The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-21

200 fathoms 1000 feet, and below that
IL may be many hundred feet deeper.
To add interest to the voyage, on the
twentieth day out, n violent storm swept
the sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries
what IL can do with the Santa Maria.
the Plnta and the Nina. Some of you
know something OF what a sea can do
with the Umbria, the Majestic, the
Tcutonic and 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 1t is the arch
angel Of wrath and its most rollicking
fun Is a shipwreck. The mutinous crew
would have killed Columbus had IL 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 u silk waistcoat and $40
in money to the man who should first
discover land appcased them somewhat,
but the indignation and blasphcmy and
threats of assassination must nave been
awful. Yet, God sustained the great
~ commanding wv .'iuid aliTlil.
Every evening on shipboard they had
prayers and sung a vesper hymn. But
after all the patience of these on board
the ships had been exhausted, and the
great captain or admiral had been
cursed by every anathcma that human
lips could frame, one night u sailor saw
a light moving along the shore, and
then moving up and down, and then
disappearing. On Friday morning ut 2
o'clock, just long enough after Thurs
day To make IL sure that it was Friday
and so give another blow ut the worlds
idea of uulucky days-on Friday morn
ing. October IL, 1902, u gun from the
Pinta %signalled Gland ahead" Then
the ships lay to, and the boats were
lowered, and Capt. Christopher Column.
bus first stepped upon the shore, amid
the ong of birds and the air n surge Of
redolence and took possession in the
name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Ghost. So the voyage that
began with the sacrament ended with
Gloria in EXcclsis Dec. From that day
onward you say that there can be moth
ing for Columbus but honors, rewards,
rhapsodies, palaces and world wide ap-
plausc. No, no! On his way back to
Spain the ship was so wrenched by the
tempest and threatened with destruc-
ton that he wrote Il brief account of his
discovery and put il in a cask and
threw 1t overheard that the world might
not lose the advantage of his adven-
lures. Honors awaited him on the
beach, but he undertook "A second voy-
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persecution and denunciation and pow
erty. He was called a land grabbef, a
liar, q cheat, n fraud, q deceivcr Of ma
tions. Spectators robbed him OF his
good name, courtiers deprecated his
discoveries, and there came to him
ruined health and imprisonment and
chains, OF which he said while he rat
tied them or his wrists: II will wear
them rs n memento Of the gratitude of
princes" Amid keen appreciation of
h worlds abuse and cruelty, and with
body writing in the %tortures of govt,
he groaned out his last words: 'In
manus tuas Domino commendo spiritum
meum;" Into Thy hands o, Lord, l
commend my spirit"
OF course he had regal obsequies.
That Is the way the world tries to atone
for its mean treatment of great bene-
factors. Many a man has had a 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 a
stone, that is, a 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 scpulchre. / 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 II own shores where they be-
long, and that in the fifth century after
his decease the American continent
might build n mausoleum worthy of
him who picked this jewel Of a hemi-
sphere ont of the sea and set it in the
crown OF the worlds geography.
What most impresses 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 l have never heard
stated, and that Is that the discovery of
America was a religious discovery and
In h 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 EARTH" 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 o as they saw the new
world, and the doxologies with which
they landed, confirm me in saying hat
the discovery Of America was a religious
discovery. Atheism has no right
here; infidelity 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 q ~failure). America is