DB. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Across tlie Continent"—Spiritual Thoughts Suggested While Viewing Scenes of Majesty and Grandeur Wrought by the liand of God. TEXTS: "Rtreams in the desert." —Isaiah xxxv., 6. "He toucheth the hills and they smoke."—Psalms civ., 32. Mv first text means irrigation. It mean 3 the waters of the Himalaya, or tho Fyre" noes, or the Sierra Nevadas poured through canals and aqueducts for the fertilization of the valleys. It means the process by which the last mile of American barrenness will be made an apple orchard, or an orange grove, or a wheat Held, or a cotton planta tion, or a vineyard—"streams in the desert." My second text moans a volcano like Vesu vius or Cotopaxi, or it means the geysers of Yellowstone Park or of California. You see a hill calm and still, and for ages im movable, but the Lord out of the heavens puts His linger on the top of it, and from it rise thick and impressive vapors: "He toucheth the hills and they smoke!" Although my journey across the conti nent this summer was for the eighth time, more and more am I impressed with the divine hand In its construction, and with Its greatness and grandeur, and more and more am I thrilled with the fact that it is all to be irrigated, glorified and Edenized. What a change from the time when Daniel Webster on yonder Captoline Hill said to tho American Senate in regard to the centre of this continent, and to the regions on the Pacific Coast: "What do you want with this vast, worthless ;area, this region ot savages nnd wild beasts, of deserts and cactus, of shifting sands and prairio dogs? To what use could we ever put these great deserts or these great mountains, impene trable and covered with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the Western coast, rock-bound, cheerless nnd uninviting, and not n harbor on it? I will never vote one cent from tho public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer lloston than it now is." What a mistake tho great statesman mado when he said that! All who have crossed the continent realizo that the Statos on the Pacille Ocoan will have quite as grand opportunities ns the States on the Atlantic, and all this realm from sea to sea to bo the Lord's cul tivated possession. Do you know what, In some respects, is tho most remarkable thing between the Atlantic and Pacific? It is the figure of a cross on a mouutaia in Colorado. It is called tho "Mount of the Holy Cross." A horizontal crevice filled with perpetual snow, and a perpendicular crevice filled witli snow, but both the horizontal line anil the perpendicular line so marked, so bold, so slgnificent, so unmistakable, that all who pass in the daytime within many miles are compelled to see it. There are some figures, some contours, some moun tain appearunces that you gradually make out aftor your attention is called to them. So a man's faco on therseksin the White Mountains. So a maiden's form cut in Ihe granite of the Adlrondacks. So a city In the moving clouds. Yet you have to look under the pointing of your friend or guide for some timo before you can see the similarity. But tho first instant you glance at this side of tho mountain in Colorado, you cry out: "Across! A cross!" Do you say that this geological in scription just happens so? No! That cross on the Colorado mountain is not a human device, or an accident of nature, or the freak of an earthquake. Tho hand of God cut it there and set it up for tho nation to look at. Whether set up in rock be fore tho cross of wood was set 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 in all the history of this planet, and Ho hung it there over tho lieirt of this continent to indicate that tho only liopo for this nation is in the Cross on which our Immanuul died. The clouds wcro vocal nt our Saviour's birth, tho rocks rent at His martyrdom, why not the walls of Colorado bear the record of tho Crucifixion? I supposed in my boyhood, from its size DU the map, that California was a few yards across, a ridge of land on which one must walk cautiously lest he hit his head against the Sierra Nevada on one side, or slip off intc the Pacific waters on the other—Californin, the thin slice of land, as I 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 nil Pennsylvania added together; and if you 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 em pire in size. "But," says one, "in calculating the im mensity of our continental acreage you must remember that vast reaches of our public domain are uncultivated 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 there will not be between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts a hundred miles of land not reclaimed either by farmers' plough or minors' crowbar. By irrigation, the waters of the rivers and the showers of heaven, in what are called the rainy sea- Bon, will be gathered Into groat reservoirs, and through aqueducts let down where and when the people want them. Utah is an object lesson. Some parts of that Terri tory which were so barren that a spear of grass could not have been raised there in a hundred years, are now rich as Lancaster County farms of Pennsylvania, or West chester