Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-10
known TO the Old World Until
Columbus Discovered the Rest.
He FIRST SEES 1T ON A FRIDAY.
While Striving for One Thing We Achieve
Another and a Better.
TALMAGE's LATEST SUNDAY SERMON

text being Deuteronomy Ill, q, Lift up
thine eyes westward.
So God said to Moses in Bible times, and so
He said to Christoforo Colombia, the son of a
wool comber of Genoa, more than 400 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 the world, the re-
ligion of the world came from the Last.
But, while Columbus, as his name was called
after it was Latinized, stood studying maps
and examining globes and reading cos
biography, God said to him: "Lift up thine
eyes toward the west"
The fact was it mus. have seemed to
Columbus q very lop-sided world. Like
cart with one wheel, like a scissors with one
blade, like a sack on one side of n camel,
needing q sack on the other side to balance
it. Here was a bride OF a world with no
bridegroom. When God makes a half of
anything, he does not stop there. He makes
the other half. We are all obliged some
times to leave things only half done. But
God never Stops half way, because ~ has
the time and the power to 20 all the way. l
do not wonder that Columbus was not satis-
fed with hall world, and 50 went to work
TO ind the other halt.
Preparations for NJ honorable Voyage.
But the world then as now had plenty of
Can't-be-Dones. That is what keeps individ-
uals back and enterprises back and the
Church back, and nations back-ignomini-
Gus and disgusting and disheartening Can't
bel -Dones.
But the father of Columbus wife died,
leaving his widow q large number of sea
charts and maps and as if to condemn the
slur that different ages put upon mothers-in-
law, che mother-in-law of Columbus gave
II 81, lie tnf oh
he ciphered America. After awhile the
story of this poor but ambitious Columbus
reaches the ear OF Queen Isabella, and she
paws $50 to buy him a decent suit of clothes,
so that he may be fit 20 appear before roy
atty. The interview in the palace WIS sue
eessful. Money enough was borrowed 10 fit
out the expedition.
Ifvou ask me W hich have been the most
famous boats of the world / would cay, first,
Noah's ship, that wharved on Mount Ararat;
second, the boat OF bulrushes, in which Moses
ioated on the Nile; third, the Mayflower,
that put out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim
Fathers; and now these three vessels that
on this, the Friday morning, August 8, 1892,
are rocking on tie ripples / am so glad it
is Friday, so that the prows of tnose three
ships shall first of all run down the supersti-
tion that things begun or voyage started on
Friday must necessarily prove disastrous.
Show me any Monday or Tuesday or
Wednesday or Thursday or Saturday that
ever accomplished much as this expedi-
tiou that started on Friday. With the idea
that there will be perilS connected with the
expedition, the sacrament of the Lords
Supper is administered Do not forget that
this voyage was begun under religious
auspices.
Flowing an Untraveled Sea.
In few hours the adventurers wish they
had not started. The ships begin to roll and
pitch. Oh, it is such delightful sen sation
for landsmen! They begin to bother Captain
Columbus with questions They want to
=
want to know when he thinks he will prob
ebly get there. Every time when he stands
taking observations of the sun with an as-'
trolabe they wonder what he. sees Srd asks
more questions. The crew are rather gouty.
Some of them came on under four months
advance pay and others were impressed
into the service.
The mutinous crew would have killed Co
lumbus had it not been for the general opin-
ion on shipboai d that he WIS the only one
that could take them back home in safety.
Tie promise o. a silk waistcoat and $40 In
money To the man VINO should first discover
land appleased them somewhat, but the in |
dlgnation ami blasphemy and threats of as |
esssinatlOn must have been awful. Yet God |
sustained the great sailor commanding the |
Santa Maria Every evening on shipboard
they had prayers and sung vesper hymn. |
But, after all the patience OF those on board |
the snlpS had been exhausted, and the great |
Captain or Admiral had 6een cursed by |
every anathema that human lips could |
frame, one III hit a sailor saw a light moving |
along tire shore, and then moving up and /
onTn. and then disappearing.
On Friday morning at o'clock, just long |
enough after Thursday to make it sure that |
it wius Friday and so give another blow at
the worlds idea of unlucky days-on Friday |
morning, October r. 1892 gun from the |
nta signaled Land ahead" Then the |
ships lay to, and the boats were lowered,
and Captain Christopher Columbus first
stepped upon the shore.
Success Brings Him Adulat1on,
OF course, on his return, he had regal OBJ
scquie-. That is the way the world tries to
atone for its mean treatment of great bene-
factors. Many man has had fine ride to
his grave who, during this life had to walk
all the way.
l wish his bones might he moved Just once
more, and now that they have come SO near
TO America as Cuba, they might. during the
great Columbian year, be transported to our
own shores, where they belong, and that in
tie fifth century alter his decease the |
American continent might build Il maus-
sUieum worthy IF him who picked this jewel
OF a hemisphere out of the sea and set it in |
the crown of the worlds geography. !
But the bright MONDAY sun of that old
sailors prosperity went down in thickest
ni-ht and though here and there monu-
ment has been lifted in his memory, and
here and there city called after him. the
continent tnat he was the means of found
ing was named after another name and no
fitting commemoration of his work has been
proposed until nearly 400 years after his
body turned to dust. May the imposing
demonstration now being made in his honor
on the Atlantic Coast, and to he made next
year in his honor mid-con tinent. be brilliant
enough and far-resounding enough and
CHustian enough and magnificent enough
10 atone for The NEGLECT OF centuries.
has most mDresses me in all that won-
drou> lie is something have never heard
stated, anu that is, that the discovery of
America was reli-ious discovery and in
TIE name of God. Columbus, by the study
cf the prophecies and by what Zachariah
and Micah ana David and Isaiah had said
about the lends of the earth, was persuaded
70 go out and find the lends of the earth,"
ana he felt himself called by God to carry
Christianity to the lends of the EARTH"
The Religious Future of America.
Infdelity has no right here; vagabondism
las no right here. And as God is not apt to
fail in any of his undertakings (at any rate,
j have never heard of His having anything
TO do with a failure), America is going to be
Divine influence will yet sweep
the continent that will make iniquity drop
like Stacked lime, and make the most Dla-
tart infdelity declare it was only joking
when 1t said the Bible was not true ana the
worst atheism announce that it always did
believe in the God of Nations.
Mars has come SO near we can see Its ca
mails, and it has been hoped that by signals
after awhile we may communicate With
other stars Alb, that will not be possible
until our world has Deen reformed and
1t would not do Tor our world
ln its lost and ruined state Co have commu-
1'ica' ion with otEer worlds. 1t would spoil
their morals.
Thatgre Italian navigator also impresses
ire with the idea that when one does good
Ihlng he cannot appreciate IT'S iamln cations.
10 the moment OF MS death. columbus
never knew that he had discovered Amer
ica, but thought that Cuba was part of
Asia. Can a man who breaches a sermon or