The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-21

Y it'S, III tit CouNt VI sun cuiNuuOTs
The great Italian navigator also inn
presses me with the idea that when
one does n good thing hu1annot appre-
ciatc it's qualifications To the moment
of his death Columbus never knew that
he had discovered America. but thought
that Cuba was u part of Asia. lie
thought the island Hispaniola was the
Ophir of Solomon. lie thought he had
only opened u new way to old Asia.
Had he known what North and South
America were and are, and that he had
found a country 5000 miles wide, 10, 900
miles long, of 1900, 900 square miles,
and four times as large as Europe, tho
happiness would have been too much
for mortal man to endure. He had no
idea that the time would come when q
nation Of 30, 600. 900 people on this side
OF the sea would bc Joined by all
the intelligent nations on the
other side the sea, for the most
part Of u year reciting his wonderful
deeds. 1t took centuries tn reveal the
result of that one transatlantic voyage.
So 1t has always been. Could Paul. ON
that june day, when he was dccapita ed,
have had any idea Of what effect his
letters and the ccoun of his life would
have OF C~hristcndom? 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 a church door ut Witten-
berg? Could Eli Whitney have realized
the continents of wealth that would DO
added to the south by the invention OF
| his p,tf,p pipp Could J,hp Enft.pi,,ry
toiling year after year, making typo,
and laboriously setting them side by
side, and with presses changed nov 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 tho
Maaarin Bible, have any idea that, rs
a result Of his invention, there would
be libraries that placed side by side
would again and again cngirdle 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, tho
commercial metropolis of America, hat
now stands or 1t.
While studying the life Of this italian
navigator, l 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 dili-
gently and prayerfully, and IL you do
not find what You looked for, you will
find something better. Saul was hunt
ing for the strayed animals Of his faith
,r's 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
ut 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 suggest
to him the magnetic telegraphy. lie
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 il 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 l 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 momen on the sea, the lives
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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 pcrils are waiting for them.
1t requires bravery to face an army OF
men, but far more bravery to face an
army of Atlantic surges led on by hur.
%ricanes. A more ~stupendous scene 10
not to be witnessed than that of a ship
captain walking the bridge of u steamer
In the midst of u 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 60 ont of service, do them
full honor for what they once were.
"S S"P SohipuhiCo uWuTu tucIl
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 we'll 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 "a voyage more
wonderful o~rdiscovery than that which
Columbus took, for, after all we have
heard about the other world, we know
not where it is or how II looks, and IL
will be rs new as San Salvador was to
the glorious captain Of the Santa Maria.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither nave entered into the heart Of
man." May the light from that golden
beach flash 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
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