Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-14
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn DiVlnss Sun.
day Sermon
Subject; "Ialf n Planet"

TEXT: "LiH up thine eyes 'cesipord.'-
Deuteronomy ill.,. -.
So God said 70 Moses in Bible times, an
50 He said to Cristoforo Colombo the son oi
a wool comber OF Geno1. more than four
hundred yearsago The Nations hal been
looking chiefly towsr the east.
But while Columbus. as his name was
called after it was Latinized. stood studying
mans and examining globe: and reading COS
biography, God said to him, Lift up thine
eyes toward the west" The fact was il must
have seemed to Columbus a very lopsded
world-liSe cart with one wheel, like n
scissors with one blade, like a sack on one
side Of a camel, needing a sack on tia other
side to balance il. Here was a bride Of the
world with no bridegroom.
do not wonder that Colunhu; was not
satisfied with half a world, AMI 50 went to
work to find the other half The pieces OF
carved wood that were hoatei to the shores
Of Europe by westerly gale. and two dead
human faces. unlike anything he had seen
before, likewise hoated from the vast. vera
TO him the voice of God saying, Lift up
( thine eyes toward the vest
/ Old Davigators said TO young Columbus.
/ ut can't be done The republic of Genoa
said, at can't be done" Alphonso V. said.
! ut can't be done A comm ttee on mari
| time affairs to whom the subject was sub
3 mtted, declared. at can't be DONE Vene.
! tians said, "It can't he done' After awhile
/ the story OF this poor but ambitious Column
/ bus reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and
she pays eighty dollars to buy him decent
suit of clothes, so that be may be fit to ap-
pear before loyalty
Tho interview in the palace wa; success,
ful. Money enough was borrowed TO it out
the expedition. There they nre, the three
ships, in the Gulf Of Cadiz Spain. If you
ask me which have been the most famous
boats Of the world would, say. first Noah's
ship that wharfed on Mount Ararat sec.
ond. the boat of buirushes, in which Moses
hoated the Nile: thirJ, the Mayhower, that
put out from Plymouth vita the Pilgrim
Fathers and now these three vessels that ON
this the Friday morning August 3 1892, are
rocking on the ripples
There is the Santa Maris, only ninety feet
long, with four masts an eight anchors
The captain walking the deck is fifty-seven
years old. his hair white for a. thirtY-ive
he was gray, and his face is round, his nose
aquiline and his stature little taller than
the average.
There are two doctors in this feet OF ships
and few landsmeD, a1venturerS wac are
ready to risk their necSs in wild expo.
dition. There are enough provisions for a
year. Captain Co.u nbus, where are you
sailing forg' II do not know" How long
before you will get there Il clunot saw"
"All ashore that are going" is heard, anl
those who wish to remain 80 TO the land.
For sixteen days the wind is deal east.
and that pleases the captain becauseit blows
them farther aud farther away from the
European coast and farther on toward the
shore OF another country if there is any.
To add interest to the voyage on the |
twentieth day cut violent storm sweeps
the sea. and the Atlantic ocean tries what il /
can DO with the Santa Maria, the Pinta and /
the Nina. The mutiuOus crew would have
killed Columbus had il not been for the gen.
eral opinion on shipboari that he was the /
only one that could take them back home in /
safety.
The promise of silk waistc)at and forty /
dollars in money 10 the mau who should first /
discover land appeasad them somewhat. but I
the indignation AMI blaspheiny and threats .
of assassination must have been awful.
On Friday morning at . o'clock, just long
enough after Thursday 10 make 10 sure that /
it was Friday and so give another blow at I
the worlds idea OF unlucky days-on FRI
day morning. October T. 1872, gun from
the Pinta signaled land ahead Then the
ships lay to and the boats were lowered, AMI
CAPTAIN Christopher Columbus first stepped
upon the shore amid the song OF birds and
the air surge OF redolence AMI took pos.
session in the name Of the Father, AMI the
Son AMI the Holy Ghost.
SO the voyage that began with the slcra-
ment ended with "GiOra in Excslsis d 90
From that day onward you say there can
be nothing for Columbus but honors. re-
wards. raphsodies. palaces and world wide
applause. No no. On his way back to
Spain the ship was 50 wrenched by the
tempest and so threatened with destruction
that he wrote a brief account of his discOy
,,stfi nell
boari that the world might not lose the ad.
vantage OF his adventures. Honors awaited
him on the beach but he undertook a second
voyage AMI with it came all .aligning AMI
persecution and denunciaton and poverty.
He was called a land grab5er, a liar. a
cheat, n fraud a dec iyer OF Nations
Spectators robbie him of his goo1 name.
courtiers deprecated his discoveries. and
there came 70 him ruined health and i'm.
prisonment and Chains, OF which he said
while he ratified them on his wrists, II
will wear them as a memento OF the graft
tude of princes Amid keen appreciation
of the worlds abuse aud cruelty, and with
body writhing in the fortunes of govt, he
groaned out his last words. I'm manus
tuas Domino commendo spiritum meun'
Into Thy hands, o Lord, | commend my
spirit
OF course he had regal obsequies That il
the way the worli tries to atone for its
mean treatment o; great benefactors. First
buried in the church OF Santa Maria. Seven
years afterward removed to Seville TWEEN
Is three years atterward removed to San
Domingo. Finally removed to Cuba. -Four
postMortem journeys from sepulcher 20
sepulcher
What most impresses me in all that
wonarous life which for the next twelve
months we will be concentrating by SER
mon and song and military parade and
Worlds Fair aud congress OF Nations, is
| have never heard stated. and
that is that the discovery OF America was
religious discovery and IN the name OF
600. Columbus bv the study of the proph
scies. and 10y what Zechariah and Micah and
David and Isiah had said about the ENDS OF
the earth, was persuaded TO go out aud find
he lends Of the EARTH" and be felt himself
allied by God to carry Christianity TO tn
ends OF the earth.
Atheism has no right here: iu6delity has
no right here: vagabondism has no right
here Aud as God is not apt to fail in any
II His undertaking. latany rate have never
heard Of His having anything to do with a
ailurel, America is going to be Gospelizsd,
lud from the Golden Gate of Cali
ornia to the NarrowS Of New York harbor.
md from the top OF North America to the
DOT Of South America, from Boring straits
o Cape Horn, this is going to be lmmanuefs
and.
4 divine influence will yet sweep the con- T
inent that will make iniquity drop like
lacked lime. and make the most blatant in ;
idelity declare it was only joking when it q
aid the Bible was not true, and the worst {
ltheism announce that il always did be- q.
ieve in the God of Nations.
Il you'll TO. 90 Cor ~. world in us lost '
I'd runei state TO have communication I
18th other worlds 1t would spoil their 4
,ora. But wait until this world is fully
edeemod. as it will be. and then perhaps ,
1terstellar correspondence may be opened. 6
The great Italian navigator also impresses
De with the idea that when one does (,
God thing he cannot appreciate its ramih-
ations. To the moment of his death Co
lmbus never knew that he had discoveret
america but thought that Cuba was part II
{ Asia. He thought the Island His D
aniola was the Ophir Of solomon. he !
bought he bal only opened a new way To y
Id Asia. Had he known what North AMI
outh America were ana are, and that he
ad found a country three thousand miles n
tide ten thousand miles long. OF seventeen =
billion square miles and four times as large
Europe. the happiness would have been
20 much for mortal man to endure G
He had no idea that the time would come
hon q Nation OF sixty million people on