And yet what man to-day is more highly honored than Christopher Columbus?
People forget all the trials and hardships and sorrows of his life, and think of him only as one of the great successes of the world--the man who discovered America.
And out of his life of disaster and disappointment two things stand forth that all of us can honor and all of us should wish to copy.

These are his sublime persistence and his unfaltering faith.

Even as a boy, Columbus had an idea of what he wished to try and what he was bound to do.

He kept right at that idea, no matter what might happen to annoy him or set him back.
It was the faith and the persistence of Columbus that discovered America and opened the way for the millions who now call it their home.

It is because of these qualities that we honor him to-day; it is because this faith and persistence ended as they did in the discovery of a new world, that to-day his fame is immortal.
Other men were as brave, as skillful and as wise as he.