The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

cotton gin? Could John Gutenberg, toll
ing year after year, making type. and la
boriously setting them side by side, and
with presses changed now this way and
money loaned, and many of the people
trying to cheat Gutenberg out of his in
vention, he toiling on until he produced
what is known as the Mazarin Bible, have
any idea that, as a result of his invention,
there would be libraries that placed side
by side would again and again engirdle the
earth, or the showers of newspapers, that
snow the world under? When Manhattan
Island was sold to the Dutch for. $24,
neither they who sold or bought could have
foreseen New York, the commercial me
tropolis of America, that now stands on it.
Can man who breaches a sermon or a
woman who distributes tracts; or teacher
who lnstructs class or a paSser-by who
utters encouraging words, realize the infin-
itudes of useful result? The teacher at
Jones the most stupid boy in school, and
at the foot of his class, did not know that
he was fitting for his work the greatest
oriental scholar Of modern times, his statue
now in st. Pauls Cathedral, London.
Every move you make for God, however.
eyes of others, touches worlds larger than
the one Columbus discovered Why talk
about unimportant things. 1nfinity is made
up OF inhnitesmals. On clear night, the
smallest dew-drop holds a star. Each one
OF you is at the centre Of q universe, and all
you say and do somehow vibrates to the
extreme of that universe in all directions.
L promise everlasting renOwn to those who
will go forth with Christian and sympa-
thetic words. After the battle of Cepen-
hagen, Nelson the admiral, went into Il
hospital and halted at the bed of wounded
sailor who had lost his arm, and said,
We'll, Jack what is the matter with you?"
and the sailor replied, Lost my right arm,
your HONOR and Nelson looked down at
his own empty sleeve and said, well,
fishermen. Cheer up, my brave fellow"
and that sympathetic word checred the
entire hospital Before you die, you can,
out of your own misfortunes, cheer hun
dred souls, and start unending echoes. You
can no more appreciate the far-reachng
results OF your life than Columbus could
see this continent from artic to antartic
L say this not to make you proud and ar
roSant, but to make you tremble with your
Responsibilities, and put you on your guard
as to what YOU do and what you say
While studying the life of this Italian
navigator, L am also reminded of the fact
That While we are diligently looking
Tor one thing, we find another. Columbus
started to find India, but found America.
20 on and do your duty diligently and pray
erfully, and II you do not find what you look
for, you will lind something better. Saul
was hunting for the strayed animals of his
fathers barnyard but met Samuel. the
prophet, who gave him a crown of dominion.
Nearly all the great inventions and discoy-
cries were make by men who at the time
We're looking for something else Profess
Sor Morse had gone to Europe to perfect
himself III chemistry, on returning happens
to take the packetShip sully from uayre.
and while III conversation with a passenger
learns of some experiments In France which
suggest to him the magnetic telegraphy.
IN TO
others and discovered the telegraph. Har-
grcaves by the upsetting of a machine,
and the motion of its wheels while upset
discovered the spinningjenny SO, my
friend, go on faithfully and promptly with
your work, and if you do not get the sue
cess YOU seek. and your plans upset, you
will get something just as good and perhaps
better. Sail ahead on the voyage of life,
keep correct lOgboOk, brave the tempest,
make the best use of the east wind keep
a sharp lookout and | warrant you in the
name of the God of Columbus that if you
90 not find just what you want Of an earth
ly nature, you will find heaven, aud that
will be better. What was wOrn-ont India
crouching under a tropical sun. compared
with salubrious and radiant and almost il
Imitable America, and what is all that this
little world in which we live can afford you
compared with that supernal realm, whose
foliage and whose fruits, and whose riches
and whose population, and whose grandeurs
and whose worship. and whose Christ make
up an aiiluence that the most raptlrouS
vocabulary fails to utter.
Another look ut the career of that adj
miral of the Santa Maria perslades me that
it is not to be expected that this world will
do its hard workers full justice. If 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 a
greater soul the centuries have not pro
ought
called Columbia. after the hero who dlscov-
cred it, or Isabclliana. after the queen who
furnished the means for the expedition
Ne. The world did not do him justice,
while he was alive, and why should 1t be
expected to do him justice after he was
dead? Columbus, in dungeon. What a
thought Columbus in irons! What spec
tacle The wife of Robert Murray, after
whcra Murray Hill. New York, was named
never has received proper credit for detain-
ing at very rich luncheon the officers OF
the opposing army until Washington and
his army could escape. Mrs. Murray saved
American. independence. How the wrong
men and the wrong women get credit tnat
does not belong TO them. While 600 lie
roes and Gods herOines go ungarl;inded.
You have heard of the brave words OF
diving chieftains, but you probably never
heard of what Il private soldier sad, 1aiem
ar Resaca. and bleeding under shell
wound in his mouth, and who though suit
fering dreadfuly from thirst. Wnen Il cup
of water was offered him declined to drink,
saving, MY mouth is all bloody, sir, t 10
if might make the tin-cup bad Tor others!
The world knows little OF nothing OF the
hrayest words and the bravest deeds, In
one Of the last letters which Columbus sent
tn his son. he wrote this lanentatlon: i
receive nothing of the revenue due me.
live by borrowing. Little have i prohtcd
by twenty years of service with such tolls
and perilS since at present l do not own
roof in Spain If ] desire to eat or sleep,
I have no recourse but the inn, and for the
most times. have not wherewithal to pay
NV bill" BE not surprised, my nearer, II
you suffer injustice.
And. now, while j am thinking OF this IL
lustrious ship captain of Genoa, let me be-
speak higher appreciation for the ship cap
tains now in service, many of them this
moment on the sea, the lives of ten thou
sands of passengers in their keeping. What
an awful responsibility is theirs! They go
out through the narrows, or start from
Queenstown. or Southampton, or elias
COW; not knowing what cyclone, or collis-
ions, or midnight perils are waiting for
them 1t requires bravery to face an army
of men, but far more bravery to face an
army of Atlantic surges led on by hurri-
canes. A more stupendOus scene is not to
be witnessed than that Of ship captain
walking the bridge of a steamer i'll the
midst Of Il cyclone Remember those heroes
in your prayers, and when worn out in the
service, and they have to command inferior
craft rain tn tho land and of