The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-10-20
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
DIR. TALMAGE DlSCOURSES OF
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
Like Columbus, Many Are Forgot
ten by the World Upon Which
They Have Conferred-
Lasting Bene-
fits. '# " y r

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Especial. Rev.
Dr.. Talmage's discourse was occas-
stoned by the Columbus observance
now taking place. The subject was
Half a Planet" the text being Deu
teronomy 1927: |Lift up thine eyes
Westward" ~.
So God said to Moses in Bible
times, and so he said to Christoforo
Colombo, OF Genoa, more than four
hundred years ago. The nations had
been looking chiefly toward the East.
The sculpture OF the world, the archi-
lecture OF the world, the laws of the
| world, the philosophy Of the world,
The regions Of the world came from
The East. But while Columbus, as
MS name was called after it was Lat
Inized, stood studying maps and ex-
aiming globes and reading cosmogra-
| ply, God said to him: "Lift up thine
eyes towards the West" I do not
wonder that Columbus was not sat-
lstied with half q world and so went
to work to find the other half. Old
navigators said to young Colombus
''lt can't be DONE" The republic Of
Genoa said: ut can't be DONE"
Alphonso V. said: s'It can't be
done" A committee on maritime
affairs, to whom the subject was
submitted, declared; "It can't be
DONE" Venetians said: ut can't be
done" But the father OF Columbus
wife died, leaving his widow large
number of sea- charts and maps, and
as if to
CONDEMN THE SLUR
shat different ages put upon mothers
!n-laW, the mOther-in-laW of Columbus
gave him the navigator's materials
out OF which he ciphered America.
After while the story of this poor
but ambitious Columbus reaches the
car OF Queen Isabella, and she pays
$50 to buy him a decent suit OF clothes
so that he may be fit to appear be-
lore royalty. The interview in the
palace was successful Money enough
was borrowed to fit out the expedition.
There they are, the three Ships, in
the Gull Of Cadiz, Spain. With the
idea that there will be perils connected
with the expedition, the sacra-
ment of the Lords Supper is adj
mlnistered. Do not forget that
this voyage was begun under
religious auspices. The wind is dead
cast and it does not take long to get
out to sea. In a few hours the ad-
venturers wish they had not started.
The crew are rather grouty. Some Of
them came on under four months
advance pay and others were impress
ed into the service. For 16 days the
wind is dead east, and that pleases
the captain, because it blows them
further and further away from the
European coast and further on toward
the shore OF another country, if there
is any. After a while there comes q
calm day, and the attempt is made to
fathom the ocean, and they cannot
touch bottom Though the line and
lead run down 200 fathoms. To add
interest to the voyage, on the goth
day out, a violent storm sweeps the
sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries
what it can do with he Santa Maria,
the Pinta and the Nina. The NUT
nous crew.
WOULD HAVE KILLED COLUMBUS
had it not been for the general opin-
ion on shipboard that he was the only
one that could take them back home
in safety. The promise OF silk waist
coat and $40 in money to the man
vino should first discover land appeas-
| ed them somewhat, but the indignation
and blasphemy and threats OF assas-
nation must have been awful. But,
after all the patience OF those on
board the ships had been exhaust ed,
and the great captain or admiral had
been cursed by every anathema that
human lips could frame, one night q
sailor saw a light moving along the
shore, and then moving up and down
and then disappearing. On Friday
morning at 8 O'Clock, just long enough
after Thursday to make sure that it
was Friday and so give another blow
at the worlds idea OF unlucky days
on Friday morning, Oct. -, 1892, a
gun from the Pinta signalled Land
Ahead" Then the ships lay to and
the boats were lowered and Capt.
Christopher Columbus first stepped
upon the shore, amid the song OF
birds and the air 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 Sacrament ended with Gloria
in Excelsis Dec. Honors Fawaited
him on the beach, but he undertook
a second voyage and with it came all
maligning and persecution and denun-
citation and poverty. Spectators
robbed him OF his good name, courti-
ers deprecated his discoveries, and
there came to him ruined health and
! IMPRISONMENT AND CHAINS,
of which he said while he ratified them
on his wrists: 81 wear them as a mo-
mento. OF the gratitude ofprinces."
Amid keen appreciation OF the worlds
| abuse and cruelty and with bOdv