The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-11

Isaiah had said about the lends OF the
Earth" was persuaded to go out and find
me lends of the earth, - and he felt him
self 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 ascription as soon as they saw
the New World, and the doxOlOgies with
which they landed confirm me in saying
that the discovery of America was a re-
ligious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; infdelity
las no right here; vagabOndisn has no
right here. And as God is not apt to
fail in any of his undertakings (at any
rate have never heard of his having
ANYTHING to do with a failure), America
is going to be Gospelized, and from the
Golden Gate of California to the Mar
rows of New York harbor, and from the
top of North America to the foot of
South America, from Behring straits to
Cape Horn, this is going to be I1nman-
uel's land All the forms of irreIglOn
and abomination that have cursed other
parts of the world will land here-yea,
they have already landed-and they Will
wrangle for the possession or this helnl-
sphere, and they will make great head
Uav and feel themselves almost estab-
lished.
But God will not forget the prophe-
cies which encouraged Columbus about
the lends of the earth seeing the saliva
ton of God" nor the Christian anthem
which Columbus led on the morning of
the 18th of October, 1882, 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 country, so a whole flock OF prom
ises and hopes, golden winged and song
full. this morning alight around us, as
surfing US that we are approaching the
| glorious period of American evangelical
! ton.
A divine influence will yet sweep the
continent that will make iniquity drop
! like Stacked lime, and make the most
blatant infdelity declare it was only
iokinc when it said the Bible was not
true, and the worst atheism announce
that it always did believe in the God of
nations. Let others call for requiem
and dead march. call for George Fred
erick Handers "Hallelujah Chorus.
There has been much talk of late about
communication with other worlds.
Mars has come so near we can see Its
canals, and it has been hoped that by
signals after awhile we may communi-
cate with other stars. All, that will not
be possible until our world has been re-
formed and evangelical!
1t would not do for our world in it
lost and ruined state to have communl
cation with other worlds. 1t woult
spoil their morals. But wait until this
world is fully redeemed, as 1t Will be
and then perhaps in.erstellar correspond
ence may be opened. Till then thl'
smitten and sickened world of ours mus
be uuarantined from coming too nea1
: the unfallen worlds. But, thank God
the prophecies which cheered Columbu
; in his great undertaking cheer us
America for God! Yea, the round worl'
for God! There can be no doubt about Il
That great Italian navigator also i'm
presses me with the idea that when on
does a good thing he cannot appreclat
its qualifications. To the moment of h
! death Columbus never knew that he ha'
discovered America, but thought thu
I Cuba was u part of Asia. He though
I the island HispaniCla was the Ophir Q
o Solomon. He thought he had Onl,
opened a new way to old Asia. Had h
! known what North and South Americ
. were and are, and that he haG found
: country three thousand miles wide, te,
thousand miles long, of seventeen millio
y square niles, and four times as large a
: Europe, the happiness would haze bee
too much for mortal man to endure.
. He had no idea that the time woul
: come when nation of sixty million pee
-. ple on this side of the sea would be Joine
. by all the intelligent nations on the othe
! side the sea for the most part of yea
recitiug his wonderful deeds. 1t too
centuries to reveal the result of that on
# transatlantic voyage. So it has alway
% been. Could Paul on that June da
when he was decapitated have had an
idea of what effect his letters and tt
:, account of his life would have q
Christendom? Could Martin Luthe
!, have had any idea of the echoes thu
would ring through the ages from til
- bang of his hammer mailing the Lat
20 theses against a church door at Wittel
# berg?
10 Could Eli Whitney have realized tt
70 continents of wealth that would
r, added to the south by the invention {
n his cotton gin? Could John Gutenber:
" toiling year after year making tyl
! and laboriously setting them side |
10 side, and with presses changed no
this way and now that, and sued |
~ John Faust for money loaned, al
in many of the people trying to cheat Gu
ID enberg ont of his invention, he toillr
Is on until he produced what is known
al the Mazarin Bible, have any idea tn
no as a result of his invention there Won
~ be libraries that placed side by SIT
a. would again and again engirdle Il
~ earth, or the showers of newspape
" that snow the world under:
When Manhattan island was sold
nr the Dutch for twenty four dollars, Meth
40 they who sold or bought could ha
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