Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-10
6uRDETTE TELLS WHAT
COMING OF RIVER WILL
MEAN TO LOS ANGELES

At the Temple Baptist church last
night DR.. Robert J. Burdette preached
an Owens river sermon to his flock,
taking for his text Ezekiel, H-9:
Everything shall live whithersoever
the river cometh." He said:
"The ripple of the water brooks and
the song and murmur of the rivers run
all through the blessed book of life as
types of life. In the very beginning
of the story of the race we read that
a river went out of Eden to water
the garden the garden wherein grew
every tree that is pleasant to the
sight and good for food And the last
chapter of the book tells of the river
of water Of life, clear as crystal, pro-
ceeding out of the throne of God and
of the Lamb and on either side of the
river was the tree of life, bearing
twelve manner of fruits, yielding its
fruit every month, and the leaves of
the tree were for the healing of the ma
tions.'
"EzekieTs vision of the waters was
of river that began as a tiny spring,
and without tributaries grew of its own
life-giving life into a mighty stream,
sustaining itself, having life in itself
and creating life everywhere that it
went, and these waters went down into
the desert and 1t shall come to pass
swarmeth in every place whittier the
river shall come, shall live Every man
who knows anything about Southern
California can see the vision of that
life giving river He can see the trans
formation of sheep pastures and cattle
ranges into groves of oranges, apricots,
lemons; into vineyards of pleasant
grapes; into plantations of every tree
that is pleasant to the sight and good
I,o tho hnwprg of
roses and carnations and lilies displac-
ing the cactus and sagebrush; he can
see the towns and cities growing up in
the heart of the desert; he can see the
on every hill and the homes
in every valley; he can see in the midst
of this garden of life and joy this great
city of Los Angeles, teeming with IN
dustries, arts, crafts, busy with al
the activities of life; great with
its abundant present and i'hhseas-
ably greater with the promise OF to-
morrow; and he knows that 1t is the
blessed, life-giving caresses OF the
drawn from the hills and
arroyos that have created this wonder
land of fairy reality.
"His heart is big with pride and
warm with love for the city and the
as he tries to picture what
the coming of this great river from the
hills Of the north will be to this land
and its teeming thousands, multiplying
thousands. And then, when he tells
it in the overflowing fullness of his JOY,
some mana citizen of Los Angeles,
4 resident of the city, voter, says:
Yes. but I am going to vote against
all this. I do not want to see 1t. 1
will lift up my voice Che calls II a
voice. and cast my vote against 1t.
Let every good citizen next Wednesday
Harry an ak for the knocker. Let |
every good citizen vote for the owens
liver bonds and work for the river al
Law long. Let those who love the VIII
Ierness be driven to the cactus beds,
n the desert with the jack rabbits and
@ the sagebrush with the coyotes. Los
Angeles for the Baptists:
Other pastors who made owens river
,ddresses were Revs. c. T. Scholz, Ger
man Evangelical; ]. w. Thurby, Church
Of Ascension; c. H. Anderson, Second
w. L. Martin, Boyle Heights
A. o. U. W.; w. H. Peck, First African
Methodist Episcopal; William Dawes
lutheran; Will A. Knighten, Union
Avenue Methodist
The following referred to Owens river
in their sermons: Revs B. P. Lee,
Christ church; R. L. Windsor, st.
Luke's: ]. J. Wilkins, st. Paurs pro-
cathedral; Clifford N. Hand, Trinity
CONGREGATIONAL; Isidore Meyers, Con-
gregation Beth Israel synagogue; Sig
mund Hecht, Congregation B'nai Birth
synagogue; D. B. Loofbourrow, Pico
Heights; w. M. Sterling, Asbury Meth
odist.
Those ministers who did not take up
the subject in pulpit but are in favor OF
Owens river are Revs. A. w. Atkinson
(presiding elder) Methodist Episcopal; |
A. G. L. Trew, All Saints Episcopal T.
C. Marshall, Church Of Neighborhood; |
Lewis G. Morris, st. Johns Episcopal;
J. T. Price, Brooklyn Heights; F. S.
Forbes, East st. Louis; George A
Orchard avenue; w. F.
Wenk, Epworth Methodist Episcopal; |
Robert Mcintyre, First Methodist Epis- !
copal; John Nicholson, Garvanza Meth |
odist Episcopal; H. D. Kamp, German !
Methodist Episcopal; Frederick Miller,
Haven Methodist Episcopal; B. F.
Coulter, Broadway; I. H. Mallows, Ply
w. A. Jackson, Church of Re-
deemer, and D. A. Mata, Spanish Pres
byterian.
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