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


old Asia. Had he known what North and
South America were and are, and that he
had found q country three thousand miles
WIDE ten thousand miles long, of seventeen
million square miles 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 a nation of sixty million people |
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
his 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 de-
capitated have had any idea of what effect
his letters and the account of his life
would have on Christendom? Gould Mar
tin 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 church door at Witten-
berg?
Could Eli Whitney have realized the
continents of wealth that would be added
to the south by the invention of his cotton
gin? 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 Guten-
berg out of his invention, he toiling on
until he produced what is known as the
Mazarin Bible, have any idea that, as a re-
suit of his invention, there would be IL
braries that placed side by side would again
and again engirdle the earth, or the showers
of newspapers that snow the world underi
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 metropolis of
| America, that now stands on it. Can a
man who breaches q sermon, or woman
who distributes tracts or teacher who
| instructs class, or passerby who utters
| encouraging words realize the lnflnttudes
| Of useful result? The teacher at Harrow
| school who teiled with William Jones, the
| most stupid boy in school and at the foot
Of his class, did not know that he was fit
| ting 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, how
ever insignificant 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. Infinity is
made up Of infinitesmals. On aclear night
the smallest dewdrop holds star. Each
one of you is at the center of a universe,
and all you say ana do somehow vibrates
to the extreme of that universe in all di
rections. promise everlasting renown tc
those who will go forth with Christian
and sympathetic words.
After the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson
the admiral, went into hospital and halt
Cd u NE bed of q wsuhdcd sailor who had
lost his arm and said, 'Well, Jack, what
is the matter with your" and the sailcl
replied, 'Lost my right arm, your honor,
and Nelson looked down at his own empty
sleeve and said: "Well, Jack, then yor
and are both spoiled for fishermen. Chez
up, my brave fellowp' and that sympathet
ic word cheered the entire hospital. Be
fore you die you can, out of your own mis-
fortunes, cheer hundred souls and star
unending echoes. You can no more appre
, ciate the farreaching results of your lif
than Columbus could see this continen
from arctic to antartic. l say this not t.
: make you proud and arrogant, but to max
= you tremble with your responsibilities an,
put you on your guard as to what you d
and what you say.
, THE REWARD OF DILIGENCE.
= While studying the life of this Italia
? navigator, am Also reminded of the fac
that while we are diligently looking 70
= one thing we find another. Columbu
started to find India, but found America
:, Go on and do your duty diligently an
> prayerfully, and if you do not find wha
. you looked for you will find somethin
~ better, Saul was hunting for the straye
... fo4l, ,.9e hor. oYd lint mn
Samuel. the prophet, who gave him
= crown of dominion. Nearly all the gre5
" inventions and discoveries were made b
!, men who at the time were looking fC
- something else. Professor Morse, gone
= Europe to perfect himself in chemistry, c
\ returning happens to take the packet shi
!, Sully from Havre, and while in convers
~ ton with passenger learns of some expe
10 iments in France which suggest to hi
- the magnetic telegraphy.
~ He went to Europe to learn the wisdo
- of Others and discovered the telegrap
~ Hargreaves, by the upsetting of machil
E and the motion Of its wheels while upse
= discovered the spinning jenny So, n
friend, go ON faithfully and promptly wit
be YOUR work, and if you do not get the su
Oh cess you seek, and your plans upset, "
n. will get something just as good and pc
M hans better. Sail ahead on the voyage
nc life. keep q correct logbook, brave &
va tempest, make the best use of the en-
Iet wind, keep a sharp lookout, and warra
III. YOU in the name of the God of Columb
lie. that if you do not find just what you wa
Tx of an earthly nature you will find heave
Ter and that will be better.
an What was wornout India, crouchi
nat under tropical sun, compared with sal
nj brious and RAD lnt ahu almost h,iiil.a'
not America, and " nat Is ali tha1 inns III
re. world in which we live can afford y
compared with that supernal realm who
ost foliage, and whose fruits, and wht
ion riches, and whose population, and who
,eir urandeurs, and whose worship. and who
lily ,jnrlSc make up an afiuence chat the M
APPS rapturous vocabulary fails to utter.
Ied THE WORLDS INGRATITUDE.
rid Another look at that career OF the admi
ina Of the Santa Maria persuades me that i
lnk not to be expected that this world will
nm fts hard workers full justice. If any n
ms ought to have been treated well from I
,rld TO last il was Columbus. He had
itl faults. Let others depict them. Bu
greater soul the centuries have not
i'm. duced. This continent ought to have b
one called Columbia, after the. hero who
, its covered il, or Isabelliana, after the GU
,atb who furnished the means for the exp
COW ton. No. The woSld did moi do him
was tice while he was alive. and whv shout