REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Bubject: “Across the Continent’ Spiritual
Thoughts Suggested While Viewing
Scenes of Majesty and Grandeur
Wrought by the Hand of God,
» Texts: “Streams in the desert.” Isaiah
xxxv., 6. ‘‘He toucheth tho hills and they
smoke.” Psalms civ., 32,
My first text means irrigation. It mean®
the waters of the Himalaya, or the Pyre-
nees, or the Slerra Nevadas poured through
eanals and aqueducts for the fertilization
of the valleys, It means the process hy
which the last mile of American barrenness
wiil be made an apple orchard, or an orange
grove, or a wheat fleld, or a cotton planta-
tion, or a vineyard -—‘'streams in the desert.”
My second text means a voleano like Vesu-
vius or Cotopaxi, or it means the geysers
of Yellowstone Park or of California. You
see a hill ealm and still, and for ages im-
movable, but the Lord out of the heavens
puts His finger on the top of it, and from it
rise thick and impressive vapors: ‘‘He
togfheth the hilly and they smoke’ .»
Although my Sirhay dordss the conil-
nent.this summer was for the eighth time,
mord and more am I impressed with the
divine hand in its construction, and with
dts greatness and grandeur, and more and
more am I thrilled withthe fact that it is
all to be irrigated, glorified and Edenized.
What a change from the time when Daniel
Webster on yonder Captoline Hill sald to
the American Senate in regard tothe centre
of this continent, and to the regions on the
Pacific Coast: **What do you want with
this vast, worthless ‘araa, this region of
savages and wild beasts, of deserts and
eactas, of shifting sands and prairie dogs?
To what use could we ever put these great
deserts or these great mountains, impene-
trable and covered with eternal snow?
What ean we ever hope to do with the
Western coast, rook-bound, cheerless and
uninviting, and not a harbor on it? I will
never vote one cent from the public treasury
to place the Preific coast one inch nearer
Boston than it now {s.” What a mistake
the great statesman made when he said
that! All who have crossed the continent
realize that the States on the Pacifie Ocean
will ave quite as grand opportunities as
the Stgtes on the Atlantic, and all this
realm from sea to sea to be the Lord's cul-
tivated possession.
Do you know what, in some respects, is
the most remarkable thing between the
Atlantic and Pacifle? It is the figure of!
a cross on a mountaia in Colorado. It is |
called the “Mount of the Holy Cross.” |
A borizountal crevice filled with perpstua
snow, and & perpendicular crevice filled |
with snow, but both the horizontal line |
and the perpendicular lige so marked, so |
bold, so significent, so unmistakable, that |
all who pass in the daytime within many
miles ares compelied to see it. There are |
some figures, soma contours, some moun- |
tain appearances that you gradually make
out after your attention is eallaed to them.
So a man's face on the rocks in the White
Mountains, So a maiden’s form cut in
the granite of the Adirondacks, So acity |
in the moving clouds. Yet you have to |
look under the pointing of your friend or |
guide for some time before you can see
the similarity. But the first instant you
glance at this side o! the mountain in |
Colorado, you ery oat: “Across! A}
eross!” Do you say that this geological {n- |
scription just happens so?
on the Colorado mountain is not a human |
device. or an accident of nature, or the |
freak of an earthquake. The hand of God
cut it there and set it up for the nation
to look at, Whether set up in roek be- |
fore the cross of wood was ret up on the
bluff back of Jerusalem, or set up at some
time since that assassination, I believe |
the Creator meant it to suggest the most
notable event ip all the history of this
janet, and He hung it thers over the
eart of this continent to indicate that |
the omly hope for this nation is in the |
Cross on which our Immanuel died. The
clouds were voeal at our Saviour's birth,
the rocks rent at His martyrdom, why not
the walls of Colorado bear the record of
the Crucifixion?
I supposed in my boyhood, from {ts size
on the map, that California was a few
wgrids across, a ridge of land on which
one must walk cautiously lest he hit his
su.ad against the Sierra Nevada on one side,
orslip off int¢ the Pacific watets on the
other—California, the thin slice of land, as
1 supposed it to be in my boyhood, I have
found to be larger than all the States of
New England and all New York State and
all Penopsylvania added together; and if
vou add them together their square miles
fall far short of California. And then all
those new-born States of the Union, North
and South Dakota, Washington, Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming. Each State an om-
pire in size,
“Bat,” says one, “in calculating the im-
mensity of our continental acrpage you
must remember that vast reaches of our
public domain are uncuitivated heaps of
dry sand, and the ‘Bad Lands’ of Montana
and the Great American Desert.” I am
glad you mentioned that, Within twenty-
five years thers will not be between the
#tlantic and Pacifle coasts a hundred miles
of land not reclaimed either by farmers’
lough or miners’ erowbar, By irrigation,
he waters of the rivers and tho showers of
heaven, in what are called the rainy sea-
spon, will be gathered into great resarvoirs,
and through aqueducts Jet down where and
when the people want tnem. Utah is an
object lesson, Some parts of that Terri.
