Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 January 1895 — Page 6

# TALMAGE’S 8EKM0N. From Every Point of the Compass They Come to GkxL The World-Wide Chararter of the Goapel Cam palsn —The Frozen and too Torrid Zone* Equally Within Its Scope. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following- discourse jin the Academy of Music, New York city. The subject is: “‘Points of Compass,” being baspd on the text: They shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, awl from the south, and shall sit down.”—Luke xilL. 29. The man who wrote this was at one time a practicing physician; at another time a talented painter; at another time a powerful preacher; at another time a reporter—an inspired reporter. God bless, and help, and inspire all reporters! From their pen drops the health or poison of nations. The name of this reporter was Lucanus; for short ihe was called Luke; and in my text, although stenography had not been born, he reports verbatim a sermon of Christ, which in our paragraph bowls the round world into the light of the millennium. “They shall come from the east aind 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 Mediterranean, or Red sea. looking through a nautical instrument to find just where we were sailing; and it is well to know that though the captain tells you there .are thirty-two points of division of the- compass card in the mariner’s compass, there are only four cardinal points; and my text hails them, the north, the south, the east, the west. So I 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 _JSar north are a cold-blooded race. They dwell amid iceberg and eternal snows ! and everlasting winter. . Greenlanders, j Laplanders, Icelanders, Sib&iants— S * their vehicle is the sledge drawn by I reindeer. Their apparel the thickest t furs at all, seasons. Their existence j is m lifetime battle with the cold. The i winter charges upon themwith swords of icicle, and strikes them with bullets of hail and pounds them with batter-ing-rams of glacier.

out aireauy tne nuts oi uie arctic hear the songs of divine Worship. Already the snows fall on open New ^TJestaments. Already the warmth of f&’ie sun of righteousness begins to be .foilt through the bodies, and minds, acd sonls of the hyperboreans. Down ' fre*m Nova Zembla; down from Spitzbej.gen seas; down from the land of the midnight sun; down from the palaces of Crystal; down over realms of ice, and over dominions of snow, and through hurricanes of sleet, Christ’s disciples are coming from the north. The inhabitants of Hudson's bay are gathering to the cross. The church missionary society in those far climes has been gradually ; successful in establishing twentyvJoar gospel stations, and over twelve thousand natives have believed and been baptized. The Moravians have kindled, the light of the gospel all up and down Labrador. The Danish mission has gathered disciples from among the shivering inhabitants of Greenland. William Duncan preaches the gospel up in the chill latitudes of Columbia, delivering one sermon niihe times in the same day to as many different tribes who listen, and then go forth to build schoolliouses and churches. Alaska, called at its annexation William H. Seward’s fplly, turns out to be William II. Seward’s triumph, and it is hearing the voice of *God through the American missionaries, men and women as defiant of Arctic hardships as the old Scottish chief who, when camping out in a winter’s night, knocked from under hisson’s head a pillow of snow, saying that such indulgence in luxury would

weaken and disgrace the clan, xne -Jeanette went down in latitude seven-ty-seten, while De Long and his freezing and dying men sitood watching it i from the crumbling and crackling polar pack; but the o\d ship of the Gospel sails as unhurt fn latitude sev-enty-seven as in our own forty degrees, and the one-starred flag floats above ' the top-gallants in Baflin’s Bay, and Hudson's strait and Mellville Bound. The heroism of polar expedition, which has made the names of Sebastian Cabot, and Scoresby, and Schwatka, and^Henry Hudson immortal, is to be eclhpsed by the prowess of the men ana women who, amid the frosts of the highest latitudes are this moment taking the upper shores of Europe, Asia and America for God. Scientists have never been able to agree as to what is the aurora borealis, or northern lights. I can tell them. It is the banner of victory for Christ spread out in the northern night heavens. Partially fulfilled already the prophecy of my i text, to be completely fulfilled in the .near future; “They shall come from vilie north.” . . But my text takes in the^onposite point of the compass. The fj|j|Uouth has through high te^R^-ature temptatios to lethargy, and indolence, and hot bloodf which tend toward multiform evil. We have through my text got the north, in notwithstanding its frosts, and the same text brings in the south, notwithstanding its torridityl 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 William H. Prescott and Lord Kingsborough made familiar in literature; Mexico in strange dialect of the Aetecs; Mexico conquered by Herman Cortez, to be more ’ gloriously conquered, Mexico with its capital more than seven thousand feet above the sea level, looking down upon the entrancement of lake, and

