The Penn's Grove record., 1892-10-14
RRp DR.. TALNAGR.
The Brooklyn Divine's
Sumd, y Sermon.


Deuteronomy H., q.
70 Col said TO Moses in Bible times, an |
70 Re lid TO Cristoforo Colombo, the SON Of
Z wnod unmher OF Genoa, more than four
hundred years ago. The Nations had been
hooking chiefly towar /, the east.
But while Columbus. as his name was
eallsd After it was Latiniz4d, stood STUDYING
maps and examining globes and reading cos.
biography, COD said IN him. Lift up thine
syss toward the vest The fact was It must
have leemed to Columbus a very lopsided
~uorld-lfkea cart with one wheel, like q
scissors With one blade, like . sack on one
dds VI ! camel, needing q sack on the other
dde 70 belauce IT. Here was Q bride Of the
world With no bridegroom,
Idonot wonder that Columbus MAS not
latisded With half q world, and 20 went to
work to find the other half. The pieces Of
carved wood that were fioated to the shores
Of Europe BY q westerly gale, and two dead
human faces, unlike anything he had seen
bsforz likewise doated from the west, were
70 him the voice Of God saying. s.Iift up
thine eyeS toward the west"
Old nav.gators said to young Columbus
Iscanst BE- done.n The republic Of Genoa
Mid, lit can't be DONE Alphonso v. said,
cit cart b DONE" A comm ttee on mari
timeafRairs to whom the subject was sub
mitted, declared, ut can't be done" vene.
tians aid, 1T can't be done.p After awhile
the story Of this poor but ambitious colum.
sss psys eighty dollars to buy him a doesn't
ruit q elothes 70 that be may be ct to APP
pear hekors loyalty.
Tbs interview in the palace was success
nj. Wuusy enough was borrowed to 1t out
The expedition. There they are, the three
shipA b the Gulf of Cadiz Spain. II you
Al me which have bean the most famous
boafs Of the world. I would, say, first Nosh's
At. ext Hhsrfnd an Mos,,,t Ararst. .no.
ond, IL boat Of bulrushes In which Moses
acatpd the Nile: thirj, the Mayfower, that
rat out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim
1afher4 and now these three vessels that on
tAis ~ Friday morning, August 8 1892, are
rocking On the ripples.
Thsfs = the Santa Maria, only ninety feet
0nG. with four masts and eight anchors.
IAS captain walking the deck Is fifty-seven
Iyen<a old, bis hair white, for at thirty-dve
- vas Eray, and his face is round. his nose
|aqullfne and bis stature a little taller than
tks average.
Thsre afs two doctors in this feet OF ships
and { few lAndsmen, advsnturers who are
ready to risk their necks in a wild exps-
dition. There are enough provisions for q
ysar, captain Count where are you
niIing for1' II do not know" How long
before you will get thereY' II csnuot say.a
All aihors that are goingr' is heard and
thoae who wish to remain go TO the land.
For sixtsen days the wind Is dead east,
and that pleasss the captain becauseit blows
than farther and farther away from the
Eurvpeen coast and farther on toward the
shorS 81 auothor country, II there Is any
70 I'D interest to the voyage on the
sweutisth day ont q violent storm sweeps
tbs ~, and the Atlantic ocean tries what it
|cAn do with the Santa Maria, the Plnta and
fbeNinn. Tbs mutinous crew would have
Killed Columbus had it not been for the gen.
eFAf opinion N shipboard that he was the
only . that could take them back home in
Thu promise Of = silk waistcoat and forty
doqars ia money to the man VINO should first
discover land appeased them somewhat, out
IL Indignation AMI ~biasphemy and tareats
q ASSASSINATION must AVE been awful.
