Excerpt from Christianity and the United States
I. Discovery.
The desire to extend Christianity to unknown lands induced Queen Isabella of Spain to pledge her jewels that she might provide funds to equip Christopher Columbus for his voyage of discovery. When Columbus set his adventurous feet upon the New World, which Isabella's religious zeal had made it possible for him to discover, he planted the cross of Christ beside the banner of Castile and Leon, thus interpreting the desire of his royal patroness by dedicating this land to civil government and the higher authority of redeeming love.
In later years, before the national government had any purpose to preempt the territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and when, in fact, the government considered that region to be inaccessible and undesirable, the churches, in their zeal to extend the teachings of Christianity, sent their pioneer preachers to the extreme Northwest.
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