Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-10-29
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
TIE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S Sun.
DAY SERMON.

Dauteronouy H.. -.
20 Col said to Moses in Bible times. and
Sc he said 10 Cristoforo Colombo, the son of
q wool combar Of Genoa, more than four
huadrei vearsago. The Nations had been
looking chiefly towar the east.
RUt while Columbus. as his narne was
calet after il was Latinizad, stood studying
mas md examining globes and reading cos
moGraphv, Col said 10 him, Lift up thine
eyes towar the west" The fact was it must
iave seemed TO Columbus a very lopsided
worli-like a cart with one wheel, like a
scissors with one blade, like a sack on one
side Of a camel, mead ing a sack on the other
side t. balance it. Here was a bride of the
wcrli with no bridegroom.
| DO not wouter that Columbus was not
satisfied with half a world, and 50 went to
wora 10 find the other half. The pieces of
carved wood that w-re floate1 tn the shores
Of Europe By a westerly gale. and two dead
human face4 unlike ANYTHING he had seen
before, likewise hoated from the west, were
10 him the voice Of God saying, Lift up
thine eyes toward the west
Old navigators said TO young Columbus.
II can't BE done The republic OF Genoa
aid, ut can't be DONE" Alphonso V. said,
me otfairs. to whom the subject was sub
united, d"ciare7, II can't be done Vcne.
tInns SAID, 1T can't be done" After awhile
the story 81 this poor but ambitious Column
hus reaches the ear Of Queen Isabella, and
she pays eighty dollars to buy him n decent
-uIt of clothes. 50 that he may be fit to ap-
pear btfor- loyalty
The interview in the palace was success
nj. Money enough was borrowed TO fit out
the expedition. Thern they are. the three
ships, in the Gulf Of Cadiz, SPAN. II you
ask me which have been the most famous
hOais OF the world, | would, say, first Noah's
snip, that vhprfct on Mount Ararat: sec.
,rff fh4. iCo+ ~ f,,fr,,-Jag -, ~, sY.,.,
foa'"l the Nile: Thrill, the Maynower, that
ltlt ont from Plymouth with the Pilgrim
Fathers, and now these three vessels that on
this shc Friday morning, August 8, 1892, are
rock M on the ripples.
There IS the Santa Maria. only ninety feet
long, with four masts and eight anchors.
The captain walking the deck il tifty-se.en
years OLD, his hair white, for at thirtr-tive
hc was gray, ana his face j. round. his n1s,
Agullne ana his stature a little taller than
the average.
There are two doctors il this feet OF ships
md a few lanislnen, adventurers wto are
ready to risk their necks in a wild expe-
dltion. There are enough provisions for g
wear. captain Columbus, where are you
sailing fory' Il DO not know" "How long
before you viii get there" ~ cannot say"
A ashore that are going" is heard, and
those VINO wish TO remain go to the land.
For sixteen days the wind is dead east,
ani that pieas4s the captain because it blows
them farther and farther away from the
European coast an farther on toward the
shore o. another country, il there is any.
10 add interest 10 the voyage on the
twentieth daV out n violent storm sweeps
the sca, and the Atlantic ocean tries what it
can DO with the Santa Maria, the Pinta and
The Nina The mutinouS crew would nave
killed Columbus had 1t not been for the gen
era opinion on shipboard that he was the
only one that could take them back home in
safety.
The promise of a silk waistcoat and forty
dollars III money to the MAI who should first
discover land appeasei them somewhat, but
the indignation AMI blasphemy and threats
OF ASSASSINATION must have been awful.
On Friday morning at . o'clock, just long
enough after thursday to make it sure that
it was FRIDAY, ana SO give another blow at
the worI Us idea Of unlucky days-on Fri
day morning. October II. l499, a gun from
the IInta sirnalat land ahead Thew :hc
ships lay 10 and the boats We're lowered, and
Captain Christopher Columbus first stepped
upon the shore amid tie song OF birds and
the air u surge OF redoience ami took pos
session in the name of the Father, and the
Son AM the Holy Ghost.
So the voyage that began with the sacra
ment ended with " fIoria in Excelsis Dec"
From that day onward you say there can
DO nothing tor Columbus but honorS, re-
wards. rapnsolIes, palaces and world wide
applause. Not mol On his way back tC
SPAN the ship was SO wrenched by the
telpue,t AMI SO threatened with destruction
that he wrote a brief account Of his discov'
cry AMI put 1t IN u cask and threw it over
boar that the world might not lose the ad'
vantage OF his a ventures. Honors awaited
hun on the beach, but he undertook a secont
VOYAGE. ana with 1t came all malignlng and
persecution and denunciation and poverty.
He was called a laud graboer, a liar, a
cheat, a fraud, a decsiver OF Nations
Specuiators robbie him of his gooi name
courtIers deprecated his discoveries. auC
there came To Inn ruined health and i'm
rr,onmcut AMI clains, OF which he sal
wt!ia h. rattlct them on his wrists, -
VIII Wear them aS n menento OF the graft
tule OF princes. Amid keen Apr eclatio
OF The worlds abuS. AMI cruelty, and wi,
body writing in the tortures Of govt, |
rra9uel ont his last words, "In man,
tuuS pomine c1mtuenlo spiritun meuu
int Thy nan Is, = Lord, | CON mend III
sillt.'
OF course he had regal o~bsequies. That
tie way the worlI tries TO atone for
mean treatment o. great benatactors. FIJI
buried in the church Of Santa Maria. SIEVE
years a~fterwaEi removed to Seville. Tive,
ty-three years afterward removed 70 Sa
DOMINGO. f.na'iy removed ~ ,uoc. 20,
post tiortem journeys from sepulcher
scpulCner.
hat most impresseS mo in all tbs
won rauS life. which for the next lively
months we viii be commemorative by 80,
mon and song and military parade an
Norlfs Fair and congress OF Nations
something l have never heard stated. an
that Is that the discovery OF America was
reuE.ous discovery ami in the name {
Eoo. to.umhus. nv the study OF the propl
ecIes, and ~ WHAT Iachariah and Micah an
Dayli All lsHaa had SAID about the ends c
the earth. w9, per>uaie to 20 out AMI fin
the ends q. tie earth" and he felt himsa,
called tT Gel - cirvy-t hristiauity 10 tn
lends .. Ia ear;u.
atheism has aoIt.ht here: infidelitv ha
no TlSht hsit. vAEaboniisn has no riyt
here. AMI as Coils no; apt to fail in an
ot his IN .trtahlngs at any rata have neve
hear .. lis having anything u Go with
'aiiurei. America Is going to be Gospelize.
ant from the Golden Gate OF Cal
iornia 70 the NarrowS OF New York harbo
ana from the top OF North America to II
loot OF South Am rica, from Boring s,rai
oeape horn, This Is going TO be Immanuei
land.
A divine influence will vet sweep the co,
'in'nt that VIII make in.quity drop lik
slacNei lime, AMI rake The most blatant i,
hieltY dsc4are II was only iotin< when
sad iEe b!hla was not true. and the wor
atheism. announce that Il ALWAYS did, h
iievr in the God OF Nation
II wouii not 60 tor car world IN its Ia
ano Tuinei state t. have communicate,