Connecticut western news., 1895-01-24
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 as tr~AeAes Powerful and Eloquent Ser msa Ia New York. Taking For His Sub jscs the Polnts of the Compass The Rest s as lkast.
 NEW YORK, Jan. a0.-The hearty esleome accorded to Dr. Talmage at ile Academy of Music, New York. Sun- jay before last, on 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 filed every seat from orchestra to top gallery. The singing was led by Profess IT Ais cornet. and the services open a at precisely o'clock with tho sing ng of the long meter doxology, The iublect of Dr, Talmage's discourse was Points of Compass and the text .uke xiii. 2e. They shall come from .he east, and from the west, and from ;Le north, and from the south, and shall it down.
 The man who wrote this was at one .ime rracticing physician. at another ime talented painter, at another time powerful preacher, at another time a re- oorter-an inspired reporter. God bless sid help and inspire all reporters! From .heir pens drops the health or poison of lations The name of this reporter was .ucanus. For short he was called Luke, and in my text, although stenography aad not yet been born, he reports yer ,atim a sermon of Christ which in one saragraph bowls the round world into :he light of the millennium. "They shall come from the east, and from the vest, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down."
 Nothing mora interested me in my ',ecent journey around the world than 10 see the ship captain about noon, whether on tho Pacific or the Indian or Bengal or Mediterranean or Red sea. looking through a nautical instrument so find just where we were sailing, and t is well to lnow that, though the cap- ain tells you that there are S2 points of division of the compass card in the mar. saer's compass, there are only four car final points, and my text halls them tho north, tho south. the east, the west. D spread out before us the map of the world tO zee the extent of the gospel campaign. Tho hardest part of the field @ be taken is Ne north, because our gospel is an emotional gospel, and the nations of tho far north are cold blood .l race. They dwell amid icebergs and sIernal snows and everlasting winter. Greeulsnders,s Laplanders, Icelanders, Siherixns-4their. vehicle is the sledge 2rasen by reindeer, their apparel the .hickest furs at all seasons, their exist saee 8 ife;i...e battle with the cold. fhe winter charges upon them with swords of ici le and strikes them with snllets of hnil and pounds them with sattling rams of glacier.
 The Ccepcl In the -Arctics.
 But already the huts of the arctic near the songs of divine worship. Al ready tho snows fall on open New Tes- taments. Already the warmth of the sau of righteousness begins to be felt through the bodies and minds and souls af the Hyperboreans. Down from Nova Zalnbfs, down from Spitzbergen seas, town from the land of the midnight san, down from the palaces of crystal, aown 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 24 gospel stations, and over I2.0OO natives have believed and been baptized. The Moravians have kindled Inc light of the gospel all up and down Labrador. The Danish mission has gath sred disciples from among the shivering inhabitants Of Greenland. William Dun- ran breaches the gospel up in the chill attitudes of Columbia, delivering one sermon nine times in the same day to as many different tribes who listen, and t;fen go forth to build schoolhouses and churches.
 Alaska. called at it's annexation Will 7 liam H. Stewards folly, turns out to be 7 William H. Seward's s triumph, and it is hearing the voice of God through the American missionaries, men and wom- sn as defiant of arctic hardships as the sld Scottish chief who when camping snt in a winter 8 night knocked from un- Ser his sons head a pillow of snow, saying that such indulgence in luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan. The Jeannette went down in latitude-77, while De Long and his freezing and dy- jag men stood watching it from the erumbling and cracking polar pack, hut the old ship of the gospel sails as anhurt in latitude 77 as in our own 40 degrees, and the one starred flag floats above the topgallants in Bafffn s bay and Hudson s strait and Melville sound. The hsroisfA of polar exedition, which has made the names of Sebastian Cabot and sooresby and Schwatka and Henry Hud- son immortal, is to be eolipsed by the frowess of the men and women who smid tho frosts of highest attitudes are this moment taking the upper shores of Europe, Asia and America for God. Scientists have never been able to agree n to what Is the aurora borealis. or northern lights. can toll them. It is tho banner of victory for Christ spread .at in the northern night heavens. Par, tialiy fulfilled already the prophecy oi my text to be completely fulfilled 1T the near future. .'They shall come iron the north.
 The South For God.
 But my text takes in the opposite point of the compass. The far south has through high temperature, temptations te iethargy and indolence and hot bloot which tend toward multiform, evil. W, hayethrough my text got tho north in notwithstanding it's frosts, and the sam taxt brings in the south potwiths tand ing its torridity. The fields of cactus tho orange groves and the thickets o magnolia are to be surrendered to tn Lord Almighty. The south That mean Mexico and all the regions that William Fl. Prescott and Lord Kingsborougi riade familiar in literature; Mexico, il strange dialect of the Aztecs; Mexict