Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-15
COLUMBUS DAY.
DR.. Talmage Speaks Of Columbus
and His Discoveries.
s,he Great Navigator Was Directed ny God
TO Lift Up Ills Eyes Westward-ln-
cidcnts OF the Voyage Graph
ically Described.


Witt Tnlmagc ut Brooklyn. The text
beAng Deuteronomy ILL 81: Lift up
thine eyes westward" DIR. Talmage
said:
So God said 20 Moses in Bible times,
and so he said to Christoforo Colombo,
the son of woolconber of Genoa, more
than 400 years ago. The nations had
been looking chiefly toward the east.
The sculpture of the world, the
architecture of the world, the
laws of the world, the philo-
,sophy of the world, the civilization Of
the world, the religion of the world
came from the east. But while Column
bus, rs his name was called after it was
Latinized, stood studying maps and cx-
nmining globes and reading cosmogra-
phy, God said to him: Lift up
thine eyes toward the west" The
fact was it must have seemed
to Columbus very lop-sided
world. Like cart with one wheel,
like n scissor with one blade, like
sack ON one side of u camel, needing n
sack on the other side to balance it
Here was a bride of n world with no
bridegroom. When God makes a'half
of anything, lie does not stop there.
He makes the other half. We are all
obliged sometimes to leave things half
done. But God never stops half way,
because lie has the time and the power
to go all the way. / do not wonder
o. l,,,e not cnticffn6 with n
half world, and so went to work to find
the other half The pieces of carved
wood that were foated to the shores OF
Europe by a westerly gale, and two
dead human faces unlike anything he
had seen before, likewise foated from
the west. We're to him the voice of God,
saying: Lift up thine eyes toward the
west" But the world then as now had
plenty Of cant be dones." That is
what keeps individuals back and enter
-prises back and the church back and ma
tons bac.i-ignominious and disgusting
and disheartening cant be dones."
Old navigators said to young Columbus,
ut can't be done" The republic of
Genoa said: ut can't be done" AL
phonso v. said: st can't be done" A
committee on maritime affairs, TO whom
the subject was submitted, declared:
ut can't be done" Venetians said: 1T
can't be done" But the father of Co
lumbus' wife died, leaving his widow u
large number of sea charts and maps,
and rs if 10 condemn the slur that diff
ferent ages put upon mothers-in-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 am
bilious Columbus reaches the car OF
Queen Isabella, and she pays eighty
dollars to buy him decent suit OF
clothes, so that he may be fit to appear
before 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
gulf of Cadiz, Spain. If you ask me
which have been the most famous boats
of the world, would say, first, Noah's
ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat;
second, the boat of bulrushes in which
Moses hoated the Nile; third, the May
flower, that put out from Plymouth
with tho Pilgrim fathers; and now
these three vessels that on this,
the Friday morning, August 3,
1892. are rocking. on the ripples. l
am SO glad tits Friday, so that the prows
of those three ships shall first OF all
run down the superstition that things
begun or voyage started on Friday
must necessarily prove disastrous
Show me any Monday or Tuesday or
Wednesday or Thursday or Saturday
that ever accomplished rs much as this
expedition that started on Friday. With
the idea that that there will be perils
connected with the expedition the sac
rament of the Lords supper is ad-
ministered. Do not forget that this
voyage was begun under religious
auspices. There is the Santa Maria,
only ninety feet long, with four masts
and eight anchors. The captain
walking the deck is 81 years old
his hair white, for when IS he
was gray, and his face Is round, his
nose aquiline and his stature little
taller than the average. / know from
his decided step and the set of his jaw
that he is q determined man That is
Capt. Christopher Columbus Near by,
but far enough off not to run into each
other, are the smaller ships, the Pinta
and the Nina, about large enough and
safe enouph to cross the Hudson river or
the Thames in good weather. There are
two doctors in this feet and few lands
men, adventurers ready to risk their
ueclEs in a wild expedition. There are
enough provisions for a year. Capt
Columbus, where are you sailing fort"
az do not know" "How long before
Won viii get there?" 81 cannot say"
IAN ashore that are going" is heard,
and those who wish to remain go TO the
land. Now the anchors OF the three
ships are being weighed and the rat
A.. ,-,k41a and the sails IN