Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-15

influence of his bad life in fiery surge of om-
niputent wrath will beat against his de-
stroyei spirit and at that moment it will be
enough to make the black hair Of eternal
darkness turn white with the horror No
one can tell how that bad mans influence
girded the earth save the One who is seated
on the circle OF the earth
The Lord God Almisaty.
"Well, now," say some people, this in
some respects is very glad theory and in
others very bad one; we would like TO have
all the good we have ever done come back
to us, but the thought that all the sins We
have ever committed will come back to US
fills us with alright" My brother I have
TO tell you Ged can break that circle and
will do so at your call. can bring twenty
passages of scripture to prove that WHEN
God for Christ's sake forgives a man,
the sins Of his past life never come
back. The wheel may roll on and roll
on, but you take your position behind the
cross, and the wheel strikes the cross and
is shattered forever. The sins Hy off from
the circle into the perpendicular, falling at
right angles into complete oblivion. For
givenl Forgivenl The meanest thing a
man can do is after some difficulty has been
settled to bring it up again; and God will
not be 30 mean as that. Gods memory is
mighty enough to hold all the events of the
ages, but there is one thing that is sure to
slip His memory, one thing He is sure to
forget, and that is pardoned transgression.
How do l know it? I will prove it. Their
sins and their iniquities will | remember no
more" Come into that state now, my dear
brother, my dear sister. Blessed is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven"
But do. not make the mistake OF think
ing that this doct,ine of the cir
c,s atops with the life; it
rolls on through heaven. You might quote
in opposition to me what st. John says
about the city of heaven. He says II "lieth
four square" That does seem to initiate
against this idea; but you know there is
many a square house that has family cir.
Gle facing each other and in circle NOV
ing, and can prove that this is Sc in regard
to heaven. st. John says: Il heard the
voice of many angels round about the
throne and the beasts and the elders. |"
And again he says; Il saw round about
the throne four and twenty seats.
And again he says: There was rainbow
Round About the Throne.
The two former instances circle the last
either a circle or a semi-circle. The seats
facing each other, the angels facing each
other, the men facing each other. Heaven
an amphitheatre OF glory. circumference
of patriarch and prophet and apostle. Cir.
cumference Of Scotch covenanters and
Theban legion and Albigenses. Circum-
ference of the good of all ages. Periphery
of splendor unimagined and indescribable.
A circle A circle
But every circumference must have q
centre, and what is the centre Of this
heavenly circumference? Christ. His all
the glory. His all the praise. His all the
crowns. All heaven wreathed into a gar
land round about Him. Take Of the i'm
perial sandal from His foot and behold the
scar of the spike. Lift the coroEet Of do
minion from his brow and see where was
the laceratlon of the briers. Come closer,
all heaven. Narrow the circle around His
great heart. 0 Christ, the Savior! y
Christ, the man! o Christ, the God!
Keep thy throne forever seated on the circle
of the earth, seated on the circle Of the
heaven.
son Christ, the solid rock stand;
All other ground is shifting sand"