Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-13
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
TALMAGE breaches ON THE
COLUMBUS ANNIVERSARY.
Tho Discovery of the New World was
Made In tho Name of the Father OF
Heaven and Earth-"Lit Up Thine
Eyes Westward"

Talmage's discourse to-day was occa-
stoned by the Columbus observance
now taking place. In the overlooking
audience were many who had come to
the city to participate In the patriotic
Planet the text being Deuteronomy
ser: Lift up thine eyes westward"
So God said To Moses in bible times,
and SO he said to Christopher Columbo,
the son of wool-combcr of Genoa,
more than four hundred years ago,
The nations had been looking chiefly
toward the East. The sculpture of the
world, the architecture of the world,
the laws of the world, the philosophy
Of the world, the civilization
of the world, the religion
of the world came from the East. hut,
while Columbus,as his name was called
after IL was Latinized, stood studying
maps and examining globes and reading
cosmogrnphy, God said To him: Lift
up thine eyes toward the West" The
fact was IL must have seemed To Column
bus very lop-sided world. Like cart
with one wheel, like scissors with one
blade, like u sack on one side of u camel,
needing sack ON the other side To
balance IL, Here was u bride of
world with no bridegroom, When God
makes II half of anything, he does not
stop there. lie makes the other
half, We are all obliged sometimes to
leave things only half done. But God
never stops half way, because he has
the time and the power 10 go all the
way, ] do not wonder that Columbus
was not satisfied with half world
and so went To work Ia find the other
half, The pieces of carved wood that
were foated TO the shores of Europe
by westerly gale and two dead
human faces, unlike anything he had
seen before likewise iloated from the
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 Can't-be-Dones That Is
what keeps individuals back and enter
priscs back and the church back, aud
nations Neutrality-suspicious. and dis
gushing and disheartening Can't-bc-
Donc's, Old navigators said To young
Columbus, at cant be done" The
republic of Genoa said, at can't be
done" Alphonso ", said, at can't
be done" A committee on maritime
affairs, to whom the subject was sub
mitted, declared, at can't be done"
Vcnctians said, at can't be done"
But the father of Columbus wife died,
leaving his widow II large number Of
sea charts and maps, and as II TO con
denim the slur that different ages put
upon mothers.in-law, the mother-in-law
of Columbus gave him the navigator's
materials, out of which he ciphered
America. After awhile the story of
this poor but ambitious Columbus
reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and
she pays $50 to buy him II decent
suit of clothes, so that he may be
ft to appear before royalty. The In
terview in the palace was successful
Money enough was borrowed 10 fit out
the expedition. There they are, the
three ships, in the Gulf Of Cadiz,
Spain. II you ask me which
have been the most famous boats
Of the world would say, first,
Noah's ship, that wharfcd on Mount
Ararat second, the boat Of bulrushes,
in which Moses floated the Nile; third,
the Mayilowcr that put out from Ply
mouth with the Pilgrim Fathers; and
now these three vessels that on this,
the Friday morning, Aug. 3, l402, are
rocking on the ripples. ] am SO glad
il is Friday so that the prows of those
three ships shall first OF all run down
the superstition that things begun or
voyage started on Friday must neces-
sarily prove disastrous. Show me any
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or
Thursday or Saturday that ever accom-
p ished as much rs this expedition that
started on Friday. With the idea that
there will be pcrils connected with the
expedition, the Sacrament of the Lords
Supper il administered. DO not forget
that this voyage was begun under re-
ligious auspices There is the Santa
Maria, only ninety feet long, with four
masts and eight anchors. The captain
walking the deck Is 81 years old, his
hair white, for at 80 he was gray, and
his face is round, his nose aquiline, and
his stature u little taller than the
average know from his decided step
and the set of his jaw that he is n deter
mined man. That's Capt. Christopher
Columbus. Near by, but far enough off
not To run into each other, are smaller
ships, the Pinta and the Nina about
large enough and safe enough to cross
the Hudson river or the Thames in good
weather. There are two doctors in
this fleet Of ships and u few landsmcn,
adventurers who are ready to risk
their necks i'm wild expedition.
There are enough provisions for "a year.
Capt Columbus, where are you sail
ing for?" 81 do not know" How
long before you viii get thcre?' II
cannot say" "All ashore that are
going" is heard, and those who
wish to remain go 10 the land.
Now the anchors of the three ships are
being weighed and the ratlines begin
TO rattle and the sails TO unfurl. The
wind Is dead East, and ii does not take
long TO get out TO sea. In few hours,
the Adventures wish they had not
started. The ships begin TO roll and
pitch. Oh, it is such delightful SEN
sation for landsmen. They begin to
bother Capt. Columbus with ques-
tions. They want to know what he
thinks of the weather. They want
TO know when he thinks he will prob
ably get there. Every time when
he stands taking observations
of the sun with an astrolabe they won
der what he sees and ask more ques-
tions The crew are rather grouty.
Some of them came on under four
months advance pay and others were
impressed into the service. For six
teen DAYS, the wind is dead east, and
that pleases the captain, because 1T
blows them further and further away
from the European coast, and further
on toward the shore of another country,
IL there is any. After while, there
comes calm day, and the attempt is
made TO fathom the ocean, and they
cannot touch bottom though the line
n fnt