The Penn's Grove record., 1895-01-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
LAYS SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
sanieet. "Points of Compass"

Txxr: 'sThey shall come from the East
ma IRON the West, and from the North, N
the South, and shall sit cown."-Luf
xtil, 20
The man who wrote this was at one time q
practiclne physician. at another time . tall
painter, at another time a powerful
preacher, at another time q rsporter-an In
sptrod reporter. God bless and help AMI IN
sptre all repor,ersl From their pens drop
ne nealth or poison Of Nations, Tns nan.
ofthfs reporser was LucanuA For short nj
was called Lake, and in my texf, SithonR5
sfenogT.phy had not yet been born. be re
verbatim a sermon OF Christ which u
one paragraph bowls the round world int.
tbs light OF ths millennium. "They shat
cous from the East, and from the West, ana
nom the North, n from the South, ant
hall SIT down.
Nothing more lntercstea me In my recon
tozraey around the world than to see ny
phlp czpsain nbout noon, whether GA tht
Paelna or tho Indian or Bengal or 1edk
lferrannan or Rcd Sea, boxing through q
nautical Instrument TO md Just vhure W
wrrs sailing, and II IL well to know that
though ths capt<in tells you that there arr
thixty4wo points OF division oil the compass
card In the mariners compass, there are
only four cardinal points, and M text halls
thpn-she North, the 1outh, the Eeaf, the
West 30 / spread out before as the mnp Of
tbs world to eco thu eStents OF the gospel
rampaign- The hardest part OF the Mold 70
be taken Is the Nonn, because our gospel II
an emotional gospel, and the Natfcns Of the
lar NORTH are q cohlolooded raca. The1
fwetl. amid ieeberHs and eternal SHOWS and
everlasting winter. Greeniende8s, Lap
landerA, Ioeinnders, S~iberians-thSfr vehlcie
Ia tho sfedgs dravn By reindeer, thsar ap-
pared the fhictest furs at all seasons theii
extstence q Nistlme battle with .the cold.
The winter charges upon them with sworis
OF fcscle and strikes Ihem With bnilsts OF hall
and pounds them with battling rams OF GA
cier.
But already the huts Of the arctic hoax
me songs OF divlns worship. Already
snows fab on open New T~estAlnenfA. Az
ready the warmth OF the sun OIL r,snieons-
ness begins to be felt through tho bodies
and minds and souis Of the H~ypa<oorsan&
Down IRON Nova Zembla, down nom Sritnr
bergen seas. down from the land OF tho MIDI
night Gun. down from the palaces OF crystal,
down over realms of ice and over dornin.
ions OF snow and through hurricanes OF
sieet Christ's disciples are coming from the
EorIh- The inhabitants oil HUDSON Bay gro
| gathering to the cross The Church Ms
sionary Sociefy In those polar chimes has
been grandly successful in establishing
| twenty-four gospel stations, and over lz,O0d
&us.rs.%rve believed and been baptized.
d,ssvfans have kindled the light OF thu
o." all uD ana Q0Wn 1ADI6uOIs AAo DA-
esion has gathered disciples IRON
The ehiyering inhabitants OF Green,
William Duncan breaches the gospel
chill iatitudes of Columbia, deiiyi
Il sekmon nine times In the samf
kmapy different tribes who hsfen1
hgo birth to build school houses and
Lasked at It's annexation William
d. Stewards folly, turns out TO be WIlian
H Stewards triumph, and 1t ID hearing h
voice Of TIKI rugh the American mission
aries. men and women rs defiant OF Arotit
harcships as the old Scottish chief who
VIXEN camping out in q winters might
knoahSSfrom under his sons head a PILLOW
tns snow. saying that such indulgence Il
luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan
The Jeanette went down in latitude seren
fy-seyen. while DeLong and his frecgtn,
and DYING men stood watching u from tn
crumbfng aad cracking polar pack, but tn,
old snip Of the gospel ~sslssas unhurt In tsfi
tnde seyenty-seyen as in our own forty DC
grees- and the ono stored nsg ncets snor
the topgallants In Baf1n's Bay and Hudson
Strait and Melville Sound The harptsm o
polar expedition, which has made tbs nane
Sof Sebastian Cabot and eeoresey an
echyetka and Henry Hudson Immortal, !
to be collapsed By h prowess Of the mer an.
