Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-06
TALMACE'S SRRMON.
HaY-S SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Subject: "Points of Compass

Tkxr: 'Tbey shall come from the East
and from the Wesf, AMI from the North, AMI
hom tho South, and shall sit cown."-Luf
kiti. r.
The man who wrote this was At one time q
Praceicing physician. ut another time . tall
enfed painter, af another time . powerful
preacher, At another time a rsportsr-an in
spired reporter. God bless and help and in,
spire all reporters! From their pens drop
the health or poison Of Nations. The uans
ofthS reporter vas Lucanus. For short ha
vas called Luke, and in my text, although
sfenogIaphy had not yet been born. he IA
ports verhaiim \ sermon OF Christ Wh,oh ID
one paragraph bowls the round world int
In, li&At OF tho millennium. "Thsy shal
come mon tue Kast, and from the We., AMI
from the Xorth, and from ths South, AMI
Shal saf down"
Journey around tho world Than to see tn,
ship captain about noon, whether on the
Pacific or the Indian or Bengal or Ned-
herrnneln or Rsd Sea, looking through q
nautical instrum ment to ind Just whsre ",
wsre sailing, and Is we'll to know that
thou gh the captain tells you that thers ar
thirty two points OF division OF the compass
card In the mariners compass. t,aro ara
only four cardinal points, and my text haila
tbem-the North, tho South, the East, the
West. So spread out before Us tho map o.
the world to SEQ tho extent of tho gospel
be taken Is the No1n, because our gospel ID
an emotional gospel, AMI the Nations OF tho
Tar North nre = cod CODED race. TheJ
dwell amid icoher:, and eternal SHOWS and
everlasting winter. GreenlAnders. Lap
landers, Iceland ~, Sibsriansthcir vehicle
is the siedYe drawn By reindeer, their ap-
pArci the thiose furs at all ssasons. their
exlStcncs = LIFETIME battle with the col d.
The winter charges upon them with swor 4
OF icic;s and strikes them " III bullets OF hail
I a. -~.sA -. 80
cier.
But already the huts OF the arctic hear
fhs songs of divine worship. A,rea!y the
SHOWS fall on open New Testamenis Al
ready the warmth Of fhe sun OF right eous-
ness begins TO be felt through this bodies
and minds and souls OF the Hyperboresns.
Down IRON Nova Zsmbia, down from Spi,x-
bergen seas, down from ihe Ian i of the mid
night sun, down from the palaces of crystal,
down over realms OF ice and over comin-
ions OF snow and through hurricanes OF
sleet Christ's disciples are coming from the
North. The inhabitants OF Hu lson Bay ara
gNh.ring 10 tho cross. The Church Mis-
sionary Society in those polar climes haa
been grandly success'u in esta'Ili hing
tw nty-four gospel stations, and over 12. .oo5
natives have believed and been baptized.
The Morevians have kinded the light OF the
gospel all up and down labrador. The D..
n tzh mission has therei disciples iron
among the ehivering inhabitants OF Green.
land William Duncan breaches the Gospe.
up in the chill latitu les of Colu n big. d.lgv,
ertng one sermon nine times in the samS
day to rs many differ mt tribes who is;en,
and then so forth TO bu ID school houses an!
churches.
Alaska. called at its annexation William
II. Sewari's folly, turns out 10 be Wiiliar
H Sewar !s triumph, and IL is hearing Tho
voice OF Go through the American m!ssionI
aries, men and women AS defiant of arsaid
when camping out in winters night
knocked from under his sons head pillow
Of snow, saying that such indulgence il
luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan.
The Jrannette went down in latitude seven.
ty seven. while D.Long and his freq n3
and dying men stood watching il iron the
bling and cracking polar pack, bW the
old snip OF the gospel sails as unhurt In lSti-
tuie seventy-seveu as in our own forty de-
grses. and ths one starred flag floats shOvs
the topgallants in Bafiin's Bay and Huds0n'A
Strait and Melville Sound The hei0iSm OF
polar expedition. which has made the nanea
OF Sebastian Cabot and Scoresby an !
