Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-10


every anathema that human lips could
frame, one night sailor saw light NOV
ing along the shore, and then moving up
and down, and then disappearing.
On Friday morning at two o'clock, just
long enough after Thursday to make it
sure that it was Friday, and SO give an.
other blow at the worlds ideas Of unlucky
days-on Friday morning, Oct. IL, 1499,
gun from the Pinta signaled Wand
ahead" Then the ships lay to and the
boats were lowered, and Captain Christie
pher Columbus first stepped upon the
shore amid the song of birds and the air
surge OF redolence and took possession in
the name of the Father, and the Son and
the Holy Ghost.
THE GLORIOUS CoNsUAIM ALTON.
So the voyage that began with the sacra
ment ended with "Gloria in Exeelsis Dec.
From that day onward you say there can
be nothing for Columbus but honors, re
wards, rhapsodies, palaces and world wide
applause. Mol mol On his way back to
Spain the ship was SO wrenched by the
tempest and so threatened with destruction
that he wrote brief account of his discov-
cry and put 1t in cask and threw 1t oven
board that the world might not hose the
| advantage of his adventures. Honors
| awaited him on the beach, but he under
| took second voyage, and with it came all
| maligning and persecution and denuncia
| ton and poverty.
He was called land grabber, liar, .
| cheat, fraud, q deceiver of nations
| Spectators robbed him of his good name,
| courtiers deprecated his discoveries, and
| there came TO him ruined health and i'm
! prisonment and chains, of which he said
| while he ratified them on his wrists, 81
| will wear them as a memento OF the graft
| tude of princess Amid keen appreciation
| of the worlds abuse and cruelty, and with
| body writhing in the fortunes OF govt, he
| groaned out his last words, "In manus
| tuas Domino commendo soiritum meum"
Into thy hands, o Lord, / commend my
| spirit"
| OF course he had regal obsequies. That
| is the way the world tries to atone for its
| mean treatment of great benefactors. Many
| man has had a fine ride to his grave who
| during this life had to walk all the way.
A big funeral, and instead of bread they
| give him a stone--that is tombstone But
death, that brings quiet to the body OF
others, did not bring quiet to his. First
buried in the church of Santa Maria. Seven
wears afterward removed to Seville. TWEEN
|
Domingo Finally removed to Cuha. -Four
postmortem journeys from sep1lcher to
sepulcher. | wish his bones might be
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 the fifth century
after his decease the American continent
might build mausoleum worthy of him
who picked this jewel Of a hemisphere out
| of the sea and set it in the crown OF the
worlds geography.
Bat the bright monday sun of that ole
! sailors prosperity went down i'll thickes'
night, and though here and there monu
ment has been lifted in his memory, anc
here and there city called after him, the
continent that lie was the means of found
ing was named after another name, and M
fitting eommemoration of his work ha'
been proposed until nearly four hundred
years after his body turned to dust. Ma.
the imposing demonstration now beinl
; made in his honor on the Atlantic coas
: and to be made next year in his honor mid
continent be brilliant enough and FAR re
sounding enough and Christian enough ant
magnificent enough to atone for the neglec
of centuries! May the good Lord allow tina
most illustrious sailor of all time to lool
over the amethystine battlements Ions
enough to see some of the garlands wreathe'
, , around his name and hear something of tn
hemisphere shout that shall greet hi
| memory
AMERICA DISCOVERED IN THE NAME OF GOT
What most impresses me i'll all tina
wondrous life, which for the next twelv
: months we will be concentrating b
. sermon and song and military parade an
~ Worlds fair and congress OF nations,
| something have never heard stated, an
;. that is that the discovery Of America was
- religious discovery and in the name
. God. Columbus, by the study of tn
prophecies, and by what Zechariah an
y Micah and David and Isaiah had sal
y about the lends of the earth," was pc
% s,,aded to go out and find the lends Of I'll
~ earth" and he felt himself called by &c
10 TO carry Christianity to the ''ends Of tt
earth" Then the administration of IL
" last supper before they left the Gulf I
= Cadiz, and the evening prayers durin
- the voyage, and the devout ascrfption
y soon as they saw the New World, and Il
- doxologies with which they landed coniir
- me in saying that the discoveryof Amerit
was q religious discovery
10 Atheism has no right here; infidelity hi
no right here vagabondism has no rigl
u here, And as God is not apt to fail in al
10 of his undertakings (at any rate 1 ha
~ never heard of his having anything to
10 with q failure), America is going to be &c
~ pelized, and from the Golden Gate OF Ca
:" fornia to the Narrows of New York harbt
u u! and from the top of North America to t
80 foot of South America, from Behrn
w straits to Cape Horn, this is going to
ImmanuePs land. All the forms of irl
lirion and abomination that have ours
~ other parts of the world will land here
W W yea, they have already landed-and tn
% will wrangle for the possession OF u
w hemisphere, and they will make gre
.i' Roadway and feel themselves almost esta
10. lished
~ But God will not forget the prophec
~ which encouraged Columbus about
80 lends of the earth seeing the salvation
nv God" nor the Christian anthem viii
:" Columbus led on the morning of the Il
~ of October, 1902, ON the coast of San
q. vador Like that flock of land birds viii
W met the Santa Maria and the Pinta
20 the Nina far out at sea, indicating to
nv commanders of that fleet that they w
W. w pnproaching some country, so VIII
i'0 aoek of promises and hopes, golden wing
.. and songful, this morning alight arou
'S. ne. assuring us that we are approach
the glorious period of American evang
ard ization.
e is A divine influence will yet sweep
ay, eontipent that will make iniquity d
the like Stacked lime, and make the most D
ON mt infidelitv declare it was only Jok