The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-02-15
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Great Preachers Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: "POints of oompass.''

The man who wrote this was at one time a
praeiieing physician, at another time a tall
ented painter az another time a powerful
preacher, at another time a reporter-an in
spired reporter. God bless and help aud ia
spiro all reporters From their pens drops
the health or poison Of Nations The name
Ofthis reporter was Lucanus For short he
was called Lake, and in my text although
stenoHaphy 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 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 mo in my recent
journey around the world than 10 see the
ship captain about noon, whether on tho
Pacific or the Indian OF Bengal or Medi-
iterranean or Red Sea, looking through a
nautical instrument TO find just where we
We're sailing, and II is well TO know that,
though the captain tells you that 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 I spread out before us the map OF
the world 10 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 a cold-blooded race They
dwell amid icebergs and eternal SHOWS and
everlasting winter. Greenlanders, lap
landers, Icelanders, Siberians-their vehicle
is the sledge drawn by reindeer, their ap-
parel the thickest iurs at all seasons, their
existence a 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 battling rams of gla-
eier.
But already the huts of the arctic hear
the songs of divine worship. Already tho
SHOWS fall on open New Testaments. AL
ready the warmth Of the sun OF righteous
ness begins TO DO 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 mid
night sun, down from the palaces of crystal,
down over realms Of ice and over domn-
ions of snow and through hurricanes of
sleet Christ's disciples are coming from the
| North. The inhabitants Of Hudson Bay are
! gathering to the cross. The Church Mis-
sionary Society In those polar climes has
! been grandly successful in establishing
twenty-four gospel stations, and over 10, 900
| natives have believed and been baptized.
! The Moravlans have kindled the light of tho
| gospel all up and down Labrador. The Da-
| nish mission has gathered disciples from
/
| land. William Duncan breaches the gospel
| up in the chill ATTITUDES of Columbia, deliv-
ering one sermon nine times in the same
| day to as many different tribes who listen,
| and then 90 forth to build school houses and
churches.
Alaska, called at its annexation William
| H. Stewards folly, turns out to be William
II. Stewards triumph, and It is hearing the
voice OF God through the American mission
MI IaFfr
.hardships as the old Scottish chief who,
when camping out In a winters night
knocked from under his sons head pillow
of snow, saying that such indulgence in
| luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan
The Jeanette went down in latitude seven
ty-seven. while belong and his freezing
and dying men stood Watching it from the
crumbling and cracking polar pack, but the
old ship of the gospel sails.as unhurt in lati-
tude seventy-seyen as in our own forty de-
grees, and the one starred flag floats above
the topgallants in Baf1n'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
be eclipsed by the prowess of the men and
women who amid the frosts of highest lati-
tudes are this moment taking the upper
shores of Europe, Asia and America for God.
Scientists have never been able to agree as
20 what is the aurora borealis, or northern
lights. can tell them. 1t is the banner OF
victory for Christ spread out in the nothern
night heavens. Partially fulfilled already
the prophecy of my text, to be completely
fulfilled in thenear 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, temptations to lethargy
and Incidence and hot blood which tend
toward multiform evil. We have through
my text got the North in, Notwithstanding
its frosts, AID the same text brings In the
South, Notwithstanding its torrldity. The
fields OF cactus, the ora1ge groves and the
thickets of magnolia are to be surrendered
60 the Lord Almighty. The South! That
means Mexico and all the regions that Will
lam Fl. Prescott and Lord Kingsborough
made familiar in literature; Mexico, il
strange dialect of the Aztecs Mexico con.
quered by Herman Cortes, to be more glor-
tously conquered (; Mexico, with its capita
more than 1000 feet above the sea level look
ing down upon the enhancement OF lake ant
valley and plain Mexico, the home of ma.
| lions yet to be born--all for Christ. The
South That means Africa, which David
Livingstone consecratedto God when he dice
on his knees in his tent of exploration AL
ready about $50 900 conv,r to Christianity
in Africa. The South That means all the
islands strewn by omnipotent hand through
tropical seas-Maiayan, Polynesia, Melane
STA, Micronesia and other islands more
numerous than you can imagine unless yot
have voyaged around the world TheS
That means Java for God, Sumatra for God
Borneo for God, Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one OF these isl
ands, and two lifeboats put out for shore
but those who arrived in the first boat wer,
dubbed to death by the cannlbals. and thu
other boat put back and was somehowsayed
Years passed on, and one of that very crew
was wrecked again with others on the sam
rocks. Crawling up on the shore, they pro
posed to hide from the cannibals in one 0
the caverns, but mounting the rocks the,
saw church and cried out tWe ar
saved A church, church |" The South
That means Venezuela, New Granada
Ecuador and Bolivia. The South Tha
means the torrid zone, with all It's bloom
and all its fruitage, and all It's exuberance