Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-13
AT THE TABERNACLE.
COLUMBUS MEMORIAL SERMON BY
or. TALMAGE.

The discovery Of America Had Many Re-
markabIe Features. bat It Was Above
All Religious Discovery Many Les
sons To BE Drawn from It.
.BRooklyN, Oct. 9. Rev. DR.. Talmage's
discourse to-day was oecasioned by the Co
lumbus Oft ess ance now taking place. In
the overlooking audience were many who
had come to tie city to participate in the
patriotic ceremonies. The subject was,
"Half a Planet" the text being Deuteron-
omy iii, q, Lift up thine eyes westward"
SO God said to Moses ia Bible times, and
so he said To Christoforo Colombo, the son
of 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
of the world, thereligion Of the world came
from the east.
But while Columbus, as his name was
called after ii was Latinized. stood study
ing maps and examining globes and read
ing cosmography, God said to him. Lift
up thine eyes toward the west The fact
was it must have seemed to Columbus a
very lopsided world-like cart with one
wheel, like a scissors with one blade, like
sack on one side Of a camel, needing a
sack on the other side TO balance il. Here
was a bride of world with no bridegroom.
When God makes half of anything he
does not stop there. He makes toe other
half. We are all Obliged sometimes to
leave things only half done. But God
never stops half way, because he has the
time aud the power to 90 al the way.
do not wonder that Columbus was not
satisfied with half a world, and 50 went to
worl; 10 find the other half. The pieces of
carved wood thas were hoated TO the
shores Of Europe by a westerly gale. aGd
two dead human faces, unlike anything he
had seen before. liz ewise hoafed from the
west, were to him be voice Of God saying
"Liit up thine eyes toward the west Rut
the world then, asrow, bad plenty Of Can't
be-dones. That is what keeps individuals
back. and enterprises back, and the church
back aud nations back-ignnminiois and
disgusting and disheartenng Can't-he-
donps.
THE cANT'T-BE-DoNEs.
Old navigators said to young Columbus.
at can't be done. I" The repuolic Of Genoa
said, 81 can't be done" AlphonsoV V said.
ut car Z be DONE A committee ON mari-
time affairs, TO whom the subject was sub
mitted declared, 1T can't be done" Vene-
tians said. 1T can't be done" But the
father of Columbus wife died, leaving his
widow large number Of Aea charts and
maps, end a. IL 10 condemn the slur that
difiere;,t ages put upon mothers-in-law
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 eighty dollars TO buy him a decent
suit of clothes, so that he may be fit to APP
pear before royalty.
The interview ia 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. If
you ask me which have been the most ia
nous boats Of the world, would say, first,
Noah's ship, that wharfed on Mount
Ararat; second, the boat Of bulrushes, in
which Moses foated the Nile; third, the
MaytiOwer. thai put out from Plymou h
with the Pilgrim Fathers, and now th-se
three vessels that on this the Fricay
HiWiilliEf Aus % Ara-s fAAA tWtkAAiA on ttiC
ripples.
am so glad il is Friday. so that the
prows az those three ships shall first Of all
run down the superstition that things be-
gun or voyage started on Friday must nee
essarily prove disastrous. Show me any
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or
Thursday or Saturday that ever accom-
plished as much as this expedition that
4 Al. IL.
there will be perils connected with the ex-
petition the sacrament of the Lords sup
per is administered. DOnot forget that
this voyage has 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-fve he was gray, and his face is
round, his nose aquiline and his stature a
! little taller than the average. l know
from his decided step aud the set of his
jaw that he is a determined man. That is
Captain Christopher Columbus. Near by,
but far enough of not to run into each
other. are the smaller ships, the Pinta aud
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 feet OF
ships and few landsmen, adventures
who are ready to risk their necks in a wild
expedl ton. There are enough provisions
for year. Captain Columbus, where are
You sailing fors'' II do not know" "How
long before you will get there'" Il can
not say. All ashore that are goingr' Is
heard, and those who wish to remain 20 TO
the land.
THE MAN OF DIFFERENTIATION.
Now the anchors of the three ships are
being weighed. and the ratlines begin 10
rattle and the sails TO unfurl. The wind is
dead east, and 1t does not take long TO get
out to sea- In a few hours the adventures
wish they had not started. The ships be
gin to roll and pitch. Oh, it is such de-
! lightfui sensation for laBdsmenl They be-
gin to bother Captain Columbus with CUES.
tons They want 10 know what he
thinkss lr weather. They want to know
when thinks ne will probably get there.
Every ..e when he stands taking obser'
vations u the sun with an astroiabe they