farms of New York, or Somerset County farms of New Jersey. Experiments have proved that ten acres of ground irri gated from waters gathered in great hydro logical basins will produce as much as fifty acres from the downpour of rain as soon in our regions. We have our freshets and our droughts, but in those lands which aro to foe scientifically irrigated there will be neither freshets nor droughts. As you take a pitcher and get it full of wator, and then set it on a table and take a drink out of it when you aro thirsty and never think of drinking a pitehrrful all at once, so Mon tana, and Wyoming and Idaho will catch the rains of their rainy season and take up all the waters of their rivers in great pitchers of reservoirs, and refresh their land whenever they will. But the most wonderful part of this Amer ican continont is the Yellowstone Park. My two visit there made upon me an impres sion that will last forever. Go in by the Moneida route as we did this summer and save 250 miles of railroading, your stage coach taking you through a day of scenery as captivating and sublime as the Yellow- Btone Park itself. After all poetry has ex hausted itself concerning Yellowstone Park, and all the Morans and Bierstadts and the other enchanting artists have completed tholr canvas, there will be other relations to make, and other stories of its beauty and wrath, splendor and agony, to be recited. The Yellowstone Park is the geologist's paradise. By cheapening or travel may it become the nation's playground! In some portions of it there seems to be the anarchy of the elements. Fire and water, and the vapor born of that marriage. tarrißc. Gey ser cones or hills of crystal that have been over Ave thousand years growing! In places the earth, throbbing, sobbing,groan ing, quaking with aqueous paroxysm. At the expiration of every sixty-five minutes one of the geysers tossing its boiling water 185 feet in the air and then descending into swinging rainbows. "He toucheth the hills and they smoke." Caverns of pictured walls large enough for the sepulchre of the human lace. Formations of stone in shape and color of calla lily, ot heliotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of sunflower and of gladiolus. Sulphur and arsenic and oxide of iron, with their delicate pencils, turning the hills Into a Luxemburg, oj a Vatican picture-nailery. The go-ealled Thanatopsla Geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem tt wai named after, and Evangeline Geyser, love ly as the Longfellow heroine It oommemo* rates. But after you nave wandered along the geyserite enohantment for days, and begin to feel that there can be nothing more ol interest to see, you suddenly come upon the perorutionof all majesty and grandeur, the Grand Canon. It is here that It seems to me—and I speak it with reverence—Je hovah seems to have surpassed Himself. It seems a great gulch let down Into the eternities. Masonry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellowf You never saw yellow unless you saw it there. Red! You never saw red unless you saw it there. Violetl You never saw violet unless you saw it there. Triumphant banners of color. In a cathedral of basalt, Sunrise ana Sunset married by tho setting of rainbow ring. Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, and Egyptian basilicas built before human architecture was born. Huge fortiflaatlon* of granite constructed before war forged its llrst cannon. Gibraltars and Sebasto pols that never can be 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 human sight, the elements were busy, and the geysers were hewing away with thoir hot chisel, and glaciers wore pounding with their cold hammers, and hurricanes were cleaving with their lightning strokes, and hailstones giving the finishing touches, and after ail these forces of nature had done their best, in our century the curtain 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 rocks. Standing there in the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone Park for the mo3t part we held our peace, but after awhilo it Hashed 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 tho rainbows at the foot of It? Those waters congealed and trunsfixed with the ugitatlons of that day, what a place they would make for the shin ing feet ot a Judge of quick and deadl And those rainbows look now like the crowns to be cast 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 nnd down these galleries of rock the nations of heaven might sit. And what reverberation of archangels' trumpet there would be through all these gorges and from these caverns and over all these heights. Why should not tho greatest of all the days the world shall ever see close amid the grandest scenery Omnipotence ever built? I have said these things about the mag nitude of the continent, and given you a few specimens of some of Its wonders, to let vou know the comprehensiveness of Christ's dominion when He takes posses sion of this continent. Besides that, the salvation of this continent means the sal vation of Asia, for we are only thirty-six miles from Asia at the northwest. Only Behring Strait separates us from Asia, and these will be spanned by a great