The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-01
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
From Every Point of the Compass
They Come to God. =.
TIE World-W Wide Character of the Gospel
Campaign-The Frozen and the
Torrid Zones Equally With
in Its Scope.

OF Music, New York city. The subject
Is: points of Compass" being based
On the text!
They shall come from the east, and from the
west. and from the Horth and from the south,
| and shall sit down."-Luke xiii, %.
The man who wrote this was at one
time a practicing phi hyaieianl at another
time atalented painter; at another time
/ powerful preacher; at another time
q reporter-an inspired reporter. God
bless, and help, and inspire all report
ers! From their pen drops the health
or poison of nations. The name Of this
reporter was Lueanus; for short he
was called Luke; and in my text, al
though stenography had not been born,
he reports verbatim sermon of Christ,
which in our paragraph bowls the round
world into the light of the millennium
'"They shall come from the east and
from the west, and from the north, and
from the south, and. shall sit down" p"
Nothing more interested me in my re-
cent Journey around the world than to
see the ship captain about noon,
whether on the Pacific, or the Indian,
or Bengal, or Mediterranean, or Red
sea, looking through a nautical instru-
ment to find just where we were sail
ing; and it is well to know that
though the captain tells you there
are thirty-two points of divi-
sion 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 l spread out before 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 emo
tiOnal Gospel, and the nations Of the
far north are cold-blooded race. They
dwell amid iceberg and eternal SHOWS
and everlasting winter. Greenlanders,
Laplanders, Icclanders, Siberians-
their vehicle is the sledge drawn by
reindeer. Their apparel the thickest
furs at all seasons. Their existence
is lifetime battle with the cold The
winter charges upon them with swords
of icicle, and strikes them with bullets
OF hail and pounds them with batter
ing-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 bodies, and minds,
and souls of the hyperboreans. Down
from Nova Zembla; down from Spitz-
bergen seas; down from the land of the
midnight sun; down from tho palaces
of crystal; down over realms of ice,
inin Of nd
through hurricanes of sleet. Christ's
disciples are coming from the
north. The inha bitants of Hud-
sons bay are gathering to the
cross. The church missionary society
in those far climes has been gradually
successful in esta blishing twenty
four gospel stations, and over
twelve thousand natives have be-
lieved and been baptized. The
MOravians have lxindled the light of
the gospel all up and down Labrador.
The Danish mission has gathered dis
ciples from among the shivering inhab-
itants of Greenland. William Duncan
breaches the gospel up in the chill lati-
tudes of. Columbia, delivering one SER
mon nine times in the same day to as
many different tribes who listen, and
then go forth to build schoolhouses
and churches Alaska, called at its
annexation William II. Stewards folly.
turns out to be William II. Stewards
triumph, and it is hearing the voice of
God through the American missiona
ries, men and women as. defiant of
Arctic hardships as the old Scottish
chief who, when camping out in
winters night, knocked from under
his sons head pillow of snow, saying
that such indulgence in luxury would
weaken and disgrace the elan. The
Jeanette went down in latitude seven
ty-seven, while De Long and his freez-
ing and dying men stood watching it
from the crumbling and cracking
polar pack; but the old ship of the
Gospel sails as unhurt in latitude sew
enty-seven as in our own forty degrees,
and the one-starred flag floats
above the top-gallants in Baffin's
Bay, and Hudson's strait and
Melville sound The heroism of
polar expedition, which has made
the names of Sebastian Cabot, and
Scoresby, and Schwatka, and Henry
Hudson immortal, is to be eclipsed by
the prowess of the men and women
who, amid the frosts of the highest
latitudes are this moment taking the
upper shores of Europe, Asia and
America for God. Scientists, have
never been able to agree as to what is
the aurora borealis, or northern lights.
/ can tell them. 1t is the banner OF
victory for Christ spread out in the
no,+bern night heavens. Partially
fulfilled already the prophecy of my
text, to be completely 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
temptatios to Iethargy, and in
dolence, and hot blood, which tend
toward multiform evil We have
through my text got the north, in not
withstanding its frosts, and the same
text brings in the south, notwithstand-
ing its torridity. The fields of cactus.
the orange groves, and the thickets of
magnolia are to be surrendered to the
Lord Almighty. The south. That
means Mexico. and all the regions that
William H. Prescott and Lord Kings
borough made familiar in literature;
Mexico in strange dialect of the
Aztecs; Mexico conquered by Her
nan Cortez, 10 be more glo-i-
ously conquered, Mexico with it's cap
ttal Ineze than seven thousand feet
abore the sea level, looking down
Urop the sptyapcsneat st lake, and