Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-10


somehow vibrates to the extreme of that
universe IN ali directions. | promise ev-
erlasting renown to those who will go
forth with Christian and sympathetic
words. After the battle Of Copenhagen
Nelson, the admiral, went into hospital
and halted at the bed of wounded
sailor, who had lost his arm, and said,
ssWell, Jack, what is the matter with
your and the sailor replied, ''Lost my
right arm. your honor" and Nelson
looked down at his own empty sleeve
and said: well, Jack, then you and |
are both spoiled for fishermen. Cheer
up, my brave fellow" And that SYM
pathetic word cheered the entire hos
pital.
Before yoa die you can, out of your
own misfortunes, cheer hundred souls
and start unending echoes You can
no more appreciate the farreaching re-
suits of your life than Columbus could
see this continent from arctic to ant
arctic. I say this not to make you
proud and arrogant, but to make you
tremble with your responsibilities, and
put you on your guard as to what you
do and what you say.
navigator l am also reminded of the
fact that while we are diligently look
ing for one thing we find another. Co
lunbus started to find India, but found
America. Go on and do your duty dill
gently and prayerfully, and if you do
not find what you looked for you will
find something better. Saul was hunt
ing for the strayed animals of his fa-
theirs BARNARD, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him q crown Of do
minion. Nearly all the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men who
at the time were looking for something
else. Professor Morse gone to Europe
to perfect himself in chemistry, on re-
turning happens to take the packet ship
SulIy, from Havre, and while in CONVEX
sation with passenger learns of some
experiments IL France which suggest
to him the magnetic biography.
He went to Europe to learn the wis
dom Of others and discovered the tele-
graph. Hargreaves, by the upsetting of
a machine and the motion of its wheels
while upset, discovered the spinning
jenny. So, my friend, go on faithfully
and promptly with your work, and if
you do not set The success you seek, and
your plans upset, you viii get some
thing just us good and perhaps better.
Sail ahead on tie voyage of life, keep a
correct logbook, brave the tempest, make
the best use of tie east wind, keep q sharp
lookout, and ! warrant you, in the name
of the God Of Columbus, that if you
not find just what you want of an earth
ly nature you will find heaven, and that
will be better
What was Mornout fdia, crouching
under a tropical sun, compared with
salubrious and radiant and almost IL
hmitable America, and what is all that
this little world in which we live can
afford you compared with that supernal
realm whose foliage, ana whose fruits,
and whose riches, and whose popula-
ton, and whose grandeurs, and whose
worship, and whose Christ make up an
affiuence that the most rapturous vocab-
ulary fails to utter?
Another look at the career of that ad
miral of the Santa Maria persuados me
that it is not to be expected thai this
world will do its hard workers full JUS
tice. IF any man ought to have been
treated well from first to last it was Co
lumbus. He had his faults. Let others
depict them. But a greater soul the
centuries have not produced. This con-
tinent ought to have been called Colum-
bia, after the hero who discovered it, or
Isahelliara, after the 0ucan who fur
1lislled tie l.iHanS for tie expedition.
No. The weird cid not Go him justice
while lie VS. alive. and why should it
be expected TO do him justice after he
was dead2 Columbus in Il dungeon!
What thought Columbus in irons?
What q spectacle!
The wife Of Robert Murray, after
whom Murray hill, New York, was
named. never has received proper credit
for OBTAINING at a very rich luncheon the
officer Of the opposing army until Wash
ington and his army could escape. Mrs.
Murray savet, American independence.
How the wong men and the wrong
women get credit that does not belong to
them, while Gods heroes and Go s
heroines so ungarlandedl You have
heard of the brave words Of dying chief
tains, but you probably never heard of
what a private soldier said, fallen at
Resaca and bleeding under a shell
wound in his mouth, and who, though
suffering dreaGfully from thirst, when
cup of water was offered him declined
to drink, saying, my mouth is all
bloody, sir, and it might make the tin
cup bad for othersr'
The world knows nothing of the
bravest words and the bravest deeds. In
one of the last letters which Columbus
sent to his son, he wrote this lamenta-
ton: 81 receive nothing of the revenue
due me. | live by borrowing. Little
have profited by twenty years of serv-
ice with such tolls and perils, since at
present do not own a roof in Spain. If
[ desire to eat or sleep, l have no re-
course but the inn, and for the most