Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-15
ACCOMAC C. IT., VA. SATURDAY. OCTOBER Is 1892
TN THE NAME OF GOD.
j. FALMAeE ON THE SUBLIME
MOTIVES OF COLUMBUS.

pr. sTALMAeE ON THE SUBLIME
ss MOTIVES OF COLUMBUS.
Tie Central Fact on This Memorial. Day
Ii That the Great Achievement WIS u
ssReIIsious DIseovery-rhe Voyage VA.
Yin Coda Name.
BROOKLYN. Oct. O.-Eev. DR.. Tai
images discourse today was occasional
by the Columbus observance now taking
place. In the OVERLOOKING audience
were many who had cume to the CRY To
participate in the patriotic ceremonies
The subject was, Half Planet" the
text being Deuteronomy iii, 81. Lift up
thine eyes westward"
ESQ., God said. to M oses in Bible times.
md soIsi,s said to 41hristoforo Colombo,
stthe;son Of ;awool comber Of. Genoa, more.
forr hundred years; ago. The naa;
1, &c ss.chitectlsre Of the World, the laws
of tile world, the philosophy of the
world. the civilization of the world, the
religion Of the world cano 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 10
him, "Lift up thine eyes toward the
west" The fact was it must have
seemed to Columbus very lopsiled
world-hlie cart with one wheel, like
q scissors with one blade. like a sack on
one side Of calnel, needing a sack on
the other side to balance it. Here was
bride of world with no bridegroom.
When God makes 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 world, and so
went to work to find the other half. The
pieces of carved wood that were floated
to the shores of Europe By 4 westerly
gale, and two dead human faces, unlike
anything he had seen before, likewise
Goated from the west, were to him tie
voice of God saying, Lift upstline
eyes toward the west But the world
then. as now. had plenty CT Can't-be-
dones. That is what keeps individuals
back, and enterprises back, and tie
church back, aud nations back-igno-
minious and disgusting and disheartell-
ing Can't-bc-Dones.
Old navigators said to young Colnnl-
bus, 1T can't be DONE" The republic
of Genoa said, at can't be DONE" AL
phonso V said. ut can't be done" A
committee Oh maritime affairs, to whom
the subject was submitted, declared.
sit can't be done" Venetians said, at
can't be DONE" But the father of Co
lumbus wife died. leaving his widow
large number of sea charts and maps,
and as if to condemn the slur that differ
ent ages put upon mothers-in-law the
mother-in-law of Columbus gave him
the navigator's materials cut Of which
he ciphered America After awhile
the story of this poor but ambitious Co
fumbus reaches the ear Of Queen Label.
la, and she pays eighty dollars 10 Cny
him u decent suit of clothes. SO that lie
may be fit to appear before royalty.
The interview il the palace was sue
cessful. Money enough was borrowed
TO fit out the expedition. There they
are, the threeshirs, in the Gulf of Cadiz,
Spain. If you ask me which have been
the most famous boats of the world,
would say. first, Noah's ship, that
wharfed on Mount Ararat; second, the
boat of bulrushes. in which Moses fioatcd
the Nile; third, the Mayfower, that put
out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim
Fathers. and now these three vessels that
on this the Friday morning, Aug. 8,
1902, 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 accomplished as much as this
expedition that started on Friday. With
the idea that there will be perils con-
nected with the expedition, the sacr:l-
ment of the Lords supper is admins
tered. DO not forget that this voyage
was begun under religious auspices.
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 thirty five he was gray, and his
face is round, his nose aquiline and his
stature little taller than the average.
know from the decided step and the
set of his jaw that he is determined
man. That is Captain Christopher
Columbus. Near by, but far enough off
not to run into each other, are the
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 lands
men-adventurers who are ready to risk
their necks in wild expedition. There
are enough provisions for u year. Cap
tain Columbus, where are you sailing
for?''s 81 do not know" GLOW long
before you will get therc?m II cannot
say" Gall ashore that are goingI' is
heard. and those who wish to remain go
to the land. Now the anchors of the
three ships arc being weighed, and the
RATINGS begin to rattle and the sails to
unfurl.
The wind is dead cast, and it does not
take long to get out to sea. In u few
hours the Adventures wish they had not
started. The ships begin to roll and
pitch. Oh, it is such delightful sensa-
ton for lanlsmen! They begin to bother