Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-15

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deeds. II took centuries to reveal the
result of that one transatlantic voyage.
So 1t 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 church door at Witten-
berg? Could Eli Whitley 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 Gutenberg
out 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 s24, neither they who sold or bought
could have foreseen New York, the
commercial metropolis Of America, that
now stands on it.
While studying the life of this Italian
navigator, I 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 do your duty dill
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 faith
er's barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him 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 passenger learns OF some
experiments in France, which suggest
to him the magnetic telegraphy. He
went to Europe to learn the wisdom Of
others and discovered the telegraph
Hargreaves by the upsetting of a ma
chine, and the motion of its wheels while
upset, discovered the spinning jenny.
So, my friend, go on faithfully and
promptly with your work and If YOU do
not get the success you seek and your
plans upset you will get something just
rs good and perhaps better.
And now, while am thinking of this
illustrious ship captain of Genoa, let
me bespeak higher appreciation for 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 respon-
sibility is theirs! They go out through
the Narrows, or start from Queens
town, or southampton, or Glasgow; not
knowing what cyclone, or collisions, or
midnight perils are waiting for them.
1t requires bravery to face an army OF
men, but far more bravery to face IN
army of Atlantic surges led on by hur-
ricanes. A more stupendous scene is
not to be witnessed than that of a ship
captain walking the bridge of steamer
in the midst of 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
pensions worthy of what they endured
until they start on their voyage
from this world to the next:
Aye, that voyage we must all
take, landsmen as well as sea-
farers. Let us be sure that we have
the right pilot, and the right chart, and
the right captain, and that we start in
the right direction. 1t will be to each
of us who love the Lord voyage more
wonderful for discovery than that which
Columbus took, for, after all we have
heard about the other world, we know
not where it is or how it looks, and 1t
will be rs new as San Salvador was to
the glorious captain of the Santa Maria.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart OF
man." May the light from that golden
beach fash on the darkness, and we be
able to step ashore amid the groves and
orchards and aromas such as this
worlds atmosphere never ripened or
breathed Aye, fellow mariners, over
the rough sea of this life, through the
logs and mists of earth, see you not al
ready the outline of the better country?
Land ahead! Land ahead! Nearer and
nearer we come to heavenly wharfage.
Throw out the planks and step ashore
into the arms of your kindred, who
have been waiting and watching for
the hour of your Decentralization
Through the rich grace Of Christ, our