Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-02-01
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
SUNDAYS SERMON ~ THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Subject: "Points of Compass. {"

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was called Luke, AMI in my text, athough
] stcnogfaphy had not yet been born, ne re-
roris verbatim n sermon of Christ which IN
/ one pgrarraph bowls the round world into
[ tho light Of the millennium. "They shall
/ come IRON the East. and from the West, and
! from the North, anu from tho 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 tho Indian or Bengal or Meli-
iterranean or Red Sea, looking through a
nautical instrument TO ilnd Just where we
were sailing, and 1t is well to know that,
though the captain tells you that there are
thirty-two points OF division OF the compass
card in the m9rner's compass, there are
only four cardinal 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, an tho Nations OF the
dwell amid icebergs and eternal SHOWS and
everlasting winter. GreenIanders, lap
landers, Icelandrrs, Siberians-their vehicle
is the sledge drawn by reindeer, their ap-
parel the thic est furs at all seasons, their
existence a lifetime battle with the cold.
The winter charges upon them with swor Is
OF icicle and strikes them W, tn bullets OF hail
and pounds them with battling rams of gla-
cier.
But already the huts of the arctic hear
the songs of divine worship. Area " 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 Hyperborenns
Down from Nova Xemba, down from Spitz-
bergen seas, Gown from the land OF the mid
night sun, down from the palaces OF crystal,
down over realms OF ice and over dOmin-
ions OF snow AMI through hurricanes of
seet Chrst's disciples ace 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
tw nty-four gospel stations, and over II. 900
natives have believed and been baptized.
The Moravians have kindIed 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 latituies Of Columbia, delv-
erjng 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
II. Stewards folly, turns out 10 be William
H. Stewards triumph, and it is hearing the
voice OF God through the American mission
aries, men and women as defiant of arctic
hardships rs the old Scottish chief who.
when camping out in a winters might
knocked from under his sons head a pil.o
OF snow, saying that such indulgence in
luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan,
The Jeanette went down in latitude seven
ty-seven, while DeLong and his freezing
and dying men stood Watching 1t from the
orumbIing and cracking polar pack. but the
old snip OF the gospel sails as unhurt in lati-
tude seventy-seren rs in our own forty de-
grees, and the one starred flag floats above
the topgallRnts in Batfln'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 highest lati-
tudes are this moment taking the upper
shores OF Europe, Asia and America for Col.
to what sthe aurora borelis or northern
lights. | can tell them. 1t is the banner oil
victory Tor 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 ten
toward multiform evil. We have through
my text got the North in, withstanding
its frosts, and the same text brings in tbs
South, notwithstanding its torriiity. The
fields of cactus, the orange groves and the
thickets of magnolia are to be surrendered
to the Lord Almighty. The South That
means Mexico and all the regions that Will
lam II. Prescott and Lord Kings borough
made familiar in literature; Mexico, in
strange dialect of the Az.ecs Mexico con-
quered by Herman Cortes. to be more glor-
lousy conquered; Mexico, with its capital
more than 1000 Ieet above the sea level look
Ing down upon the enhancement OF lake and
valley and plain Mexico, the home OF ma
tions yet to be horn--ail for Christ. The
South! That means Africa. which David
Livingstone consecratedto God when he died
on his knees in his tent Of exploration AL
in Africa. Tho South! That means all the
islands strewn by omnipotent hand through
tropical seas-Malayan, Polynesia, Mclane-
STA, Micronesia and other islands more
numerous than you can imagine unless you
nave voyaged around the world. The South
That means Java for God Sumatra for God.
Borneo tor God Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one OF these ISL
ands, and two lifeooats put out for shore,
but those who arrived in the first boat were
clu bed to death by the cannibals, and the
other boat put back and was somehow saved.
Years passed on, and one OF that very crew
was wrecked again with others on the same
rocks. Crawling up on the shore, they pro.
posed to hide from the cannibals in one o!
the caverns, but mounting tho rocks they
saw church and cried out: '.We ara
saved A church, a church r. The South
That means Venezuela, New Granada,
Ecuador and Bolivia. The South! That
means the torrid zone, with all its bloom,
and all its fruitage, and all its exuberance,
the redolence OF illimitable gardens, the
music OF boundless groves, the lands, the
seas, that night by night look up tothe
Southern Gross, which, in stars. transfIg.
ures the midnight heaven as you look up at
It oil the way from the Sandwich Islands to
Australia. "They shall come from tha
South"
But must not forget that my text takes
IN another cardinal point OF the compass.
1t takes in the East. have TO report that
ID journey around the world there is MOTH
ing so much impresses one as the fact that
the missionaries divnely blessed are taking
the world for Col. The horrible war be-
tween Japan and China will leave the last
wall of opposition fiat in the dust. War is
barbarism always and everywhere. We hold
hn., do A.L.
at Port Arthur, as though Christian Nations
could never go into such diabolsm. We
forget Fort Pillow We forget the fact that
during our war both North and South re-
joiced when there were TO- 600 more
wounded and slain on the opposite side.
War, whether in China or the United
States, is hell let loose. But one good result
will come from the Japanese Chinese con-
hict. These regions will be more open to
civilization and Christianity than ever be-
fore. When Missionary Carey put before an
assembly OF ministers at Northamntion his