The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-28

with those three small ships of olden
time. You may judge what the ocean
was then by what it is now; it has never
changed its habits. 1t can smile like the
morning, but often it is the archangei OF
wrath. and its most rollicking fun is a
shlpwreck. The mutinous crew would
have killed Columbus had it hot been for
the general opinion CT shipboard that be
was the only one that could take them
back home in safety.
The promise of silk waistcoat and
forty dollars In money to the man who
should first discover land appeased them
somewhat but the indignation and
blasphemy and threats Of assassination
must have been awful Yet God sus-
tanned the great sailor commanding the
Santa Maria. Every evening on ship
board they had prayers and sung . ves-
per hymn. But after all the patience
of those on board the ships had been ex-
hausted, and the great captain or admir-
al had been cursed by every anathema
that human lips could frame. one night
sailor saw 8 light moving along the
shore, and then moving up and down,
and t1en 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 un-
lucky days-on Friday morning. Oct. II,
1892, . gun from the Pinta signaled ''land
ahead" Then the ships Law to and the
boats were lowered. and Captain Christie
pher Columbus first stepped upon the
shore amid the song of birds and the air
a surge of redolence and took possession
in the name of the Father, and the Son
and the Holy Ghost.
So the voyage that began with the sac
rameht ended with ''Gloria in Excelsis
Deo." From that day onward you say
there can be nothing for Columbus but
honors, rewards, rhapsOdies, palaces and
world wide applause. No! no! On his
way back to Spain the ship was so
wrecked by the tempest and SO threat
ened with destruction that he wrote a
brief account of his discovery and put it
in cask and threw it overheard that
the world might net lose the advantage
Of his adventures. Honors awaited him
on the beach, but he undertook . second
voyage, and with it came all maligning
and persecution and denunciatiOn and
poverty.
He was called land grabber, liar, .
cheat fraud. a deceiver of nations.
Spectators robbed him of his good
name. courtiers deprecated his discover
les. and there came to him ruined health
and Imprisonment and chains, OF which
he said while he ratified them on his
wrists, II will wear them as . memento
Of the gratitude of'princes." Amid keen
appreciation of the worlds abuse and
cruelty, and with body vritAinG in the
tortures of govt. he groaned out his last
words, in manus taus.o Domino COM
mendO splritum meum".- Into thy
hands, o Lord, commend my spirit"
What most impresses me in oil that
wondrous life, which for the next twelve
months we will be commemorating by
sermon and song and military parade and
Worlds Fair and Congress Of Nations, is
something have never heard stated, and
that is that. the discovery of America
was a religious discovery and in the
name of God. Columbus. BY the study
of the prophecies, and By what Zecha-
riah and Micah and David snd Isaiah
had said ABOUT the lends Of the earth"
was persuaded to GO out end find the
lends of the EARTH" and. be felt himself
called by God to carry. Christianity to
the lends Of the earth" Then the id
of the last supper before
they left the Gulf of CadiI, and the
evening prayers during the voyage, and
the devOut aScriptiOn as soon rs they saw
the New world, and the doXOloGies with
which they landed confirm me in saying
that the discovery of America Vas . re-
ligious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; fntidelity
has no right here; vagabondism HIS no
right here And as God is not opt to
fail In any of His Undertakings (at any
rate l have never heard OF His having
to do with failure, America
is going to be GoSpelized, and from the
Golden Gate OF Cal.fornis TO the SArrovS
OF New York haroor, and from Ike top
of North America to the foot Of South
America, from Behring straits 70 Cape
Horn. this is going to be. IMmanuels
land. All the forms of iYYeliRion and
abomination that have cursed other parts
of the world will land here-yeA they
have already landed-and they Will
wrangle for the possession OF this hemis-
phere, and they will make great head
way and feel themselves almost estab-
liShed.
But God will not forget the prophecies
which encouraged Columbus about the
lends Of the earth seeing the salvation OF
God" nor the Christian anthem which
Columbus led On the morning Of the l2th
Of October. 1892, on the coast Of San Sal
vador. Like that flock Of land birds which
met the Santa Maria and the Pinta and
the Nina far out at sea. indicating TO the
OF that fleet that they we're
approaching some country, so . whole
flock OF promises and hopes, golden
winged and songful. this morning slight
around US, assuring US that We are ap-
preaching the glorious period Of Anexi-
can evangelization.
A divine influence will yet sweep the
continent that will make iniauity drop
like Stacked lime, and make the most
blatant infidelity declare it Was only jok-
ing when it said the Bible vxs NOT true.
and the worst atheism announce thst il
always did believe in the God Of nationA
Let others call for requiem and dead
naych. l call for George Frederick
Handlers 'Hallelujah Chorus" There
has been much talk of late about con-
with other worlds. Mars
has come so near We can see its canals