Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-10
IALF A PLANET.
GREAT BROOKLYN DIVINE DECOURSES
on COLUMBUS
il Up Thine Eyes 10 the Wss.-NOs Satisfied
With Half a World Columbus Searches for
New Land-Thsy Voyage Across the Sea
Of Life TO Land Beyond.

BRooKLYN, October 9-Rev. DR.. |
ralmage's discourse to-day was oeea-
stoned by the Columbus observance now
taking place. In the overlooking audi !
ence were many who had GENE to the |
city to participate in the patriotic cere-
monies. The subject was: "Half
Planet" the text being Deuteronomy B:
81: "Isiit up thine eyes westward"
So God said 20 Moses In Bible times,
and 80 he said to ChristofOrO Colombo,
the son OF a wool cOmber Of Genoa, more
than four hundred years ago. The
nations had been looking chiefly
toward the East. The sculpture OF the
world. the architecture of the world,
the philosophy Of the world. the civilI-
cation OF the world, the religion OF the
world came from the East. But, while
Columbus, as his name was called after
4 was Latinized, stood studying maps,
and examining globes ahd reading
sosmograDhy, God said 10 him: Lift
Inn thine eyes 20 the West" The
TACT was IL must have seemed 10
columbus a very lOp-sided world. Llks
u cart with enc wheel, like scisSore
with one blade, like sack on one side
II a csrlel, needing sack on the other
- Aoalance il. Here was bride OF
without a bridegroom. When
kes half Of anything he does
there. He makes the other
b. Ne are all obliged sometimes TO
cave things only half done. But COD
lever stops half way, because he has the
lime and the power TO go all the way. l
40 not wonder that Columbus was not
satisfied with half world, and 50 went
fo work 10 fad the other bali. The
Dleces OF carved wood that were floated
no the shores of Europe by a westerly
rale and two dead human faces, unlike
apything he had seen before, likewise
,ated from the west, were 10 him the
ice Of God, saying: "Lift up thine
es toward the West" But the world
en- as now had
PLENTY OF CAN'T-BE-DONEs.
,at is what keeps individuals back
d enterprises back aud the church
tck and nations Neutrality-suspicious.
Id disgusting and disheartening Can't
,-Done's. Old nayigatOrS said TO young
olumbus, cit can't be done" The re-
nblic of Grenada said, 1T can't be
one" AlDhOnsO Y. said, cit can't be
one" A committee on maritime az
airs, TO whom the subject was sub
nitted. declared, 1T can't be DONE"
Vepetians said, at can't be done" But
the father OF Columbus wife died, leav-
ing his widow q large number OF sea
charts and maps, and as II to condemn
Inc slur that different ages put upon
mothers-in-law, the mother-in-law
IF Columbus gave him the nayigatOr's
materials, out Of which be ciphered
America. After a while the story OF
this poor but ambitious Columbus
reaches the ear OF Queen Isabella, and
she pays eighty dollars to buy him a
de6ent suit of clothes, so that he may
be ft TO appear before royalty. The In
tervlew in the palace was successful.
Money enough was borrowed to fit out
ne expedition. There they are, the
ships, in the Gu Of Eadiz, Spain.
AL ae whicA hdfe been the
lOgts-oi Ahc, world, would
nrsJ, N0ah's ship, that whaTied on
nj Arara; second, the boat OF bull
es, IN which
MOSES FLOATED THE NILE;
the Mayaower that put out from
IA with the Pilgrim Fathers;
these vessels that on this, the
orning, August Sd, 1902, are
n the rlpples. l am so glad
Friday, so that the prOwS Of
ee ships shall first Of all run
superstition that things be-
Oyage started on Friday must
rily prove disastrous. Show me
any Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday
or Thursday or Saturday that ever &C
cOmDlished as much as this expedition
that started on Friday. With the idea
5hat there will be perils connected with
the expedition the Sacrament OF the
Lords Supper was administered. Do
not forget that this voyage was begun
under religious auspices. There is the
Santa Maria; only ninety feet long,
with four maSts aud eight an
chOrs. The captain walking the
deck is ffty-seyen years old, his
hair white, for at thlrty-fve be was
gray, and his face Is round, his nose
ACuiline, and his stature a little taller
than the average. / know from his de- |
cided step and the set OF his jaw that he |
Is determined man. Thst is Captain |
Christopher Columbus. Near by, but |
far enough of Dot to run into each 9TH |
er, are the smaller ships, the Pinta and |
the Nina, about large enough and safe |
enough to cross the Hudson River or the |
Thames in good weather. There are |
% doctors In the feet Of ships, and a |
a ~ landsmen, adventurerS who are |
-eMy to risk their necks in q wild expe- /
ditlon. There are enough provisions /
for year. captain Columbus, where /
are you sailing fOr?"
'TDO NOT KNOW"
Chow long before you will get there?"
81 cannot say" ''Al ashore that are
going, is heard, and those who wish to
rkmaln 90 10 the land. Now the an
cHors OF the three ships are being |
wei4hed and -She ratlines begin TO rattle
and the sails to unfurl. The wind is
dead East, end it does not take lOag 70
get out 10 sea. In few hours the ad-
venturers wish they had not started.
The ships begin TO roll and pitch. Oh,
IL is such a delightful sensation to
andsmenl They begin to bother Cap
cain Columbus with questions. They |
want to know what he thinks OF the
father. They want TO know when he 4
nks he will probably get there.
cry time when be stands taking OBJ
vatiOns OF the sun with an aStrolabe
ey wonder what be sees and
K more questions. The crew
re rather grOuty. Some Of them
came on under four months advance
ay and others were impressed into
service. For sixteen days, the
il dead east. and that pleaSes the