The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
The Good and the Evil We Start VIII
Return to Is at the Judgment,
Strong Sermon by Rev. s. Sawyer, in
Which Broad View of the Question of
Prohibition Is Presented
REACTIONS OF GOOD AND EVIL.

GALVESTON lex, Dec, ID DIR. L. Dewitt
Talmage, the celebrated Brooklyn divine,
preached his first sermon in the State of Texas
this season today his subject being Reactions
of Good and Evil" Thousands focked to hear
him, and such an enormous audience has rarely
been seen in Texas After an Introductory relig-
ious hymn, DR.. Talmage announced his text
from Isaiah xl, D. 1T is He that stteth upon
the circle of the earth"
While yet 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 it-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 of circle.
There are in the natural world straight lines,
angles, parallelograms, diagonas, quadrangles,
but these, evidently, are not Gods favorites-
Almost everywhere, whore you find Him geom-
etrizing, you find the circle 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
elliptic is a circle pressed only little too hard
at the sides Giants Causeway, in ireland,
shows what God thinks of mathematics There
are over 30 900 columns of rocks-Octagonal hex
agonal, pentagonal These rocks seem to have
been made by rule and by COMPASS. Every
artist has his molding room, where he may
make fifty shapes; but he chooses one shape as
preferable to all the others. will not say the
Giants Causeway was the worlds molding-
room, but do say, out of great many figures
God seems to have selected the circle as the best
ut is He that sitteth on the circle Of the earth"
The stars in a circle, the moon in a circle, the
universe in a circle, and the throne Of God the
center of the circle.
When men build churches they ought to ini-
tate the idea of the great architect and put their
audience in a 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 hand; but He did not
throw it out in straight line, but curviliuear,
with leash of love holding 1t so as to bring it
back again. The world started from his hand,
pure and edenic 1t has been rolling ou through
regions of moral ice and dstemrer H,ag long
! it will roll God only knows; Sat it viii in due
time make complete circuit aud come sack to
the place where it stagted--tha hand Of God
pure and edenc.
The history Of the world goes in a circle Why
is it that the shipping III our day Is improving 50
rapidly! 1t is because men are initiating the old
model of Noahs ark. ship carpenter gives
that his opinion. Although 50 much deri,ed
by small wits that ship Of Noahs time beat the
Galla and the Arizona of which We boast so
much. Where is the ship on the to day that
could outride deluge in which the heaven and
the earth were wrecked. landing all the pas
sengers in safety-two of each kind of living
creatures thousands of species' Pomology
will go on with its achievements until after
many centuries the world will have piums and
pears equal to the paradisiseal, The art of
gardening will grow for centuries, and after the
Downings and Mtchells of the world have done
their best, in the far future the art Of gardening
will come up to the arboresceuce Of the year l.
If the makers of colored glass 60 on improving
they may in some centuries be able ~ make
something equal to the east window OF York
Minister, which was built in 1880 We are six
centuries behind those artists, but the world
must keep toilng until it shall make the
complete circuit and come up to the skill of those
very mer. If the world continues to improve in
masonry we shall have, after awhile, perhaps
after the advance Of centuries, mortar equal to
that which | once in the wall Of an exhumed
English city, built in the time Of the Romans
sisteen hundred years ago-that mortar to-day
good as the day in which it was made, having
outlasted the brick and the stone l say after
hundreds Of years masonry may ad vance to that
point If the world stands long enough we may
have city as large they had in old times.
Babylon five times the size of London You 90
into the potteries of England aud you find theul
making cups,and vases after the style of the cups
and vases exhumed from PompeH. The world IS
not going back. Oh, no. but it is swinging in 4
circle and will come back TO the styles of pottery
known so long ago as the days of Pompeii, Tn,
world must keep on progressing until it makes
the complete circuit The curve is in the right
direction, the curve will keep on uatil it becomes
the circle.
Well, now, my friends, what ts true in the
material universe is true in Gods moral govern
ment 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 it
turn, and if it turn it turns around and if it turn
around it moves in a circle. What thenl Are
parts of great iron machine whirled around
whether we will or not the victims of inexorabe
fatel No! So far from that, l will show you
that we ourselves start the circle of good or bad
actions, and that it will surely como around
again to US unless by Divine intervention it be
hindered Those good or bad actions may make
the circuit of many years; but come back to US
they will as certainly as that God sits on the cir
Gle of the earth Jezebel, the worst woman Of
tho Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted his
vineyard While the dogs were eating the body