Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-10-19
Christopher Columbus, the Christbearer

Is, rlle InrlSt-DeaIeI
which bounds Europe on the west,
washes the eastern shore of Asia:
Science and observation had con
|6rr1aed this opinion, and phophlless-..
[cies we're current concerning
mighty empires beyond the ocean
which would one day be revealed,
|to tie daring navigator.
Plato, Seneca, Dante had spoken
lii glowing terms of the lost Allan
Ills iii the far-aWay WestBnt what
attracted the attention d Column,
bus most, was the prophecy con o1
tanned ia the last chapter of lsaias
And will set q sign among them,
and will send of them that shall.
|be saved, "a the Geatiles into the
sea........~, to the islands afalrgoH, to.
them that have not heardof me
and had not seen my glory.
|66Io. And he regarded himself
las the instrument il the hand ct 81
lGod, chosen from among men for or
1.-THE accomplishment Of this high
purpose.
III is true that, grand as our
there's expectations were, the full
|grandeur Of the reality never
ldawned upon his mind. He ddidfot
know that a whole continent,
greater BY far and richer, than all
Europe, lay undiscovered ii the
western sea. But this one great
ltruth was imldelelibly fixed upon his Il
mind, that land lay there, and that hat
HE was commissioned BY God toi
Iseek ii. Btrtl11en had said, that the
ldiscoverysssof America was q mere.
accident, and that Columbus was 4
ldrea1ner, visionary Yes, heWEasI
a visionary, to use theWords Of S.
protestant historian, but a vision
Iary Of an uncommon un.d success
Iful kind Christ also was called
la visionary, why then should the,
IChrist-bearer refuse the title. 4
But what do these critics mean lsst1
|by the word? Columbus was in
deed maj Of brilliant magma ma:
|tion, But his imagination was TN z
der contro1lof powerful and = y.
act judgment. It was not the ina
girlratiiocn, but the intellect Of the the
great admiral that pointed out the
way To thesneW world U.s..
And his intellectual powers were Atea
lat the very highest order. O )1'd(lll
nary men use the slow process ofs
logical deductions Is arrive afco1-
illusions, extraordinary mindstake
III with a glance of their intellec-l
fral faculty the long chain of
Icauses and effects, and distinctly.
tsee the matter ii all its bearings.
Reason and intellect are mani
|festations of one and the same am
power Ia his soul. But intellect IS
|of a higher order, a mode Of think
ing akin to tl1atof the ariggels,anrda.
lthose who possess it, il an eminent
degree, have ever been numbered.
among the giants q art 1T and and.
science.
Columbus was one 9 fSthlloo1see ffaV
Iored few. The various facts and
PROPHECIES concerning land 1elsf il the lle
west, Were#knoWn to all his CON q
temporaries, and no doubt some.
slow and 1aborious reasoner would
lin the couress of time have proved
with mathematical certainty, that
America did really exist. But&Co-
Iumbusplaced the scattered fra sag
ment Of geographical and phyysieesaal
knowledge, and Of ancient tradli-
ltions iinzthe light of his clear intel
1ect, and the glorious truth burst
upon his vision. That isWhat
meam when / called Columbus q
visionary, and, il this sense, al; al
great men were and must be v ,l
sionariies. 2.
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