The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-21

shore before its keel touched the bot
tom. On one OF my visits I said.
This is the Mediterranean of Ameri-
ca" Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Fort
Townsend and Vancouver and other
cities OF the northwest region
thought to myself: "These are tho
Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons and
Savannahs of the Pacific coast. But
after all this summers journeying, and
my other journeys westward In other
summers, found that had seen only
a part of the American continent, Tor
Alaska is as far west of San Francisco
as the coast of Maine is east of 1t, SO
that the central city of the American
continent is San Francisco.
AS soon as you get In Yellowstone
Park or California you have pointed
out to you places cursed with sucn
names as 1.-THE Devils Slide," "The
DEVILS Kitchen" "The Devils
Thumb" '"The DEVILS Pulpit" "The
DEVILS Mush-Pot," "The Devils Tea
Kettle" "The DEVILS Saw-Mill," "The
DEVILS Machine Shop" "The Devils
Gate" and so on. Now 1t is very much
needed that geological surveyors or
congressional committee or group or
distinguished tourists go through Mon
tana 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 nomen-
clature! But how is this continent to
be gospelized? The pulpit and a
Christian printing press harnessed to-
gether will be the mightiest team for
the first plow. Not by the power OF
cold, journalistic theology, not by &C.
clesiastical technicalities. l am sick
of them, and the world is sick of them.
But it will be done by the warm-heart-
ed, sympathetic presentation Of the
fact that Christ is ready to 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 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 scriptural phraseology, and
you will see how quick the people wilt
jump after them.
On the Columbia river we saw the
salmon jump clear out of the water i'll
different places, suppose for the pur|
pose of getting the insects. And il
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 Mems Christian Association 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 awakening to
the fact that they can do nothing bet
ter 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 Chris
tian palace possible. These institu-
tions will get our young men all over
INC ldhu llllO q pSuG lOI uGdfSu.
Thus we will all in some way help on
the work, you with your ten talents,
l with five, somebody else with three
1t is estimated that to irrigate the arid
and desert lands OF America as they
ought to be irrigated it will cost about
one hundred million dollars to gather
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 bucket, and you cup,
and even thimbleful would help. And
after a while God will send the floods
of mercy so gathered, pouring down
over all the land, and some of us on
earth and some Of us in heaven will
sing with Isaiah, I'm the wilderness
waters have broken out and streams
in the DESERT" and with David, There
is river the streams whereof shall
make glad the sight of God" Oh, fill
up the reservoirs! America for God!