Connecticut western news., 1892-10-13


 lost and ruined state to have communi- cation with other worlds. It would spoil their morals. But wait until this world is fully redeemed, as it will be, and then perhaps interstellar correspond enoe may be opened. Till then this smitten and sickened world of ours must be quarantined from coming too near the unfallen worlds. But, thank God, the prophecies which cheered Columbus in his great undertaking cheer us. America for God! Yea, the round world for Godl There can be no doubt about it..
 That great Italian navigator also i'm presses me with the idea that when one does good thing he cannot appreciate its ramifcations. To the moment of his death Columbus never knew that be had discovered America, but thought that Cuba was a part of Asia. He thought the island Hispaniola was the Ophir of Solomon. He thought he had only opened new way to old Asia. Had he known what North and South America were and are, and that he had found a country three thousand miles wide, ten thousand miles long, of seventeen million square miles, and four times as large as Europe, the happiness would have been too much for mortal man to endure.
 He had no idea that the time would come when 8 nation of sixty million peo- pie on this side of the sea would be joined by all the intelligent nations on the other side the sea for the most part of year reciting his wonderful deeds. It took centuries to reveal the result of that one transatlantic voyage. So it has always been. Could Paul on that June day when he was decapitated have had any idea of what effect his letters and the account of his life would have on Christendom? Could Martin Luther have had any idea of the echoes that would ring through the ages from the bang of his hammer mailing the Latin theses against 8 church door at Witten- berg?
 Could Eli Whitney have realized the continents of wealth that would be added to the south by the invention of his cotton gin? Could John Gutenberg, toiling year after year making type and laboriously setting them side by side, and with presses changed now this way and now that, and sued by John Faust for money loaned, and many of the people trying to cheat Gut enberg out of his invention, he toiling on until he produced what is known as the Mazarin Bible, have any idea that as a result of his invention there would be libraries that placed side by side would again and again engirdle the earth, or the showers of newspapers that snow the world under?
 When Manhattan island was sold to the Dutch for twenty-four dollars, neither they who sold or bought could have foreseen New York, the commercial me- tropolis of America that now stands on it. Can a man who breaches sermon, or a woman who distributes tracts, or a teacher who instructs class, or a passer- by who utters encouraging words real ize the infnitudes of useful result? The teacher at Harrow school who toiled with William Jones, the most stupid boy in school and at the foot of his class, did not know that he was fitting for his work the greatest oriental scholar of modern times-his statue now in St. Paul's cathedral, London. Every move you make for God, however insigniti- cant in your own eyes or in the eyes of others, touches worlds larger than the one Columbus discovered.
 Why talk about unimportant thingst There are no unimportant things. h. fnity is made up of infnitesmals. On a clear night the smallest dewdrop holds a star. Each one of you is at the center of universe, and all you say and do somehow vibrates to the extreme of that universe in all directions. promise ev- erlHsting own to those who will go f. @. Christian and symp' tic " ser the battle of Copper n, : admiral, went into hI .,ltal
 l at the bed of a wounded ; had lost his arm, and said, ''N c4I, Jack, what is the matter with youf and the sailor replied, "Lost my right arm, your honor," and Nelson looked down at his own empty sleeve and said: "Well, Jack, then you and are both spoiled for fishermen, Cheer up, my brave fellowv And that sym pathetic word eheered the entire hos pital.
 Before you die you can, out of your own misfortunes, cheer a hundred souls and start intending echoes. You can no more appreciate the farreaching re- suits of your life than Columbus could see this continent from arctic to ant arctic. 1 say this not to make you proud and arrogant, but to make you tremble with your responsibilities, and put you on your guard as to what you do and what you say.
 While studying the life of this Italian navigator I am also reminded of the fact that while we are diligently look ing for one thing we find another. Co., lumbus started to find India, but found America. Go on and do your duty dili- gently and prayerfully, and if you do not find what you looked for you will find something better. Saul was hunt ing for the strayed animals of his fa- ther's barnyard, but met Samuel, the prophet, who gave him crown of do- minion. Nearly all the great inventions and discoveries were made by men who at the time were looking for something else. Professor Morse gone to Europe to perfect himself in chemistry, on re- turning happens to take the packet ship Sully, from Havre, and while in conver- sation with passenger learns of some experiments in France which suggest to him the magnetic telegraphy.
 He went to Europe to learn the wis dom of others and discovered the tele- graph. Hargreaves, by the upsetting of 8 machine and the motion of it's wheels while upset, discovered the spinning jenny. So, my friend, go on faithfully and promptly with your work, and if you do not get the success you seek, and your plans upeet, you will get some thing just as good and perhaps better Sail ahead on tl.e voyage of life, keep a correct logbook, brave the tempest, make the best use of the east wind, keep sharp