tory which were so barren that a spear of
a8 could not have been raised there in a
undred years, are now rich as Lancaster
Qounty farms of Pennsylvania, or West.
ehester farms of New York, or Somerset
County farms of New Jersey. Experiments
Save proved that ten acres of ground irri.
ated from waters gathered in great hydro-
ogieal basing will produce as much as fifty
acres from the dowpyour of rain as seen in
pur regions. We have our freshets and our
droughts, but in those lands which are to
Peo scientifically irrigated thers wili be
neither freshets nor droughts, As you take
a pitcher and get it full of water, and then
get it on a table and take a drink out of it
when you are thirsty and never think of
sirinking a pitcherful all at one#, so Mon-
ana, and Wyoming and Idaho will eateh
he rains of their rainy season and take up
all the waters of their rivers in great
tohers of reservoirs, and refresh their
nd whenever they will,
Bat the mast wonderful part of this Amer-
jean continent is the Yellowstone Park. My
wo visit there made upon me an impres-
fon that will Inst forever. Go in by the
onelda route as wo did this summer and
save 250 miles of railroading, your stage
roach taking you through a day of scenery
ns captivating and sublime as the Yellow.
stone Park itself. Aftor all poeiry has bx.
austed itself concerning Yellowstone Park,
aod all the Morans and Bieratadts asd the.
other enchanting artists Lave somplted
their canvas, there wiil be other ons
to make, and otherstories of its beauty and
Fath, splendot and agony, to be recited.
Yallowstons Park Is the geologist’s
Jiuadise, By cheapening of travel may it
me the nation’s playground! In some
portions of it there seems to be the anarehy
of the elements. Fire and water, and the
vapor born of that marriage, terrific, Gey-
per cones or hills of ervstal that have been
years gro In
HE re ag
of ev sixty-five minutes
& ‘water
g into
sheth the
ured
pleture-gallery. Tho so-called Thanatopsis
Geyser, exquisita asthe Bryant poem it was
named after, and Evangeline Geyser, love.
iy as tho Longfellow heroine it commemos
rates,
But atter you have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days, apd begin
to feel that there can be nothing more of
interest to see, you suddenly come upon
the perorationof all majesty and grandeur,
the Grand Canon, It is here that it seems
to me—and I speak it with reveronce—Je-
hovah seems to have surpassed Himself, It
seems a groat gulch let down into the
eternities. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there, Red! You never
saw red unless you saw it there. Violet!
You never saw violet unless you saw it
there. Triumphant bunoers of color. Ina
eathedral of basalt, Sunrise ana Sunset
married by the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, and
Egyptian basilicas built before human
architecture was born, Huge fortifleations
of granite construeted hefore war forged
its first cannon. Gibraltars and Sebasto-
pols that never can bo taken. Thrones on
which no one but the King of heaven and
earth ever sat, Fount of waters at which
the hills are baptized, while the giant cliffs
stand around as sponsors, For thousands
of years before that scene was unveiled to
juman sight, the elements were busy, and
18 woysers wors hewing away with their
hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding with
their cold hammers, and hurricanes were
cleaving with their lightning strokes, and
hallstones giving the finishing touches, and
after ail these forces of nature had done
their best, in our century the eurtain
dropped, and the world had a new and di-
vinely inspired revelation, the Old Testa-
ment written on papyrus, the New Testa.
ment written on parchment, and this last
Testament written on the rosks,
Standing there in the Grand Canon of
the Yellowstone Park for the most part we
held our peace, but after awhile it flashed
upon me with such power I could not help
but say to my comrades; ‘What a hall this
would be for the last Judgment!” See that
mighty cascade with the ralnbows at the
foot of it? Those waters congealed nnd
transfixed with the agitations of that day,
what a place they would make forthe shin-
ing feet of a Judge of quick and dead!
And those rainbows look now like the
crowns to be east at His feet. At the bot-
tom of this great canon is a floor on which
the nations of the earth might stand, and
all up and down these galleries ol rock the
nations of heaven might sit. And what
reverberation of archangels’ trampet there
would be through all these gorges and
from these caverns and over all
heights. Why should not tho greatest of
amid the grandest scenery Omaipctence
over bulit?
