Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-13
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storiu sweeps tHe scu, anu the AtiHHtic
ocean tries what il can do with the
Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina.
Some of you know something of what
sea can do with the Umbria, the Ma
jestic, the Teutonic, the City of Paris, and
you must imagine what the ocean could
do with those three small ships of olden
time. You may judge what the ocean
was then by what II Is now; IL has
never changed its habits. 1t can smile
like the morning, but often it is the
Archangel of Wrath and it's most roll
licking fun is n shipwreck. The muffin
GUS crew would have killed Columbss
had 1t not been for the general opinion
on shipboard that he was the only one
that could take them back home in
safety. The promise OF II silk waistcoat
and $40 in money to the man who
should first discover land appeased
them somewhat, but the indignation
and blasphemy and threats of assassi-
nation must have been awful. Yet,
God sustained the great sailor com
handing the Santa Maria, Every
evening on shipboard they had prayers
| and sung vesper hymn, But, after
all the patience Of those on board the
ships had been exhausted, and the
great captain or admiral had been
cursed by every anathema that human
| lips could frame, one night sailor
saw light moving along the shore,
and then moving up and down, and
then disappearing, On Friday morn
| ing ut , o'clock, just long enough after
| Thursday Ia make II sure that IL was
| Friday and so give another blow at tho
world sidea of unlucky days-on Friday
morning, Oct, IL, iio2, gun from the
Pinta signalled Land Ahead" Then
the ships lay To, and the boats were
| lowered and Capt, Christopher Co
| lumbus first stepped upon the shore,
amid the song of birds and the mir
surge of rcdolence, and took posses
sion in the name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Ghost So the voy-
age that began with the Sacrament
ended with Gloria In EXcelsis Del.
| From that day onward you say there
can be nothing for Columbus but
honors, rewards, rhapsodies, palaces
and worldwide applause. No, mol
On his way back to Spain the ship
was so wrcnched by the tempest and
50 threatened with destruction that he
| wrote u brief account of his discovery
and put II In u caslS, and threw IL over.
| board, that the world might not lose
the advantage Of his adventures.
lIonors awaited him ON the beach, but
| he undertook n second voyage and with
IL came all maligning and persecution
and denunciation and poverty. lie
was called land-grabbcr, a liar, "a
| cheat, fraud decciver of ma.
| tions. Spectators robbed him of his
good name, courtiers deprecated his
| discoveries, and there came 10 him
ruined health and imprisonment and
chains, of which he said while no
| ratified them on his wrists: II will
| wear them as memento of the graft
tude of Princes" Amid keen approcia-
| ton of the worlds abuse and cruelty,
and with body writing In the tortures
| OF govt, he groaned out his last words:
| "ln mnnus tuas Domino commendo
spiritum meun:" Unto thy hands
| Oh, Lord, ! commend NV spirit
| vi tbHTSt Ht lliiu TtBul pDstuultS.
That is the way the world tries to
atone for It's mean treatment of great
| benefactors. Many man has had u
| fine ride TO his grave who during this
| life had to walk all the way. big
| funeral and instead of bread they give
| him stone, that Is II tombstone, But
death that brings quiet to the body of
| a li1 httnr MA IN hta
First buried In the church OF
Santa Maria. Seven years after
| ward removed to Seville. Twenty
| three years afterward removed to San
| Domingo Finally removed TO Cuba.
Four post-mortem journeys from sepul-
chre to sepulchre. wish his bones
might be moved just once more, and
now that they have come so near to
America as Cuba, they might during
the great Columbian year be trans
ported to our own shores where they
| belong, and that in the fifth century
after his dccease the American conti-
| nent might build n maussoleum worthy
of him who picked this jewel of a hem
| sphere out OF the sea and set 1t in the
crown of the worlds geography,
And, now, while ] am thinking of
this illustrious ship captain of Genoa,
let me bespeak higher appreciation for
the ship captains now in service, many
| of them this moment on the sea, the
| lives of tens OF thousands of passengers
in their keeping. What an awful re-
sponsibility is theirs! They go out
through the Narrows, or start from
| Queenstown, or Southampton, or Glas-
gov; not knowing what cyclone, or
collisions, or midnight perils are
waiting for them. IL requires
bravery to face an army of men,
| but far more bravery To face
an army of Atlantic surges led on
| by hurricanes. A more stupendous
scene is not to he witnessed than that
of ship captain walking the bridge OF
| steamer in the midst of cyclone.
Remember those heroes in your prayers,
| and when worn out in the service, and
they have to command inferior craft
| or return to the land and go out OF
service, do them full honor for what
| they once were Let the ship com
panes award them pensions worthy
of what they endured until they start
on their last voyage from this world
to the next. Aye, that voyage we must
all take. landsmen as well as seafarers.
Let us be sure that we have the right
pilot, and the right chart, and the
right captain, and that we start in the
right direction. II will be to each of
us who love the Lord "a voyage more
wonderful for discovery than that
which Columbus took, for, after all we
have heard about the other world, we
know not where it is or how it looks,
and it will be as new as San Sal
vador was TO the glorious cap
tain of the Santa Maria. Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man."
May the light from that Golden Beach
flash ON the darkness, and we be able
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