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AT THE TABERNACLE.
COLUMBUS MEMORIAL SERMON BY
DR.. TALMAeE.

discourse today was occasioned by the Co
lumbus Observance now taking place. In
the overlooking audience were many who
had cometo the city to participate in the
patriotic ceremonies. The subject was,
Half Planet, the text being Deuteron-
omy Ill, n, Lift up thine eyes westward"
So God said to Moses in Bible times, and
so he said to Christoforo Colombo, the son
of wool comber of Genoa, more than four
hundred years ago. The nations had been
looking chiefly toward Che east The
sculpture Of the world, the architecture
of the world, the laws Of the world, the
philosophy of the world, the civilization Of
ofsthe world, the religion of the world came
from the east.
Bot wkke Columbus az his name was
called after It was I.atinized, stood study
ing maps and examining globes and read
ing cosmogaphy, God said to him, Lift
up thine eyes toward the west" The fact
was 1t must have seemed to Columbus a
very lopsided world-like cart with one
wheel, like a scissors with one blade, like
a sack ON one side Of camel, needing q
sack ON the other side to balance it. Here
was bride Of a world with no bridegroom.
When God makes half Of anything he
does not stop there He makes the other
half We are all obliged sometimes to
leave things only half done. But God
never stops half way because he has the
time and the power TO go all the way.
do not wonder that Columbus was not
satisfied with half world, and so went to
work to find the other half The pieces of
carved wood that were fioated to the
shores Of Europe by westerly gale, and
two dead human faces, unlike anything he
had seen before, likewise floa+ed from the
west, were to him the voice OF God saying,
lift up thine eyes toward the west" Rut
theworld then, as now, had plenty of Can t.
be-dones. That is what keeps individuals
back, and enterprises back, and the church
back, and nations ck-ignominious and
disgusting and disheartening Cant-he
doncs.
THE CANT'T-BE-DoNEs.
Old navigators said TO young Columbus
ut can't be done" The republi of Genoa
said, ut can't be done" AlphonsoV said
st can't be done" A committee on mari
time affairs, TO whom the subject was sub
nlltted, declared, ut can't be done" Vene
tians said, 1T can't be done" But tn,
father of Columbus wife died, leaving hi,
widow large number of sea charts anl
maps, and as If to condemn the slur that
different ages put upon mothers-in-law
the mother-in-law Of Columbus gave hin
the navigator's materials out Of which h,
ciphered America After awhile the stor,
of this poor but ambitious Columbus
reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and sh,
pays eighty dollars to buy him a deem
suit of clothes, so that he may be fit to ap
pear before royalty
The interview in the palace was success
full. Money enough was borrowed to fl
out the expedition There they are, tn
three ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain. i
you ask me which have been the most fa
nous boats of the world, would say, first
Noah's ship, that wharfcd on Noun
Ararat; second the boat of bulrushes, II
which Moses hoated the Nile; third tn
Mayfiower, that put out from Plymou j
with the Pilgrim Fathers, and now th-s
three vessels that ON this the Frida
morning, Aug. 3, 1899, are rocking on tn
ripples.
/ am so glad it is Friday, SO that tn
prows of those three ships shall first of 81
run down the superstition that things be
gun or voyage started on Friday must nee
essarily prove disastrous. Show me an
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday c
Thursday or Saturday that ever accolr
plished as much rs this expedition thu
started on Friday With the idea tina
there will be perils connected with the .,
pedition the sacrament of the Lords SUI
per Is administered Do not forget thl
this voyage has begun under religion
auspices.
There is the Santa Maria, only ninet
feet long, with four masts and eigl
anchors. Tke captain walking the deck
fffty.scvcn years old. hS hair white, for
thirty-fve he was gray. and his face
round, his nose aquiline and his stature
little taller than the average. / kno
from his decided step and the set of h
law that he is n determined man. That
Captain Christopher Columbus. Near b
but far enough off not to run into eaC
other, are the smaller ships, the Pinta al
the Nina, about large enough and sa
enough to cross the Hudson river or 81
Thames in good weather.
There are two doctors in this fleet
ships and few landsmen adventure
who are ready to risk their necks in Il wi
expedition. There are enough provisio
for year. Captain Columbus, where a
YOU sailing for2" IL do not know" "HC
long before you will get thereP" 81 ca
not say" "All ashore that are going!"
heard, and those who wish to remain go
the land
TIIE MAN OF DETERMINATION.
Now the anchors of the three ships n
being weighed, and tho ratlines begin
rattle and the sails to unfurl The wind
dead east, and it docs not take long to {
out to sea. In few hours the adventure
l. m C.hi
Gin TO roll and pitch. Oh it is such a
lightful sensation for landsmenl They
gin to bother Captain Columbus with gu
tions. They want to know what
thinks of the weather They want to KIN
when he thinks he will probably get the
Every time when he stands taking obs
vations of the sun with an astrolabe I'll
wonder what he sees and ask more gu
tions. The crew are rather grouty. so
of them came on under four months
vance pay and others were impressed i
the service.
For sixteen days the wind is dead e'
and that pleases the captain because
blows them farther and farther away tr
the European coast and farther on tow
the shore of another country, If ther
any. After aw nile there comes calm
and the attempt is made TO fathom
ocean, and they cannot touch bot'
though the lire and lead run down
hundred fathoms. More delightful SCI
tions for those who are not good sail
A fathom is six feet, and two hundred II
oms one thousand two hundred feet,
below that it may be many hundred
deeper
To add interest to the voyage ON
twentieth day out violent storm swf
fhe sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries "
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