The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-24

coming PACK 10 us WIN welcome OF aengnt
or curse of condemnation
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment when his inilu-
ence comes to full orb-his influence rolling
on through Antioch, through Cyprus,
through Lystra, through Corinth, through
Athens, through Asia, through Europe,
through America, through the first centu-
ry, through five centuries, through twenty
centuries, through all the succeeding cent
uries, through earth, through Heaven, and
at last the wave Of influence, having made
full circuit, strikes his great soul. Oh,
then would like to see him! No one can
tell the wide sweep of the circle Of his influ-
ence save the One who is seated on the cir
Gle of the earth. shouldnot want to see
the countenance of Voltaire when his in
fluence comes to full orb. When the fatal
hemorrhage seized him, at eighty-three
years of age, his influence did not cease.
The most brilliant man Of his coun-
try, he had used all his faculties for
assaulting Christianity. His bad influ-
ence, widening through France, widening
through Germany, widening through all
Europe, widening through America, widen
ing through the one hundred and six years
that have gone by since he died, widening
through earth, widening through hell, un-
til at last the accumulated influence of It's
bad life in fiery surge Of Omnipotent wrath
will beat against his destroyed 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 girdled the earth
save Ono who is seated on the circle Of the
earth-the Lord God Almighty.
swell, now" say some people, "this in
some respects is very glad theory, and
in others a very sad 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, have to tell you God 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 for
gives 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 fly off
from the circle into the perpendicular,
falling at right angles with complete OBJ
livion. Forgiven! Forgiven! The mean
est thing a man can do is after some diff
Guilty has been settled to bring II up again,
and God will not be so mean as that.
Gods memory is mighty enough to hold
oil 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 par
doned transgression. How do l know ity
will prove it. "Their sins and their in
EQUITIES will remember no more" Come
into that state now, my dear brother, my
dear sister. "Blessed Is the one whose trans
gressions are forgiven" But do not make
the mistake Of thinking that this doctrine
Of the circle stops with this life; it
rolls on through Heaven. You might quote
in opposition to me what st. John says
about the City of Heaven. He says it
"leth four square," That does seem to
initiate against this idea; but you know
there Is many square house that has a
family circle facing each other, and in a
circle moving, and can prove that this is
so in regard TO Heaven. st. John says: 81
heard the voice OF many angels round
about the throne, and the beasts and the
elders" And again he says: ~ saw
round about the throne four-and twenty
seats" And again he says: "There was u
rainbow round about the throne" The
two former instances circle; the last,
either circle or semi The seats
facing each other, the angels facing each
other, the men fac ng each other. Heaven
an ampitheater of glory. Circumference
Of patriarch, and prophet and apostle. Cir
cumference OF Scotch Covenanters and
Theban legion and Albigenses. Circumfer.
ence Of the good of all ages. Periphery Of
splendor unimagined aud indescribable. A
circle! A circle.
But every circumference must have cen-
ter, and what is the center OF this heavenly
circumference? Christ. His all the glory.
His all the praise. His all the crowns. All
Heaven, wreathed into garland round
about Him. Take Off the imperial sandal
from His foot and behold the scar Of the
spike Lift the coronet Of dominion from
His brow and see where was the laceration
OF the briers! Come closer, all Heaven.
Narrow the circle around His great heart.
o Christ, the Saviour! o Christ, the man
. Christ, the God! Keep Thy throne for
ever sentod on tho circle Of the earth, seat
ed on the circle OF the Heaven.
"On Christ, the solid rock. stand;
All other ground Is shifting sand"