Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30

night lest il run down, and hold II up
beside the clock of eternal ages! III, ac-
cording 10 the Bible, thousand years
are In Gods sight as one day, then ac-
cordiug to that calculation the six thou
sand years OF the worlds existence has
been only to GOD as from Monday to Sat-
urday.
But it is often the case that the rebound
is quicker, and the circle is sooner com
pleted. You resolve that you will DO
what good you can. In one week you put
a word of counsel in the heart OF SAB
bath school child. During that same
week you gave a letter OF Introduction
to a young man struggling in busl-
ness. During the same week you
made an exhortation in prayer meeting.
1t is all gone; you will never hear OF III
perhaps, you think. A few years after a
man comes up to you and says: You
don't know me, do you ?" You say: "No,
l don't remember ever TO have seen you.'
why" he says, 81 was In the sabbath
school class over which you were the
teacher. One Sunday you invited me TO
Christ. 1 accepted the offer. You see
that church with two towers yoDderv
Eyes" you say. He says: "Tnat is where
l preach" Or: "Do you see that
Governors houses That is where live"
One day a man comes to you and says:
Good morning" You look at him and
say: "Why, you have the advantage Of
me; | cannot place you" He says:
Don't you remember, thirty years ago,
giving a letter Of Introduction to young
mana letter Of introduction to a prom
inent merchantn Yes, yes; L do" He
says: II am the man. That was my
first step toward a fortune; but / have
retired from business now, and am CIV
ing my time to philanthropies and public
intarnatu Como country nIAnp
and see me-" Or a man comes to you
and says: 81 want to introduce myself
TO you. 1 went into a prayer meeting
some years ago. l sat back by the door.
You arose to make an exhortation. That
talk changed the course OF my life, and II
| ever get to heaven, under God, | will
owe my salvation to you" In only ten,
twenty or thirty years, the circle swept
out and swept back again to your own
grateful heart.
But sometimes 1t is a wider circle and
does not return for a great while. Isaw
a bill OF expenses for burning Latimer
and Ridley. The bill of expenses says:
One load OF FIR fagots. ..........3s. 4d.
Carriage of four loads Of wood. .......2s.
item, post. 49, az
Item, two chains. .-.....................3 s. 40.
Item, two staples Observation-Disclosures. Cd.
Item, four laborers ...........-.........2s 90.
That was cheap fire, considering all the
circumstances; but it kindled a light
which shOne all around the world, and
around the martyr spirit; and out from
that burning of Latimer and Ridley rolled
the circle, wider and wider, starting other
circles, convOlutIng, overrunning, cir
cumscribing, oyerarching all heaven-a
circle.
But what is true Of the good is just as
true Of the bad. You utter a SANDER
a craf In ar un no ohh II hnu ri
from your teeth. 1t will never come back,
you think. You have done the man all
the mischief you can. You rejoice to see
him vince. You say: didn't | give 1t to
himp That word has gone out, that
slanderous word, on its poisonous and
blasted way. You think it will never
do you any harm. But / am watching
that word, and see it beginning to curve,
and it curves around. and it is aiming at
your heart. You had better dodge it..
You cannot dodge it. 1t rolls into your
bosom, and after 1t rolls In a word of an
old book which says: with what meas
ure We mete, it shall be measured to you
again"
You maltreated an aged parent. You
begrudge him the room in your house.
You are impatient of his within sicalities
and garrulity. 1t makes you mad to hear
him tell the same story twice. You give
him food he cannot masticate. You wish
he was away. You wonder if he is going
to live forever He will be gone very
soon. His steps are shorter and shorter.
He is going to stop. But God has an &C
count to settle with you on that subject.
After awhile your eve will be dim and
your gait will halt, and the sound of the
grinding will be low, and you will tell the
same story twice, and your children will
wonder If you are going to live forever,
and wonder II you will never be taken
away. They called you "father" once
now call you "the old man." If you live
a few years longer they will call you ''the
old chap" What are those rough words
with which your children are &C.
costing your They are the echo oil
the very words you used in the ear Of your
old father forty years ago. What is that
which you are trying to chew but find ii
unmastlcabie, and your jaws ache as you
surrender the attempt? Perhaps 1t may
be the gristle which you gave tn your
father for his breakfast forty years ago.
A gentleman passing along the street saw
a son dragging his father into the street
by the hair of the head. The gentleman,
outraged at this brutal conduct, was
about to punish the offender when the old
man arose and said: Don't hurt him
it's all right. Forty years ago this morn
OF his head" 1t is a circle. My father
lived into the eighties, and be had a very
wide experience, and he said that mall
treatment OF parents was always punished
| in this world. Other sins may be ad
| journed to the next world, but maltreat.
meDt of parents is punished In this world
The circle turns quickly, very quickly
| Oh, what a stupendous thought thai
the good and the evil we start come
back to US. Do you know that the Jubg
ment Day will be only the points at which
the circles join, the good and the bad WI
have done coming back to us, unless Di
vine Intervention hinder-coming back u
us, welcome OF delight or curse Of con
| demnationf
Oh, would like to see Paul, the inva
| lid missionary, at the moment when hi.
| influence comes to full orb-hi,
influence rolling out through Antioch,
| through Cyprus, through Lysrra, through
Corinth, through Athens, through Asia
through Europe, through America
through the first century, through five
! centuries, through twenty centuries
| through all the succeeding centuries
through earth, through heaven, and, a
last, the wave Of influence having made
! full circuit, strikes his great soul! Oh
! then l would like 10 see him! Noonecar
| tell the wide sweep OF the circle of his in,
| fuence, save the One who is seated on the
| circle OF the earth. l should not want tC
see the countenance Of Noltalr(
when his influence comes tC
| full orb. When the fatal
hemorrhage seized MIN at SO years OF age
| hia influanpp did not paaGp Tho mOai