The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21
POINTS OF THE COMPASS.
-,nlee breaches on The Extent Of the
Gospel Campaign.

p4ttIefsId for Temptations to
rstaarzy, and Incidence and Hot
sI5od in the Far South The Battle for
Pnrion in the East and the West.
-.a York. Jan. 2o-The hearty vel
1rded to DR.. TaImage at the
my Of Music. New York. Sunday
-.-s last on the occasion Of the emf
Iisue's Introduction TO the Metro
pulpit was additionally empha-
dy the immense throng that greet
m this afternoon. and which filed
-e seat from orchestra TO top gallery.
rr. singing was led by Prof. Airs cornet.
a-. th. services opened at precisely
-s with the singing of the long meter
r.. .-y The subject of Or. Talmage's
...srse was, Points of Compass" and
-. taAf. Luke 13: %: "They shall come
from the East. and from the West. and
The North, and from the South, and
SIT down
The man who wrote this was at one
.ua uracticing physician; at another
t.r ID talented painter. at another time
powerful preacher; at another time a
-.r..-ar-an inspired reporter. God bless.
-r help. and inspire all reporters, From
th..r zen drops the health or poison of
nations. The name of this reporter was
-slls; for short he was called Luke,
ani IT'D my text although stenograhy
r4I NOT yet been born, he reports YER
t.rm sermon of Christ which i'm one
raph bowls the round world into
tr. Izht of the millennium. They shall
from the east, and from the west,
from the north, and from the south,
rI shall sit down" Nothing more in
f.ra-tel me in my recent journey around
rH. world than to see the ship captain
al noon, whether on the Pacific, or the
Indian, or Bengal or Mediterranean, or
f.al sea- looking through a nautical in
rmeut to find just where we were sail
Hs ana It is well to know that though
tr. captain tells you there are thirty
Two points Of division of the compass
sll Dbl the mariners compass there are
only four cardinal points, and my text
balls tnem the north, the south, the
east Me west. So I spread out before
o. the map of the world to see the ex-
a- of the gospel campaign The hard
e-- part Of the field to be taken is the
pa. because our gospel is an emo
u00al gospel, and the nations of the far
north are cold-blooded race. They
cra.l amid icebergs and eternal SHOWS
and everlasting winter Greenlanders,
ia1landers. Icelanders. Siberians-their
vehicle is the sledge drawn by reindeer
Their apparel the thlckest furs al all
seasons. Their existence a lifetime bat
te VITA The cold. The winter charges
unou them with swords of icicle. and
strikes them with bullets Of hale and
pounds them with batterIus-rams of gla-
bat .ready the huts Of the Arctic hear
tae ou-s of divine worship Already the
snow falls on open New Testameuts. Al
eQIsness begins to be felt through the
bodies. and minds, and souls Of the Hy-
9reans. Down from Nova Zembla;
down from Spitzbergen seas; down from
f1 - IF the Midnight sun; down from
tae IS of crystal; down over realms
@, i.e nd over dominions of snow, and
through hurricanes Of sleet, Christs dis
are coming from the north. The
-.laat lantS Of Hudson bay are gathering
20 the cross. The Church Missionary So
ce.y in those polar chimes has been grad
ua-E successful I'm establishing twenty
four gospel stations, and over 1000 ma
lives have believed and been baptized.
iae MOravians have kindled the light of
ne gospel all up and down Labrador.
THE Danish mission has gathered di-
les from among the shiveriug inhab-
'ants of Greenland William Duncan
peaches the gospel up in the chill lati-
flces of Columbia, delivering one sermon
tine times in the same day to as many
different tribes who listen, and then 80
forth to build school houses and churches.
Alaska called at it's annexation William
il. oewards folly, turns out to be Will
lam II. Stewards triumph. and it is hear
ing the voice of God through the Ameri-
ram missionaries, men and women as de-
iaut Of Arctic hardships as the old Scot
tsh chief, who, when camping out in
winters night. knocked from under his
sons head pillow Of snow, saying that
-ich Indulgence in luxury would weaken
and disgrace the clan. The Jeanette
Went down in latitude II, while De Long
ana his freezing and dying men stood
Watching it from the crumblng and crack
NAB polar pack; but the old ship of the
gospel sails as unhurt in latitude II as
@. our own forty degrees, and the one
starred flag floats above the top-gaIants
. hatin' s Bay, and Hudson's Strait, and
Melville Sound. The heroism of Polar
-hHr4lloh, which has made the names Of
-aa= uan Cabot, and Scoresby, and
."atNai ana Henry Hudson immortal,
Us 70 be eclipsed by the prowess of the
'.a and women who, amid the frosts of
--a7t attitudes, are this moment taking
lA@ upper shores of Europe Asia and
eiaelca for God Scientists have never
- able to agree as to what is the
"'1i4 Horealis, or Northern Lights /
I'll them. 1t is the banner of vic
1.s FOR Christ spread out in the north
Alan heavens. Partially fulfilled all
'7.'E enc prophecy Of my text, to be
~ fulHlled in the near future:
shall come from the north"
~ my text takes in the opposite point
The compass. The far south has
.-3Asn high temperature temptations to
sy, and Incidence, and hot blood,
'-t.i tend toward multiform evil We
a. trough ny text got the north in
lanGing its frosts, and the same
brings in the south, notwithstand-
~ Is -orridity. The fields of cactus, the
eaza groves, and the thickets of mag
are 70 be surrendered to the Lord AL
'-4 The south. That means Mexico,
aI the regions that William H.
'-- and Lord Kiugsborough made
in literature; Mexico in strange
OF the Aztecs; Mexico conquered
efinan Cortes, to be more gloriously
Tered, Mexico with its capital more
seven thousand feet above the sea
~. 'oohing down upon the entrance
'l lake and valley and plain;
O. the home of nations yet TO be
for Christ. The south! That
africa, which David Livingstone
rated to God when he died on his
F.H