The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

BODY OIL JeHeDel, the lurdSreSS. 'lnpOSSlOleI
the people said; that will never happen Who
is that being flung out Of the palace window!
Jezebe- a few hours after they came around
hoping to bury her They find only the palms
of her hands, and the skull The dogs that de
voured Jezebel and the dogs that dsyoured
Naboth. Oh, what swift, what an awful
circuit
THE SWEEP OF THE CIRCLE
But it is sometimes the case that this circle
sweeps through a century or through many cen
turtles. The world started with theocraey for
government; that is, God was the President and
Emperor of tine world. People got tired of a
theocracy. They said: I'VE don't want God,
directly interfering with the affairs of the world;
sise US monarchy One world had mon
archy. From a monarchy it is going to have
a limited monarchy. After while the limited
monarchy will be given up and the republican
form of government will be everywhere domi-
nant and recognized Then the world will get
tired of the republican form of government and
it will have an anarchy which is no government
at all And then, all nations finding out that
man is not capable of righteously governing,
man will cry out again for q theocracy and say:
Let God come back and conduct the affairs of
the world. Every step-monareh, limited mon
archy, republicanism, anarchy, only different
steps between the first theocraey and the last
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the earth on which God sits. But do
not become impatient because you can
not the curve Of events ana
therefore conclude that Gods government
is going to break down. History tells Us that in
the making of the pyramids it took 2, 600 men
two years to drag great stone from the
quarry to put it into the pyramids. Well,
now if men short-lived can afford to work as
slowly as that, cannot God, in the building Of
the eternities, afford to waltz What though
God should take $1,000 years to draw circle!
Shall we take our little watch which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down. and hold it
up beside the clock of eternal agesl If, accord
ing TO the Bible, thousand years are in Gods
sight as one day. then, according to that cacula-
tior, the 5000 years of the worlds existence has
been only to God as from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the rebound is
quicker and the circle sooner completed.
You resolve that you will do what good you can.
In one week you put word Of counsel in the
heart of a Sabbath-school child During that
same week you give letter of Introduction to
young man struggling in business. During the
same week you make an elaboration in prayer
meeting. 1t is all gone You will never hear
of it perhaps you think. few years after
man comes up to you and says: You don't
know me, do your lou say: NO. l don't re-
member ever having seen you" why" he
says Il was in the Sabbath-school class over
which YOU were the teacher; Sunday you
invited me to Christ; l accepted the offer; you
sse that church with two towers yOnderP Yes,
you say. He says That is where l preach
or, DO you see that Governors houSef That IS
where | live One day man comes to you and
saws: Good morning" You look at him and
say "Why you have the advantage of me; |
cannot place you" He says, Don't you re-
member thirty years ago giving a letter of in
PRODUCTION to young mana letter of lntroduc-
ton to Moses II. GrinnelF Yes, yes, do
He saws: Il am the man. that was my first step
toward a fortune. BIT have retired from bust
ness now, and am giving my time to philan-
thropies aud public interests Come up to my
trxy-e at and " Or a to
YOU and says: 81 want to Introduce myself to
you [ went into prayer-meeting some years
ago; sat back by the door; you arose to make
an exhortation. That talk changed the course
of my life, and if ever get to heaven, under
Sod | will own my salvation to you" In only
ten, twenty thirty years the circle swept out
and swept back again to your own grateful
heart. But sometimes it is a wider circle and
does not return for great while. saw bill
Of expenses for burning Latimer and Ridley Inc
bill of expenses says:
One load frs fagots Observation-Disclosures. 3s. Id.
Carriage for four loads of wood ..-..
Item, two chains OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Item, two staples. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Item, four laborers ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
That was cheap FIRE, considering all the cir
cumstances; but it kindled light which shone
all around the world and around the martyr
spirit and out from that burning.of Latimer and
Ridley rolled the circle wider and wider start
lag other circles, convolutng, overrunning, cir
cumscribng, overarching all heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good is just as true of
the bad You utter a SANDER against your
ueighbor. 1t has gone forth from your teeth; it
will never come back, you think. GU have done
the man all the mischief you can, gu rejoice
to see him vince. You say: Didn't give it to
hin!' That word has gone out, that slanderous
word on its poisonous and blasted way You
think it will never do you any harm. But am
watching that word and | see it beginning to
curve and it curves around and it is aiming at
your heart. You had better dodge it. You can
not dodge it 1t rolls into your bosom and after
it rolls il a word of an old Book which says:
with what measure ye mete it shall be meas
7red to you again.
HOW EVILS COME HOME.
You maltreat an aged parent. You begrudge
him the room in your house. You are impatient
Of his whimsiealities and garrulty. 1t makes you
mad to hear him tell the same story twice, You
give him food he cannot masticate. You wish
ne was away. You wonder if he is going to live
forever. He will be gone very soon. His steps
are shorter and shorter. He is going to stop.
But God has an account to settle with you on
that subject. After while your eye will be
dim, and your gait will halt and and the sound
of the grinding will be low, and you will tell the
same story twice, and your children will wonder
if you are going to live forever and wonder if
you are never going to be taken away. They
called you father once; now they call you the
''old man." If you live few years longer they
will call you the cold chap What are those
rough words with which your children
costing you7 They are the echo of the very
words you used in the ear of your old father
forty years ago What is that you trying to
chew, but find it unmasticabIe and your jaws
ache ard you surrender the attempt Perhaps
it may be the gristle which you gave to your
father for his breakfast forty years ago9 gen
tleman passing along the street son drag
cling his father into the street by
the hair of his head The gentle
man, outraged at this brutal conduct,
was about to punish the offender when the old
man arose and said: nDont hurt him: its all