Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-20

sailor commanding the Santa Maria
Every evening on shipboard they had
prayers and sung a vesper 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 anathema that human lips could
frame. one night sailor saw a 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 1t
sure that 1t was Friday, and so give an
other blow at the worlds ideas of unlucky
days-on Friday morning, Oct. u, 1902,
a 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 a
surge Of redolence and took possession in
the name Of the Father, and the Son and
the Holy Ghost.
THE GLORIOUS CONSULTATION.
So the voyage that began with the sacra-
ment ended with "Gloria in Excelsis Dec" F"
From that day onward you say there can
be nothing for Columbus but honors, re
wards, rhapsodies, palaces and world WIDE
applause Mol mol On his way back to
Spain the ship was so wrenched by the
tempest and so threatened with destruction
that he wrote brief account Of his discov
cry and put it in a cask and threw it over
board that the world might not lose the
advantage of his adventures. Honors
awaited him on the beach, but he under.
took second voyage, and with it came all
maligning and persecution and denuncia-
tion and poverty.
He was called land grabber, a liar, a
cheat, O fraud, a deceiver of nations.
Spectators robbed him Of his good name,
courtiers deprecated his discoveries, and
there came TO him ruined health and i'm
prisonment and chains, of which he said
while he ratified them on his wrists, 81
will wear them as q memcnto of the graft
tude of princes" Amid keen appreciation
of the worlds abuse and cruelty, and with
body writhing in the tortllres of gout, he
groaned out his last words, SIN manus
tuas Domino commendo s2iritum meum"
Unto thy hands, o Lord, commend my
spirit"
OF course he had regal Obsequies. That
is the way The world tries to atone for its
mean treatment of great benefactors. Many
a man has had fine ride to his grave who
during this life had to walk all the way.
A big funeral, and instead of bread they
give him stone-that is tombstone But
death, that brings quiet to the body of
| others, did not bring quiet to his. First
buried in the church OF Santa Maria. Seven
| years afterward removed to Seville. Twen-
| ty-three years afterward removed to San
Domingo. Finally removed to Cuba -Four
postmortem journeys from sepIlcher to
sepulcher. l wish his bones might be
moved just once more, and now that they
| have come so near to America as Cuba they
might during the great Columbian year
| be transported to our own shores, where
they belong, and that in the fifth century
after his decease the American continent
| might build mausoleum worthy of him
who picked this jewel of hemisphere out
of the sea and set it i'll the crown of the
| worlds geography.
But the bright monday sun of that old
sailors prosperity went down in thickest
night, and though here and there monu-
ment has been lifted in his memory, and
here and there a city called after him, the
continent that lie was the means of found
ing was named after another name, and no
| fitting commemoration 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 amethystine battlements long
enough to see some of the garlands wreathed
around his name and hear something of the
hemisphere shout that shall greet his
memoryl
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 commemorating by
sermon and song and military parade and
| Worlds fair and 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 lends of the earth," was per-
suaded to go out and find the "ends of the
EARTH" and he felt himself called by God
to carry Christianity to the lends 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 devout ascription as
soon as they saw the New World, and the
doxologies with which they landed confirm
me in saying that the discovery of America
was religious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; infidelity has
no right here; vagabondism has no right
here. And as God is not apt to fail in any
| of his undertakings (at any rate have
never heard of his having anything to do
with failure), America is going to be Cos
| pelized, and from the Golden Gate of Cali
fornia to the Narrows of New York harbor,
and from the top of North America to the
| foot of South America, from Behring
straits to Cape Horn, this is going to be
Immanuel's land. All the forms of ire
| ligion and abomination that have cursed
| other parts of the world will land here
| yea, they have already landed-and they
will wrangle for the possession Of this
hemisphere, and they will make great
headway and feel themselves almost estab-
lished.
But God will not forget the prophecies
which encouraged Columbus about the
"ends of the earth seeing the salvation OF
God," nor the Christian anthem which
Columbus led on the morning of the 18th
of October, 1492, on the coast Of San Sal
vador. Like that flock of land birds which
met the Santa Maria and the Pinta and
the Nina far out at sea, indicating to the
commanders of that feet that they were
approaching some country, so whole
flock Of promises and hopes, golden winged
and songful, this morning alight around
us, assuring US that we are approaching
the glorious period Of American evangel
! ization.
A divine influence will yet sweep the
continent that will make iniquity drop
like Stacked lime, and make the most blat-