Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-01-24

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(LOTNFCo)serm at the Academy
HpSNYX8SGo f Music, New York,
O.SVHalSH Sunday was heard by a
CASiGSHESl 81 eat throng. He will
W dHfEgA(f Thereafter preach there
OI6H1HyISIElo Jon Sundays. The text
H@63 of the sermon is printed
i[G%SfS in the heading. The
\d.(SRk1Chman who wrote this
TIgXL9was at the time prac-
GO ing physician; at an
(e4P W. other time talented
painter; at another
time a pow u l
preacher: at another time a reporter
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 stenog-
raphy had not yet been born. he re-
ports verbatim a sermon of Christ
which in one paragraph bowls the
round world into the light of the mil
lennium. They shall come from the
CnSb. anu lIOlll lllS NcSGs llolLl bilS
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
Pacific, or the Indian, or Ben
gal, or Mediterranean, or Red Sea,
looking through nautical instrument
to find just where we were sailing; and
it 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 cold blooded race.
They dwell amid icebergs and eternal
SHOWS, and everlasting winter Green
landers, Laplanders, Icelanders, ST.
berians-their vehicle is the sledge
drawn by reindeer. Their existence
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 iIyperboreans. Down from Nova
Hembla; 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 hur-
ricanes of sleet Christs disciples are
coming from the north. The inhabit-
ants of Hudson's bay are gathering to
the cross. The church missionary
society in those polar chimes has been
grandly successful in establishing
twenty-four gospel stations, and over
twelve thousand natives have been
baptised. The Moravians have kindled
the light of the gospel all up
and down Labrador. The Danish mis-
sion has gathered disciples from among
the shivering inhabitants of Green
land. William Duncan breaches the
gospel up in the chill ATTITUDES of Col
umbia, delivering one sermon nine
times in the same day to as many diff
ferent tribes who listen, and then go
forth to build school houses and
Il
nexaton William II. Stewards folly,
turns out to be William H. Stewards
triumph, and it is hearing the voice of
God through the American missionar-
les, men and women as defiant to Are
tic hardships as the old Scottish chief
who, when camping out in a winters
night knocked from under his sons
.E.7ad a pillow of snow, saying that
ST. 4 indulgence in luxury would
weaken and disgrace the clan. The
Jeanette went down in latitude II,
while De Long and his freezing and
dying men stood watching it from the
crumbling and cracking polar peak;
but the old ship of the gospel sails
as unhurt in latitude II as in our own
40 degrees, and the one starred flag
floats above the top gallants in Baffin's
bay, and Hudson strait, and Melville
sound. The heroism of polar eXpedi-
ton, which has made the names of
Sebastian Cabot, and Scoresby, and
Schwatka, and Henry Hudson i'm
mortal, is to be eclipsed by the prowess
of the men or women who amid the
frosts of highest ATTITUDES are this mo-
ment taking the upper shores of Eu-
rope, Asia and America for God.
Scientists have been able to agree as
to what is the Aurora Borealis, or
northern lights. l can tell them. 1t
is the banner of victoty for Christ
spread out in the northern night
heavens Partially fulfilled already
the prophecy of my text, to be com
pletely fulfilled in the near future:
"They shall come from the north"
But my text takes in the opposite
point of the compass. The far south
has through high temperature tempta-
tions to lethargy and Incidence, and
hot blood which tend toward multi
form evil. We have through my text
got the north in, Notwithstanding its