The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-01-25
THE GOSPELS POWER
REV. DR.. TALMAGE REFERS TO MU'
NICIPAL REFORM.

mon In New York, Taklng FOR his SUD
Ject the Points of the Compass Rest
at Last.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The hearty
welcome accorded to DIR. Talmage al
the Academy of Music, New York, Sun
day before last, on the occasion of the
eminent divine's introduction to the
metropolitan pulpit, was additionally
emphasized by the immense throng that
greeted him this afternoon and which
filed every seat from orchestra to top
gallery. The singing was led by Profess
or Ali's oornet, and the services open.
ed at precisely o'clock with the sing.
ing of the long meter doxology. The
subject of DR.. Talmage's discourse was
"Points OF Compass" and the text
Luke xiii, 80, "They shall come from
the east, and from the west, and from
the north, and from the south, and shall
sit down"
The man who wrote this was at one
time a practicing physician, at another
time talented painter, at another time
apowerful preacher, at another time re-
porter-an inspired reporter. God bless
and help andiinspire all reportersl From
their pens 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 stenography
had not yet been born, he reports ver-
batim sermon of Christ which in one
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"
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
Bengal or Mediterranean or Red sea,
looking through nautical instrument
to find just where we were sailing, and
1t is we'll to know that, though the cap
tain tells you that there are 80 points Of
division of the compass card in the mar.
iner's compass, there are only four car
dinal points, and my text halls them
the north, the south, the east the west
So 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 emotional gospel, and the
nations of the far north are cold blood
ed race. They dwell amid icebergs and
eternal SHOWS and everlasting winter.
Greenlanders, Laplanders, Icelanders,
Siberians-their vehicle is the sledge
drawn by reindeer, their apparel the
furs at all seasons, their exist
ence 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
rams of glacier.
The Gospel In the Arctics.
But already.the huts of the arctic
hear the songs of divine worship. AL
ready the SHOWS fall on open New Tes-
,aments. Already the warmth of the
Jun of Righteousness begins to be felt
through the bodies and minds and souls
# the Hyperboreans. Down from Nova
Iembla, down from Spitzbergen seas,
lown from the land of the midnight
un, down from the palaces of crystal,
lown over realms of ice and over domin-
ons of snow and through hurricanes of
leet Christ's disciples are coming from
he north. The inhabitants of Hudson
'ay are gathering to the cross. The
Jhurch Missionary society in those polar
LINES has been grandly successful in
"a gospel stations, and over
2, 600 natives have believed and been
'aptized. The Moravians have kindled
he light Of the gospel all up and down
labrador. The Danish mission has gath
red disciples from among the shiyering
of Greenland. William Dun
an breaches the gospel up in the chill
attitudes Of Columbia, delivering one
ermon nine times in the same day to as
nany different tribes who listen, and
hen go forth to build schoolhouses and
hurohes
Alaska, called at its annexation Will
lam 81. Seward s folly, turns out to be
William H. Stewards triumph, and it is !
caring the voice of God through the
american missionaries, men and wom-
n as defiant of arctic hardships as the
Id Scottish chief who, when camping
ut in winter night knocked from un-
er his sons head pillow of snow,
aging that such indulgence in luxury 9
'ould weaken and disgrace the clan. 1
he Jeanette went down in latitude n, {
lille De Long and his freezing and dy-
1g men stood watching it from the
and cracking polar pack,
ut the old ship of the gospel sails as {
nhurt in latitude ~ as in our own 40 q
egrees. and the one starred flag floats Q
bove the topgallants in Baffin's bay and 8
hudson s strait and Melville sound. The I
eroism of polar exedition, which has L
ade the names of Sebastian Cabot and {
coresby and Schwatka and Henry Hud- I
IN immortal, is to be eclipsed by the G
rowess of the men and women who 8
mid tho frosts of highest ATTITUDES are I
lis moment taking the upper shores of v
urope, Asia and America for Go, o
dentists have never been able to agree "
to what is the aurora borealis, or
,rthern lights. l can tell them. 1t j.
10 banner of victory for Christ spre.
1t in the northern night heavens. Pr
ally fulfilled already the prophecy f
y text to be completely fulfilled in
10 near future, They shall come from,
70 north. =" "