The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-23
7, DE WITT TALMAGE.
THE CIRCLE AND HE THAT SIT
ITETH THEREON.
Gods Moral Government and Spiritual Arrange.
ment-The EVer.Returnlng Consequences
Of Good or Evil ActiOns-SermOn De.
nVered In Brooklyn Tabernacle on
Sunday, October 10th, by Rev.
I. Dewitt Talmage.

Brooklyn, October 10 There was another i'm.
mense attendance at the Tabernacle to-day, The
following is verbatim report of the sermon:
TEXr-Isaiah. xl, %: 1T is He that sitteth
upon the circle OF the EARTH"
While yet people thought the earth was fat,
and thousands Of years before they found It was
round, Isaiah in the text intiBates It's shape
"God sitting upon the circle Of the earth" In all
geometry the most beautiful figure is the circle,
God built the Universe on the plan OF the crC e.
There are straight lines and ang es and parallelo-
grams and diagonals and quadrangles, but these
evidently were not Gods iavorites. Wherever
you fnd him geometrzing you find the circle
dominant, If He does not make the circle He is
almost sure TO make the curve, and the curve is
circle that died young. II 1t had lived long
enough 1t would have been full periphery An
ellpse is circle pressed little too hard at the
sides. The Giants Causewsy in Ireland shows
what God thinks OF mathematics There are
over thirty FIVE thousai columns Of rt ck Octag.
onal, hexagonal or peDtagOnal. They look as If
they had been made by compass or rule. hu.
man artist has his mOldiDg.rOOm aud he may
make twenty molds from which he will choose
one as better than all the rest One might take
the Giants Causeway as the moldng NSn for
world, but God chooses from all the figures the
circle as the best. 1T s He that sileth upon the
circle Of the earth" The stars In q circle; the
moon in a circle; the sun In a circle; the universe
In circle and the throne of God the centre Of
the circle. When men build churches they
ought to initiate the Divine Architect as wall as
possible, and put audiences In rcle, knowing
that tides OF feeling more naturally move that
way than In straight lines. God flung out of his
hand our world six thousand years ago, but he
did not throw 1t in straight line, but curvilin
ear, he keeping leash OF love ou 1t which will
bring 1t back. 1t started pure and Edenic. 1t is
rolling round in regions Of moral vice and dis
temper, but 1t will make complete circle and
end where 1t started, In the hands of God pure
and Edenic. The history of the world moves in
a circle. Do you know why the steamers of our
day are so rapidly improvirRP 1T because they
are going back toward the old model of Noah's
ark That beat the Arizona and the Gallia
Where is the ship on all the seas to day that
could outride delug' in which the earth and
heaven were wrecked and safely land as many
passengers, two OF all kinds of created beings
When pomoogy has gained its last triumph the
pears and plans will just fqual the fr ,its nara.
disaical. Wren the art of gardening has been
the earth we shall reach the arborescence oil the
year /. The world will go on improving In the
making of colored glass Hntil it equals the glass
of Yorkminster made in 1890. We are just six
centuries behind those window makers now but
we will catch up with them though 1t be ten
centuries more, and so the circle will be com
plete. After four or five centuries more OF inven.
ton in masonry, the world may equal the NOR
tar l saw this summer on the walls OF Eurica.
mum, England, an exhumed city, where the
mortar has outlasted the stone and brick. In
fifty or hundred years the world may have
city as large as the ancient Babylon, which was
five times the size OF London. Go into the pot
teries at BuTslem, England, and you will find
them copy ing the vases and cups exhumed from
Pompeii; the world, not going back but by way
of circle, has got to the same style of pottery
We must catch up with the ancients If 1t takes
two thousand years. The curve In the right di'
recion will become the complete circle.
Not only in the constitution Of the material
universe, but in Gods moral government and
spiriIual Advancement things move in circle.