▼alley, and plain; Mexico, the home o! nations yet to be born—all for Christ. The sonth! That means Africa, which David Livingstone consecrated to God when he died on his knees in his tent of exploration. Already about seven hundred and fifty thousand converts to Christianity in Africa. The south! That means all the islands strewn by the Omnipotent hand through tropical seas. Malayan Polynesia. Melanesia, Micronesia and other islands more nuinerous than yon can imagine unless yon haye voyaged around the world. The south! That means Java for God; Sumatra for God; Borneo for God; j Siam for God. A ship was wrecked near one of these islands and two lifeboats put out ! lor shore, but those who arrived in the | first bodt were clubbed to death by the i cannibals, and the other boat had put j back and was somehow saved. Years : passed on, and one of that very crew ' was wrecked again with others on the I same rocks. Crawling up on the shore j they proposed to hide from the | cannibals in one of the caverns, j bnt mounting the rocks they I saw a church and cried ont: ' “We i are saved! A church! A church!” The south! That means the torrid j zone, with all its bloom, and all its I 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 to the southern cross, which in stare transfigures the midnight Heaven as you look up at it all the way from the Sandwich islands to Australia. “They shall come from the south.” But I must not forget that my text takes in another cardinal f>oint of the compass. It takes in the east. I have to report that in a joujrney around the world there is nothing so much impresses one as the fact that the missionaries divinely blessed are taking the world for God. The horrible war between Japan and China will leave the last wall of opposition flat in the dust. tVar 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 Pillow! We forget the fact that during our war both north and south rejoiced when there were ten thousand more wounded and slain on the opposite side. War, whether in China orj the United States, is hell let ldose. lint one good result will come from the JapaneseChinese conflict. Those regions will be more open to civilization and Chris

tiamty than ever before. When Misrionary Carey pnt before an assembly of ministers at Northampton, England, his project for the evangelization of India, they laughed him out of the house. From Calcutta, and on the east of India, to Bombay, on the west, there is aot a neighborhood but directly or indirectly feels the Gospel power. The Juggernaut, which did its awful work for centuries, a few weeks 0 ago was brought out from the place where it has for years been kept under shed as a curiosity, and there was no.one reverentially to greet it. About three million 'Christian souls in India are the advance guard that will lead on the two hundred and fifty millions. The Christians of Amoy, and Pekin, andel&nton are the advance guard that will lead the three hundred and forty millions of China. “They shall come from the east. ” The last mosque of Mohammedanism will be turned into a Christian church.. The last Buddhist temple will become a fortress of light.1 The last idol of Hindooism will be pitched into the ‘ fire. The Christ who came from the east w ill yet bring all the east back with Him. Of course there are high obstacles to be overcome, and great ordeals may be passed through before that consummation—as witness the Armenians under the butchery of the Turks. May that throne on the banks of the Bosphosus soon crumble! The time has aleady come when the UnitedStates government, and Great Britain, and Germany ought to intone the indignation of all civilized nations. While it is not requisite that arms be sent there to avenge the wholesale massacre of Armenians, it is requisite that by cable 1 under the seas and by protest that shall thrill the wires from

Washington, and London, and Berlin, to Constantinople, the nations anathematize the diabolism for which the sultan of Turkey is responsible. Mohammedanism is a curse, whether in Turkey or New York! “They shall come from the east!” And they will come at the call of the loveliest, and grandest,' and best men and women of all \time. I mean the missionaries. Dissoluth Americans and Englishmen who have gbneto Calcutta and Bombay and Canton to make their fortunes deffftne the missionaries because the holy lives and the pure households of those missionaries are a constant rebuke to the American and English libertines stopping there, but the men and women of God there stationed go on gloriously with their work; people just as good and self-de-nying as was Missionary MofFatt, who, when asked to write in an album, wrote these words: My album is in savage breasts . Where passion reigns and darkness rests, r WithchfFbne ray of light, To write the name of Jesus there; To paint the words both bright and fair; And see the pagan bow in prayer, Is all my soul's delight. In all those regions are men and women with the consecration of Melville B. Cox, who, embarking for the missionary work in Afriea, said to a fellow-student: “If I die in Africa, come and write my epitaph.” “What shall 1 write for your epitaph?” said the student. “Write,” said he, “these words: Let a thousand fall before Africa be given.” There is another point of the compass that my text includes: “They shall come from theswest.” That means America redeemed. Everything between A tlantic and Pacific oceans to be brought within the eirde of holiness and rapture. Will it be done by worldly reform, or evangelism? Will it be law, or Gospel? I am glad that a wave of reform has swept across this

