The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
,-xDay,s SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
sublect: "Points OF Compass"

,l the South, anu suhh sN CoWns LUKE
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no man who wrote this was nj one time q
'r'rlng physician. at another time n tall
,si palnter, at another time n powerful
..chpr. at another time n reporter-an In
he'd reporter. God bless and help and in
he all reporters From their pens drops
health or poison OF Nations. The name
I'M. reporter was Lucanus. For short he
'ro-inphy had not yet been born. he re-
n, yernaiim a sermon OF Christ which in
|, ,rgragraph bowls the round world into
lisht of the millennium. "They shall
4 4, from the East. and from the West, and
I'M the North, and from the South, and
n sii down"
5;hiug more interested mo In my recent
-oev around the world than to see the
T. rIrtain about noon, whether on the
Il1c or the Indian or Bengal or Medi-
krlneiu or Red Sea. looking through
[u,il instrument TO find Just where We
\, sailing. and II Is well To know that,
Ii.h the captain tells you that there are
ky.;wO points OF division Of the compass
N In the mariners compass. there are
|, our cardinal points, and my text hails
[r-;he North. the South, the East. the
II. So spread out before US the map OF
world to SEQ the extent OF tho gospel
Ip,ien. The hardest part OF the field TO
,Sen Is the Nortn, because our gospel Is
r6,ional gospel. and tho Nations OF the
North aru n cold-blooded race. They
| .mh icebergs and eternal SHOWS and
a.tinc winter. Greenlanders, Lap
,rs. Icalanders. ,iiberians-their vehicle
q s.edge drawn by reindeer, their APP
the thictest furs at all seasons, their
encs lifetime battle with tie cold.
ntcr charges upon them with swords
Ir.le and strikes them with bullets OF hail
pounds them with battling rams OF gla-
4; already the huts OF tho arctic hear
songs OF divine worship. Already the
b, fall on open New Jestaments. Al
y the warmth OF the sun OF righteous
begins 10 be felt through the bodies
minds and souls OF the Hyperboreans.
H. rom Nova Zsmbia, down from Spitz-
en seas, down from the land OF the mid
sun. down from the palaces OF crystal,
h. over realms OF ice and over domin-
o; snow AMI through hurricanes OF
Christ's disciples are coming from the
b. The inhabitants OF Hudson BAY are
rrlngto the cross. The Church Mis-
,ry Society in those polar climes has
grgndly successful In establishing
YES have believed and been baptized.
Moravans have klndled the light OF the
%. all up aud down Labrador. The Da-
mission has gathered disciples from
tug the shivering inhabitants OF Green
William Duncan preDches the gospel
b the chill lhtituies OF Columbia. deliv-
|, one sermon nine times in the same
10 as many differ mt tribes who listen.
then 20 forth 10 build school houses AMI
ches.
iska. called Mt ifs annexation William
Wgri's folly, turns out 10 be William
eward's triumph, and IL is hearing the
OF God through the American mission
men and women as defiant of arctic
ships rs the old Scottish chief who.
camping ont in winters night
tsnd from under his sons head n pillow
now saying that such indulgence In
~ would weaken and disgrace the clan.
Jeannette went down In latitude seven
ven. while DeLong and his freezing
Lying men stood watching II from the
hbling and cracking polar pack, but the
nip OF the gospel sails.as unhurt In lati-
seventy-seven rs In our own forty de-
;, and the one starred flag floats above
opgallants in Baflln's Bay and Hudson's
L and Melville Sound. The heroism OF
: expedition, which has made the names
febasiian Cabot and Scoresby and
Ea;ka and Henry Hudson immortal. is
eclipsed 10y the prowess OF the men and
en VINO amid the frosts OF highest lati-
are this moment taking the upper
rs oi Europe, Asia aud America for Col.
l'lsts haye never been able 10 agree us
nat l,the aurora borealis. or northern
;. can tell them. IL is the banner of
ry or Christ spread out in the nothern
heavens. Partially fulfilled already
rophecy OF my text, 10 be completely
ed In the near future, They shall come
the North"
my text takes In the opposite point OF
compass. The far South has, through
ttmperature. temptations TO lethargy
iudolence and hot blood which tent
ri muliiiorm evil. We have through
eM got the North in, Notwithstanding
osts, and the same text brings In ths
D, notwithstanding its torridity. The
OF cactus, the orange groves and the
sl. OF magnolia are TO DO surrendered
Lord Almighty. The South That
Mexico and all the regions that Will
II. Prescott and Lord Kingsborough
iomiliar In literature Mexico, In
&c dialect OF the Aztecs; Mexico con-
ID by Herman Cortes. 10 be more glor-
conquered; Mexico. with its capital
than 1000 ieet above the sea level look
own upon the enhancement OF lake and
ana plain 4; Mexico, the home OF ma
yet 10 be horn-all for Christ. The
That means Africa. which David
H,tone consecratedt to God when he died
knees In his tent OF exploration AL
ABOUT 100000 cony ,rts 10 Christianity
rica Tia South That means all the
is strewn by omnipotent hand through
~ seas-Malayan, Polynesia. Mclane-
Aicronesia and other Islands more
Fous thnn you can imagine unless you
FoyaSei around the world. The South
means Java for God, Sumatra for God,
o Tor God. Siam ior God.
1lp was wrecked nesr one OF these ISL
ana two ilfeOoats put out for shore,
osewho arrived in the first boat were
ed to death by the cannibals. and the
boat put back and was somehow saved.
pisS-d on, ana one OF that ' ,ry crew
NrecEcd again with others on the Same
Crawling up on the shore, they pro-
10 hide from the capnibals In one OF
Frrns, but mountin; the rocks they
church and cried out; 1--WE are
\ church, a church 80 The South
means Venezuela, New Granndn,
or and Bolivia. The South! That
the torri1 zone with all its bloom,
ms fruitage, and all its exuberance,
edolencs OF illimitab!e gardens, the
OF boundless groves, the lands, the
lhat night by night look up tothe
srn Gross. which, In stars, transhg-
ne midnight heaven as you look up az
ne way from the Sandwich Islands to
llla. "rhey shall come from the
must not foroet that yrr ta,, t,l.a.