I have said these things about the mag-
nitude of the continent, and given you a
few specimens of some of its wonders, to
jet vou know the comprehensiveness of
Christ's dominion wheu He takes posses.
sion of this continent. Besides that, the
valion of Asia, for we are only thirty-six
miles from Asia at the northwest. Oaly
have three islands, and there are also
shoals which will allow piers of bridges,
and for the most of the way the waler is
The Americo-Asiatie bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent,
So, you see, America evangelized, Asia
Europe taking Asia
from one side and America takiog it from
the other side. Your children will cross
America and Asin and Eu-
rope all one, what
yvangs of seasickness! and the prophecies
But do I mean literally
continent is going to
I do. Christovher Co-
went ashore from the
his second brother
Alonzo, when he went ashore from the
that this American
be all gospelized?
he
he went ashore fromm the Nina, took pos
session of this country in the name ol the
Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost,
Satas bas no more right to this country
than I have to your pocket-book. To hear
him talk on the roof of the temples, where
lie proposed to give Christ the kingdoms
might suppose that Satan was a great cap-
{talist or that he was loaded up with real
ostate, when the old miscreant never
owned an acre or an inch of ground on
this planet,
summer and ojlier summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idabo and
Colorado and California. They have given
devilistic names to many places ia the
West and Northwest.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Park
or Californias you have pointed out to you
sinces cursed with such names as “The
Javil's Slide.” “The Devil's Kitchen”
“The Devil's Thumb,” “The Devil's Pul-
it,” “The Devil's Mush-Pot.,” “The
Yavil's Tea-Kettlie,” "The Devil's Baw.
Mii” “The Devil's Machine-8hop,” “The
Devil's Gate,” and 80 on. Now it is very
much needed that geological surveyor or
Congressional Committes or group of dis-
tingnished guests go through Montana
and Wyoming aud California and Colorado
and give other names to these places. All
these regions belong to the Lord, nad toa
Christian nation; and away with such
Plutonic nomenclature! Bat how is this eon.
tinent to be gospelized? The pulpit and a
Christian printing-presa harnessed to-
gether will be the mightiest team for the
first plough. Not by the power of cold,
formalistie theology; not by ecclesiastical
technicalities, I am slek of them, and the
world is sick of them. But it will bo done
by the warm-hearted, sympathetic presen
tation of the faot that Christ {s ready to
pardon all our sins, and Leal all our
wounds, and save us both for this world
and the next, Let your religion of glaciers
erack off and fall into the Guif Stream and
got melted. Take all your ereeds of all
enominations and drop out of them all
human Jirassolony and pat in only soerip-
tural raseology, and you will ses how
quick the peaple will jump after them,
On the Columbia River we saw the sale
mon jump clear out of the water in differ-
ent places, I suppose for the purpose of
getting the insects. And il when we want
to fish for.men and we 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
Assosiations of America will also do part
of the work, They are going to take the
young men of this nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with God
and man than ever before, Business men
and capitalists are awakisg to the fact
that they ean do nothing better in the way
ol living beneflcence or in last will and
Jestament than to do what Ms 3a uand
4 Lor reo an ho made the Ioung
pak ARE nad yy Thess
titutions will get our young men nll
ver the land into a stampeds for
hoaven. Thus we will all In some way
help on the work, you with your ten
talents, I with five, Lyi
throes, It is estimated that to te
arid and desert lands of Amerisa as they
ought to be frsigated it will cost about
one Lundred milifon dollars to gather the
waters into reservoirs, Ag much ejntri.
pution and effort as that would Jrrigate
with Gospel inflyen 1 jhe waste p
contribution and right living to fil
the reservoirs, You will earry a ait,
a ou abd y 1 A Antmbieti
nd after & while God will
the floods of merey so gathered,
A Nation of Dyspeptics.
From the Mountaineer, Walhalla, N, Dakota,
The remorse of a gullty stomach is what
1 large majority of tho people are su fleriog
with to-day. Dyspepajs is a characteristic
American diseaso and it is frequently stated
hat “wo are a nation of dyspepitics,
Improper food, hurried eating, mental
worry, exhaustion—any of these produce a
lack of vitality in the system, by eausing
the blood to Ba its Hfe-sustaining ele-
ments. The blood is the vital element in
sur lives and should be carefully nurtured,
Restores It to its proper condition, dys-
popsia will vanish and good health follow,
For example, in the county of Pembina,
North Dakota, a few miles from Walhalla,
resides Mr. Earnest Snider; a man of sterl-
ing integrity, whose veracity cannot be
doubted. Ho saym
The Doctors Disagreed,
“1 beeame seriousty ill three years ago.
