Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-15
IN THE SOUTHLAND.
DR.. TaImage in tho Lone Star
State.
REACTION OF GOOD AND EVIL.
Galveston Turns Out Thousands to Hear
the Great Brooklyn Divine
Preach.
THE CIRCLE DOMINANT.
Special 10 TIE Register.

De Witt Talmage, the celebrated Brooklyn
divine, preached his first sermon in the State
of Texas this season to-day, his subject
being Reaction of Good and Evil" Thou
sands Aocked 10 hear him, and such an
enormous audience has rarely been seen in
Texas. After an Introductory religious
hymn, DR.. Tslmsge announced his text from
Isaiah xl., %: ut is he that stitch upon
the circle Of the earth"
While vet people thought that the world
was fiat, said the preacher, and thousands
of years before they found out that it was
round Isaiah in my text intimated the shape
of fit-God sitting upon the circle OF the
earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle. God made the
universe On the plan ola circle. There are
in the natural world straight lines,
angles, parallelograms, diagonals,
qaadrangles but these evidently are not
Gods favorites. Almost everywhere where
you find him geometrizing you find the cir
Gle dominant, and if not the circle then the
curve, which is circle that died young! If
it had lived long enough it would have
been full orb, periphery. An eclipse is
circle pressed only little too hard at the
sides. Giants causeway in Ireland shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
are over thirty.6ve thousand columns Of
rocks-octsgOnal, heXsgonal, pantagonsI,
1 l.. a. haua haan Ia h.,
rule and by compass. Every artist has his
moulding room where he may make fifty
shapes; but he chooses one shape as prefera
BILE to all the others. will not say that the
Giants causeway was the worlds moulding
room, but | do say out of great many
figures, God seems to have selected the cir
Gle as the best. at is He that sitteth on
the circle the earth" The stars in cir.
Gle. the moon in a circle, the sun in circle,
the universe in a circle and the throne OF
God the centre of that circle.
When men build churches they ought to
initiate the idea of the great architect and
put the audience in a circle, knowing that
the tides of emotion roll mole easily that
way than in straight lines. Six thousand
wears ago God flung this world out Of his
right hand; but He did not throw it out in
straight line, but curviliaear, with lash 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 re-
gions of moral ice and distemper. How
long it will roll God only knows; but it will
in due time make a complete circuit and
come back to the place where it started
Il IS Cd nd Edantn
The history of the world goes in a circle.
Why is it that the shipping in our day is i'm
proving So rapidly? 1t is because men are
initiating the old model of Noah's Ark. A
ship carpenter gives that as his opinion.
Although so much derided by small wits
that ships of Noah's time beat the Gallia
and the Arizona of which we boast so much.
Where is the ship on the sea today that
could outride deluge in which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked, landing all the
passengers in safety-two Of each kind OF
living creatures, thoussnds OF speciesT
Pomology will go on with its achievements
until after many centuries the world will
have plums and pears equal to the Paradisai-
cal. The art Of gardening will grew for
centuries and after the Dsrwins and
Mitchells of the world Eave done their best
in the far future the art Of gardening will
come up to the sborescence OF the year l..
If the makers of colored glass go
on improving they may in some
centuries be able to make
something equal to the east window Of
York Minister, which was built in 1890
We are six centuries behind these artists,
but the world must keep on toiling until it
shall make the complete circuit and come
| IN to the skill Of those very men. If the
wo,ld continues to improve in masonry we
shall have after while, perhaps after the
advance of centuries, mortar eGnst to tnat
which | once saw in the walls of an ex-
hurned English city, built in the time of the
Romaus, sixteen hundred years ago-that
mortar today is as good as the day in which
twas made, having outlasted the brick and
the stone. | say after hundreds Of years
masonry NAV advance to that point. II
| the world stands long enough we may have
a CITY as large as they had in old times.
Bahylon was FIVE times the size OF London.
You 90 into the potterieS Of England and
YOU find them making cups and vases after
the style of the cups and vases exhumed
| from Pompeii. The world is not going
back. oh, no, but it is swinging in cir
Gle and will come back to the styles OF
pottery known so long ago as the days OF
Pompeii. The world must keep on pro-
crossing until it makes the completc cir
cut. The curve is IN the right direction,
the curve will keep on until 1t becomes the
circle.
Well, now, my friends, what is true in the
material increase is true Of Gods mora!
government and spiritual arrangement.
| That is the meaning OF Ezekiels wheel.
All commentators agree in saying that the
wheel means Gods providence. But a
wheel is of no use unless it turn, and II II
turn it turns around, and if it turns around
il moves in a circle. What then: Are we
parts of a great iron machine whirled
around whether we will or not, the victims
of memorable fate? No. So far from that
/ will show you that we ourselves start the
circle of good or bad actions, and that II
will surely come around again to US unless
by Divine Intervention it be hindered
Those bad or good actions may make the
circuit Of many years, but come oacS 70 ~: u:
\ they will as certainly as uoo Si's "u NA''
c;, Gle of the earth. Jassael the worst wo
man of the Bible, slew Nsboth because sh'
/ wanted his vineyard. While the dogs wer'
/ estlhs the body of Nsboth, Elishs, sh'
prop6e. pot down his compass and msrse;
3 circle from ;tose dogs clear around TO tht
dogs that should en-. the body Of Jazabel
the murderess. "1TtossibleT the people
said, that will never happen" Who u
that being flung out Of the palace windoSj
Jezebel. 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 devoured Jezebel and the dog
that devoured Nsboth. Oh, what sWiit
what
An Awful Circuit.
| But it is sometimes the case that this circle
sweeps through century or through many
centuries. The world started with the
ocrsey for government; that is God was
president aud emperor Of the word. Peo
pie get tired of theocracy. They said: "Wt
don't want God directly interfering with the
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