The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-18
PREACHED COLUMBUS SERMONS
Revs. Hall and Miller T ak Of the
Great Explorer.
Tho Churches Were Crowded With Peo-
ple-ISOth Divlnes Make Excellent Adj
dresses-Mr. HALL, I'm Particular, Talked
Well OF tho Great Explorer-Servicos
in the Other Churches Sunday.


Episcopal Churc hes by special sermons.
A. the Lutheran Church there was
the largest congregation since the com
piction of the new chapel. Rev. DR..
Oliver, the pastor, preached an inter
estlng and impressive discourse upon
tho wonderful possibilities and
achievements OF America and tho OK
traordinary character OF the great dis
covoror.
Rev. j. Cleveland Hall delivered
sermon at Christ Church on the life and
character OF Columbus. 1.-THE man Of
one idca," said the preacher, $50 ofton
target for ridicule, is the man who has
done the work of tho world From John
the Baptist, with his one word, repent,
to Edison, tho tanner Of the ethereal
beast Gagged by Franklin, tho names are
legion in religion and science who have
overcome obstacles and converted hu-
mainly to their way OF thinking by the
Simple force Of always thinking one
thing"
Rev. Mr.. Hall classod Columbus as
among the great men with ono idea
He referred to his early history, speak
ing OF the obscu :itY OF his early years
and the much that is not known rather
than tho little that is known of that
period OF his life. He spoke at some
length OF the status OF navigation when
Columbus began his career, the con.
ditions OF tho worlds commerce., the
causes that led to his one idea that
tho world was round ana that the wealth
OF tho East might be reached by way Of
the West.
He spoke at some length of tho diff
Guilty he experienced in securing tho
necessary financial aid. The hardships
OF the voyage were graphically de-
scribed and to tho provid ence of God he
ascribed the success Of the adventure.
lie eloquently described the triumph
which followed the navigator's return,
the hardships Of mis- subsequent voyages
and sad end. lie summed up the re-
suits of the achievements Of Columbus
az follows:
"The voyage contemp plated by Colum-
bus in the fifteenth century seemed
equally as hazardous to his contempor-
aries. This enables us to realize the
opposition and ridicule which the
Italian seamen and map. maker had to
Contend against.
"All Europe was facing the East
when he began to promuleate his idea.
By his persistent energy and consum-
mate daring. in twenty years Europe
had turned about, and for the first time
in tho history OF the world IL became
true that westward tho tide OF empiro
had taken its way.
But no man could have foresfen tho
results OF the meeting OF the two tide
OF hum life:-tbe ono spreading from
tho basins OF tho Pamir, eastward.
across ono ocean, and the other, from
tho same ba,ins flowing to the west
across the other.
The advance OF the ono was in primi-
tive Sim plicity, unadorned and und.-
veloped.
The advance of the other was a con
slant evolution OF the highest and a
survival OF the tt.est.
When the two waves met the shores
might be strewn with the carcasscs cast
forth in the storm Of the encounter; but
law would work it's way and the Il ,tust
would survive.
What an irony OF fats was that that
caused the tribes of tho American con-
tinent from the AZtecs TO the Algon-
gums to look for the benefactor from
the East
"
Atlantic may have been a benefactor,
as the legends everywhere called him,
but he was not go to the poor Indian.
AS the touch of the European upon
Asia or Africa has always caused a.
plague spot Of corruption or death, SO
"hen he touched Guanahani ruin spread
from island to continent And perhaps
tho American native has suffered less
than those Of Asia and Africa from tho
awful plague of tho Caucasian interior
ence; may be easier to bear than the
curse of rum and opium.
"But 1T was so to be. A mighty con-
tinent could not he left with all it's pos.
sihilities undeveloped A race must
como who could open the vast reser-
voirs of the ages. Tho storehouses of
the Eternal were full to OVERLOOKING.
and bursting with generous intent to
the occupants Of the planet.
And so Columbus camo. And travel
Ing the path he had marked out came
colony after colony of men. until at last
q new world dawned upon the vision of
the angels.
1.-The mountains Of the Americas have
burst apart and disclosed their gold and
silver grains to- the eager gaze OF
wealth hunting race.
Ine valleys or the South have
flashed the light of diamond and sap.
phire into the face OF the sun. whose
rays they have stolen.
"While the very caverns beneath the
cutter she'll of the continent have. with
roar and hiss. disgorged the oil and gas
m manufactured in subterrancan laborato-
ries by that ancient chemist, Nature her
self
''Was not all this worth daring all dan
gers of legendary seas Of darkness to
give the world?
"BuI the la'e is not half told. TIN and
copper and quicksilver-these for the
arts. Coal, just when mankind was
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