The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DELIVERED AT THE HAMPTONS
LAST SUNDAY.


LAST SUNDAY.
DR.. TaImage Shows that in the Divine
Goyernm emit Provision is Made for the
Beturn of Good and Evil to Their Per-
petrators, in Results.
Specially Reported for The Sentinel.
THE HAMPToNs, August 80: The Rev.
DR.. 7. Dewitt TalmaSe's ext to-day was:
Isaiah NJ %: 90 It is He that stitch
upon he circle Of the earth" Following
is the sermon:
While yet people thought that the
worli was fiat and thousands of years
I3et.,re trey foun out that it was roun T.
1-i,iah in my text infimated the shape nf
it. God sitting uion the crcl" of the
cart The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle. God made the
universe on tie plan of a circle. There
are in he nat Iral world straight lines,
angles parallelogranls, diagonals, quad
ran.les: but these evidently are not
Gods faE rites. Almost everywhere
YOU find Him Gen'netrizinS you find
the circle ominant and if not the
circle then the curve, which is circle
that d'eG young. Ii it had lived long
enough il woult have been a full orb, a
periphery. An ellipse is a circle pressed
only IL little too hard at the sides.
Gi;t. is CauSeway in Ireland shows what
God thinks of mathematics. There are
over THU ty-five thousand columns of
rocks-octagonal, hexaSonal, penta-
gonal. These rocks seem q h We been
made by rule and by rnni'ts-. Every
artist i:ts his mouldii. Z room where he
m " max. ii ty shapes, but he chooses
one sha... IS preferable to all the others.
I will not say that Tn Giants Causeway
Was the VOLTS mouidinG-roo but I
do say, out OF a gre 1t many figures God
seems to have Sel"ct..i tn, circle as the
best: & [; is He that sitteth on the
circle of the eirth.' The stars in a
circl 3. he moon in ii circle, the sun in
circle. tn. universe in Il circle, and the
thron.. Il God the centre of that circle.
WIert n1cn build churches they ought
to initiate the idea OF the great Archi-
tect aud put the audience in q circle,
kno y ing 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 tn. ow it out in a straight line
but curvilinear, with u leash OF love hold
ing 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 distemper.
How long it will roll God only knows
but it will in due time make complete
circuit, and come back to the place where
it -tarteI-the hand of God. pure and
Edenic.
The history Of the world goes in
circle. Why is it that the shipping in
our day is improving so rapidly? 1t is
because men are initiating the old
models of Noah's Ark. A ship-carpen-
ter Civ that as his opinion. Although
SO much derided by small wits, that ship
of Noah's time beat the Etruria and the
Germanic, of which we boast SO much.
- bn ch IN of no hot
could outride deluge in which the
heavens and the earth were wrecked,
landing all the passengers in safety, two
of each kind of living creatures, thous
ands of species? Pomology will so on
with its a. hievments until after many
centuries the world will have plums and
pear equal to the Paradisiacal. The
art of gardening will grow for centuries,
and after the Downings an Mitchell- of
the word h&v.. done their b.: III the
far futur.- h.. art OF garden = will come
up t. th+ IL ,,re5ceil e OF The yer oae.
Ii III III t[trs O: color,d Z a. go on
improving .4,t.y MAJ i'll som" .e turtles
be able t. itt4ile sometimes equal to
the east w,.,d,, >v Of York Mist'r which
was built III !-ti W.. are ii. centuries
behind 10 nrt.5. ), but the world
must keep oil :. until il nall snake
the cnnpi T.. cltc .it and come ui' TO tn,
skill of those Very men,. II tie w rid
continues 10 improve i'll Masonry we
shall have after Il Whine. = i'iiHpS after
the advance of cent Ties, liGr. i t:it!;ii
to that winch 1 saw III the VI, OF an
eXhumeu English ely, built th line
of the Romans, siXtee hundred We rs
ago-that mortar is to-day good
the day III which it was n;I,ie. hA, ing
outlasted the brick and the on L
say, after hun rods of years Masonry
may advance 10 thatpoint. Ii the world
Stands 10. u enough we may have a city
as large ;ts they had in old times
Babylon, five times the size of Lo don.
Yo 80 into the potteries Of England
: and you find them making cups aud
vases alter the style of the cups and
vases exhumed from Pompeii. The
world is not going back. ., no! but it
is swing ny in Il circle and will come
back to the styles of pottery known so
long ago as the days OF Pompei. The
world must keep oh progressing until it
makes the complete circuit. The curve
is in the right direction. The curve
will keep until il becomes circle.
Well. now. my friends. what is true in
the material universe IS true in Gods
moral government and sp,r.tu'l ar
rangement. That is the mc.t ing of
Ezekiel's wheel. All commentators
agree in saying that the wheel means
Gods providence. But wheel is Ct
no use unless il tlrn. and If it turn, it
turns around and If it turn, around it
moves III circle What then? Are we
parts of great iron machine whirled
around whether we will or rot. the vic
tins of ineXorable fate! No! SO far
from that l shall show you that we our
selves start the circle of good or bad
actions, and that it will surely come
around again to us uTless by Divine in
tervention it be hind.:.'u,:. Those bad or
good actions may lake the circuit of
many years but Come buck to as they
will as Gel, ainly as III 1t God sits on the
circle of the earth. JeZebel, he worst
woman OF the Bible, slew N.,l,ot; be-
cause she wanted his vineyard While
the dogs were eating the body OF Nab I'll,
Elisha. tne proph /. put down his com