women who amid the frosts Of highest iaf1
tudes are this moment taking tne sppe
I HQDIEU % 1uLVDt. ADl1A ~ Ska
sNentists have meyer been ahls TO agree .
to what is the aurora borealis, or northsr
! ighfN / can tell them. Il u the banner q
yfctory for Christ spread ont In the ncfhsr
night heavens. Partially fnlAflsd alasad
the prophecy OF my text, TO b. cornpzsfAl
fulfilled IN thenear futugs .'TheysssA com
from the North
NE eornpasa The far South has, throus
high temperature, Temptations to ietbars
and in6olanee and hot blood HAteh ten
Harvard nrnlfform eytt Va haye throas
sytext ret the North IN, Notwithstanding
is frusts, and the sanss tskt bfSigs IN q
IBouxh, Notwithstanding IT. forradtty. ~
fields Of csstus, the crsAes groves . 60
tthiekets of magao,ta are 10 b. ~snxrenderz
10 the Lord AlmIghty. fhs 6o4fh1 40
toea1s ML4xtco ead al the regions fhat WIG
m q. Areseoff and Lord K~fnestoroua
ads fahtliax In htersturss Nez1ec, !
razlee dialect Of the Anteess xexdco co.
uersd by Hernsa Cortes, 70 30 more Go
sors than 1000 lest above ths Sos lcra LOO
< down upon the entraacenas5t u . 81
Hey and plain / Mexico, the home Of y
ions YET to be bora-ah tor Ga<3e. ~
eoufhi That means AtrseA, TbfGh pay
LAstngstene consecrafsdto God Hhen he'd.
on his knees in bis tent of explesstten. 4
: feady ebout 75O, 600 conv Ats 10 ChaAsttxna
AtIttA u
islands strewn By omnipotenf hasd fhrcal
sropaeat seas-Maizyan, Poiynesta, MstAn
na,. Micronesia and o;her islands mo
ramerous fhan Jou can imagine iniaes y
are ycyaged afpuNd the World The 2
aat means Java for God. 6uuafrs for Go
orneo Tor Goa, Siam for God.
ship wes urected rosx one OF these J
ads, asd fxD ufsboats put out Ion shol
II theseBho arrived Ia fhe nrt boat VI
lubbed to Aaafh BIZ the csanIbsis. and {
thsr boat put back ssd uas somehovsay'
-eus passed on, and ons OF thst ' ~ err
vas wrecked again With Others on the 90
ocks. Crawling up on the shors, they p
he ssFerns, bat mozntfng tbe rocks q
iaw D church and cs1sd ont I'VE
sayedt A church, q shurchts The Son
That means VenNzueia, New 1rans
Ecuador and Doliyia. The sonthl IT
leans the torrfd zope, With all its blot
hdsali It's fruitsEe, and all hs sxuberan
. redolenes o. lilmitabio gardens.
seas, that nighs BY night o mp to.
Southern Uroas, which, In stars, trans
ures the midnight heaven as you look up
IL all the way from the Sandwich IsIandG
Australia. 'sTheY shall come from
South"
But I must not forget that my text ia
In another cardinal point OF the comp
II takes In the East. l have to report {
In q Journey around the world there is no
ing so much tmpresses one as the TACT I
the missionaries dIyinely pleased are tax
the world for God. The horrible war
ween Japan and China will leave the
vail Of opposition fat In the dust. We
arbarism always and everywhere. Wei
ID ourhands In amazement- at the messa
Port Arthur, as though Christian Natl
ouid never 90 into such diabo2ism.
,rget Fort Pillow We forget the fact
!uring our war both North and South
oiced when thcre were 10000 n
sounded and slain or the opposite .
Tar. whether in China OF the IN
tates. u hell let loose. But one good re
I'LL come from the Japanese-Ohinese
ucf. These regions Will be mora opel
iyillzation and Christianity than ever
ire. When Missionary Carey put betor
sembly Of ministers at Northampton
roiecf for the eyangelisation Of India,
~-xf him out OF thu, house From
Is the east OF India to Bombay OF
lere is not a neighborhood but dir
frectIy feels the gospel power.
tnauf. which did It's awful worl
fles. = few weeks ago was brought
1.-The place where II has for years
;ept under shed as axcurioslfy, and
va no one reyerentially TO greet II. 4
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