Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-13

of olcen time. You may Judge what the
ocean was siien by what it is lcw; it has
never changed its habits. Il can smile like
tile morning, but often it is the archangel
OF wrath, as.ii its most rollicling Jun is
shipwreeA The mutinous crew wouid
have killed Columbus had il not been for
tie general opinion on shipboard that Ae
was the only one tlat could take them
back home "a safety.
The promise Of "a silk waistcoat and forty
follars IN money to the man who should
trst discover land appeased them some
what, bar the indignation and blasphemy
md threats Of assassination must have
been awful Yet God sustained the great
failor commanding the Santa Maria.
Every evening ON shipboard they had
prayers and sung a yesper hymn. But
after all the patience Of those on board the
ships had been exhausted, and the great
captain or admiral had been cursed by
every anathrma that human lips could
frame one night sailor saw light NOV
ing along the shore, and then moving up
and down, and then disappearing.
On Friday morning at two o'clock, just
long enough after Thursday to make It
sure that it was Friday, and so give an
other blow ut he worlds ideas Of unlueky
days-on Friday morning, Oct. II, 1852,
gun from the Pinta signaled land
ahead" Then the ships lay TO and the
boats were lowered, and Captain Christie
pher 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.
TIE GLORIOUS CONSERVATION.
So the voyage that began with the sacra-
ise... ei...ed with Gloria in Excclsis Dec.
From that day onward you say there can
be nothing for Columbus hut honors, re-
wards. rhapsodies, palaces and world wide
applause. No. no. On his way back to
Snain the ship was SO wrenched by the
tempest and sothreatcned with destruction
that he wrote brief account Of bis diseov-
cry and put i ID a eask and threw il over
board that the world might not lose the
advantage Of his adventures. Honors
awaited him on the beach, but he under
took q second voyage. and with it came all
malignng and persecution and denuncia-
ton and poverty.
lie was called land grabber liar, a
cheat. a fraud, a dpceiver OF nations
Spectator robbed him OF his good nanie
courtiers depreeiated his discoveries, a j
there came O him ruined health and in
psisonineut and chains. OF which no S, sa
while be RI, tied them ca his wrists, !
will wear them as a nemcpto Of the grc ].
tude Of princes" Amid keen appreciate n
OF the worlds abuse and cruelty, and with
body writhing in the torulres Of govt, he
groanei out his last words, In manus
tuas Domino rommendo piritum meum"
-'Into thy bands, o Lore, commend my
spirit"
OF course b. had regal obsequi-s. That
Is the way Tho world tile to atone for its
mean treatment Of great b.nefactars Many
man has had fine rice TO his grave who
during this LIE had 20 walk all The way.
A big funeral, and instead Of bread they
give him stone-that is tombstone. But
death, that brings quiet 20 the body Of
others, did not bring quiet 20 his. First
| buried in the church OF Santa Maria Seven
wears afterwars. removed TO Seville. Tween
| fy.three years afterward removed TO San
| Domingo. Finally removed 20 Cuba. -Four
postmorten journeys from sepllcher TO
sepulcher ! wish his bones might be
moved Just once more ana now that they
have come so near TO America rs Cuba they
might during the great Columbian year
/ be transported to our own shores, where
they belong, aud that in the fifth century
after his decease the American continent
might build mausoleum worthy of him
WHO picked this jewel VI "A hemisphere out
OF the sea and set il in the crown Of the
worlds geog rtphy.
/ Bat the bright monday sun Of that old
/ sailors prosperity went down IN thickest
night aud though here and there a monu-
nlent has been lifted in his memory, and
| here and there city called after him, the
continent that lte was the means Of found
ing was naI.ied after another name, and no
fitting commentator Of his work has
been proposed until nearly four hundred
years after his body turned TO dust May
the imposing 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 re
sounding enough and Christian enough and
magnificent enough to atone for the neglect
of centuries. May the good Lord allow that
most illustrious sailor of all time TO look
over the ainethystine battlements long
enough to see some of the garlands wreathed
around his name aud hear something OF the
/ hemisphere shout that shall greet his
memory!
/ AMERICA DISCOVERED IN THE NAME OF GOD.
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 paraoe and
Worlds fair aud congress Of nations. 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, by the study Of the
prophecies, and by what Zechariah and
Micah and David and Isaiah had said
about the ends of the earth, was per
suaded to 20 out AID find the ENDS OF the
earth" and he felt himself called By God
to carry Christianity 10 the ENDS OF the
earth" Then the administration Of the
last supper before they left the Gulf of
Cadiz. and the evening prayers during
the voyage, and the dev0ut ascription as
soon as they saw the New World, and the
doxologies with which they landed confirm
me in saying that the discovery f America
was a religious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; infidelity has
no right here; vagabondism has no right
| b.ra nj a. God Il not ant to fail in any