The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-10-14

universe IN all directions promise eV-
erlastlng renown to those who will &C
forth with Christian and sympathetic
words. After the battle of Copenhagen,
Nelson, the admiral, went into hospital
and halted at the bed of wounded
sailor, who had lost his arm, and said,
"Well, Jack, what is the matter with
your and the sailor replied, Lost my
right arm, your honor" and Nelson
looked down at his own empty sleeve
and said: well, Jack, then you and
are. both spoiled for fishermen. Cheer
up, my brave felloww And that SYM
pathetic word cheered the entire hos
| pital.
Before you die you can, out of your
own misfortunes, cheer q hundred souls
and start unending echoes. You can
no more appreciate the farreaching re-
suits of your life than Columbus could
see this continent from arctic to ant
arctic. | say this not to make you
proud and arrogant, but to make you
tremble with your responsibilities, 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 fa-
theirs barnyard, but met Samuel, the
prophet, who gave him crown of do
minion. Nearly all the great inventions
and discoveries were made by men who
at the time were looking for something
else. Professor Morse gone to Europe
to perfect himself in chemistry, on re.
turning happens to take the packet ship
Sully, from Havre, and while in CONVEX
sation with passenger learns of some
experiments in France which suggest
to him the magnetic telegraphy.
He went to Europe to learn the wis
dom of others and discovered the tele-
graph. Hargreaves, by the upsetting of
a machine and the motion of it's wheels
while upset, discovered 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 some
thing just as good and perhaps better
Sail ahead on tie voyage of life, keep a
correct logbook, brave the tempest, make
the best use of the east wind, keep sharp
lookout, and warrant you, in the lame
of the God of Columbus, that if you do
not find just what you want of an earth
ly nature you will find heaven, and that
will be better.
What was wornout India, crouching
under a tropical sun, compared with
salubrious and radiant and almost il
limitable America, and what is all that
this little world in which we live can
afford you compared with that supernal
realm whose foliage, and whose fruits
and whose riches, and whose popula
ton, and whose grandeurs, and whose
worship, and whose Christ make up an
afduence that the most rapturous vocab-
ulary fails to utter?
Another look at the career of that ad |
miral of the Santa Maria persuades me
that it is not to be expected that this
world will do its hard workers full jus
tice. If any man ought to have been
treated well from first to last it was Co
lumbus. He had his faults. Let others
depict them. But greater soul the
centuries have not produced. This con-
tinent ought to have been called Colum-
bia, after the hero who discovered it,
after the queen who fur
nished the means for the expedition.
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 dungeon!
What a thought Columbus in ironsi
What spectacle!
The wife of Robert Murray, after
whom Murray hill, New York, was
named, never has received proper credit
FOR OBTAINING at a very rich luncheon the
officer of the opposing army until Wash
ngton and his army could escape. Mrs.
Murray saved American independence.
How the wrong men and the wrong
get credit that does not belong to
hem, while Gods heroes and Gods
leroines go ungarlanded! You have
heard of the brave words of dying chief
aims, but you probably never heard Of
what a private soldier said, fallen at
2esaca and bleeding under a shell
wound in his mouth, and who, though
dreaGfully from thirst, when
up of water was offered him declined
o drink, saying, MY mouth is all
bloody, sir, and it might make the tin
up bad for othersr'
The world knows nothing of the
,ravest words and the bravest deeds. In
ne of the last letters which Columbus
ent to his son, he wrote this lamenta-
ion: Il receive nothing of the revenue
ne me. | live by borrowing. Little
ave / profted by twenty years of serv-
ce with such tolls and perils, since at
resent do not own a roof in Spain. If
desire to eat or sleep, l have no re-
curse but the inn, and for the most
ines have not wherewithal to pay my
ILL.,"
Be not surprised, my nearer, if you {
uffer injustice. You are in the best
f company-the men and women who
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