Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-01
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
the Eminent Brooklyn Divines Sun
day Sermon.
Subject: "Points of Compass"

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The man who wrote this was at one time
practicln0 physician, at another time q tai.
ented painter, at another time powerI ul
preacher, at another time reporter-an IN
spired reporter God bless and help ana In
spire all reporters From their pens drops
the health or poison OF Nations. The name
ofthis reporter was Lucanus. For short ne
was called Luke, and IN my text, although
stenography had not yet been born. ne re-
ports verbatim q sermon of Christ which in
one paragraph bowls the round world into
the light of the millennium. "They shall
come from the East, and from the West, and
from the North, and from the 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 the Indian or Bengal or Medi-
iterranean or Red Sea, looking through
nautical instrument 10 find just where we
were sailing, and it is we'll to know that,
though the captain tells you that there are
thirty-two points Of division 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. Eo 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, and the Nations OF the
far North are cold-blooded race. Iney
dwell amid icebergs and eternal SHOWS and
everlasting winter. Greenlanders, Lap
)anders. Icelanders, Siberians-their vehicle
is the sledge drawn by reindeer, their ap-
nareI the thicfest furs at all seasons, their
existence q lifetime battle with tho cold.
The winter charges upon them with sworjs
| OF icicle and strikes them with 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. Already the
SHOWS fall on open New Testaments. AL
ready the warmth of the sun or righteous
ness begins to ho felt through the bodies
and minds and souls of the Hyperboreans.
Down from Nova Zembla, down from Spitz-
bergen seas, down from tho 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
/ sleet Chrlst's disciples are coming from the
North, The inhabitants Of Hudson Bay are
gathering to the cross. The Church Mis-
sionary Society in those polar cllmes mas
been grandly successful in establishing
twsnty-four gospel stations, and over $4,000
natives have believed and been 6Aptlzed.
The Moravians have kindled the light OF the
gospel all up and down Labrador. The Da'
J nish mission has gathered disciples from
among the shivering inhabitants OF Green.
land. William Duncan breaches the gospel
up in the chill ATTITUDES of Columbia, deliv-
ering one sermon nino 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
H. Stewards folly, turns out 10 be William
Fl. Stewards triumph, and 1t Is hearing the
voice of God through the American mission
nries, 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 ID
luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan.
The Jeanette went down in latitude seven
ty-seven, while DeLolg and his freezing
and diving men stood watching it from the
crumbling and cracking polar pack, but the
old ship OF the gospel sals.a unhurt In latl-
tude seyenty-seven as in our own forty de-
grees, and the one starred flag floats above
the topgallants in Baffins Bay and Hudson's
Strait and Melville Sound. The heroism oil
polar expedition, which has made the names
OF Sebastian Cabot and Scoresby and
SchYatka and Henry Hudson immortal, is
TO be ecipsed by the proves OF the men and
women who amid the frcsts Of highest lati-
tudes are this moment taking the upper
shores of Europe, Asia and America for Go1.
Scientists have never been able to agree as
to what Is the aurora borealis, or northern
lights. can tell them. 1t is the banner Of
victory for Christ spread out in the nothern
night heavens. Partially fulfilled already
the prophecy of my text, to he completely
fulfilled in the near future, "They shall come
from the North"
But my text takes in the opposite point o.
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
nv text got tho North in, Notwithstanding
its frosts, and the same text brings in tht
South, Notwithstanding its torrldity. The
fields OF cactus, the orange groves and the
thickets of magnolia are to be surrendered
to the Lord Almighty. The South! Tha
means Mexico and all the regions that Will
lam H. Prescott and Lord Kingsborougl
made familiar in literature; Mexico, il
strange dialect of the Azecs Mexico con
quered by Herman Cortes, TO be more glor
iously conquered Mexico, with its capita
moro than 1000 feet above the sea level look
ing down upon the enhancement OF lake AM
valley and plain Mexico, the home OF ma
tions yet to be horn-all for Christ. Th
South! That means Africa, which Davi(
Livingstone consecratedto God when he die
on his knees in his tent of exploration. AL
ready about 1904 900 cow ,rts to Christianity
in Africa. The South That means all III
islands strewn by omnipotent hand through
tropical seas-Malayan, Polynesia, Melane
sia, Micronesia and other islands NOR
numerous than you can imagine unless yo'
have voyaged around the world. The South
That means Java for God, Sumatra Tor God
| tor cd linn fnr
A ship was wrecked near one OF these isl
ands, and two llfeboats put out for shore
but those who arrived in the first boat wer
dubbed to death by the cannibals, and tn
other boat put back and was somehow saved
Years passed on, and one OF that very cre'
was wrecked again with others on the sam
rocks. Crawling up on the shore, they pre-
posed to hide from the cannibals In one {
the caverns, but mounting the rocks the
saw q church and cried out: 1--WE al
saved A church, church J. The South
That means Venezuela, New Granada
Ecuador and Bolivia. The South This
means tho torrid zone, with all its bloom
and all its fruitage, and all its exuberanc'
ths redolence OF illimitable gardens, tn
music of boundless groves, the lands, TIT
sens, that night by night look up 10th
Southern Cross, which, in stars, transht
ures the midnight heaven as you look up q
1t all the way from the Sandwich Islands
Australia. "TheY shall come from tn
South"
But must not forget that my text take
in another cardinal point of the compass
1t takes In the East. 1 have to report thu
in journey around the world there is moth
ing so much impresses one as the fact thu
the missionaries divinely blessed are takin
the world for God. The horrible war b
tween Japan and China will leave the In
wall Of opposition fiat in the dust. War
barbarism always and everywhere. We hol
up our hands in amazement at the massacl