Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-01
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
SUNDAYS SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Subject: s'Points OF Compass"

kill, 20.
The man who wrote this was at one time
practicing physician, at another time tai
ented painter, at another time a powerful
preacher, at another time a reporter-an in
spired reporter. God bless and help AMI in
spire all reporters! From their pens drops
the health or poison of Nations. The name
otthis reporter was Lucanus. For short he
was called Luke, AMI III my text, although
stenogTapby had not yet been born. he re-
ports verbatim a sermon of Christ which In
one paragraph bowls the round world into
the ligat of the millennium. "Ihey 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
snip captain about noon, whether on the
Pacific or tho Indian or Bengal or Medi-
ftcrranean or Red Sea, looking through a
nautical instrument to find just where we
We're sailing, and it is we'll to know that,
though the captain tells you that there are
thlrty-tWO points of division OF the compass
card in the mariners compass, there are
only four cardinal points, and my text halls
thcm-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 emotional gospel, and the Nations of the
far North are q coid-blooded race. They
dwell amid iceberg5 and eternal SHOWS and
everlasting winter. Greenlanders, Lap
landers, Icelanders, Siberians-their vehicle
Is the sledge drawn by reindeer, their ap-
parel the thic 'est fur5 at all seasons, their
existence q lifetime battle with the cold.
! The winter charges upon them with swords
| OF fCicle ah9 strikes them with bullets OF hail
| and pounds them with battling rams OF gla-
! cier.
But already the huts OF the arctic hear
| tho songs of divine worship. Already the
| SHOWS fall on open New Testaments, Al
| ready the warmth of the sun OF righteous
| ness 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 mid
night sun, down from the palaces OF crystal,
down over realms of ioe and over domin-
| 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
tws nty-four gospel stations, and over IL, 900
| natives have believed and been baptized.
/ The MOravnns have kindled the light of the
| gospel all up and down Labrador. The Da-
| nish mission has gathered disciples from
| among the shivering Inhabitants of Green
| 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 go forth to build school houses and
churches
Alaska, called at its annexation William
| Fl. Stewards folly, turns out to be William
II. Stewards triumph, and it is hearing the
voice of God through the American mission
aries, men and women as defiant of arctic
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 Jeannette went down in latitude seven
| ty-seven, while DeLong and his freezing
and dying men stood watching it from the
crumbing and cracking polar pack, but the
| old ship of the gospel sa1ls.as unhurt In lati-
tude seventy-seven as in our own forty de-
grees, and the one starred flag floats above
the topgallants in Baffln's Bay and Hudson's
Strait and Melville Sound The heroism ol
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 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
TO what is the aurora borealis, or northern
| lights. I can tell them. 1t IS the banner oi
victory ior Christ spread out in the nothern
night heavens. Partially fulfilled already
the prophecy of my text, to be completely
fulfilled in the future, They shall come
from the North
But my text takes in the opposite point oi
the compass. The far South has, through
high temperature, temptations to lethargy
and Incidence and hot blood which tenu
toward multiform evil. We have through
my 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
th1ckets of magnolia are to be surrendered
to the Lord Almighty. The Southl That
means Mexico and all the regions that Will.
lam H. Prescott and Lord Ktngsborougt
made familiar In literature; Mexico, IL
strange dialect of the Aztecs Mexico con
quered by Herman Cortes, to be more glor
iously conquered Mexico, with its capita
more than 1000 feet above the sea level look
Ing down upon the enhancement Of lake anC
valley and plain Mexico, the home of pa
tions yet to be horn-all for Christ. The
SOuthi That means Africa. which DaviC
Livingstone consecrated 10 God wnen he d1e(
on his knees In his tent of exploration AL
ready about $50, 900 cOnv 'rts TO Christianity
in Africa. The South! That means all the
islands streWn by OmnipOtent hand through
tropical seas-Malayan, Polynesia, Melane
sia, Micronesia and other islands more
numerous than you can imagine unless yoJ
have voyaged around the world. The South
That means Java for God, Sumatra for God
Borneo ior 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 Were
dubbed to death by the cannibals, and tht
other boat put back and was sOmehoWsaved
Years passed on and one of that very crev
was wrecked again with others on the sam
rocks. Crawling up on the shore, they pro
posed to hide from the cannibals in one o
the cayerns, but mounting the rocks the.
saw church and cried out: "We ar
saved A church, a church !. The South
That means Venezuela, New Granada
Ecuador and Bolivia. The South Tha
means the torrid zone, with all its bloom
and all its fruitage, and all It's exuberance
the redolencs OF illimitable gardens, tn
music of boundless groves, the lands, the
seas, that night by night look up 10th
Southern Cross, which, in stars, transtlg
ures the midnight heaven rs YOU look up a
1t oil the way from the Sandwich Islands L
Australia. "TheY shall come from tn
South"
But I must not forget that my text take
in another cardinal poiut OF the compass
II takes in the East. I have TO report tha
in a Journey around the world there Is noth
ing so much impresses ono as the fact tina
the missionaries divinely blessed are takin
tbe world for Col. The horrible war be
tween japan and China will leave the las
wall of opposition fat in the dust. war
barbarism always and everywhere. we mol
! up our hands in aDlaGement at the massacl
at Port Arthur, as though Christian NATION
could never go into such dlaDollsm. w
forget Fort Pillow We forget the fact ths
during our war both North and South re
ioiced when there were 1O,OOU MOI
Wounded and slain on the opposite sid'
War, whether in China or the onte
states IL hell let loose. But one good resu
will come from the Japanese-Chinese COZ
aict. These regions will be more open
o;y;lization and Christianity than ever D
fore. when Missionary Carey put he.ore a =
assembly of ministers ut North"mpfion II
\ nro,ect for the evangelization of India, the
jauyhed him out of the house. From Ca
cutta on the east of India to Bombay on tn
west there is not a neighborho ood but directi
or indirectly feels the gospel power. Th
Juggernaut, which did its awfnl oss wosk 10 10
centuries, few weeks ago was brought on
from the place where 1t has for years bee
kent under shed as a curiosity, and thel
was no one reverentially to greet It. Abo,
5000, 900 Of Christian souls In India are az q