bridge. The thirty-six 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 of bridges, and for the most of the way the water is only about twenty fathoms deep. The Amerlco-Aslatio bridge which will yet span those straits will make America, Asia, Europe and Africa one continent. So, you see, America ovangolized, Asia will be evangelized. Europo taking Asia from one side and America taking it from the other side. Your children will cross that bridge. America and Asia and Eu rope all one, what subtraction from the pangs of seasickness! and the prophecies in Revelation will be fulfilled, "there shall Lie no more sea." But do I moan literally that this American continent is going to be all gospelized.? I do. Christopher Co lumbus, when ho went ashore from the Santa Maria, and his second brother Alonzo, when ho went ashore from the rinta, and his third brother Vincent, when ho went ashore from the Nina, took pos session 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 I have to your pocket-book. To hoar him talk on the roof of the temple, where ho proposed to give Christ the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them, you might suppose that Satan was a great cap italist or that he was loaded up with real estate, when tho old miscreant never owned an acre or an inch of ground on this planet. For that reason I protest against something I heard nnd saw this summer and other summers in Montana and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado and California. They have given devilistic names to many places In the West and Northwest. As soon as you get In Yellowstone Park or California you have pointod out to you places cursed with such names as "Tho Devil's Blide," "T! ' Devil's Kitchen," "The Devil's Thumb," "The Devil's Pul pit," "Tho Devil's Mush-Pot," "The Devil's Tea-Kettle," "The Devil's Saw- Mill," "Tho Devil's Machine-Shop," "The Devil's Gate," and so on. Now it is very much needed that geological surveyor or Congressional Committee or group of dis tinguished guests go through Montana and Wyoming and California and Colorado and give other names to these places. Ail these regions belong to the Lord, and to a Christian nation; and away with such Plutonic nomenclature! But how is this con tinent to bo gospelized? The pulpit and a Christian printing-press harnessed to gether will be the mightiest team for the flrst plough. Not by tho power of cold, formalistic theology; not by ecclesiastical technicalities. lam sick of thorn, nnd the world is sick of them. But it will be done by the warm-hearted, sympathetic presen tation 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 tho 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 scrip tural phraseology, and you will see how quick the people will jump after them. On the Columbia River we saw the sal mon jump clear out of the water in differ ent places, I suppose for the purposo of getting the insects. And if when we want to flsh for men and wo 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 tho 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 awaking to the fact that they can do nothing better in the way of living benellcence or In last will and testament than to do what Mr. Marnuand did for Brooklyn when he mnde tho Young Men's Christian palace possible. These institutions will get our young men all over the land into a stampede for heaven. Thus we will all in some way help on the work, you with your ten talents, I with Ave, somebody else with three. It is estimated that to Irrigate the arid and desert lauds of Ameri«a as they ought to bo irrigated, it will cost about one hundred million dollars to gather the waters into reservoirs. As muoh contri bution and effort as that would irrigate with Gospel influences ail the waste places of this continent. Let us by prayer and contribution and right living all help to flit tho reservoirs. You will carry a bucket, and vou a 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, "In the wilderness waters have broken out, and streams in the desert,"and with David, "Thera Is a river the streams whareof shall make glad the sight of God." Oh, All up the reser voirs! America for Godl A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. In Unsealed Proposal—Life Insurance Companies Cannot Be Fooled Into Ac cepting Walklne Beer Barrels as Healtliy Risks—Their High Death Rate D ear Uncle Sammy—Now that Spain Has marched away saluting, And you have proved that you can shoot And hit what you are shooting, Pleuso look around the corners here— See cruelties protected By you, the willing victims slain And sufl'rlng ones neglected. 