The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-25
FROM ALL POINTS.
DR.. Talmage on the Coming Of Peo-
pie to God.
TIE Great Extent of the Gospel Campaign
The Frozen and the Torrid Zones,
the East and the West, All
Within Its Scope.

In a late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. L.
Dewitt Talmage chose for his subject,
Points of Compass" the text being
from Luke xiii. %: They shall come
from the east. and from the west, and
from the north, and from the south,
and shall sit down" DIR. Talmage said:
The man who wrote this was at one
time practicing physician; at another
time talented painter; at another
time wonderful preacher; at another
time a repOrter-an inspired reporter.
God bless. and help, and inspire all re-
porters! 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 stenography had not yet been
born, he reports verbatim 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
tourney 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 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. there are only
four cardinal 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 emo
tional gospel, and the nations Of the
far north are a cold-blooded race.
They dwell amid icebergs and eternal
SHOWS. and everlasting winter.
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 the pal
aces Of crystal; down over the realms
of ice. and over dominiOns of snow, and
through hurricanes of sleet, Christ
disciples are coming from the north.
The inhabitants of Hudson's bay are
gathering to the cross. The Church
Missionary society in those far chimes
has been grandly successful in estab-
and over 1900 natives have
believed and been baptized The
MOravians have kindled the light
of the gospel all up and
down Labrador. The Danish mission
has gathered disciples from among the
shivering inhabitants of Greenland.
William Duncan breaches the gospel
I'D in the chill latitude of Columbia,
delivering one sermon 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 Will
liam Il. Stewards folly, turns out to be
William II. Stewards triumph. and it is
hearing the voice of God through the
American missionaries. men and wom-
en- 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 clan.
But my text takes in the opposite
point of the compass. The far south
has through high temperature tempta-
tons to lethargy, and Incidence, and
hot blood, which tend toward multi
form evil. We have through nv text
got the north in, Notwithstanding its
frosts, and the same text brings in the
south, Notwithstanding its torridity.
The fields of cactus the, orange groves,
and the thiclzets 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 Kingsborough made familiar
in literature; Mexico in strange dia-
lect of the Aztecs; Mexico conquered
by fernando Cortes, to be more
glorioUsly conquered; Mexico with its
capital more than ZOO feet above the
sea level. looking down upon the en-
trancement of lake, and valley. and
plain; Mexico. the home of nations vet
TO be bOrn-all for Christ. The south,
That means Africa. which David Liv-
ingstone consecrated TO God when he
died on his knees in his tent of explora-
ton. Already about 10000 converts
to Christianity in Africa. The south!
That means all the islands strewn bv
Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas. Malayan Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia and other islands more nu-
merous than you can imagine unless
you have voyaged around the world
The south, That means Java for God:
SumatrS for God; Borneo for God; Siam
for God
But I must not forget that nv text
takes in another cardinal point of the
compass It takes in the east. I have
to report that IN a journey around the
world there Is nothing 50 much i'm
presses one as the fact that the mis-
sionaries divinely blessed are taking
the world for God. The horrible war
between Japan and China will leave
the last wall Of opposition fat in the
dust. War Is barbarism ALWAYS and
everywhere. We hold up our hands in
amazement at the massacre at Port
Arthur, as though Christian nations
could never go into such diabolism.
We forget Fort Pillow, We forget the
fact that during our war both north
and south rejoiced when there were
10000 more wounded and slain on the
opposite side War, whether in China
or the United States, Is he'll let loose.
But one good result viii come from