land, and all the cities arc feeling the advantage of the mighty movement. Let the good work go on until the last municipal evil is extirpated^ About fifteen years ago the distinguished editor of a New York daily newspaper said to me in litis editorial room: “Yon ministers talk about evils of which you know nothing. Why don't you go with the officers of the law and explore for yourself, so thst when you preach against sin you can; speak from what you have seen with your own eyes?” I said: “I will.” And in -company with a commissioner of police and a captain of police, and two elders of my church, I explored the dens and hiding places of all styles of crime in New York and preached a series of sermons warning young men,, ana setting forth the work that must be done lest the judgments of God whelm this city with more awful submergment that the volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. I received as nearly as I can remember several hundred columns of-newspaper abuse for undertaking that exploration. Editorials of denunciation, Rouble-leaded, and with captions of great primer type, entitled “The Fall of Talmage,” or “Talmage Makes the Mistake of His Life,” or Down with Talmage,” but I still live and am in full sympathy with all movements for municipal purification. But a movement which ends with crime exposed and law executed stojis half way. Nay, it stops long before it gets half way. The Taw never vet saved anybody; never yet changed anybody. Break up all the houses of iniquity in this city, and you only send the occupants to other qities. Breakdown all the policemen in New York, and while it changes their worldly fortunes, it does not change their heart of life. The greatest want in New York today is the transforming influence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to change the heart and the life, and uplift the tone of moral sentiment, and make men do right, not because they are afraid of .judlow Street jail or Sing Sing. but. because they love God and hate unrighteousness. I have [never heard, nor have yon heard, of anything except the Gospel that proposes to regenerate the heart, and by the influence of that regenerated heart, rectify the life. Execute the law, most certainly; but preach the Gospel, by all means—in churches, in theaters, in homes, in prisons, on the land and on the sea. The Gospel is the only power that can l-o'rrvl 11 f lAnivA < onrl envu fltA

world. All else is half and half work and will not last. In New York it has allowed men who got by police bribery their thousands.and tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds oi: thousands of dollars, to go scot free; while some who were merely the cat’s paw and agents of bribery are struck with the lightnings’ of the law. It reminds me of a scene in Philadelphia when I was living there. A poor woman had been arrested and tried and imprisoned for selling molasses candy on Sunday. Other law-breakers had been allowed to go undisturbed, and the grog shops were open on the Lbrd's day, and the law with its hands behind its back walked up and down, the streets declining to molest many of the offenders; but we all rose up in our righteous indignation, and ealling upon all powers, visible and invisible, to help us. we declared that though the heavens fell no woman should be al-~ lowed to sell molasses candy on Sunday. The work is not so difficult as many suppose. You say: “There are the foreign populations.” Yes; but many of them are Hollanders, and they were brought up to love and worship God, and it will take but little to persuade the Hollanders to adopt the religion of their forefathers. Then there are among these foreigners so many of the Scotch. They or their ancestors heard Thomas Chalmers’ thunder, and Robert McCheyne pray. The breath of God so often swept through the heath** er of the Highlands, and the voice of God has so often sounded through the Trossachs, and they all. know how to singDundee; so that they will not have often to be invited to accept the God of John Knox and BothwelL

Then there are among these foreigners so many of the English. They inherited the same language as we in-herited—-the English in which Shakespeare dramatized, and Milton chimed his cantos, and Henry * 'Melville gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell prorogued parliament, and Wellington commanded his eager hosts. Among these foreigners are the Swiss, and they were rocked in a cradle'under the shadow of the Alps, that the cathedral of the Almighty in which all the ^lements, -snow, and hailf and tempest, and hurricane worship. Among these foreigners are a vast host of Germans, and they feel centuries afterward the power of that unparaled spirit .who shook the earth when he trod it, and the heavens when he prayed—Martin Luther! From all nations our foreign populations have come, and they are homesick, far away from the place of their childhood, and the graves of their ancestors, and our glorious religion presented to them aright will meet their needs, and fill their souls, and kindle their enthusiasm. They shall come from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota, and fronr^he ore beds of Wyoming, and from the silver mines of Nevada, and from the golden gulches of Colorado, and from the banks of the Platte, and the Oregon, and the Sacramento, and the Columbia. “They shall come from the west!” Frederick the Great, notwithstanding the mighty dominion over which he reigfied, was so depressed at times he could not speak without crying, and carried a small bottle of quick poison with which to end his misery when!) she could stand it no longer. But I give you this small vial of Gospel anodyne, one drop of which, not hurting either body or soul, ought to soothe all unrest, and put your pulses into an eternal calm. “They shall come from the east, anpi from the west, and from north, and the south, and shall sit down.” V rl'.,:,