Schwatk ka and Henry HUDSON immortal, Is
to be sclipsed by the prowess OF the meg and
women who amid the frosts of highest latfi
tudes are this moment taking the upper
shores of Europe, Asia and America for God.
Scientists have never been able to agrees as
to what is the aurora borealis, or nossheru
lights. can tell them. 1t IS the banYer OF
victory Tor Christ spread out in the nct hern
night heavens. Partially fulfilled alSeady
the prophecy OF my text, 10 be conLletelJ
fulfilled in the near future, "They sbau CONF
from tue North"
But my text takes in the oppo,I point OF
he compass. The far South has, through
high temperature, temptations TO lotharSy
and Incidence and hot blood which ten
toward multiform evil. We have through
my text got the North in, no, withstandlny
les ha hrf0~ in fh
South, notwithst an ding its torridity. The
fields of cactus, the orange groves and the
thicks,s of magnolia are 10 be SURRENDERED
TO the Lori Almighty. The South! That
means Mexico and all the regions that Will
lam II. Prescott and Lord Kingsborouyh
made familiar in literature; Mexico, in
| strange dialect of the Az ecs Mexico con-
quered by Herman Cortes, to bs rnore glor-
lousy conquered; Mexico, With IL capital
more than 1000 eet above the sea icTei look.
Ing down upon the entrancsnept II lake and
| valley and plain Mexico, tho homo Of ma
lions yet to be born-ali for Christ. Tha
eouthI That means Africa. Thieh David
Livingstone econsecratedto God when hS died
on his knees in his tent of exploration. Al
ready about $50 900 conv rts 10 Chiistiantv
ln Africa Tns South! That means all the
| Islands arewl by onnipotent hand through
tropical seas-Mslayan, Poiynesia, Asiane.
sia. Micronesia and other islands moss
numerous than you can imagine unleD Jon
have yoyaged around the world The South
That means Java for God. Sunatra for God.
Horneo Tor God. Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near ono OF these ISL
Inds. and two ufsooats put out for shore,
put those who arrived In the frst boat weri
viuobed TO death bJ the eannibalf. and the
pthef boat put back and was ssomchowsaved.
Years passed on. and one of that ,ry crew
was wrecked again With others on the SAINT
| rocks. CraW1Inx up on the shore, they pro,
posed to hide from the canaibals in one o.
tbs esrsrns. but mounting the rocks the1
gsw church and cried outi 1--WE ar1
savedi A church, church! = The South
That means venezuels,, New Gra1.ds
Ecuador and Bolivia. The SouthI Thai
and all its fruitase, and all its exuberance
the redolenes Of iiiimitable gardens, thj
music Of boundless groves. the lands, the
| sens, that night by night look up 10th,
Southern Gross. which. in stars. transns
! ures the midnight heaven as you look up a,
| it all the way from the Sandwich Islands tt
Australia. "TheY shall come from tht
South"
But must not forget that my text takei
| In another cardinal point OF the compass
1t takes in the East. have to report that
| In journey around the world there is noth-
ing SO much impresses one as the fact that
the missionaries divinely blessed are taking
the world for God. The horrible war be!
tween Japan and China will leave the last
| wall OF opposition Hat In the dust. war IS
| barbarism always and everywhere. We hold
up our hands in amazement at the massacre
at Port Arthur, as though Christian Nations
could never go into such diabolism. We
| forget Fort PillowI We forget the fact that
during our war both North and South re-
ioiced when there were 10000 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-
dict. These regions will be moro open to
civilization and Christianity than ever be-.
fore. When Missionary Carey rut before an
assembly of ministers at Nortnamption his
-. project for the evangelization Of India, the,
| laughed him out of the house. From Cal
| eutta on the east OF India to Bombay on tn
west there is not a naighborhoo1 4 but directi.
Or indirectly feels the gospel power. Tn
yuggernaut, which did its awful work fol
centuries, a few weeks ago was brought ou
from the place where it has for years beel
kept under shed as curiosity, and ther
| was no one reverentially to greet 1t. Abou
S,000, 600 of Christian souls in India are tn