The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-24
PULPIT UTTERANCES.
The Gross of Christ Can Shatter
Forever the Wheel of Sin.
A Sermon on Life, Recently Delivered at
Galveston, Tex, by Rev. T. Dc witt
TaImage, ID. D.-Ap Excellent
Discourse.


Rev. DIR. Talmage recently preached In
Galveston, Tex, from the following text:
It Is He that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth Isaiah, H.: q.
While yet people thought that the world
was fiat, said the preacher, and thousands
Of years before they found out that 1t was
round, Isaiah in my text intimated the
shape OF it-God sitting upon the circle of
the earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle. God made the uni
verse on the plan Of a circle. There are
In the natural world straight lines, angles,
parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles;
but these evidently are not Gods favor
ties. Almost everywhere where you find
Him geometrizing you find the circle dom
inant and il not the circle, then the curve,
which is circle that died young! If it
had lived long enough it would have been
a full orb, a periphery. An ellipse is
circle pressed only little too hard at the
sides. Giants Causewdy in Ireland shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
are over thirty-five thousand columns of
rocks -ootagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal
These rocks seem to have been made by
rule and by compass. Every artist has
his molding-room where he make fifty
shapes, but he chooses one shape as prefer
able TO all the others. l will not say that
the Giants Causeway was the worlds
molding-room, but do say out of a good
many figures God seems to have selected
the circle as the best. SIT is He that sit
teth on the circle of the EARTH" The stars
in circle, the moopin circle, the sun in
a circle, the universe in circle, and the
throne of God the center of that circle.
When men build churches they ought TO
initiate the idea of the Great Architect and
put the audience In circle, knowing that
the tides Of emotion roll more easily that
way than In straight lines. Six thousand
years ago God flung this world out of His
right hand; but He did not throw 1t out
in a straight line, but curvilinear, with
leash of love holding it so as to bring it
back again. The world started from His
hand pure and Edenic. 1t has been rolling
on through regions Of moral ice and distem-
per. How long it will roll God only knows;
but II viii in due time make complete
circuit and come back TO the place where
IL startcd-the hand of God-pure and
Edenic.
The history of tho world goes in circle.
Wby is it that the shipping in our day is
improving so rapidly: 1t is because men
are initiating the old model Of Noah's ark.
A ship-carpenter gives that as his opinion.
Althouch so much derided by small wits,
that shin of Noah's time beat the Gallia
and the Arizona, Of which we boast so
much. Where Is the ship on the sea to-
day that could out-ride deluge in which
the heaven and the earth were wrecked,
landing all the passengers in safety-two
of each kind Of living creatures, thousands
of species? Pomology will go on with its
achievements, until after many centu-
ries the world will have plums and pears
equal TO the Paradisaical. The art Of gar
dening will grow for centuries, and, after
the Downings and Mitchells of the world
have done their best, in the far future the
art OF gardening will come up TO the arbor-
cscenre of the year /. II the makers Of
culorcl glass go on improving they may in
some centuries be able TO make something
equal 10 the east window Of York Minister,
which was built in 1900. We are six cent
urios behind those artists. but the world
must keep on toiling until it shall make the
complete circuit, and come up TO the skill
of those very men. II the world continues
80 improve in masonry we shall have after
awhile. perhaps after the advance OF cent
ur.es, mortar equal to that which once
saw in the wall OF an exhumed English
city, built in the time Of the Romans, six
. teen hundred years ago-that mortar to-
day rs good as the day in which IL was
tnade. having outlasted the brick and the
stone. ! say after hundreds Of years ma
sonry may advance TO that point II the
world stands long enough we may have
city as large as they had in old times.
Babylon five times the size OF London. You
20 into the potteries of England and you
find thGn making cups and vases after the
style Of the cups and vases exhumed from
Pompeii. The world is not going back.
oh, mol but IL is swinging in circle, and
will come back TO the styles Of pottery
known so long ago as tho days Of Pompei.
The world must keep on progressing until
u makes the complete circuit The curve
IL in the right direction. The curve will
keep on until II becomes the circle.
Well, now, my friends, what Is true in
the material universe is true in Gods NOR
al government and spiritual arrangement.
That Is the meaning Of Ezekiel's wheel.
All commentators agree in saying that the
wheel means Gods providence. But
wheel is Of no use unless IL turn, and II IL
turn Il turns around, aud II II turn around
Il moves in a circle. What then? Are we
parts Of n great iron machine whirled
around whether we will or not, the victims
OF incxorable fate? No! So far from that
will show you that we ourselves start
the circle of good or bad actions, and that
IL will surely come around again 10 US un-
less by Divine intervention IL be hindered.
Those bad or good actions may make the
current OF many years, but come back 10
us they will as certainly ms that God sits
on the circle OF the earth. Jezebel, the
worst woman in the Bible, slew Naboth be-
cnuse she wanted his vineyard. While the
dogs were eating the body Of Naboth,
Elisha, the prophet, put down his compass
and marked circle from those dogs clear
around 10 the dogs that should eat the
body of Jezebel, the murderess. "Impossi-
blelr the people said, "that will never