Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-21
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVISE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Half a Planet.

SC He said 70 Cristoforo Colombo, the son OF
d wool comb OF Genoa. more than four
hundred years ago. The Nations had been
looking chiefly towar the east
! But while Columbus. as his name was
called after it was Latinized. stood studying
maps and examining globes and read ng COS
biography. God said tn him, Lift up thine
eyes toward the west" The fact was it must
have seemed to Columbus very loDsided
wor!i-!ika a cart with one wheel, like Il
scissors with one blade, like a sack on one
side of camel, needing a sack on the other
side to balance IL. Here was a bride Of the
world with no bridegroom.
! | do not wonder that Columbus was not
satisfied with half world, and so went TO
work to find the other half The pieces Of
carved wood that were fioated to the shores
of Europe by a westerly gale. and two dead
human faces. unlike anything he had seen
before, likewise foated from the west, were
to him the voice of God saying, Lift up
thine eyes toward the west"
! Old navigatoTs said TO young Columbus.
:lt can't be done" The republic of Genoa
said, 1T can't be done - Alphonso '. said.
at can't be done" 4 comm ttee on mari
time affairs, to whom the subject was sub
mitted, declared, st can't be done" Nene-
tians said, 1T can't be done" After awhile
the story OF this poor but ambitious Column
bus reaches the ear Of Queen Isabella, and
she pays eighty dollars to buy him a decent
suit of clothes so that he may be fit to ap-
pear before loyalty
The interview in the palace was success
full. Money enough was borrowed to fit out
the expedition. There they are, the three
ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain. IL you
ask me which have been the most famous
boats of the world, | would say first Neah's
ship. that wharfed on Mount Ararat: Sec
ord, the boat of buirushes in which Moses
foated the Nile: thir J, the Mayfower, that
put out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim
Fathers, and now these three vessels that on
icr ha dow AI.yI ara
rocking the ripples.
There is the Santa Maria, only ninety feet
long, with four masts and eight anchors.
The captain walking the deck is fifty-seven
years Old his hair white for at thirtv-iva
he was gray and his face is round, his nose
aQuiline and his sta ure little taller than
the average.
There are two doctors in this fl eet of ships
and a few landsmen, adventurers who are
ready to risk their necks in wild expo.
dition. There are enough provisions for
year. Captain Columbus, wuere are you
sailing for2 Il do not know" How long
before you will get there?' II cannot say"
'EAll ashore that are going" is heard, and
those who wish to remain go to the land.
For sixteen days tho wind is dead east.
and that pleaSes the captain becau So it blows
them farther and farther away from the
European coast and farther on toward the
shore OF another country, if there is any.
To add interest to the voyage on the
twentieth day out violent storm sweeps
the sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries what 1t
can do with the Santa Maria, the Pinta and
the Nina. The mutinous crew would have
killed Columbus had it not been for the gen
eral opinion on shipboard that he was the
only one that could take them back home in
safety.
The promise of a silk waistc oat and forty
dollars in money to the man woo should first
discover land appeased them somewhat, but
the Indignation and blasphemy and threats
of assassination must have been awful.
On Friday morning at 2 o'clock, just long
enough after Thursday to make it sure that
it was Friday, and SO give another blow at
the worlds idea of unlucky days-on Fri
day morning. October II, 1902 gun from
the Pinta signaled LAND ahead" Then the
ships lay to and the boats were lowered, and
Captain Christopher Columbus first stepped
upon the shore amid the song of birds and
the air surge or redOlence and took pos
session in the name of the Father, and the
Son and the Holy Ghost
So the voyage that began with the sacra.
ment ended with "Gloria in Excelsis Deo."
From that day onward you say there eau
be nothing for Columbus but honors, re-
wards, raphsodies, palaces and world wide
applause. MOI no! On his way back to
Spain the ship was SO wrenched by the
tempest and so threatened with destruction
that he wrote brief account Of his discov-
cry and put it in a cask and threw it over
board that the world might not lose the ad-
vantage of his adventures. HOnOrs awaited
him on the beach, but he undertook a second
voEa~e, and with it came all maligning and
persecution and denunciatIon and poverty.
He was called a land grabber, a liar, a
cheat, a fraud, a decelver OF Nations.
Spectators robbed him of his good name,
courtiers deprecated his discoveries and
there came to him ruined health and i'm
prisonment and chains, Of which ha said
while he ratified them on his wrists, II
will wear them as memento of the graft
tude OF princes" Amid keen appreciation
of the worlds abuse and cruelty, and with
body writhing in the fortunes of govt, he
groaned out his last words, I'm manus
tuas Domino commendo spiritum meum''
Into Thy hands, 0 Lord, | commend my
spirit"
OF course he had regal obsequies. That is
the way the world tries to atone for its
mean treatment of great benefactors. First
buried in the church of Santa Maria. Seven
years afterward removed to Seville. Tweu-
Iy-three years afterward removed to San
Domingo. Finally removed to Cuba. Four
postMortem journeys from sepulcher to
sepulcher.
What most impresses me in all that
wondrous life. which for the next twelve
months we will be commemorative by SER
mon 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
religious discovery and in the name OF
Coo. Columbus, by the study of the proph-
ecies, and by what Zechariah and Micah and
DavIu and rSiah mad sald about me dds Of
the earth" was persuaded to go out and find
the lends of the EARTH" and he felt himself
called by God to carry Christianity to the
lends OF the earth"
Atheism has no right here; infidelity has
no right here, vagabondism has no right
here. And as God is not apt to fail in any
Of iC T1r1Iorto lot 70