INCONSISTENT REPUBLICANS. Harlequin Tactic* of tfce Party of Bluff and BuueoiaM. s '. There Is something' amusing — or would be if the matter were not a serious one—in the republican attitude concerning the protests of Germany, Austria and France against our tj riff legislation and their threats of re illation. For qnitc a quarter of a on* tury, and in the cases of some for it ich longer, the republican leaders anti organs hare been telling the people hat what we need is a “home market,’’ md that the great evil of the age is for ign trade. Volumes of, the Congress: nol Record and innumerable column in the papers of the republican party are been given to an elaboration of :his contention; and one result has cen that a great many of the people! especially in the agricultural districts, have' been led to belies i in the argument and to sneer at the foreign market as utterly unworthy of consideration in com r.rison with the home market. Yei the moment there is a faint prospect o the' farmer being permitted to keep his grain and meat at home for sale 1 ere, the leaders and organs are up in i m lambasting the democratic part] for irritating foreign countries into ta dng the course they threaten. Am .her feature, scarcely less humorous, is the solicitude these same organs and headers are manifesting concerning foreign opinion. Almost as vehemently as they have advocated the home market theory, have they proclaimed their indifference . to what foreign countries think of ns or do in reference to ms. “What have we to do with abroad?’1 was for a long time their pet cry; and the severest charge they have ever brought against political opponents has been one of too much consideration for foreign opinion or action. Yet if they can be believed they are all in a tremor now because two or three European nations are dissatisfied with the legislation of the United States, and with one accord they are clamoring for deference to foreign threats. It really is a very funny case of backing down on the part of the g. o. p. Looking at the matter, however, in its serious aspect, the republican attitude is even more indicative of dishonosty than of rank inconsistency with previous professions. The pretense they are making is that the protest of Germany and Austria is based on the abrogation of reciprocity;, when the fact is that it is directed specifically at the discriminating duty on sugar for the perpetuation of which the jrepublican party is just as much responsible

as anybody. >■ President Cleveland 1 a bis last annual message recommended the repeal of that provision in the tariff act—not because of any protest from foreign (Sbuntries, for none had been made—but because the provision was the result of domination by the sugar ring. The republicans in the senate eould have prevented the passage of the provision had they wished—or, to put the matter • accurately, had they not been ruled by the sugar combine, ' as were certain democrats. They could secure the repeal of the provision now, but it is well known that they have combined in the senate to prevent such repeal, on the flimsy pretense that they do not mean to allow any tariff legislation on the part of the democracy. Whether their attitude is due to domination of the sugar ring, or partly to that and partly to partisanship, is immaterial. It is alike unpatriotic in either case, and it robs the party organs of any excuse they might otherwise have for charging the strained relations with foreign countries to the democracy. The discriminating duty on sugar ought to be repealed, not on account of Germany’s or Austria’s threat, for wo are not ‘accountable to either of those nations fot; our legislation, but because it never was right or for ,the public interest. Its passage was due to the corrupt influence of the sugar trust upon the senate, and that body will always be disgraced in the estimation of the public as long as the* enactment remains on the statute book.—Detroit Free Press. OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

—-There are complaints against1 Secretary Carlisle’s management of the j treasury, but we do not hear a loud call j for his immediate predecessor, Charles Foster, to coma to the rescue.—Boston Herald. ——Mr. McKinley will now be able to get his clothing so much cheaper than he bought it under his own law that he will soon begin to consider himself cheap; and nasty.—St Louis, j Republic. -The fact that Steve Elkins-won | in the fight for the United States, sen- ! atorship from West Virginia is pretty conclusive evidence that the office comes high in that neck of the woods. —Detroit Free Press. v ( „ -Republicans elected to the next house generally do not {rant an extra session of congress, as they see much danger to their party in it. Republicans would much prefer to talk of the inefficiency of the democrats to reform the currency than to undertake that difficult task themselves*.—Kansas City Times. -The fact that the leading savings bank of Connecticut shows a marked increase in deposits daring the year is ; correctly interpreted as an evidence j that the state is not suffering from j democratic legislation. The time is not far distant when there will not be enough calamity in the country to keep Mr. McKinley comfortable.—N. Y. World. ——The republicans voted solidly against closing debate on the currency bill, which was equivalent to voting against the bill. Of course the republicans were . not Eolid in their opposition to the bill on its merits. They w^ould not he solid on any financial measure which could come before them. They are simply solid against any measure proposed by a democrat, whatever be their real views of it, and whatever be the need of the country for some such legislation. Truly a broad and patriotic party is the republican party of to-dav!—Louisville CourierJournal

THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD. Splendid Work In the States Where the Thirty Way In i’oirer. In cverv state where democratic state officers are superseded by republicans the retiring administrations go out in honor, leaving clean records and no charges of financial dishonesty behind them. | In states like Illinois and Indiana, where democratic state officers are in the middle of their respective terms, they have presented to the incoming republican legislatures creditable ex- : hibits of the conditions of state affairs. | It has been the policy of the republican press to calumniate and traduce,s \ without reason or measure, every democratic administration and every democrat in office. They could produce no charge of misconduct nor of dishonesty founded in truth. Their sole object was to break down, by the might of falsehood, abuse and slander, every public officer not of their partisan faith, distributing the spoils »o them and their adherents. The campaign of accusation without preof and of denunciation without cause has been monstrous in its injustice and indecency. , There is not a report of a defalcation nor of any act of maladministration in any state that elected democrats to office in 1890 and 1892. The financial affairs of the democratic states never were conducted so well under republican rule. The national administration, maligned beyond all precedent and all rules of decency, I has redeemed in great part the pledges in the platform of 1892. The force act, the McKinley tariff act and the Sherman silver act were repealed. A new tariff was framed, far from perfect in many of its features, but vastly better than its predecessor. Its imperfections were forced on congress by a republican-populist-democratic-protectionist combine more pernicious than any‘coalition ever before formed to pervert legislation in congress. The panic, the currency demoralization and the indications of a gold famine come from vicious and corrupt republican silver and currency^ legislation which began in 1893 to produce its disastrous fruits. These facts show that the democratic party is not—as Reed and other partisans have charged—destitute of capacity to administer national and state affairs with wisdom and success.

The democrats in congress have not been able to agree with3 the president on a satisfactory currency measure. This is not so much evidence that they lack wisdom for the purpose as that the condition of affairs, originating in republican mismanagement, is desperate beyond ordinary means of redemption. The disease, of republican inception and growth, requires a remedy of' unpreeedente* l ]>owcrand efficacy. That; is the cause of democratic failure to| provide a cure— not democratic weak-’ ness and incompetency. k v When the record shall be made up for history, the verdict will be that the democratic party; while holding power in the states and nation, exercised it well in the interest of taxpayers for the enactment of judicious laws and to conserve the financial interests of tire country.—Chicago Herald. THE PLUTOCRATIC PARTY. Senators hips Sold by the Republicans- to Corrupt Corporations. John M. Thurston is to be sent to occupy a seat in the United States senate, not because he represents the people of Nebraska, for he docs not, but because he is a professional lobbyist who has been of great service to corporations interested in using the lawmaking power of the people for their own enrichment. For exactly the same reason Stephen B. Elkins, who is another professional lobbyist, is sent to the senate from West Virginia, and the Pennsylvania railroad has apparently been successful in its scheme for buying the New Jersey senatorship for Lobbyist Sewell- If Gasman Addieks is defeated in Delaware it will be because of the World’s exposures* and not because of any (abjection from those who now control the republican party. r

it is true mat me plutocratic muuence lias attempted to control the senate through the democratic party, but with democrats that has been the exception which has now become the rule with republicans. When the Standard Oil company sent Henry B. Payne to the senate from Ohio the democrats of the country repudiated him and he served his term under constant protest from the democratic press. "When Calvin S. Brice through like agencies secures the succession to Payne’s purchased place it is only that he may become more odious to democrats everywhere than if he called himself a republican. But in the republican party there is no longer any attempt to resist the plutocratic influence. Corrupt corporations are openly purchasing senatorships ‘for "their lobbyists, and are too little regardful of the decencies of politics to keep np the threadbare but useful pretense that their action is the action of the people* Having won a great victory because of the protest of democrats against plutocratic influences in the democratic party the republican politicians are using their new lease of power to remove all doubt that their triumph is the victory of usurped privilege oveif right, of money over manhood.—N. Y. World. -The friends of Thomas B. Heed, when considering McKinley as a presidential possibility, canhot for the life of them see how the governor of a bankrupt state can help the nation out ol financial troubles. They might also-5 recall the little major’s complete failure in a business Way and the grave responsibility attaching to him for the present condition of the nation.—Detroit Free Press. -Another great repi tive tariff victory is announced at Carnegie’s works at Homestead, Pa., where eighty men, who made bold to attend a labor union meeting, have been dismissed from their emolo-'anenh —Chicago Herald, V

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