Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-09-09
MOVING EVER In CIRCLES.
The REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON THE
LORDS GEOMETRICAL AR.
RANGEMENTS.
The Worlds History Ever Re-
volving About the Great
Center.
Evils Sure to Come Back Unless Warded
Off by the Power of the Gross.


While yet people thought that the world was
fiat, and thousands Of years before they found
out that it was round Isaiah in my text init
mated the shape of it, God sitting upon the
| circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure
in al! geometry is the circle. God made the
universe on the plan of circle. There are in
the natural world straight lines, angles,
parallelograms diagonals, quadrangles; but
these evidently are not Gods favorltes Al
most everywhere where you find Him
geometrizing you find the circle dominant, and
II not the circle then the curve, which is cir
Gle that died young. If it had lived long
enough it would have been a full orb a
periphery. An ellipse is a circle pressed only
little too hard at the Sides Giants Cause
way in Ireland shows that God thinks Of
mathematics. There are over thirty five thou
sand columns Of rocks-octagonal, hexagonal,
pentagonaI. These rocks seem to have been
made by rule and by compass. Every artist
has his moulding room where he may make
fifty shapes, but he chooses one shape as
preferable to all the others.
BUILDING EVER IN A CIRCLE,
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 circle as the best. 1T is
He that stitch on the circle Of the earth"
The stars in circle, the moon in circle, the
sun in a circle, the universe in a circle, and
the throne of God the center 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 more easily that way
than in straight lines Six thousand years
ago God flung this world out of His right
hand, but be did not throw it out in a straight
line but curvilnear with leash of love hold
| ing it so as to bring 1t 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 com.
| pete circuit, and come back to the place
where it started-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 i'm
| proving so rapidly! 1t is because men are i'm
ltating the old model of Noah's ark. A ship
| carpenter gives that as his opinion. Although
SO much derided by small wits, that ship Of
| Noah's time beat the Etruria and the Ger
mamie, Of which we boast SO much. Where is
the ship on the sea to-day 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,
! thousands of species.
THE WORLDS PROGRESS oUTLINLD.
Pomologoy will 60 on with its achievements
| until after many centuries the world will have
| plumS and pears equal to the Paradisaical
The art Of gardening will grow for centuries,
and after the Downings and Mitchells of the
world have done their best, iu the far future
the art of gardening will come up to the
| arborescence of the year one. 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 1290. We are six centuries
behind those artists but the world must keen
on toiling until it shall make the complete
circuit and come up to the skill of those very
men, If the world continues to improve in
masonry we shall have after a WHILE perhaps
after the advance of centuries, mortar equal
to that which | saw in the wall OF an eXhumed
English city, built In the time of ehe Romans,
900 years ago-that mortar to-day as good as
| the day in which 1t was made, having Outast
ed the brick and the stone. l say, after hun
dreds OF years. masonry may advance to that
point If the world stands long enough we
may have a city as large as they had in OLD
times. Babylon, five times the size of Lon
don. You go into the potterics of England
and you find them making cups and vases
after the style of the cups and vases exhumet
from POmpei The world is not going back
come back to the styles of pottery known SC
long ago as the days of Pompeii. The worlC
must keep on progressing until 1t makes tn,
complete circuit. The curve is in the RICH
direction. The curve will keep on until i
becomes a circle.
EVILS SURE TO COME BACK.
WE'LL now, my friend, what is true in thu
material universe Is true in Gods moral gov
eminent and spiritual arrangement. That il
the meaning of Ezekiers wheel. All common
tators agree in saying that the wheel mean
Gods providence. But wheel is of no us
unless it turn, aud if it turns it turns around
and il 1t turn around it moves in circle
What thent Are we parts Of a great iron ma
chine whrlcd around whether we will or not
=. the victims of memorable fate! No! So ia
from that | shall show you that we ourselve
start the circle of good or bad actions, an,
that 1t will surely come around again to u
unless by Divine intervention it be hindered
Those good or bad actions may make he eli
, | cult OF many years, but come back to us the
will as certainly as that God sits on the circl
: Of the eartf. Jezebel, the worst woman of tn
Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted HI
vineyard. While the dogs were eating tn
body of Naboth, Elisha the prophet put dow
,. his compass and marked circle from thos
dogs clear around to the dogs that should ca
, | the body of Jezebel the murderess: "Impos
:" the people said; that will never har
pen" Who is that being flung out of the pal
ace Window JeZebcl. A few hours afte
they came around hoping to bury her. The
find only the palms Of her hands and tn
l skull. The dogs that devOured Jezebel an
the dogs that devourcd Naboth. o, what
swift what an awful circuit
! THE STEPS IN GOVERNMENT.
But 1t is sometimes the case that this Gil
Gle sweeps through a century, or through man
centuries. The world started with a theocra
cy for government; that Isl God was III
< president and emperor of the world. Peopl
= got tired of thcOcracy. They said: ''W
don't want God directly interfering with tn
5 affairs Of the world; give us monarchy.
| The world had monarchy. From monarch
ii is going to have a limited monarchy. Aftt
= awhile the limited monarchy will be given vi
and the republican form OF government wi
be everywhere dominant and recognized
4 Then the world will get tired of the republica
form Of government and it will have an al
archy. which Is no government at ALL An
then, all nations finding out that man is NJ
capable Of righteously governing man, WI
cry out again for thcocracy, and say: ''LC
God come back and conduct the affairs Of tn
world" Every step-monarchy, limited MOI
arcy, repub,iCanism, anarchy, only differer
= steps between the first theocracy, and the Ia:
thcocracy, or sesments Of the great cl
Gle Of the cart on which God sit
= But do not become impatient because 70
~ can not see the curve of events, and Their
fore conclude that Gods government
going to break down. History tells us tn;
> in the making OF the pyramids it took 20'
men two years TO drag one great stor
+ from the quarry and put it into the pyr
y mids. Well, now, il men, short lived, ca
afford to work so slowly as that, can nj
God in the building of the eternties affol
- to wait! What though God should tai
10000 years to draw a crc!ca Shall v
q take our little watch which We have
wind up every night lest it run down AZ
u hold it up beside the clock of eternal age
II, according TO the Bible, a thousand yea
are in Gods sight as one day, then accor
) ing to that calculation the 6,000 years
b the worlds existence has been only to Gt
as from Monday to Saturday.
GOOD FRUITS BORNE SOON.
o But 1t is often the case that the rebound
8 quicker, and the circle il sooner complete
You resolve that you will do what good "
II can. In one week you put word of couns
in the heart of Sabbath school child Durii
that same week you gave n letter Of introdu
, ton to young man struggling in busine:
9 During the same week you made an cXhort
= tion in prayer meeting. 1t is all gone: "
" will never hear of it perhaps, you think.
n few years after a man comes up 10 YOU al
says: 'You don't know me, do your "Y'
say, mo, don't remember ever to have Sc
/, you" .'Why," he says, 81 was in the Saba
N school class over which you were the teach
One Sunday you invited me to Christ i 4