Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-10

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no more appreciate the faFreachiAg re-
suits Of your llLe than Columbus could
see this continent from arctic 20 ant
arctic. | cav this not 70 make You
Proad and arrogant. bat 10 make YOU
tTesnbie with your responsibilities, and
put yon on your guard as TO what You
do AID what You sly.
While studying the life Of this Italian
navigator ] am also reminded " the
fact that while We ara diligently LOOK
ing for one thing We find another. Co
lnmbus started 10 find India, 6at found
America. Go on and do your duty dill
gently and praysrfuliy. and If ycu DO
not ind what You looked for you VIII
ind something better. Saul was hunt
ing for the strayed animals Of his IA
Tiers barnyard, but met SAMUEL, ths
prophet. who gave him crown OF do
ninion. Nearly al the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men who
at the time were locking for something
else. Professor Morse gone 10 Europe
10 perfect himself in chemistry, on re-
turning happens to take the packet ship
Sully. from Havre. and while III CONVEX
sation with passenger learns Of some
experiments in France which suggest
TO him the magnetic telegraphy.
He went TO Europe 10 learn the wis
dom of others and discovered the tele-
graph. Hargreaves, by the upsetting OF
8 machine and the motion of its wheels
while upset. discovered the spinning
jenny. So, my. friend, SO on faithfully
and promptly with your work, and if
you do not get the success you seek, and
your plans upset, you will get some
thing just as good and perhaps better.
Sail ahead on tie voyage If life, keep
correct logbook, brave the tempest. make
the best use Of tie east wind, keep a sharp
lookout, and warrant you, in the name
of the God Of Columbus, that if ycu do
not find just what you want OF an earth
" nature you will find heaven, and that
will be better.
What Was wornout India, crouching
under tropical sun, compared with
salubrious ana radiant and almost IL
limitable America, and what is all that
this little world in which we live can
afford you compared with that supernal
realm whose foliage. and whose fruits.
and whose riches, and whose popula
ton, and whose grandeurs, and whose
worship, and whose Christ make up an
affiuence that the most rapturous vocab
ulary fails TO utter?
Another look 1T the career Of that ad
miral Of the Santa Maria persuades me
that it is not to be expected tina: this
world will do its hard workers full JUS
tice. If any man ought to have been
treated well from first to last it was Co
lumbus. He had his faults. Let others
depict them. But a greater soul the
centuries have not produced. This con-
tinent ought to have been called Colum-
bia, after the hero who discovered 1t, or
Isabelliana, after the queen who fur
nished the means for the expedition.
No. The world did not do him justice
while he was alive. and why should it
be expected to do him justice after he
was dead? Columbus in a dungeonl
What thought Columbus in irons?
What a spectacle!
The wife of Robert Murray, after
whom Murray, hill, New York, was
named, never has received proper credit
for OBTAINING at very rich luncheon the
officer of the opposing army until Wash
ington and his army could escape. Mrs.
| Murray saved American independence.
| How the wrong men and the wrong
women get credit that does not belong to
them, while Gods heroes and God's
heroines go ungarlanded! You have
heard Of the brave words of dying chief
tains, but you probably never heard Of
what private soldier said, fallen at
Resaca and bleeding under a she'll
wound in his mouth. and who, though
suffering drea6fully from thirst, when a
cup of water was offered him declined
to drink, saying, my mouth is ell
bloody, sir, and it might make the tin
cup bad for othersl''
The world knows nothing Of the
bravest words and the bravest deeds. In
one of the last letters which Columbus
sent to ms son, he wrote this lamenta-
ton: Il receive nothing of the revenue
due me. live by borrowing. Little
have prohted by twenty years of serv-
ice with such tolls and perils, since at
present do not own roof in Spain. If
| desire to eat or sleep. have no re-
course but the inn, and for the most
times have not wherewithal TO pay my
bill"
Be not surprised, my nearer, If You
suffer injustice. You are in the best
OF coinpsny-the men and women who
wrought nightly for God and tho
worlds improvement. and got for it
chiefly misrepresentation and abuse
while they lived. although afterward
they may have had long row Of car
riages at the obsequies and a gait edged
Get of resolutions unau mously adopted
for the consolation of the bereft house
hold. Do your full duty. expecting no
appreciation in this world. but full re-
ward in the world TO come.
And now, while am thinking Of this
illustrious chip captain Of Genoa, let
me bespesk higher appreciation for the
ship captains now in service, many Of
them this moment on the sea, the lives
Of tens If thousands Of passengers in
their keeping. What an awful responsi.
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