h swelled all bosoms with jubilee, and
seemed to have reached the utmost bounds of desire. That man was
Christopher Columbus.

THE FIRST CATHOLIC KNIGHT.

JAMES DAVID COLEMAN, Supreme President of the Catholic Knights of
America, in an address to the members of that body, September 10,
1892.

History tells that the anxious journey was begun by Columbus and his
resolute band, approaching Holy Communion at Palos, on August 3, 1492;
that its prosecution, through sacrifices and perils, amid harrowing
uncertainties, was stamped with an exalted faith and unyielding trust in
God, and that its marvelous and glorious consummation, in October, 1492,
was acknowledged by the chivalrous knight, in tearful gratitude, on
bended knee, at the foot of the cross of Christ, as the merciful gift of
his omnipotent Master. Then it was that Christopher Columbus, the first
Catholic knight of America, made the gracious Christian tribute of
grateful recognition of Divine assistance by planting upon the soil of
his newly discovered land the true emblem of Christianity and of man's
redemption--the cross of our Savior. And then, reverently kneeling
before the cross, and with eyes and hearts uplifted to their immolated
God, this valiant band of Christian knights uttered from the virgin sod
of America the first pious supplication that He would abundantly bless
His gift to Columbus; and the unequaled grandeur of our civil structure
of to-day tells the manifest response to those prayers of 400 years ago.

BY FAITH COLUMBUS FOUND AMERICA.

ROBERT COLLYER, a distinguished pulpit orator. Born at Keighley,
Yorkshire, December 8, 1823.

The successful men in the long fight with fortune are the cheerful men,
or those, certainly, who find the fair background of faith and hope.
Columbus, but for this, had never found our New World.

THE CITY OF COLON STATUE.

In the city of Colon, Department of Panama, Colombia, stands a statue to
the memory of Columbus, of some artistic merit. The great Genoese is
represented as encircling the neck of an Indian youth with his
protecting arm, a representation somewhat similar to the pose of the
statue in the plaza of the city of Santo Domingo. This statue was
donated by the ex-Empress of the French, and on a wooden tablet
attached to the concrete pedestal the following inscription appears:

Statue de
CHRISTOPHE COLOMB
Donnee par
L'Imperatrice Eugenie
Erigee a Colon
Par D