The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-10

tated, have had any IDEA OF what effect hli
letters and the account OF his life would
have on Christendomq Could Martin Lu
Their have had any idea OF the echoes thai
would ring through the ages from the bang
of his hammer mailing the Latin theses
against a church door at Wittenburg
Could Eli Whitney have realized the con,
tinents Of wealth that would be added Il
the south by the invention Of his cotton
ginl Could John Gutenberg, toiling year
after year, making type, and la
boriously setting them side BY
side. and with presses changed
now this way and now that, and sued by
John Faust for money loaned, and many Of
the people trying to cheat Gutenberg out
Of has invention. he toiling on until he pro-
ddced what is known as the Mazaril Bible,
have an idea that. as a result of his inven-
ton, there would be libraries that placed
side by eide would again and again sugirdie
the earth, or the showers Of newspapers
that snow the world underl When Man
haitian Island was sold to the Dutch for 90
neither they who sold nor bought could have
foreseen New York, the commercial metrop-
oils of America, that now stands on II. Gan
a man who breaches a sermon or woman,
who distributes tracts, or a teacher VINO
Instructs a class, or a paEssr-by VINO VI
ters encouraging words. realize the iunn~
itudes of useful RESULT The teacher az lar
row school " no toiled with William Jones,
the most stupid boy in school. and at the
foot of his class did not know that ne was
fitting for bis work the greatest oriental
scholar of modern times, his statue no" IN
st. PAul's cathedral, London. Every move
you make for Goa, however lnslgnthcant IN
your own eyes or in the eyes OF others
touches worlds larger than the one Column
bus discovered Why talk about unim-
portant things! There are no unlmportant
things. Infinity is made 10 Of tnhnitesmals.
On a clear night, the smallest dew-drop b olds
a star. Each one Of you Is at the center
of O universe, and all you say and do
somehow vibrates 70 the extreme OF that
universe In all directions promise
everlasting renown 70 those who will 20
forth with Christian and sympathetic
words. After the battle of Copenhagen,
Nelson the admiral went into a hospital
and halted at the bed of wounded sailor
who had lost his arm, and said, Well.
Jack, what Is the matter with your and
the sailor replied. Lost my right arm, your
honor" Nelson looked down at his own
empty sleeve and said, "WelI, Jack, then
Cheer up, my brave fellowm and that sym
pathetic word cheered the entire hospital
Before you die, you can, out of your own
misfortunes, cheer a hundred souls, and
start unending echoes. You can no more
appreciate the far-reaching results Of your
life than Columbus could see this continent
from arctic TO antarctic. | say this not to
make you proud and arrogant, but to make
you tFemble with your responsib Utilities, and
put you on your guard as 20 what you do
and what you say.
While studying the life OF this Italian
am also reminded Of the fact
that while we are diligently looking for one
thing. we find another. Columbus started
to find India. but found America. Go on
and do your duty diligently and prayer
fully, and if you do not find what you
looked for you will find something better.
Saul was hunting for the strGyed animals Of
his fathers barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him a crown OF domin-
ion. Nearly all the great inventions and
discoveries we're made by men who at the
time were looking for something else. Prof
Morse gone to Europe to perfect himself in
chemistry, on returning happens to take the
Sully from Havre, and while
q conversation with a passenger learns of
ome experiments in France, which suggest
% him the magnetic tolegraphy. He went
o Europe TO learn the wisdom Of other
md discovered the telegraph. Hargreaves
~ the upsetting Of a machine, and the mo-
ion OF it's wheels while upset, discovered
he spinning jenny. So, my friend, 90 on
and promptly with your work,
Ind IL you do not get the success you seek,
md your plans upset, you will get some
hing just as good and perhaps better.
Sail ahead on the voyage of life. keep .
'orrect log book, brave the tempest. make
he best use OF the east wind. keep a
harp lookout. and warrant you
Jus that IL you do not find just
What you wont OF an earthly nature, you
will find heaven, and that will be better,
What was worn-out India, crouohing under
/ tropical sun, compared with salubrious
md radiant aud almost illimitable America,
md what is all that this little world in
which we live can afford you compared with
hat supernal realm, whose foliage, and
whose fruits, ard whose riches, and whose
population, and whose grandeurs, and whose
and whose Christ make up an
lffiuence that the most rRpturous vocabulary
'ails to utter.
Another lock at the career of that admiral
II the San ia Maria persuades me that it Is
lot to DO ex pected that this world will do
ts hard workers full justice. II any man
ought to have been treated well from first
10 last. it was Columbus. He had his faults.
Let others depict them. But a greater soul
tinent ought to have been called Columbia,
after the hero who discovered it. or Isabel
Llama, after the queen who furnished the
means for the expedition. No. The world
did not do him justice, while he was alive
and why should it be expected to
do him justice after he was dead
Columbus, in a dungeonl What a
thought Columbus. in ironsl What
a spectacle. The wife of Robert Murray.
after whom Murray kill, New York, was
named, has never received proper credit tor
at a very rich luncheon the off,
GERS of the opposing army until Washington
and his army could escape. Mr.. Murre v
saved American independence. How tie
wrong men and the wrong women get
credit that does not belong to them while
Gods heroes and Gods heroines 60 ungar-
landed. You have heard of the brave
words of dying chieftains, but you probably
never heard OF what q private soldier said.
fallen at Resaca and bleeding under a shell
wound In his mouth, and who, though sui
fering dreadfully from thirst, when a CUP
of water was offered him declined to drink.
saying, My mouth is all bloody, sir, and
it might make the tin cup bad for
othersp The world knows little or nothing
Of the bravest words and the bra est deeds.
In one of the last letters which Colum bus
sent to his son. he wrote this lamentation;
II receive nothing Of the revenue due me.
live by borrowing. Little have proflted
by twenty years of service with such tolls
and perils since at present do not own a
roof in spain. II desire to eat or sleep |
have no recourse but the inn, and for the
most times have not the where withal to pay
my bill" Be not surprised, my bearer, Il
you suffer injustice. You are in the best of
company; the men and women who wrought
NIGHTLY for God and the worlds improve
ment, and got for It chiefly misrepresenta-
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