It is worth quoting at full length, as an example of the wild fervour of a rapt enthusiast.
"Wearied and sighing," writes Columbus, "I fell into a slumber, when I heard a piteous voice saying to me, 'O fool, and slow to believe and serve thy God, who is the God of all! What did He more for Moses, or for His servant David, than He has done for thee?
From the time of thy birth He has ever had thee under His peculiar care.

When He saw thee of a fitting age, He made thy name to resound marvellously throughout the earth, and thou wert obeyed in many lands, and didst acquire honourable fame among Christians.

Of the gates of the ocean sea, shut up with such mighty chains, He delivered to thee the keys; the Indies, those wealthy regions of the world, He gave thee for thine own, and empowered thee to dispose of them to others, according to thy pleasure.

What did He more for the great people of Israel, when He led them forth from Egypt?
Or for David, whom, from being it shepherd, He made a king in Judaea?
Turn to Him, then, and acknowledge thine error: His mercy is infinite.

He has many and vast inheritances yet in reserve.