The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-01-25
THE GOSPELS POWER
REV, Or. TALMAGE REFERS TO Mu.
NlclPAL REFORM.

He breaches Powerful and Eloquent Ser
mon In New York, Taking For His Sub.
jcct tho Points Of the Compass Rest
at Last.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The hearty
welcome accorded to DR., Talmage at
the Academy of Music, New York, Sun.
Cay before last, OH 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
filled every seat from orchestra to top
gallery, The singing was led by Profess.
or Ali's cornet. and the services open.
cd 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, "rhey shall como 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 practicing physician, at another
time talented painter, at another time
apowerful preacher, at another time re-
portof---an inspired reporter. God bless
and help and inspire all reporters! From
their pens drops the health or poison of
nations The name Of this reporter was
Luoanus. For short he was called Luke,
and in my text, although stenography
had not yet been born. he reports YER
batim 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 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 a nautical instrument
to find just where we We're 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, 1celanders,
Siberians-their vehicle is the sledge
drawn by reindeer, their apparel the
thickest furs at all seasons, their exist.
enoe 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 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-
taments. 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 Spitzbergen seas,
down from the land of the midnight
sun, down from the palaces of crystal,
down over realms of ice 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 Missionary society in those polar
chimes has been grandly successful in
establishing "a gospel stations, and over
$4,000 natives have believed and been
baptized The Moravians have kindled
the light of the gospel all up and down
Labrador. The Danish mission has gath.
cred disciples from among the shivering
inhabitants of Greenland William Dun
can breaches the gospel up in the chill
latitudes 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 Viii
liam II. Seward s folly, turns out to be
William H Stewards triumph, and it is
hearing the voice of God through the
American missionaries, men and WON
en- as defiant of arctic hardships as the
old Scottish chief who, when camping
out in winters night knocked from un
der his sons head a pillow of snow,
saying that such indulgence in luxury
fI,o n1o
The Jeannttte went down in latitude ~
while De Long and his freezing and dy
ing men stood watching it from the
crumbling and cracking polar pack
but tho old ship of the gospel sails al
unhurt in latitude " as in our own AZ
degrees, and the one starred flag float
above the topgallants in Bafin bay ant
Hudson s strait and Melville sound. Til,
heroism OF polar exedition. which ha
made the names of Sebastian Cabot ant
Scoresby and Schwatka and Henry Hud
son immortal, is to be collapsed by tn,
prowess Of the men and women VIII
amid tho frosts of highest latitudes ar
this moment taking the upper shores o
Europe, Asia and America for God
Scientists have never been able to agre
as to what is the aurora borealis, o
northern lights. can tell them. 1t i
the banner of victory for Christ sprea,
out in tho northern night heavens Par
TALLY fulfilled already tho prophecy G
my text. to be completely fulfilled il
the near future, They shall como frcr
tho north -
The South For God.
But my text takes in the oppnsit
point Of tho compass. The fur soath l.as
through high temperature, tan Tsatio:i
to lethargy and Incidence and hof hoo
which Tend toward multiform evil. y
have through my text got tho north IL
notwithstanding its frosts, and tho sam
text brings in the south potwithst.nf
ing lis to-ridity. The fields Of oaatl:
the orange groves and the thickpts {
magnolia arc to be surrendered TO Il
Lord Almighty. The south! That inca:
Maxico and all the regions that N,li,al