The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-10

Every evening on shipboard they had pray
ers and sung vesper hymn. But, after all
the patience Of those on board the ships had
been exhausted, and the great captain or ad-
miral 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 aud down,
and then disappearing On Friday morn
ing at two O'Clock, just long enough altar
Thursday TO make it sure that it was Friday
aud so give another blow at the worlds
idea Of unlucky days-On Friday morning,
Oct. u, 1892, a gun from the Piuta sigs
nailed LAND ahead Then the ships lay
60. and the boats were lowered, and Capt.
Christ pher Columbus first stepped upon
the shore amid the song Of birds and the air
q surge Of TedOlence, and took possession in
the name Of the Father and the Son md
the Holy Ghost. So the voyage that began
with the sacrament ended with Gloria in
Excelsis Deo. From that day onward you
say there can be nothing for Columbus hut
honors, rewards, rhaps0dies, palaces
and worldwide applause. No, no. On
his way back to Spain. the ship was
so wrenched by the tempest and 80
threatened with destruction that he wrote
brief account Of his discovery and put it in
q cssk, and threw il overheard that the
world might not lose the advantage of his
adventures. Honors awaited him on the
beach, but he undertook a second voyage,
and with 1t came all maligning, and perez
cution, and denunciation, and poverty. He
was called a land-grabber, a liar, cheat, a
fraud, deceiver OF nations. SDeculators
robbed him of bis good name, courtiers de-
preciated bis discoveries, and there came to
him ruined health and imprisonment and
chains of which he said while he ratified
them on his wrists: Il will wear them as a
memento of the gratitude of princes."
Amid keen appreciation OF the worlds
abuse and cruelty, and with body writhing
m the fortunes of govt, he groaned out his
last words: "In manus tuas domino COM
mendo spiritum meum:" Into thy hands,
., Lord, l commend my spirit"
OF course he had regal obsequies. That is
the way the world tries to atone for its
mean treatment of great benefactors.
Many a man has had a fine ride to his grave
who during this life had 10 walk all the
way. A big funeral, and instead Of bread
they give him stone, that is a tomb stone.
But death that brings quiet to the body Of
others did not bring quiet to mis-. First
hurried in the church of Santa Maria.
Seven years afterward removed to Seville.
Twenty. three years afterward removed to
San Domingo. Finally removed 10 Cuba
Four post mortem journeys from sePulcher
10 sepulcaer. l wish his bones might be
moved Just once more, and now that they
have come so near TO America as Cuba
year be transported to our own shores,
where they belong, and that in the fifth
century after the decease the American |
continent might build mausoleum worthy
of him who picked this jewel Of a hemis-
phere out Of the sea and set it Ia the crown
Of the worlds geography.
But the bright MONDAY sun Of that old
sailors prosperity went down in thlckest
night, ald though here and there q monu-
haa haan lftpI in hia and
here and there a city called after him, the
continent that he was the means Of found
ing was named after another name and no
fitting commemOration of his work has been |
proposed until nearly four hundred years |
after bis body turned 10 dust. May the im- |
posing demonstration now being made In |
his honor on the Atlantic coast, and to be
made next year in his honor mid-continent,
be brilliant enough and far-sounding
enough and Christian enough and magni6
cent enough to atone for the neglect Of
centuries. May the good Lord allow that
most illustrious sailor of all time to look
over the amethystine bsttlements long
enough to see some OF the garlands wreatbed
around his name and hear something OF
the hemisphere shout that shall greet bis
memory.
What most impresses me In all that
wondrous life which, for the next twelve
months, we will be commemorative by
sermon and song and military parade and
worlds fair and congress of nations, 10
something / have never heard stated, and
that is that the discovery Of America was
religious discovery and in the name Of God
Columbus, by the study Of the prophecies
and by what Zacharlab and Micha aud David
and Isaiah had said about the lends of the
earth" was persuaded to go out and find
the lends Of the earth, and he felt himself
called by God TO carry Christianity to the
lends Of the earth" Then the administra-
tton Of the last supper before they left the
Gulf Of Cadiz, and the evening prayers dur
ing the voyage, and the devout ascription
a. soon as they saw the new world, and the
doxologies with which they landed, confirm
me 10 saying that the discovery Of America
was religious one. Atheism has no right
here; nhdelity has no right here; va9a-
bondism has no right here. And as God 10
not apt to fail in any OF his undertakings
lat any rate, have never heard of his hav-
ing anything to do with tailure). America
ts going to be gospelized, and from the
Golden gate Of California to the Narrows Of
New York harbor and from the top Of
North America to the foot of South Amer
lea, from Bering straits to Cape Horn this
Is going to be lmmanuels land. All the
forms of irreligion and abomination that
have cursed other parts Of the world will
land here-yea, they have already landed
ouN tnoy Will WThuRIe lot tue POSSESSION OF Il
this hemisphere, and they will make great |
Roadway and feel themselves almost estab- |
lished. But God will not forget the |
prophecies which encouraged Columbus |
about the lends OF the earth seeing the |
salvation Of God" nor the Christian an
shem which Columbus led on the morning |
OF the 18th Of October, 1892, on the coast OF
San Salvador ike that flock of land birds
which met the Santa Maria and the Pinta
and the Nina far out at sea, indicating TO
the commanders Of that feet that they were
approaching some country, 80 a whole flock
OF promises and hopes, golden-winged and
songful, this morning alight around US, as
surfing Us that we are approaching the
glorious period OF American evangelization.
divine influence will vet sweep the con-
slnent that will make iniquity drop like
Stacked lime, and make the most blatent
Inidelity declare IL was only joking when
It said the Bible was not true, and the worst
atheism announce that IL always did be-
ieve in the God of Nations. Let others
call for requiem and dead march,
call for George Frederick Handel's
chorus. There has been much
talk of late about communication with
other worlds. Mars has come so near we
can see its canals, and 1t has been hoped
that by signals after awhile we may COM
with other stare. All, that will
not be possible until our world has been
and evangelical. II would not
do for our world in its lost and ruined state
TO have communication with other worlds.
1t would spoil their morals But wait until
tins world is fully redeemed, as it will be,
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