thank God. the prophecies which cheered
Columbus in his great, undertaking cheer
us. America for God! Yea. thio round
world for God! There can be no doubt
about it!
That great Italian navigator also im
presses me with the idea that when one does
a good thing, he cannot appreciate its rami
fications. To the moment of his death,
Columbus never knew that he had discover
ed America, but thought that Cuba was a
part of Asia. He thought the island His
paniola was the Ophir of Solomon. He
thought he had only opened a new way to
old Asia. Had he known what North and
South America were and are. and that he
had found a country three thousand miles
wide, ten thousand miles long, of seventeen
million square miles, and four times as
large as Europe, the happiness would have
been too much for mortal man to enduro.
Hi' had no idea that, the time would come
when a nation of sixty million people on
this side of the sea would be joined by all
the intelligent nations on the other side
the sea, for tho most part of a year recit
ing his wonderful deeds. It took centuries
to reveal tho result of that one transat
lantic voyage. So it has always been.
