The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-01
POINTS OF COMPASS
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses ontle
Gospel Campaign.
From All Points of the Compass shall
Come the Seekers After Truth, and
To All Shall be Sent the
Gospel of Christ.

New York Academy of Music. Its sub
iect: points If Compass" is based on
the text:
They shall come from the east and from the
west, and from the north, and from the south
and shall sit down. Luke kill, %.
The man who wrote this was at one
time practicing physician; at another
time talented painter; at another time
q powerful preacher; at another time
a reporter-an inspired reporter. God
bless, and help, and inspire all report
ers! 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, al
though stenography had not been oorn'
he reports verbatim sermon OF Chrlst,
whichin our paragraph bowls the round
world into the light of the millennium.
s"Thev shall come from the east and
from the west, and from the north, ana
from the south, and shall sit down.
Nothing more interested me in my re-
cent 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 lnstru-
ment to find just where we were sail
ing; and it is well to know that
though the captain tells you there
are thirty-two points OF owl
sion 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 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 emo
tional Gospel, and the nations of the
far north are cold-blooded race. They
dwell amid iceberg and eternal SHOWS
and everlasting winter. Greenlanders,
Laplanders, Icelanders, Siberians-
their vehicle is the sledge drawn by
reindeer. Their apparel the thickest
furs at all seasons. Their existence
is 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 batter
ing-rams of glacier
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 palaces
of crystal; down over realms OF ice,
and over dominions of snow, and
through hurricanes of sleet, Christs
disciples are coming from the
north. The inhabitants of Hud-
sons bay are gathering to the
cross. The church missionary society
In those far chimes has been gradually
successful in establishing twenty
four gospel stations, and over
twelve thousand natives have be-
Iieved and been baptized. The
Moravians have kindled the light of
the gospel all up and down Labrador.
The Danish mission has gathered dis
ciples from among the shivering inhab-
breaches the gospel up in the chill lati-
tudes of Columbia, delivering one SER
mon 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 William II. Stewards folly,
turns out to be William II. Stewards
triumph, and it is hearing the voice of
God through the American missiona-
ries, 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
jeanette went down in latitude seven
ty-seven, while De Long and his freez-
ing and dying men stood watching it
from the crumbling and cracking
polar pack; but the old ship of the
Gospel sails as unhurt in latitude sew
enty-seven as in our own forty degrees,
and the one-starred flag floats
above the top-gallants in Baffin'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 to be eclipsed by
the prowess of the men and women
who, amid the frosts of the highest
ATTITUDES 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