Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-10-21
7. H. BISHOP, Island Pond. "

| persuaded to 20 out and find the "ends OF
the earth" and he felt himself called by God
to carry Christianity TO the lends OF the
| earth" Then the administration OF the lass
supper before they left the Gulf Of Cadiz and
| the evening prayers during the voyage, and
! the devout ascription as soon as they saw the
| New World, and the doxOlogies with which
they landed confirm me in saving that the
! discovery OF America was a religious dis
| coyery.
Atheism has no right here; nfdelity has
| no right here; vagabOndism has no right
! here. And as God Is not apt TO fail in any
of his undertakings tat any rate have new
| er heard of his having anything To do with
fsilure), America is going TO be Gospelized,
and from the Golden Gate of California to
the top Of North America TO the foot OF
| of South America, from Bebring
straits to Cape Horn. this is going to be- lm-
manuers land. All the forms of irreligion
and abominstion 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 headway and feel
| themselves almost established.
But God will not forget the prophecies
which encouraged Columbus 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 October,
| 1892 on the coast of San Salvador. Like
that flock Of land birds which met the Santa
Maria and the Pinta and the Nina far out at
sea, indicating TO the commanders OF that
feet that they were approaching some coun-
try. so a whole flock of promises and hopes,
golden winged and sOngful, this morning
| Hight around us, assuring US that we are ap-
preaching the glorious period OF American
| evangelization.
The great Italian navigator also impresses
me with the idea that when one does good
| fNsv hn ann iafa Ita ro milf hp
To the moment OF his death Columbus never
knew that he had discovered America but
thought that Cuba was part Of Asia be
thought the Island OF Hspaniola was the
Ophir of solomon. lie thought he had only
opened q new way to old Asia. Had lie
known what North and South America
were andiare, and d'thathe bad found q country
three thousand miles wide, ten thousand
miles long, Of seventeen million square
miles and four times as large as Europe, the
happiness would have been too much for
mortal man TO endure.
He had no idea that the time would come
when a nation Of sixty million people on
this side Of the sea would be joined by ali
the inte lgCnt nations on the other side OF
the sea for the most part OF year reciting
his wonderful deeds. 1t took centuries to
reveal the result Of that one transatlantic
voyage. So it has always been. Could Paul
on that June dav when he was decapitated
have had any idea OF what effect his letters
/ and the account OF his life would have on
Christendom? Could Martin Luther have
had any idea OF the echoes that would ring
through the ages from the bang OF his ham
mer mailing the Latin theses against church
door at Whittenberg?
Why talk about unimportant thlngsf
There are no unimportant things. lnhnlty
is made up of inhntesmals. On clear
night the smallest dewdrop holds star.
Each one of YOU is at the centre OF uni
NaTS nj all
yibrates to the extreme Of that universe IN
all directions. Ipromse everlasting renown
: to those who will 90 forth with Christian
and sympathetic words After the battle OF
Copenhagen, Ne'son, 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" and Nelson looked down at his
own empty sleeve and said We'll, Jack-
then you and | are both spoiled for fisher.
3 men. Cheer up, my brave fellow" And
that sympathetic word cheered the entire
r hospital.
2 Before you die You can, out of your own
I misfnrtunes, cheer a hundred souls and
I start unendng echoes. You can no more
I appreciate the farreachlng results of your
0 life than Columbus could see this continent
from arctic to antarctic. | say this not to
> make you proud and arrogant but to make
: you tremble with your responsibilities, and
put YOU on your guard as to what you do
A and what YOU say.
. What was wornout India, crouching I'M
q der tropical sun. compared with salubrious
9 and radiant and almost ilmitable America,
L and what Is all that this little world In
q which we live can AFFORD YOU compared with
a that supernal realm whose foliage, and
It whose fruits, and whose riches, and whose
Il population, and whose grandeurs, and whose
c worship, and whose CHRIST make mp an
a atiiuence that most rapturoIs vocabulary
II fails to utterr
o Another look at the career Of that admiral
c of the Santa Maria persuades me thst II is
q not to be expected that this world will do its
q hard workers full Justice. II any man ought
to have been treated well from first to last
n it was Columbus. He had his faults. Let
ts others depict them. But a greater sou the
1t centuries have not produced. This conti-
IA nent ought to have been called Columbia
70 after the hero who discovered it, or IsabeIli-
Is ana. after the queen who furnished the
IN means for the expedition. No. The world
At did not do him justice while he was alive,
le and why should II lie expected to do him
"a Justice after he was dead? Columbus In a
=. dungeon; What a thought! Columbus in
he irons? What spectacle.
OF The world knows nothing OF the braves
OF words and the brayest deeds. In one OF thu
no last letters which Columbus sent to his son
o he wrote this lamentaton: Il receive moth
adj ing of the revenue due Inc. | live by Dor
er rowing. Little have I profied hy twent,
ns wears OF service with such tolls and perils
nnr since at present do not own roof in Spain
ma II desire to eat or sleep have no recours
a but the inn. and for the most times have no
70 wherewithal TO pay my bill"
en- Be not surprised my hearer, II you suffe
Yo an injustice. You are in the best OF com
tn pany-the men and women who wrough
We nightly for God and the worlds improve
Lv ment and got for IL chiefly misrepresents
ton and abuse while they lived, althoug
;; afterward they may have had long row q
era carriages at the obsequies aud gilt edge
,ns set of resolutions unanimously adopted 10
mo the consolation OF the bereft household. ID
nd your full duty, expecting no appreciation !
er this world but full reward in the world
the | come.
Ia more stupendous scene Is not TO t
hot witnessed than that OF q ship captain wall
Tor ing the bridge of a steamer In the midst {
es n cyclone Remember those heroes in yot
,oi prayers, and when worn out In the servtc
40 and they have to command inferior craft {
ned return to the land and go out OF service,
ac. them full honor for what they once wer
aSk Let the ship companies award them pension
eht worthy of what they endured until the
o' start on their last voyage from this world
old | the next.
,est Aye that voyage we must all take, land
mn. men as well rs seafarers. Let us be sure th
and we have the right pilot, and the right char
the and the right captain, and we start in q
Inc right direction. 1t will be to US who love &
AZ Lord a voyage more wonderful for discove
cen than that which Columbus took, for after
sors we have heard about that other world '
i'm know not where It is or how it looks, and
, In will be as new as San Salvador was TO I
be glorious captain Of the Santa Maria. "E
ent, hath not seen or ear heard, neither have G
linz tered into the heart of man." May the lig
nia. from that golden beach fash on the dai
CEN ness, and we be able to step ashore an