Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-22

keel touched the bottom. On one OF my
visits said, "This is the Mediterranean
of America. :" Visiting Portland and
Tacoma ara Seattle and Victoria and
Port Townshend and Vancouver and
other cities Of the northwest region
thought to myself: "These are the Bos-
tons, New Yorlis, Charlestons and Sa-
yannahs of the Pacific coast. f" But after
all this summers journeying and my
other journeys westward in other sum-
mers, / found that l had seen only a
part of the American continent, for
Alaska is as far west of San Francisco
as the coast of Maine is cast of it, so
that the central city Of the American
continent is San Francisco.
have said these things about the
magn tude Of the continent and given
you a few specimens of some of its
wonders to let you know the compre-
hensivcness of Christ's dominion when
be takes possession of this continent.
Besides that, the salvation Of this con-
tinent means the salvation of Asia, for
we are only 50 miles from Asia at the
northwest. Only Bering straits separate
us from Asia, and these will be spanned
by great bridge The 36 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 for bridges, and for the most OF
the way the water is only about 20
fathoms deep.
Plutonic Nomenclature.
The America Asintic bridge which
will yet span those straits will make
America, Asia, Europe and Africa one
continent So, You see, America evangel'
lied, Asia will be evangelical. Europe
taking Asia from one side and America
taking it from the other side. Your chill
dren will cross that bridge. America
and Asia and Europe all one, what sub
traction from the pangs of seasickness,
and the prophecies in Revelation will
be fulfilled, "There shall be no more
sea-" But do I mean literally that this
American continent is going to be all
gospelized? I do Christopher Colum-
bus, 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 be 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 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 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 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 III 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 1.-THE DEVILS Slide, y 1.-The
DEVILS Kitchen, 1.-THE DEVILS
Thumb, " 1.-THE DEVILS Pulpit !" "The
DEVILS Mush Pot, "The DEVILS Tea.
kettle, y "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 Co.
dorado and give other names to these
places All these regions belong to the
Lord and TO "a Christian nation, and
away with such Plutonic nomenclature
But how is this continent tC be gospel
lied? The pulpit and Christian print
ing press barncssed together will be the
mightiest team for the first pillow. Not
by tie power of cold, furmalistic theol-
ogy, not By ecclesiastical technicalitles.
I am sick CT them, and the world is
sick of them But it will be done by
the warm hearted, sympathetic presen-
tation CT the fact that Christ is ready
to pardon all our sins, and heal all our
wounds, ahd 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 cf 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, suppose for the pur-
Jose Of getting tho 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 it. 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 ma
tion for God. These institutions seem
in better favor with God and man than
ever before. Business men and capital
lists are awaking to the fact that they
can do nothing better in the way of llv-
ing benefcence or in last will and tesla
ment than to do what Mr.. 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. 1t is estimated that to irri-
gate the arid and desert lands of Amerl-
ca as they ought to be irrigated, it will
cost about $500, 1000, 600 to gather the
waters into reservoirs. AS much oontrl-