The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-26

arctic 10 antarctic | say this not to
make you proud and arrogant. but to
make YOU trcmble with your response
bilities, and put you on your guard as
to what You do and what you say.
While studying the life of this Italian
navigator. | 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 dill
gently and prayerfully, and if you do
not find what you looked for, you will
find something better. Saul was hunt
ing for the strayed animals of his
fathers barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him n crown of do
minion- Nearly all the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men, who
at 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 sug-
! gest to him the magnetic teleg-
raph. He went to Europe to
| learn the wisdom of others and
discovered the telegraph. Hargreaves,
| by the upsettiug of machine, and the
motion of its wheels while upset, dis.
covered the spinning-jenny. So, my
friend, go on faithfully and promptly
with your work. and if you do not get
the success you seek, and your plans
upset, you will get something just as
good and perhaps better. Sail ahead on
the voyage of life, keep a correct log
book, brave the tempest, make the best
use of the east wind, keep sharp look.
out, and | warrant you in the name of
the God of Columbus that if you do not
| find just what You want of an earthly
nature you will find Heaven. and that
will be better. What was worn out
India, crouching under tropical sun,
compared with salubrious and radiant
and almost illimitable America, and
what is all that this little world il
which we live can afford you compared
with that supernal realm, whose foil
age and whose fruits, and whose riches
and whose population, and whose
grandeurs and whose worship, and
whose Christ make up an atfluence that
the most rapturous vocabulary fails to
utter.
Another look at the career of that
Admiral of the Santa Maria persuades
me that it is not to be expected that
this world will do its hard workers full
justice. If any man ought to have
been trea ted well from first to last, it
was Columbus. He had his faults. Let
others depict them. But greater
soul the centuries have not produced.
This continent ought to have been
called Columbia after the hero who dis.
| Il, hall ,ft IN m
who furnished the means for the eXpe-
dition. No The world did not do him
Justice, while he was alive, and why
should it be expected to do him justice
after he was dead? Columbus in dun
geon! What thought. Column bus, in
irons! What spectacle. The wife o.
Robert Murray after whom Murray Hill
New Y ork, was named never has received
proper credit for OBTAINING at a very rich
luncheon the officers of the opposing
army until Washington and his army
could escape. Mrs. Murray saved Amer
lean independence. How the wrong
men and the wrong women get credit
that does not belong to them, while
Gods heroes and Gods hcroines go un
garlanded. You have heard of the
brave words of dying chieftains, but
YOU probably never heard of what 6
private soldier said, fallen at Resaca
and bleeding under a shell wound il
his mouth, and who, though suffering
dreadfully from thirst, when cup o.
water was offered him declined tt
drink saying: MY mouth is all bloody
sir, and it might make the tin-cup bat
for Others" The world knows little
or nothing of the bravest words
and the bravest deeds. In one o
the last letters which Columbus sen
to his son he wrote this lamentation
81 receive nothing of the5revenue du,
me | live by borrowing. Little hav,
profited by twenty years Of servic'
with such tolls and perils since at pres
ent / do not own roof in Spain. If
desire to eat or sleep have no recourse
but the inn. and for the most time, hav,
not wherewithal to pay my bill" b
! not surprised my nearer, if you sutfe
Injustice. You are in the best of com
pany; the men and women WIFI
wrought nightly for God and thu
worlds improvement, and got for i
chiefly misrepresentation and abus
while they lived, although afterwart
they may have had long row of car
riages at the obsequies, and a gilt
edged set of resolutions unanimousl,
adopted for the consolation of tn,
bereft household. Do your full duty
expecting no appreciation in this world
but reward in the world to come
And. now, while | am thinking o
this illustrious ship captain of Genoa
let me besp ak higher appreciation fol
the ship captains now in service, many
of them this moment on the a, tn,
lives of tens of thousands of passenger
in their keeping. What an awful re
sponsibility is theirs! They GO ou
through the Narrows, or start from
Queenstown, or Southampton, or Glas
gov; not knowing what cyclone, or col
lisions, or midnight perils are waiting
for them. 1t requires bravery to face ar
army of Atlantic surges led on by hur
ricanes. A more stupendous scene is no
to be witnessed than that of a ship cap
tain walking the bridg Of a steamer Il
the midst of cyclone. Remember thost
heroes in your prayers, and when worr
out in the service, and they have Il
command inferior craft or return to tn,
land and go out of service, do them full
honor for what they once were. Lee
the ship companies award them pen
, sions worthy of what they endured unit
they start on their last voyage from thi
world to the next Aye, that voyag
we must all take, lands men as well a
. seafarers Let us be sure that we hav,
, the right pilot and the right chart, an,
, the right captain, and that we star. il
the right direction. 1t will be to eacl
of us who love the Lord voyage NOR,
wonderful for discovery than that which
) Columbus took, for, after all we hav
heard about that other world, we know
) not where it is or how it looks, an;
r it will be as new as San Salvado