Article February 6, 1943 Issue

The Commandments: Passports to Power

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

ELIZABETH WOOLLEY

Columbus grasped an idea which was to double the size of the known world for the people of his time. You and I, if we had been there, might have ranged behind the big guns of opposing thoughts. There were groups of learned men, clothed in velvets, studded with degrees, who might have fairly bombarded us with the explanation that because Columbus' ideas didn't agree with theirs the project was unsound. Would you have believed them? Columbus didn't. Another group was dressed in rough clothes. They were the working people, the sailors and boat builders. "We daren't go far over the horizon," they murmured. "Even if the world is round like an orange, boats are bound to slip off somewhere." Columbus didn't believe that, either. He had his calculations, his tremendous purpose, faith, patience, and courage under the constant rasp of ridicule.

Interesting, isn't it, to ask ourselves which camp we would have been in? And to learn that the people living in those times would have hotly denied that they were ignorant and superstitious. Yet it was this, and not an ocean, which separated them from the riches of a new world.

This is the fourth of a series of five articles on the Commandments, which are appearing monthly in the Sentinel.

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