Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-15

The voyage, on the twentieth day out a
violent storm sweeps the sea. anu the
Atlantic ocean tries what it cllledo with
The Santa Marin. the Finta and the
Nina. Some of you know something OF
what sea can 10 with the UElbria, the
l.ajestic the Tenionic and tie City Of
J aris. and you must i,rasineswhat the
crean could Go with tho:;e tliiccslnnll
Strips of eileen tilne.
You may ju..gr what the @can was
then l,y What it is NOW. 1t has never
cliangfd its habits. 1t can smile lie
1.enor1ling. but ufte:it is The ;!.changel
of wrath and lis most Clicking fun i; II
ei,wrcc.k. The luminous crew wupli
lave killed Columbus had it not b.r!i
for the general opinion on sliil;5naid
that.he was, he only one that could t:tlle
(, them back home; in safety The promise
of;asilk w;iistcoat and forty dollarsi.l
By; 1na,I lslIo shorltl iirst dis:
end u
tl:r6ats 81 Tass Sssinatio Iinst hive fifseil
awful. Yet God sustained the great
sailor commanding the Santa Maria.
Every evening on shipboard they had
prayers and surg vespcr hymn. put
after all the patience of those on board
Tie ships had been exhausted, and tie
great captain OF admiral had. been
cursed by every anathema that human
lips could frame, one night sailor saw
q light moving along the shore, and then
moving up and down, and then disap-
pearing. On Friday morning at two
o'clock, just long enough after Thurs
day to make it sure that it was Friday.
and so give another blow at the worlds
idea of unlucky days-on Friday morn-
ing. Oct. 10, 1899, Il gun from the Pinta
signaled Gland ahead"
Then the ships lay to, and the boats
were lowered, and Captain Christopher
Columbus first stepped upon the shore,
amid the scr:- Of birds and the air a
eurge of re ce, and took possession
in the name :. lie Father and the Son
and the Holy Ghost. So the voyage
that began with the sacrament ende,i
with "Gloria in Excelsis Dco." From
that day onward you say there can be
nothing for Columbus but Lorors, re-
wards, rhapsodies, palaces and world
wide applause. No! mol On lis way
Eacl, to Spain tic chip was go wrenched
by the tempest and so threatened with
destruction chat he wrote brief ac-
count of lis discovery and put it in q
cusk and threw it overheard that the
world might not lose the advantage of
his adventures.
Hvnors awaited him on the beach, but
be undertook y second voyage, and with
it came all maligning and persecution
nn1 denurciation and poverty. lie was
called land grnbber, a liar, cheat, a
fraud, Il dcceivcr Of nations. Specu-
lators robbed him of his good name,
courtiers deprecated his discoveries, and
there came To him rnined health and I'M
priscnmcnt and chains. of which he said
while lie ratified them Oh his wrists, 81
will wear them as II IL cmcnto Of the
gratitude of princes" Amid keen ap-
probation of tie worlds abuse and
cruelty. and with Iody wri;hiny in the
tortures Of govt he groaned out his last
words. IN nanus tuas Domino com
rlendo spiritum mculn"-''iilto thy
hands. o Lord, commend my spirit. "
OF course he had regal obseqrieS
That is the way the world tries to atone
for its mean treatment of great benefac-
tors. MANY a man has had fine ride
to his grave who during this life had to
walk all the way. A big funeral, and
instead of bread they give him stone
that is tombstone. But death, that
brings quiet to the body of others, did not
bring quiet to. his. First buried in the
church of Santa Iaria. Seven year
afterward removed to Seville. Twenty
three years afterward removed TO San
Domingo. Finally removed to Cuba.
Four postinortem journeys from sepul-
cher to sepulcher.
wish his bones might be moved just
orce more. and now that they have come
so near to America as Cuba they might
during the great Columbian year be
transported to our own shores, where
they belong. and that in the fifth cell
tury after his decease the American con-
tinent might build mausoleum worthy
of him who PICKED this jewel Of helM
sphere ont Of the sea and set it in the
crown Of tie worlds geography.
But the bright MONDAY sun of that
old sailors prosperity went down i'll
thicEest night, and though here and
there Il monument has been lifted in his
memory, and here and there city called
after him, the continent that he was the
means of founding was named after an
other name, and no fitting colnmemora-
ton of his work has been proposed until
nearly four hundred years after his body
turned to dust. May the imposing dem
unstration now being made in his honor
on the Atlantic coast and to he made
next year i'll his honor midcontinent, be
brilliant enough and far resounding
enough and Christian enough and mag
nificent enough to atone for the neglect
of centuries! May the good Lord allow
that most illustlious sailor of all time to
look over the amethystine battements
long enough to see some Of the garlands
wreathed around his name and hear
something Of the hemisphere shout that
shall greet lis memory!
What most inpresses me in all that
wondrous life, which for the next twelve
months we will be concentrating by
sermon and song and military parade
and Worlds fair and congress Of ma
tons, is something have never heard
stated, and that is that the discovery of
America was a religious discovery and
in the name Of God. Columbus, blythe
study of the prophecies and by what
Zechariah and Micah and David and
Isaiah lad said about, the "ends of the
earth" was persuaded to go out and find
tho lends of the earth" and he felt him