Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-15

70 huOW Wncu nc JtlluhS Ho Will PTOUu-
bly, get there. Every time when he
stands taking observations Of the sun
with an astrolabe they wonder what
he sees and ask more questions. The
crew are rnther grouty. Some of
them came ON under four months adj
vance pay and others were impressed
into the service. For sixteen days the
wind is dead east and that pleases the
captain, because It blows them further
and further away from the European
coast and further on toward the shore
of another country, If there is any.
After awhile there comes q calm
day, and the attempt is made to
fathom the ocean, and they cannot touch
the bottom, though the line and lead
run down 200 fathoms More delight
full sensations for those who are not
good sailors! A fathom is six feet, and
200 fathoms 1000 feet, and below that
it may be many hundred feet deeper.
To add interest to the voyage, on the
twentieth day out, u violent storm swept
the sea, and the Atlantic 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 Majestic, the
Teutonic ana the City of Paris, and
must imagine what the ocean could do
with those three small ships of oldcn
time. You may Judge what the ocean
was then by what it is now; it has never
changed its habits. 1t can smile like
the morning, but often it is the arch
angel of wrath and its most rolliclSing
fun is shipwreclk. The mutinous crew
would have killed Columbus had it not
been for the generel opinion on ship
board that he was the only one that
could take them back home in safety.
The promise of a 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 assassination must have been
awful. Yet. God sustained the great
sailor commanding the Santa Maria.
Of course he had regal obsequies.
That is the way the world tries to atone
for its mean treatment of great bene-
factors. Many man has had fine
ride to his grave who during his life
had to walk all the way. A big funeral,
and instead of bread they give him
stone, that is, q tombstone. But death
that brings quiet to the body of others
did not bring quiet to his. First buried
in the church of Santa Maria. Seven
years afterward removed to Seville.
Twenty-three years afterward removed
to San Domingo. Finally removed to
Cuba Four post norton journeys from
sepulchre 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 transport
ed to our own shores where they be-
long, and that in the fifth century after
his decease the American continent
might build q mausoleum worthy of
him who picked this jewel of hemi-
sphere out of the sea and set it in the
crown of the worlds geography.
What most impresscs me in all that
wondrous life, which, for the next
twelve months, we will be commemor-
ating by sermon and song and military
parade and worlds fair and congress of
nations, is something have never heard
stated, and that is that the discovery of
America was q religious discovery and
in the name of God. Columbus, by the
study of the prophesies and by what
Zechariah and Micah and David and
Isaiah had said about the lends OF
the Garth" felt himself called by
God to carry Christianity to the lends
of the earth" Then the administration
of the last supper before they left the
gulf of Cadiz, and the evening prayers
during the voyage, and the devout as
cription as soon rs they saw the new
world, and the doXologies with which
they landed, confirm me in saying that
the discovery of America was religious
discovery. Atheism has no right
here; infdelity has no right here;
vagabondism has no right here.
And as God is not apt to fall
in any of His undertakings lat any rate,
have never heard of His having any
thing to do with failure), America is
going to be gospelized, and from the
Golden Gate of California to the Mar
rows of New York harbor, and from the
top of North America to the foot of
South America, from Behring straits to
Cape Horn, this is going to be Imman-
uel's land. All the forms of irreligion
and abomination that have cursed other
parts of the world will land here-yea,
they have already landed-and they
will wrangle for the possession of this
hemisphere, and they will make great
Roadway and feel themselves almost cs-
tablished. But God will not forget the
prophesies which encouraged Column
bus about the lends of the earth seeing
the salvation of God" nor the
Christian anthem which Columbus led
on the morning of the 18th of Octo-
Der, 1892, on the coast of San Salvador.