That was the meaning of Ezekiers wheel within
a wheel" All agree that the wheel means Divine
providence. l go further aud say wheel is OF
no use unless 1t turn and II 1t turn 1t turns round
and II 1t turns round 1t moves In circle. What
then ? Are we parts Of great machine whirled
around whether we will or no, the victims OF in.
exorable fate2 SO far from that shall show you
that we ourselves start the circle and that 1t will
come around 10 us again, the good or the bad 80
that we need not expect to escape the COnse-
duence Of right or wrong deeds. they may come
In q very wide circle, but they Will come around
to the man that started them, unless here be hu'
pernatural intervention + as true as that God sit
ieth on the circle of the earth. Jez bel the worst
woman Of the blble-Sbakspere takil Lady |
Macbeth" from her picture-has NabOth slain be- |
cause she and her husband wish to get his gar |
den While the dogs devour NabOth's body, |
Elijah, in the name of God, draws circle from |
that scene to the other dogs which are to eA the
body Of Jtzebel, the muIheress. SO the dogs |
that devOured Jezabel grOwed at the dogs that
devoured NabOth. Quick and complete circle |
Sometimes, however the circle Is not completed |
in a century or many centuries The world be- |
gan in theOcracy-that is, God was the PreSi |
dent or Emperor of the world. Then camehuman |
monarchy; then came limited monarchy, This is |
gradual changing to repuplicanism. Further |
On repub bicanism will vanish then will come |
anarchy or no government at all. Then the |
world will fud that mans attempt righteOusly to /
govern man ia failure, and then will come the |
original tneocracy. All ihe WoTlds different
STYLES of Government, despOtsm, limited despOt |
ism, repubicauism and anarchy but fferent |
milestOnes between the Hrst theOcracy and the |
last theOcrscy- segments Of the circle Of the earth
on which God stteth.
Don't let us think that because we do not see |
the positive curve In events that therefore, GODS
plan has failed In building the pyramids 1t took |
two thousand men three years to draw one stone
from its quarry to its place IN the pyramids, II
man, shOItlived, can afford the time for such |
slow work, surely, in the building of the eterni
ties God car afford to wait. What If 1t take God |
ten thousand years to draw one circle Do not let |
us hold up our little wstch, which must be |
wound up every night or run down, beside the |
clock Of eternal ages. IL thousand years ATE az
one day 10 God, then the six thousand yeaIs of |
the world already passed are only as from Monday
10 Saturday,
But the rebound Of what we do is generally |
quite soon. man deliberately sets himself TO do |
good wherever he can. Within one week you put |
word of grace in the esr Of a Sabbath school |
scholar you speak word Of encOuragement TO a |
young man starting IN business, aud you make |
an exhOrtation in prayer meeting. Twenty |
years from now man comes up and says, "YOu |
don't know me, do yOu2" mo-" you say, II |
never remember seeing you" He says, II was |
school boy, who at your invitation became q |
Christian That church yOnder with two spires is |
the place where preach" or, That Governors |
mansion there is my house. God bless you for |
what you have done for me-" Que day In a rail |
car man comes up and says, Good morning" |
You look up and say, Really. you have the ad. |
vantage Of me: l can't place you" "Why, he |
SAYS "don't you IecOllect giving young man a |
letter Of introduction to Moses H. Grinnell TWEEN
" years agOT yes, l remember something
about it," T'rhat was my first step toward for
tune. have retired from business. Come up 10
YOnker's and see me-" Some one else comes nm
and says, "Let me introduce myself 10 you Que
night In prayer meeting you rose and made
some remarks that completely changed the course
of my life. II ever | goto Heaven IL will be be.
cause that under God, you were the instrument
OF my salvation" ThO.e circles swept out and
back In twenty or thirty years. But other i'm
stances are longer in btiuR head from. have
seen he bill OF exnenses Tor the burning of Lau
mer and Ridley. II read as follows;
shillipgs. Pence.
Item One load of furze fagota..... Q
For carriage OF four loads Of wood. 2