On Friday morning at O'clock, just long
Aoufh sttsr Thursday TO make " sure that
II Wss Friday, and 90 give another blow at
day morning. October II. 149a, . gun from
tbs Pinfa signe1ed land ahead.n Then the
shfps Ay to and the boats were lowered, and
ICaptafn Christopher Columbus frst stepped
upon ehs shore smid the song OF birds n
~ III : surge OF redolencs AMI took pos
eee11on IA the name Of the Father, aud the
0on a. Tie holy Ghost
nsnt ended With "dioria In Excslsis D.o.n
From that day onward you say there eau
u nothing FOR Columbus but honors, re-
vard& rsphsodiea palaces and world wide
applause. Mol mol On his way back to
spain the ship was 50 wreuched by the
tempest and % threateue1 with obstruction
he wrote . brief account OF his discov-
cry and put 1t in q cask and threw 1t over.
board that the world might not lose the adj
vuntaxe of his adventures. Honors awaited
him - the beach, but be undertook a Sc .on
voya9& and with IL came all maliguing ami
peesscution and denuuciation and poverty.
h WAS called aland graooer, a liar. d
caeAt : fraud, q dec liver of Naroas.
Spectators roobet him Of his gooi name.
conrtisFs appreciated his discov .ries, anu
there came 70 him ruined health and i'm
lgisonment and c lains, of wnich he said
Wills be ratified them OF his wrists 4
Will wear them rs . memento OF the gr@ti-
tnde OF princss.D Anti Keen appreciation
ot Tbs worlds abuse and cruelty, AMI with
BODY writhing in the tortures Of gour, ne
groaned out his last words, I'm a
Thy hands. O Lord, l commend my
OF course he had regal cbsequies. That is
~ way the world tries to atone for its
msan Treatment Of great benefactors. First
burtod in the church or santa harla. Seven
W-ehxos years aftsrward removed to San
Ucuipeo. Finally removed to Cuoa. Four
p~qsesortsm journeys from sepulcher to
What most impresses me in all that
RouLrous life, which for the next twelve
mouths Va will be commemoratinz by SER
mon and song and military parade ami
Worlds Fair and congress OF Nations, is
something ! have never heard stat I'd. and
that 4 that the discovery OF America was a
religious discovery and in the name o.
Goa. Columbus, by the study of the proph-
eciea and by what Zecharla h and Micah and
David and fsiah had said about the lends OF
the eartn,s was persuade to go out an lind
the lends OF the EARTH" and he felt himself
called BY God to carry Christianity to thu
sstuds 81 the EARTH"
Atheism has no right here; inf deity has
40 right here; ~vagsbondisn has no right
hore. And A. God Is not apt to fail in any
OF His undertakings lat any rate have never
heard OF His having anything to DO With a
failure, America Is goin : 10 o. Gospelizsj,
and from the Golden Gate OF cati.
fornia to the Narrows OF New York hsroor,
and from the top OF North America to the
loot Of South America, from Boring straits
20 Cape Horn, this is going to be lmmanus's
land.
Al divine influence will yet sweep the col
dnent that will make in guilty drop like
slacked lime, and make the most blatant ir-
Gdelity declare IL was only 10 ing when it
4At4 t4o Rlltc was Hbt udcs anu Wv NO4sh
1thcl1m announce that It always did BIZ
Hsya y To- Coz Of Nations.
IL Nouzd aot do for nur world in its lost
md rpinzt statc to have communication
with o1ter worlds. II would spoil their
rnorslS But wait until this world is fully
redeemed. sstt will b.. and then rerhaps
tntefsfsIlar correspondence may re oreuei.
The great Itsiisn navigator also inpresses
me with the idea that when one does a
good thing he carnot appreciate its ramiH-
cations. To the moment of bis death Co
1umbns never knsw that he had discovered
America, but thought that Cuba was a part
II Asis. He thought the Island His
PAMELA was the Oohir Of Solomon. He
thought he had only opsnei a new way to
old Asia. Had he Known what North AMI
South America were and are, aud that hs
rad found q country thres THOUSAND miles
wide. ten thousand miles long, Of seventeen
million square miles apd four times as .arge
As Europa the happiness would have been
100 much for mortal man to en- lure.
He bad no idea that the ii ne would come
when Z Nation Of sixty million people on
this ode Of the sea would be joine by all the
iuosyligspk Nations on the other side the sea
o. the most part OF q yezr recitiug his woa-
derfut deeds II took centuries TO reveal the
result Of that one trans ,tlautic voyage.
When Manhattan Island was sold to the
Dutch for twenty-four dollsrs neither they
whQ i'd " bought could have forssesn