The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-12

cut when quite ripe. This experiment
which has been confirmed by numerous
similar ones. proves the beneficial effect
of harvesting our grain from one to two
weeks before it reaches complete ripeness
This is deserving the attention of all our
farmers.
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Rome, July 8, Correspondence New York
Herald
The time is not yet fixed on for the as
semblage of the Consistory, at which the
Justification of Christopher Columbus is
to be promulgated. The following de.
tails, taken from the Unita CQtt0licd,
will be interesting to the readers of the
Herald:
Among the satisfactory results of the
travels IN South America of Plus X. we
may safely reckon the vindicaton of the
memory of Christopher Columbus, man
hitherto so entirely misre presented and
uncomprehended. by Protestant histor.
lans. The history written under the aus.
pices of His holiness, by Count RosseEy de
Lorgues, publishes the heroic virtue and
religious motives Of the immortal discov.
erer, who had been treated as an adyen-
turer, showing that he was even more of
a good Christian that great navigator.
In 1866, Cardinal Bonnet. Archbishop
OF Bordeaux, proposed to the Holy Faith
er the Qualification of Columbus. The
French bishops generally and the Card.
nal Archbishop of Burgos and many
other members of the hierarchy expressed
themselves anxious that this distinction
should be awarded him. In 1870, dur.
ing the sttings of the Ecumenical Coun-
ell, the topic was frequently discussed,
and its final consideration was postponed
until after the taking of the votes on the
lnfallibility question. All was, however.
put stop to when the invasion of Rome
rendered a reunion Of the Vatican Coun.
Gil impossible.
The following year, at Cardinal Dom
nets request, Count Roselly de Lorgues
fulfilled his task, and the history ofChris-
TOPPER Columbus was published under the
title Of
THE AMBASSADOR OF GOD AND OF Plus TX
The profound arguments that precede
this compendium of a great career are of
sufficient Importance to prove that even
without entering into the examination of
the principal acts of his life, this revealcr
Of new world must necessarily belong
to the communion of saints. The author
decides that the vocation of Columbus
was truly marvellous; that his mission
had been frequently foretold; that he was
looked upon by the Holy See as its natu-
raj Legate TO this new world, where he
became its first missionary, was the first
to plant the cross, to proclaim the Divine
Word 70 To lunUr, ha |
gy and teach the natives the names of
Jesus and Mary, the Lords Prayer, the
generation of the sign of the cross and to
lead them TO become the true sons of
God and His Church.
Count de Lorgues shows that the real
aim of Christopher Columbus was the
ransom of the Holy Sepulchre by means
of the riches to be found in the new re-
gion; that his heart burned with apos-
tOlc zeal. and that while holding the
Offices of admiral and viceroy his life was
rather that of monk than man Of the
world that he ordained the foundation
of college for foreign missions l25 years
before the Propaganda was instituted,
and openly professed the dogma of the
Immaculate Conception before its defni
ton.
The author likewise points out mys-
FERROUS connection between the first
Christian that carried the cross into the
New World and the first Pope (Pius TX
that ever visited the land of the future.
He offers proof of the fact that Column
bus practiced, to a special degree, every
theological and cardinal virtue.
He afirms that he did not owe his
great celebrity to his genius or science,
but only to his vocation, to his faith, and
to the divine grace. As sailor he was
in no wise superior to others of his own
time; in fact, the professors of Berlin
and Paris laughed at his ignorance Of
and astronomy. Notwithstand-
ing which this ignorant man, the chosen
of God, discovered, besides the New
World, seven principal laws Of the globe,
ard was, Notwithstanding the progress
made by science, unrivalled in cosmog-
raphy.