The Portland daily press., 1892-10-15

make you tremble with your RESPONSE
bilities, and put you on your guard as
to what you do and what you saw.
While studying the life of this Italian
navigator. / am also reminded of the
fact that while we are diligently look
ing for one thing, we find another. Co
lumbus started to find India, but found
America. Go on and doyour duty dili-
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
fathers barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him a crown of do
minion. Nearly all the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men, who
at the time were looking for something
else Prof Morse gone to Europe to
perfect himself in chemistry, on return
ing happens to take the packet-ship
Sully from Havre, and while in CONVEX
sation with a passenger, learns of some
experiments in France, which sug-
gest to him the magnetic teleg-
raph. He went to Europe to
learn the wisdom of others and
discovered the telegraph. Hargreaves,
by the upsetting of a machine, and the
motion of it's wheels while upset, dis
covered the spinning-jenny. So, my
friend, go on faithfully and promptly
with yonr work, and ii you do not get
the success 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 log
book, brave the tempest make the best
use of the east wind, keep sharp look
out, and warrant you in the name of
the God of Columbus that if you do not
find Just what you want of an earthly
nature, you will find Heaven. and that
will be better. What was worn out
India, crouching under tropical sun,
compared with salubrlous and radiant
and almost illimitable America, and
what is all that this little world In
which we live can afford you compared
with that supernal realm, whose foil
age, and whose fruits, and whose riches,
and whose population, and whose
rrandeurs, and whose Worship and
whose Christ make up an affiuence that
the most rapturous vocabulary fails to
utter.
Another look at the career of that
Admiral of the Santa Maria persuades
me that it is not to be expected that
this world will do it's 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 produced.
This continent ought to have been
called Columbia after the hero who dis
covered it, or Isabella after the Queen
who furnished the means for the expe-
dition. No The world did not do him
Justice, while he was alive, and why
should it be expected to do him justice
after he was dead? Columbus in a dun
geon! What a thought. Column bus, in
irons! What a spectacle. The wife OF
Robert Murray, after whom Murray Hill,
New York, was named, never has received
proper credit for OBTAINING at very rich
luncheon the officers of the opposing
army until Washington and his army
could escape Mrs. Murray saved Amer
lean independence. How the wrong
men and the wrong women get credit
that does not belong to them, while
Gods heroes and Gods heroines go un-
garlanded. You have heard of the
brave words of dying chieftains, but
you probably never heard of what
private soldier said, fallen at Resaca,
and bleeding under a shell wound IN
his mouth, and who, though suffering
dreadfully from thirst, when a 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 othersv' The world knows little
or nothing of the bravest words
and the bravest deeds. In one OF
the last letters which Columbus sent
to his son he wrote this lamentation:
81 receive nothing of the revenue due
me. I live by borrowing. Little have
/ profited by twenty years OF service
oh Ill ND r,orftc CIR a
emit do not own roof in Spain. If
desire to eat or sleep have no recourse
but the inn, and for the most time, have
not wherewithal to pay my bill" Be
not surprised, my nearer, if you suffer
injustice. You are in the best of COM
pany: the men and women who
wrought nightly for God and the
worlds improvement, and got for it
chiefly misrepresentat and abuse
while they lived, although afterward
they may have had a long row of car
riagesN at the obsequies, and a gilt
edged set of resolutions unanimously
adopted for the consolation of the
bereft household. Do your full duty,
expecting no appreciation in this world,
but reward in the world to come.
And, now, while | am thinking of
this illustrious ship captain of Genoa,
let me DeSpeHh MI lleT dpprccEitlOH 1or
the ship captains now in service, many
of them this moment on the sea, the
lives of tens of thousands of passengers
in their keeping. What an awful re-
sponsibility is theirs! They go out
through the Narrows, or start from
Queenstown, or Southampton, or Glas-
gov; not knowing what cyclone, or col
lisions, or midnight perils are waiting
for them. 1t requires bravery to face an
army of Atlantic surges led on by hur-
ricanes. A more stupendous scene is not
to be witnessed than that of ship cap
tain walking the bridge Of steamer in
the midst of a cyclone. Remember those
heroes in your prayers, and when worn
out in the service, and they have to
command inferior craft or return to the
land and go out of service, do them full
honor for what they once were. Let
the ship companies award them pen
sions worthy Of what they endured until
they start on their last voyage from this
world to the next. Aye, that voyage
we must all take, lands men as well as
seafarers. Let us be sure that we have
the right pilot, and the right chart, and