'TIs ceaseless, sad, inhuman war, So bitter, black, accursed! A fatal, foul delirium, Unheard, unhoaled, unmercled. The Cubans cried to God and fought; The men that Rum is slaying Are far below the lighting mark, Are left no wish for prnying. These foes you haven't dared to whip You fear to hit the Rummies— There's where the U. S. A. is weak, And all your gunners dummies. A great usurping body, these, Of foreign name and habit; Why should you run before their guns As timid as a rabbit? O, Yankee grit and Yankee dash, A hero-led commotion Can knock the Liquor Demon out And drown him in the ocean! Dear Uncle Sam, your bruwny arm— God's great demand to sway it— Can sweep this horror from the land. The Traffic seize and slay it. Then, why not order, Uncle Sara, Your battleships and cruisers With tested guns and bravest men, To crush these proud abusers? You hold the sword of God; to Him The enemy surrenders; ne claims the nation, heel and keel, As Temperance Defenders. —Jessie MacGregor Shaw, in Temperance Banner. Beer as a Bev further attendance at this term of court. A few more judges like Judge Gordon would go a great way in purging the jury box of the corrupt allies of rum. Echoes of tlie Crusade. Six out of every 100 of the population ol England are made paupers by drink. Even for the sake of temporal prosperity alone, no young man can afford to be a frequenter of the saloons. The cause of temperanoe has been tc many famous Americans the inspiratior that started them upon a public career. The first speech that Abraham Linooln ever made in public was a defence of total abstinence before a Washington society. The most lucrative employments are those of the greatest responsibility, and these are given generally to sober men, In many cases to total abstainers exoluslvgiv. The Capacity mt Pocket*. Many stories have been told going to show the marvelous storage capa-, city of the average small boy's pockets, but there happens to be in Washing ington a grown man whose personal cargo stowed away in his clothes can easily break any record of the sort in existence. He is a well-known citizen, an electrician, and here is the bill of lading, so to speak, which shows pre cisely what he had in his pockets the other day. The recoid was made as the articles were brought forth: Four turtle weights, 1 prescription, 100 lightning rod circulars, 1 pair plain eye-glasses, 1 pair reading glasses, 3 lead pencils, 1 fountain pen, 1 bottle tithia tablets, 2 bottles liquid medioine, 1 paper calomel, 1 paper Kochelle salts, 8 skeleton keys, 3 handkerchiefs, bunch of 6 keys, an other bunch of 6 keys, 1 sample set of lightning rods, 1 check book, 20 postal cards, 5 envelopes, 5 envelopes stamped, 12-cent and 1 special de livery stamp, 1 steamboat ticket, 1 ferry ticket, I electric car ticket book, 1 pair gold eyeglasses, a pair blue eyeglasses, a pair steel frame eye glasses, 1 gold watch, 1 dozen 2-grain quinine pills, 1 dozen 3-grain quinine pills, G soda mint tablets, 6 bluemas pills, 12 sugar-coated pills, 4 £-grain morphine granules, 2 drachms kero sene '"for bites," 6 street car tickets, 1 pocketbook for change, 1 pocket knife, 15 blotters, I bank book, 5 blank notes, SIOOO worth of unpaid notes, 50 papers in legal envelopes, toothpicks, 0 shrubs, 1 comb, 1 box of matches, 3 separate keys, 1 whistle, 1 bunch of rubber bands, J a dozen pens, a box of troches, 1 music box key, 2 iron safe keys, 1 roll of bank notes, 1 flour tester, a will, 7 meal tickets, 1 indelible pencil, 3 plats of ground, 2 flat night keys, J ounce of bi-sulpimle of mercury, 1 package of pins, 1 silver indelible pencil, 1 box of leads for same, 2 pocket ledgers, 1 pocket battery, 1 piece of wire, 1 piece of string, 1 dozen letter en velopes, 1 package letter heads, 1 package billheads and a pair of pin cers. Now, who can equal that?—Wash ington Star. The Origin of tlie Cuban Flag. Fidel G. Pierra, writting to Profes sor C. B. Galbreath, of the Ohio State Library, gives the following explana tion of the origin of the Cuban flag: j "The Cuban flag dates back to about ' 1850 or 1851, It has a Masonic ori gin, and hence the triangle. The red Held is the emblem of war. The pur pose of the movement hero in the United Statss was to conquer the isl and. Southern people, fighting Ma sons, were the leaders. The three blue stripes represented the three de partments into which the island was then divided. The white stripes were put, I believe, merely to divide the blue. The intention of the Southern people who were interested in the scheme was to make three States out of the island. "The star which appears in the red field has a more remote origin. It was the lone star of Texas. In New Or leans, at about 1850, there existed the Association of the Lone Star. They assisted Narciso Lopez with money and in other ways when he invaded Cuba in 1851, a?id he adopted the flag of the association, I suppose, out of gratitude. "When Carlos Manuel de Cespedes began the revolutionary movement of 18(58, he had another flag, but the peo ple of Puerto Principe and Santa Clara raised the present flag, which was finally adopted as the Cuban national flag when the first constituent assem bly came together in 1869."—Cincin nati Commercial Tribune. llanl to Swear on New Warships. An old jack tar had this to say re cently about modern warships: "Things are busted wide open. How can a fellow swear on one of these new-fangled boats? He'd sound like a fool a sayin' of 'Shiver me tim bers!' when there ain't a piece of tim ber, nawthin' but iron from bow to stern. A feller can't take a reef in anything, he can't belay, there's no belayin' pins, 'n he can't use any o' them old words which hez made ther navj. 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