Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-14
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
TALMAGE breaches ON THE
COLUMBUS ANNIV ERSARY.
The Discovery OF the New World was
Made In the Name of tho Father OF
Heaven aud Earth-"Lift Up Thine
Eyes Westward"


BROOKLYN, Oct. 9.-Tbe Rev. DIR.
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
ceremonies. The subject was: "Half
a Planet" the text being Deuteronomy
1927: "Lift up thine eyes westward"
So God said TO Moses in bible times,
and so he said to Christopher Columbo,
the son of u wool-comber 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. But,
while Columbus, as his name was called
after it was Latinized, stood studying
maps and examining globes and reading
cosmography, God said to him: Lift
up thine eyes toward the West" The
fact was it must have seemed to Column
bus very lop-sided world. Like a cart
with one wheel, like a scissors with one
blade, like n sack on one side of camel,
needing sack on the other side to
balance it. Here was a bride of a
world with no bridegroom. When God
makes a half of anything, he does not
stop there. He 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 TO go all the
way. l do not wonder that Columbus
was not satisfied with half n world,
and so went to work to find the other
half The pieces of carved wood that
were foated TO the shores of Europe
by a westerly gale and two dead
human faces unlike anything he had
seen before, likewise floated 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- Done's- That is
what keeps individuals back and enter
prises back and the church back, and
nations Neutrality-suspicious. and dis
gushing and disheartening Can't-be-
Done's. Old navigators said TO young
Columbus, sit can't be done" The
republic of Genoa said, ut can't be
done" Alphonso ", said, at can't
be DONE" A committee on maritime
affairs, to whom the subject was sub
mitted, declared, ut can't be done"
Venetians said, at can't be done"
But the father of Columbus wife died,
leaving his widow large number of
sea charts and maps, and as if to con-
denim the slur that different ages put
upon NOTWITHSTANDING 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 n decent
suit of clothes, so that he may be
fit to appear before royalty. The in
terview in the palace was successful.
Money enough was borrowed to fit out
the expedition. There they are, the
three ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz,
Spain. If you ask me which
have been the most famous boats
of the world l would say, first,
Noah's ship, that wharfed on Mount
Ararat; second, the boat of bulrushes,
in which Moses floated the Nile; third,
the Mayfower that put out from Ply
mouth with the Pilgrim Fathers, and
now these three vessels that on this,
the Friday morning, Aug 3, 1892, are
rocking on the ripples. am so glad
it 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 as this expedition that
started on Friday. With the idea that
there will be perils connected with the
expedition, the Sacrament of the Lords
Supper is 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 35 he was gray, and
his face is round, his nose aquiline, and
his stature little taller than the
average. / know from his decided step
and the set of his jaw that he is 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 a few landsmen,
adventurers who are ready TO risk
their necks in wild expedition.
There are enough provisions for a year.
"Capt. Columbus, where are you sail
ing for?" 81 do not know" GLOW
long before you will get there?" 81
cannot say" "All ashore that are
going" is heard, and those who
wish to remain go to the land.
Now the anchors of the three ships are