Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-09-09

| Or man comes to you and says: II want TO
Introduce myself to you. went into q pray
yer meeting some years ago i sat back by the
door. You arose to make an exhortation
| That talk changed the course of my life, and
| IL ever get to heaven, under God, i will owe my
salvation to you" In only ten, twenty or
| thirty years the circle swept out and swept
| back again to your own greatful heart.
| ISLANDERS SOMETIMES MORE QUICKLY.
But sometimes IL is wider circle and oes
| not return for great while. saw bill Of
| expenses for burning Latimer and Rid ley.
The bill OF expenses says:
One load OF mr. fagots. Id
Carriage OF four loads Of wood ......,.........2s.
ieii' posi- ~
Item, two staples Cd
itelh -FOUR laDorers... Is. 3D.
| That was cheap fire, coneidering all the cir
! cumstances; but it kindled light which
| shown 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,
| oyerrunning, circumscribng, oyerarching all
| heaven--a circle.
! But what Is true of the good is Just as
true Of the bad You utter a SANDER against
your neighbor. 1t has gone forth 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 himf' 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 i see it beginning
to curve, and it curves around, and it is
aiming at your heart You had better dodge
it. You can not dodge it, 1t rolls into your
bosom, and after 1t rolls in word of an old
book which says: ''With what measure We
mete, it shall be measured to you again"
MALTLEArMEST OF PARENTS PUNISHED.
You maltreat an aged parent. You be-
grudge the room in your house. You are i'm
patient of his whimsicalities and garrulity. 1t
makes you mad to hear him tell the same story
twice. You give him food he cannot masticate.
You wish be was away. You wonder If he is
going to live forever. He will he gone very
soon. His steps are shorter and shorter He
is going to stop But God has an account to
settle with You on that subject. After time
your eye VIII be dim and your gait will halt
and the sound of the grinding viii be slow and
you will tell the same story twice and your
children win wonder II you are going to live
forever and wonder if you will never be taken
away. They called you ''father' once; now
they call yon 'the old man. If YOU live a
few years longer they will call you "thc old
chap" What are those rough words with
are the echo of the very words you
used in the ear OF your old father
fogty years ago What is that YOU
are you trying to chew but find it unmasticable
and your jaws ache as you surrender the at
tempti Perhaps it may be the gfistle which
years ago. A gentleman passing along the
street saw a son dragging his father into the
street by the hair of the head. The gentle
man, 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 morning l
dragged out my father by the hair of his
head" 1t is circle. Ny father lived into
the eighties, and he had very wide expert
ence, and he said that maltrcatment of
moi MT al sl,p in, hi
Other sins may be adjourned to the next
world, but maltreatment of parents is pun
ished in this world.
SINS STOPPED BY TIE CROSS.
swell, now" says the people in the audi
ence, this In some respects is very glad
theory, and in Others a very sad one; we would
like to have all the good we have ever done
come back to ms, but the thought that of all
the sins we hare ever committed will come
back to us fills us with alright My brother,
| have to tell you that God can break that cir
Gle and will do so at your call | can bring
twenty passages of Scripture TO prove that
when God for Chrsts sake forgives man,
the sins Of his past lite never comes back. The
wheel may roll on and roll on, but you take
your position behind the cross and the wheel
strikes the cross and it is shattered forever.
The sins fly off from the circle into the perpen-
dicular, falling at right angles with complete
oblivion. Forgiven forgiven! The meanest
thing man can do is, after some difficulty
has been settled, to bring 1t up again; and
| God will not be so mean as that. Gods mem
DRY is mighty enough to hold all the events Of
the ages, but there is one thing that is sure to
| slip His memory, one thing lie is sure to for
| get, and that is pardoned transgression. How
| do / know it, / will prove it. Their sins
| and their iniquities will | remember no more"
| Come into that state this morning, my dear
brother my dear sister. Blessed is the one
| whose transgresSions are forgiven"
CHRIST THE CENTER OF ALL.
| But do not make the mistake of thinking
| that this doctrine of the circle stops with this
| life: it rolls on through heaven. You might
| quote in opposition to me what St John says
| about the city of heaven. He says it ''lieth
| four square, That may seem to initiate
against this idea; but you know there is many
| a square house that has a family circle facin q
| each other and in a circle moving and | can
prove that this is so in regard to heaven. St
John says: 81 heard the voice of many angels
round about the throne and the beasts and
the elders" And again he says: There
was rainbow round about the thronen The
| two former instances, circle; the last, either
circle or semicirclc. The seats facing
each other, the men facing each other,
Heaven an amphitheatre of glory. Crcum-
ference OF patriarch, and prophet and apostle.
Circumference of Scotch covenanters and
| Theban legion and Albigcnses Circumfer-
ence of the good of all ages. Periphery of
splendor unimagined and indescribable, A
| circle! A circle!
But every circumference must have cen.
ter, and what is the center of this heavenly
circumference. Christ. His all the glory,
His all the praise, His all the crowns All
heaven wleathed mo garland FUND about
Him. Take off the imperial sandal from Hi:
foot, and behold the scar of the spike. Lift
the coronet of dominion from His brow, aud
see where was the laceratiOn of the brars
Come closer. all heaven. Narrow the circl,
around His great heart. o Christ, the Saviour
o Christ, the mani o Christ, the God Keel
Thy throne forever, seated on the circle of the
earth, seated on the circle of of the heaven!
On Christ, the solid rock stand
IN other ground is shifting sand.