The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-12

Deuteronomy Ill, 27; lift up thine
eyes westward" The eloquent divine
spoke as follows:
So God said to Moses in Bible times
and so He said to Christoforo Columbus,
the son of wool-comber of Genoa,
more than four hundred years ago. The
nations had been looking chiefly to-
ward the east. The sculpture Of the
world, the architecture Of the world
the laws of the world, the philosophy
of the world, the religion Of the world,
came from the east. But, while Column
bus, as his name was called after 1t was
Latinized, stood studying maps and ex-
amining globes and reading cosmo-
graphy, God said to him: Lift up
thine eyes toward the west" Tho fact
was it must have seemed to Columbus
very lop-sded world. Like cart with
one wheel, like scissors with one
blade, like sack on one side of camel,
needing n sack on the other side to bal
ance Il. Here was bride of world
with no bridegroom. When God makes
half of anything, He does not stop
there. He makes the other half We
are all obliged sometimes 20 leave
things only half done. But God never
stops half way, because He has the time
and power to 20 all the way do not
wonder that Columbus was not salts
fed with half world, and 30 went to
work to find the other half. The pieces
of carved wood that were floated to the
shores OF Europe by westerly gale,
and two dead human faces, unlike any
thing he Ind seen before, likewise
floated from tho west, were to him the
voice Of God, saying: Lift up thine
eyes toward the west" But the world
then as now had plenty of cantbe-
done's. That Is what keeps individuals
back, and enterprises back, and the
church back and nations back-igno-
minious and disgusting and dishcarten-
ing can't t-be-dones. Old navigators said
to young Columbus, at can't be done"
The republic of Genoa said, "Tt can't be
done" Alphongo V. said, at can't be
done" A committee on maritime al
fairs, to whom the subject was sub
mittcd, declared, at can't be done"
Venetians said, at can't be done" But
the father OF Columbus wife died, leay-
ing his widow large number OF sea
charts and maps, and as Il to condemn
the slur that different ages put upon
mother-in-law, the mother-in-law OF
Columbus gave him the nHvigator's ma
terials out of which he ciphercd Amer
ica. After awhile the story OF this poor
but ambitious Columbus reaches the
ear of Queen Isabella, and she pays
him eighty dollars TO buy him n decent
suit of clothes, so that he may be fit t'
appear before royalty. The interview
in the palace was successful. Money
enough was borrowed to fit out the OK
pedition. There they nre, the three
ships, in the Gulf Of Cadiz, Spain. j
Won ask me which have been the mos
famous boats Of the world, ! would say
first Noah's ship, that whsrfed or
Mount Ararat; second, the boat OF buI
rushes in which Moses foatsd the Nile
third, the Mayhower that put out fron
Plymouth with the Pilgrim Fathers
and now these three vessels that oil
this, the Friday morning, August
149eJ are rocking on the ripplos | an
so glad IL is Friday, so that the powcr
Of those three ships shall FIRST Of all rui
down the superstition that things bogu'
or VOYAGE started on Friday must neo
essarily prove disastrous Show mo an!
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday o
Thursday or Saturday that ever accom-
plished IA much as this expedition thu
startod on Friday. With the idea tina
there will be perils connected with th
expedition, the Sacrament OF tho Lort'
Supper Is administered. Do not forge
that this voyage was begun under RI
ligious auepices. There Is thu SAINT
Maria, only ninety feet long With fou
naasts and eight anchors The oontai
walking the decks ia 81 years old, h
hair white, for at s5 no WIS gray, an
his face Is round, his nose aquililo, an
his stature little tailor than the ave
are. know from his decided step an
the set OF his jaw that he "a dete
mined man. This is Capt. Christoph'
Columbus. Near by, but far enough o
not 10 run into each other, aro Il
smaller ships, the Pinta and the MIN
about large enough and saio enough
cross the Hudson river or tho Tham
ir rood weather. There are two do
tors In this fleet of ships, and fe
landsmen, ndventurers who are ready
risk their necks in wild expedition
There are enough provisions for yea
Capt. Columbus, where are you sailir
forP' ~ do not know" "How lor
before you will get there3' 81 cann
say" "All ashore that are going
heard, and those who wish to remain
TO the land. Now the anchors Of d
three ships are being weighed and b
ratlines begin to rattle and the sails
unfurl The wind is dead east and
does not take long TO get out 10 sea.
few hours the adventurers wish th
had not started. The ships begin
roll and pitch. o, II is such n d
lightful sensation for landsme
They begin to bother Capt Columb
with questions They want TO mc
what he thinks of the weather. TIL
want TO know when he thinks he W
probably get there. Every time VIII
he stands taking observations OF I
sun with an astrolsbe thoy wond
what he sees and ask more question
The crew are rather grouty. Some
them came on under four monthS q
vance pay and others were imprcss
into the service. For sixtoen days :
wind Is dead east, and that pleases
captain, because II blows them furtf
a--tho. oxyaxy fxr,sa the Httr0na