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

| Europe, the happiness would have been
too much for mortal man to endure.
| He had no idea that the time would
come when nation of sixty million peo-
pie on this side of the sea would be joined
by all the intelligent nations on the other
side the sea for the most part of year
reciting his wonderful deeds. 1t took
centuries to reveal the result of that one
transatlantic voyage. So it has always
been. Could Paul on that June day
when he was decapitated have had any
idea of what effect his letters and the
] account of his life would have on
| Christendom? Could Martin Luther
| have had any idea of the echoes that
would ring through the ages from the
| bang of his hammer mailing the Latin
| theses against a church door at Witten-
| berg?
Could Eli Whitney have realized the
| continents of wealth that would be
added to the south by the invention of
his cotton gin? Could John Gutenberg,
| toiling year after year making type
| and laboriously setting them side by
side, and with presses changed now
| this way and now that, and sued by
| John Faust for money loaned, and
many of the people trying to cheat Gut
! enberg out of his invention, he toiling
on until he produced what is known as
| the Mazarin Bible, have any idea that
as a result of his invention there would
be libraries that placed side by side
would again and again engirdle the
earth, OF the showers of newspapers
that snow the world under?
When Manhattan island was sold to
the Dutch for twentyfour dollars. neither
they who sold or bought could have
foreseen New York, the commercial me-
tropolis of America that now stands ON
it. Can man who breaches a sermon,
or a woman who distributes tracts, or a
teacher who instructs a class, or passer-
by who utters encouraging words real
ize the infinitudeS of useful result? The
teacher at Harrow school who toiled
with William Jones, the most stupid
boy in school and at the foot of his class,
did not know that he was fitting for his
work the greatest oriental scholar of
modern times-his statue now in st.
Paul's cathedral, London. Every move
you make for God, however insignifi-
others, touches worlds larger than the
one Columbus discovered.
Why talk about unimportant things?
There are no unimportant things. In
unity is made up of infinitesmals. On
clear night the smallest dewdrop holds
star. Each one of you is at the center
of universe, and all you say and do
somehow vibrates to the extreme of that
universe in all directions. promise ev-
erlaSting renown to those who will go
forth with Christian and sympathetic
words. AfEer the battle Of Copenhagen,
Nelson, the admiral, went into hospital
and halted at the bed of wounded
sailor, who mad 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 fellow!" And that SYM
pathetic word cheered the entire hos.
pital.
Before you die you can, out of your
own misfortunes, cheer a hundred souls
and start amending echoes. You can
no more appreciate the farreaching re-
suits of your life than Columbus could
see this continent from arctic to ant |
arctic. l 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 IA |
theirs barnyard, but met Samuel, the |
prophet, who gave him a 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 its wheels |
while upset, discovered the spinning
jenny. So, my friend, go on faithfully |
and promptly with your work, and if |
Il 10 ~ /,
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 tropical sun, compared with !
salubriOus and radiant and almost IL |
limitlble 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
aff1uence 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 Column
bia, after the hero who discovered it, or
Isabelliana, 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 a dungeon!
What thought! Columbus in irons?
What a spectaclei
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
ington and his army could escape. Mrs.
Murray saved American independence.
How the wrong men and the wrong
women get credit that does not belong to
them, while Gods heroes and Gods
heroines go ungarlanded! You have
heard of the brave words of dying chief
tains, but you probably never heard of
what 70 co11ja1 cold fn11n,, ~