Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-21

It would not do for our world in its lost
and ruined state to have communication
with other worlds. It would spoil their
morals. But wait until this world is fully
redeemed. as it will be, and then perhaps
intersrailar correspondence may be opened.
The great Italian navigator also impresses
me with the idea that when one does a
good thing he cannot appreciate It's ramlh-
cations To the moment OF his death Co
lumbus never knew that he bad discovered
America, hut thought that Cuba was part
of Asia. He thought the Island His
panioIa was the Oohir of Solomon. He
thought he hal only opened a new way 20
old Asia. Had ne known what North and
South America were and are, and that he
had found a country three thousand miles
wide ten thousand miles long. Of seventeen
million square miles and four times as large
as Europe, the happiness would have been
too much for mortal man to endure
He had no idea that the time would come
when a Nation of sixty million people on
this side of the sea would be joined by all the
intelligent Nations on the other side the sea
for the most part OF year racitlng his Won
derful deeds. 1t took centuries to reveal the
result Of that one trans atlantic voyage.
When Manhattan Island was sold to the
Dutch for twentv-four dollars neither they
who sold or bought could have foreseen
New York, the commercial metropolis OF
America, that now stands omit. Can man
who breaches a sermon, or a woman who
distributes tracts, or a teacher who lnstructs
a class, or passerby who utters encourag-
ing words realize the infnitudes OF useful
result
Every move you make for God, however
insignificant in your own eyes or in the eyes
OF others, touches worlds larger the
Columbus discovered. Why talk about I'M
important thingse There are no unimpor-
tant things. Infnity is made up Of infini
tesmals.
After the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson.
the Admiral went into hospital an halted
at the led OF wounded sailor who had lost
his arm and said, ''Wel, JACK. what is the
matter with your and the sailor replied,
Lost my right arm. your honor" and Nell
son looked down at his own empty sleeve
and said: well Jack then you and / are
both spoiled for fishermen. Cheer up, my
brave fellowr' and that sympathetic word
cheered the entire hospital
While studying the life Of this Italian nav
igator, am also reminded of the fact that
while diligently looking for one
thing we find another. Columbus started
to find India, but found America. Go on
and do your duty diligently and prayerfully,
and If you do not find what you Looked Tor
you will find something better.
Hargreaves, by the upsetting of ma
chine and the motion Of its wheels while up
set, discovered the spinning jenny So, my
friend, go on faithfully AMI promptly with
your work, and il you do not get the success
you seek, ana your plauS upset. you VIII SoU
something jusG as good aud perhaps better.
Another look at that career of the ad-
miral OF the Santa Maria persuades me that
it is not to be expected that this world will
do its hard workers full justice. II any man
ought to have been treated we'll from first
to last it was Columbus. He had his faults.
Let others depict them. But greater
soul the centuries have not produced.
This continent ought to have been called
Columbia, after the hero VINO dis
covered it. or Isabeliana, after the queen
who furnished the means for the expe Ii
ton. No. The world did not do him JUS
tice while he was alive, AMI why should it
be expected to do him justice after he was
dead? Columbus in a dungeon! What a
thought? Columbus in irons! What a
spectacle!
In one of the last letters which Columbus
sent to his son, he wrote this lamentation:
II receive nothing OF the revenue due me.
live by borrowing. Little have prodt9
by twenty years of service with suca tolls
and perils, since at pre- sent I do not own a
roof In Spain. Ii desire to eat or sleep, l
have no recourse but the inn, and Tor ths
most times have not wherewithal to pay my
bill" Be not surprised, my nearer, it you
suffer injustice.
Let US be sure that we have the right
pilot, and the right chart, aud the right
captain and that We start In the right di-
rection. It will be to each Of Us who lovs
the Lord voyage more wonderful for dis
covery than that which Columbus took.
Aye, fellow mariners, over the
rough sea of this life through the
fogs and mists of earth, s3e
you not already the outline OF the better
country? Land ahead! Land ahead! Near.
or and nearer we come to heavenly wharf
age. Throw out the p anks, and step asnorc
into the arms of your kindret, VINO have
been waiting and watching for the hour OF
your decentralization. Through the ricl
gracas Of Christ our Lord, may We all have
such blissfuI arrival!