Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-10-11


and dead march. call for George Fred.
erick Handels "Hallelujah Chorus
There has been much talk Of late about
communication with other worlds.
Mars has come so near we can see its
canals, and il has been hoped that by
signals after awhile we may communi-
cate with other stars. All, that will not
be possible until our world has been re-
formed and evangelizedi
Il would not do for our world in its
lost and ruined state to have communi-
cation with other worlds. It would
spoil their morals. But wait until this
world Is fully redeemed. as it viii be,
and then perhaps interstellar correspond
ence may be ope1sd. Till then this
smitten and sickened world of ours must
be quarantined from coming too near
the unfallen worlds. But, thank God,
the prophecies which cheered Columbus
In his great undertaking cheer us.
America for God! Yea, the round world
for God! There can be no doubt about it.
That great Italian navigator also inn
presses me with the idea that when one
does good thing he cannot appreciate
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death Columbus never knew that he had
discovered America, but thought that
Cuba was part of Asia. He thought
the island Hispaniola was the Ophir Of
Solomon. He thought he had only
opened new way to old Asia. Had he
known what North and South America
were and are, and that he had found a
country three thousand miles wide, ten
thousand miles long, of seventeen million
square mics, and four times as large as
Europe, the happiness would have been
too much for mortal man to endure.
He had no idea that the time would
come when nation of sixty million peo-
pie on this side of the sea would be Joined
by all the intelligent nations on the other
side the sea for the most part of year
reciting bis wonderful deeds. It took
centuries to reveal the result of that one
transatlantic voyage. So it has always
been. Could Paul on that June day
when he was decapitated have had any
idea of what effect his letters and the
account Of his life would have on
Christendom? Could Martin Luther
have had any idea Of the echoes that
would ring through the ages from the
bang of his hammer mailing the Latin
theses against q church door at Witten-
bergY
Gould Eli Whitney have realized the
continents of wealth that would be
added to the south by the invention of
his cotton gin2 Could John Gutenberg,
toiling year after year making type
and laboriously setting them side by
side, and with presses changed now
this way and now that, and sued by
John Faust for money loaned, and
many of the people trying to cheat Gut
enberg ont Of his invention, he toiling
on until he produced what is known as
the Mazarin Bible, have any idea that
as 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 twenty-four dollars, 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 woman who distributes tracts, or
teacher who instructs a class, or passer-
by who utters encouraging words real
ize the infinitudes of useful result? The
teacher at Harrow school who toiled
with William 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.
Paul's cathedral, London. Every move
you make for God, however insignifi-
cant In your own eyes or In the eyes of
others, touches worlds larger than the
one Columbus discovered.
Why talk about unimportant things?
There are no unimportant things. Ir,
finity il made up Of infinitesmals. On
clear hight the smallest dewdrop holds
o star. Each one of you is at the center
Of n universe, and all you say and do
somehow yibrates to the extreme of that
universe in all directions. promise ev-
erlasting renown to those who will 90
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,
swell, 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 l
are both spoiled for fishermen. Cheer
up, my brave fellow!' And that SYM
pathetic word cheered the entire hos
pital
Before you die you can, out Of yv ur
own nisfortunes, cheer u hundred so uls
and start unending echoes. You can
no more appreciate. the farreachipg re-
suits OF your life than Columbus could
see this continent from arctic b, ant
arctic, | say this not TO make Won
proud aud arrogant. but to make v ON
tremble with your responsibilities, ind
put you on your guard as to what Won
do and what you say.
While studying the Ike of this italian
navigator l am also reminded Of the
fact that while we are diligep tly look
Ing Tor one thing we find anot her. Co.
lumbus started to find India. but found
America Go ON and do yo' ir duty dill
gently and prayerfully, ar a il You do
not ind what you looked. for YOU will
dnd something better. Saul was hunt
ing Tor the strayed n iimals of his ia.
theirs barnyard. but met Samuel, the
who gave linn crown Of do
mip,on. Nearly oil. the great inventions
had discoveries w'sre made by men who
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