The doctor gave me medicine for indiges.
tion, but I continued to become Worse. i
had several physicians at futervals who
anve me soma relief, but the disease would
return with all its accustomed severity,
“I read in the newspapers articles re.
garding the wonderful curative powers of
Ur. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People,
and finally concluded to try the pills, Five
months ago I bought six boxes. The first
box gave me much relief, and after using
four boxes I was cured.”
a specific for diseases of the blood and
nerves, For paralysis, locomotor ataxia,
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ALLEGIANCE OF CONQUEROR.
Colonial Relations.
The approaching
pain and t
ome interest to consider the legal ef-
the
between
peace
ect of cession of territory by
tate to another, Such cession has
AON
ations and constitutional law.
sontroversgies have arisen on
to questions of
Many
such
an be extracted from
liplomatic correspondence
je writings, There can
and juris-
be no doubt
tory become subjects of the states
wo which it is ceded; treaties of
seace commonly give them a right to
'otain their former allegiance, though
reldom unconditionally. The laws of
ome countries do not allow aliens to
10ld landed property, and as a matler
but
nee on thelr soll of a large number
sf persons owing allegiance to a for-
dign state. Therefore in
ression often provided that all
nhabitants who wish to retain their
‘ormer allegiance must quit the coun-
treaties of
it is
0 dispose of their property.
nany the inhabitants who wished to
main French subjects were obliged
o leave. They were, however, allowed
o retain their landed prOperty. When
California was ceded by Mexico the
‘Inited States were more liberal to the
nhablitants.
spe Hidalgo they might within a year
slect to remain Mexican citizens, and
10 restriction was put on their right to
~saide or to retain thelr property.
Naturally all public property in the
seded territory belonging to the stale
is transferred {6 the new sovereign.
As regards obligations, it is commonly
igreed that in the absence of express
‘reaty stipulation no portion of the
general public debt is transferred with
‘he territory. There are, however, gev-
sral instances of a proportionate share
sf the general public debt being trans-
‘erred by treaty, Other considerations
apply to local debts, and the better
opinion is that they should be taken
sver with the territory —London law
Journal.
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Korea Taught Japan.
It was the Koreans who taught the
Japanese the art of making the pottery
for which Japan is now justly famous,
but this was also a curse to the Ko-
reans, as all the artisans, as well as
the finest specimens of their work,
were forcibly carried away to Japan.
For five hundred years none of this
fine ware has been produced, but the
jooting of the royal tombs caused some
most excellent specimens of this rare
work to be removed from their place
of concealment, where they had lain
for six or eight hundred years, and
two or three collections have recently
been made in Seoul.
A Thoughtful Fisace.
Jack—"Suppose 1 teach you to play
cards now, and then you'll know all
about it after we're married.” Marie
“Won't that be lovely! What game
will you teach me?” “Solitaire.” ~Lile.
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WAR AND RED TAPE.
—— soon -
Regulations Workea All Right in Time
of Pesce.
The war office is full of entertaining
incidents, Last April that buoyant,
rough-riding, blood-loving statesman,
soldier and dilettante, Theodore Roose-
velt, was busy trying to get authori-
tation for raising the command of
which he is now the head. He was
assistant gecretary of the navy, and
did not send hig card in to bis fei-
low-officeholders when he called on
them. One day he broke in on Gen.
Ludington's repose. Ludington was
and is the head of the quartermaster’s
department, and is as order-loving 2
soul as any old lady in the world. To
him came the enthusiastic Roosevelt.
“I want a requisition for 1,000 horses
at once, and authority to buy ‘em
where they can be found,” said the
impetuous Theodore. “We shall have
to proceed according to the regulations
and advertise for the horses,” replied
Ludington, “But we are enlisting
these men in every state of the union,”
urged Roosevelt, “and we want them 10
take their horses with them where
they are enlisted.” “Then,” said Lud-
ington, “we shall have to advertise for
them where they are bought.” "But
it will take ninety days and cost $1.
000,000," argued Roosevelt. “We must
conform to the regulations”
Ludingfon. “Damn the regulations’
shouted Roosevelt. “You peaple in
here are tied hand and foot with your
cursed red tape.” Mr. Secretary,” cried
Ludington, who had become rather
warm himself, ‘do not curse the regu-
lations, sir; not the regu-
lations. They are not red tape, They
are reasonable provisions, and this de-
partment worked under them
Lill 1
upset
fat od
insisted
do curse
1
Years,
and
cursed war came
New
along
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