The Progress., 1895-01-26


an.inspired reporter. God bless, and
help and inspire all reporters! From
their pen drops the health or poison of
nations. The name Of this reporter
was Lucanus; for short he was called
Luke: and in my text, although stcnog-
raphy had not yet been born, he re-
ports verbatim sermon of Christ
which in one paragraph bowls the
round world into the light Of the mil
leunium. They shall come from the
east, and from the west. and from the
north. and from the south and Shall
sit down. Nothing more interested
me in my recent journey around the
world than to see the ship captain
about noon, whether on the
Pacit:, or the Indian. or Ben
gal, Or Mediterranean, or Red Sea,
looking through nautical instrument
10 find just where we were sailing; and
1t is well to know that though the
captain tells you there are thirty-two
points of division Of the compass card
in the mariners compass, there are
only four cardinal points, and my text
halls them, the north, the south, the
east, the west. SO | spread out be-
fore us the map of the world to see the
extent of the gospel campaign. The
hardest part of the field to be taken is
the north, because our gospel is an
emotional gospel, and the nations OF
the far north are a cold bloOded race.
They dwell amid icebergs and eternal
SHOWS, and everlasting winter. Green
landers. Laplanders. lcelanders, 81
berians-their vehicle is the sledge
drawn by reindeer. Their existence a
lifetime battle with the cold. The
winter charges upon them with swords
of icicle, and strikes them with bullets
hail and pounds them with battering OF
rams of glacier.
But already the huts OF the Arctic
hear the songs of divine worship. Al
ready the SHOWS fall on open New
Testaments. Already the warmth of
the sun of Righteousness begins to be
felt through the minds, and souls OF
the Hyperboreans. Down from Nova
Zembla; down from Spitzbergen seas;
down from the land of the midnight
sun: down from the palaces of crystal;
down over realms of ice, and over
dominions of snow, and through hun;
ricanes of sleet, Christ's disciples are
coming from the north. The inhabit,
4 ants of lIudson's bay are gathering to
the cross. The church missionary
society In those polar climes has been
grandly successful in establishing
twsnty-four gospel stations, and over
twelve thousand natives have been
baptised. The Moravians have kindlet
the light of the gospel all ur
and down Labrador. The Danish mis-
sion has gathered disciples from among
the shivering inhabitants of Green
/ land. William Duncan breaches tht
gospel up in the chill ATTITUDES OF Col
umbia, delivering one sermon nine
times in the same day to as many dlf
ferent tribes who listen, and then g
forth to build school houses ant
churches. Alaska, called at its an
nexaton William H. Stewards folly
tarns out to be William H. Seward
triumph. and it is hearing the voice o
God through the American missionar
les, men and women as defiant TO Arc
tie hardships as the old Scottish che
who, when camping out in a winter
night knocked from under his son
head pillow of snow, saying tina
such indulgence in luxury woul'
weaken and disgrace the clan. I'M
jeanette went down in latitude
while De Long and his freezing ant
dying men stood watching it from tn
crumbling and cracking polar peak
but the old ship of the gospel sail
as unhurt in latitude II as In our Owl
h 40 degrees, and the one starred MAJ
floats above the top gallants IN bafhn
BAY, and Hudson strait, and MelViil
sound. The heroism of polar expedl
Il ton. which has made the names 0
Sebastian Cabot, and Scoresoy, AM
Sehwatka, and Henry Hudson lin
mortal, is to be eclipsed by the proves
~ the men or women who amid tn
frosts OF highest ATTITUDES are this me
q ment taking the upper shores OF Eu
j rope. Asia and America for GOD
4 Scientists have been able to agree a
TO what is the Aurora Borealis, Q
northern lights. / can tell them
Is the banner of victoty for CHRIS
s,read out in the northern nigh
q heavens. Partially fulfilled alread
Y the prophecy of my text, to be con
pletely. fulfilled in the near future
.They shall come from the north. "
But nv text takes in the opposlt
point OF the compass. The far sout
has through high temperature tempt;
lions to lethargy and Incidence, an
hot blood which tend toward mutt
form evil, We have through my te'
Got the north in, notwithstanding !
frosts, and the same text brings IN tn
south, Notwithstanding its torridit,
The fields of cactus, the orange grove
and the thickets of magnolia are to :
surrendered to the Almighty. III
south! That means Mexico, and a
the regions that William II. Presco
md Lord Yin sborouOh made familis