fact that
Christ is ready to pardon all our sins,
and heal all our wounds, and save US
both for his world and the next. Let
your religion of glaciers crack of n
all into the Gulf stream and get melt
ed. Take all your creeds Of all de-
nominations 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.
On the Columbia rlVer we saw the
salmon Jump clear out of the water
in different places, l suppose for the
purpose of getting the insects. And
if when we want to fish for men we
could only have the right kind or Dalt
they will spring out above the Hood or
their sins and sorrows to reach 1t. Inc
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-
tions seem in better favor with God
and man than ever before. Business
men and capitalists are to
the fact that they can do nothing bet
ter in the way of living beneficience
or in last will and testament than to
90 what MI. ulo "
Ign when he made the Young Mems
Christian palace possible. These insti-
tutions will get u young men all
over the land into a stampede for
| heaven. Thus we will and in some
way help on he work, you with your
ten talents, I with five, somebody else
with three. 1t is estimated hat to irri-
gate the arid and desert lands of
America as they ought to be irrigat-
ed it will cost about 800, 900, 900 to gath
| err the waters into reservoirs. AS much
contribution and effort as 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 fill the reservoirs. You
will carry a bucket, and you a cup
and even a thimbleful would help. AND
after awhile God will send the fiocks
Of mercy so gathered pouring down
over all the and and some of us or
earth and some Of us in heaven viii
sing with Isaiah, I'm the wilderness
waters have broken out" and with Da-
vid, There is a river the streams o.
whereof shall make glad the sight OF
God" Oh, fill up the reservoirs
America for God!