News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-10-13

ing, Oct. 10, 1892, gun from the Pinta
signaled Gland ahead
Then the ships lay to, and the boats
were lowered, and Captain Christopher
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. So the voyage
that began with the sacrament ended
with "Gloria in Excelsis Deo." From
that day onward you say there can be
nothing for Columbus but honors, re-
wards, rhapsodies, palaces and world
wide applause. No! no! On his way
back to Spain the ship was so wrenched
by the tempest and so threatened with
destruction that Ire wrote a brief ac-
count of his discovery and put it in a
casz and threw it overheard that the
world might not lose the advantage of
his adventures.
Honors awaited him on the beach, but
he undertook a second voyage, and with
it came all maligning and persecution
and denunciation and poverty. He was
called a land grabber, a liar, a cheat, a
fraud, a deceiver of nations. Specu-
lators 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 a memento of the
gratitude of princes" Amid keen APP
probation of the worlds abuse and
cruelty, and with body writing in the
| fortunes of govt he groaned out his last
words, Gin manus tuas Domino COM
mendo spiritum meum"-'Into thy
hands, o Lord, 1 commend my spirit. p"
OF course he had regal obsequies.
That is the way the world tries to atone
for its mean treatment of great benefac-
tors. Many man has had a 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. Twenty
three years afterward removed to San
Domingo. Finally removed to Cuba.
Four postmortem journeys from sepul-
| cher to sepulcher.
| 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 CEN
| fury after his decease the American con-
| tinent might build a mausoleum worthy
of him who picked this jewel of a hemi-
cTNbnro ont Of tho o101 II in tho
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 monament has been lifted in his
memory, and here and there city called
after him, the continent that he was the
means of founding was named after an
other name, and no fitting commemora-
tiOH of his work has been proposed until
nearly four hundred years after his body
turned to dust. May the imposing dem
Onstration now being made in his honor
on the Atlantic coast and to be made |
next year in his honor midcontinent, be |
brilliant enough and far resounding
enough and Christian enough and mag
nifcent enough to atone for the neglect |
VI 1So' Ah1thy Il1O SOOO Lulu StlIO"
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 memory!
What most impresses me in all that |
wondrous life, which for the next twelve |
months we will be concentrating by |
sermon and song and military parade
and Worlds fair and congress of ma
tions, 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
lechariah and Micah and David and
isaiah had said about the sends of the
earth" was persuaded to go out and find
the ''ends of the EARTH" and he felt him
self called by God to carry Christianity
to the ''ends of the earth" Then the
administration of the last supper before
they left the Gulf of Cadiz, and the
evening prayers during the voyage, ard
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 a re-
igious discovery.
Atheism has no right here; inidelity
has no right here; vagabondism has no
right here. And as God is not apt to
fail in any of his undertakings Cat any
rate have never heard of his having
anything to do with a failula), America
is going to be Gospelized, and from the
Golden Gate of California toSyhe Mar
rows 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 Imman-
uel's land. All the forms of irreligion
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 hemi-
sphere, and they will make great head |
way and feel themselves almost estab- |
lished.
But God will not forget the prophe-
cies which encouraged Columbus about |
the lends of the earth seeing the saliva |
ton of God" nor the Christian anthem |
which Columbus led ON the morning of !
the 18th of October, 1899, ON the coast |
of San Salvador. 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 fleet that they were approaching
some country, so a whole flock of prom
ises and hopes, golden winged Snd song
full, this morning alight around US, as
surfing US that we are approaching the
glorious period of American evangelical
ton.
A divine influence will yet sweep the
continent that will make iniquity drop
like Stacked lime, and make the most
blatant infidelity declare it was only
joking when it said the Bible was not
true, and the worst atheism announce
that it always did believe in the God of
nations. Let others call for requiem
and dead march. call for George Fred
erick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus"
There has been much talk of late about
communication with other worlds.
Mars has come so near we can see its
canals, and it has been hoped that by
signals after awhile we may communi-
cate with other stars. All, that will not
be possible until our world has been re-
formed and evangelized
1t would not do for our world in its
lost and ruined state to have communi-
cation with other worlds. 1t would
spoil their morals. But wait until this
world is fully redeemed, as it will be,
and then perhaps interstelIar correspond.
ence may be opened. Till then this
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