The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-09-16
Iatlm.r and ridley rolled M. circle wider

and wild Err starting other circles, convolut-
ing, overrunning, circumscrlbing, overarch'
ing all heaven-a circls.
But what is true of the good Is lust as true
of the bad. You utter SANDER against vons
noighhor. 1t has gone forth from your teeth,
10 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 hint" That word has
gone out, that slanderous word, on its poison.
GUS and blasted way, You think IL VIII
never do you any harm; but am watching
that word, and l see 1t beginning to curve,
and 1t curves around, ana IL Is aiming at
your heart You had better dodge IL You
cannot dodge It, IL rolls INTO your bosom,
and after 1t rolls In word OF an old book,
which says; with what measure ye meteS
1t small be measured to You again."
You maltreat an aged parent You pc
grudge him the room in your house, You
are impatient Of his whimscalities and gar.
rulity. 1t makes you mad to hear INN tell
the same story twice. You give food he
cannot masticate You wish he were away.
You wonder il he is going to live forever.
He will be gone very soon. HIS stepi are
shorter and shorter. lie Is gong 10 STOP
But God has an account to settle with you
on that sub ,ect After while your eye VIII
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 VIII
wonder il you are going to live forever, ana
wonder if you will never be taken away
They called you "Father' once; now they
call you "the old man." If you live few
years longer they will call you 1.-THE old
chap What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting you! They
are the echo of the very words you uset
in the ear of your old father forty years
ago. What is that which You are trying to
chew, but find it unmasticable, and your
jaws ache as you surrender the attempts
Perhaps 1t may be the gristle viii h you gave
to your father for his breakfast forty years
ago. A gentleman passing along the street.
saw son dragging his father into the street
by the hair of his head. The gentleman, out
ragged at this brutal conduct, was about to
punish the offender, when the Old man arose
and said: Don't hurt him; it's oil right;
forty years ago this morning dragged out
my father by the mar OF the mead. IL Is u
circle. MY father lived into the elghties,and
he had a very wide experience, ana ne san
that maltreatment OF parents was Always
punished IN TINS world otner SINS may DC
adjourned to the next world, but maltreat'
ment OF parents Is punished IN TINS world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
Oh! what stupendous thought that the
good ana the evll we start come oacK 10 us;
DO you know that the Jud9nent Gay VIII
be only the points ut which the circles JOIN,
the good and the bad we have done comm
back to us, unless divine Intervention hinder
coming BACK TO us welcome OF deligh1 OF
curse OF condemnation! 49,,
On! would ike to see raul, the lnValId
missionary, at the moment when ms influence
comes to full orb.his influence rolling OUT
through Antloch, through cyprus, through
Lystra, through Corinth, through Athens,
through ASIA, through Europe, through
America, through the first century, throu N
iive centuries, through twenty. centuries,
through all the SUGGESTING centuries, throu@n
earth, through heaven, and. at last, the wave
OF influence having made Iuil circuit strlkes
his great soul! Oh, then L would IKE 70 se'
mimi Noone can tell tine Wiue sweep OF t.'
circle OF his influence, save the One VINO Is
seated on the circle oil the earth. ! shouiC
not want to see the countenance or Voltaire
when his influence comes to full ORB. Nhen
the fatal hemorrhale seized him at eighty
three years Of age his influence did net cease
usei all MS Iacuit es lot assuming Cnri3.
Ianlty' ms oai influence waenini vnrou5n
FIance, "idehinS ouy 'n.ousa oo s,i1 la ,
Mruenlhs .nrousn an nut tto,,rt %it tba ~
Iulousn aiiei lc', "idehins 0tlioI ~, eno
years Inat nave gone ~ since ne uieu WEI haIi
Jug Inlougn eaiUn, wtueuil3 % ~ = !,
unIi, az !aso ene accl.lliuls'ed y. ~
pau ille III nerV surge ol oliiiii WI ~
VIII Deaf aealnsO ms u'Seroyed spliiU' anu -. q
that moment IT VIII De enough TO MAKE w
pudh ~. nai VI uai nne, to ~ hnv +a
WIN the horror. NO one Gau u, zen no" Una
bad mans influence glralea tho eartn save t,,t
inc Sne WHO Is seated On 0ne ch'ie VI 'ls
eaT i,I1-I Loiu AilhlgnCy. :. s;o,
ell nom' say leopie nn WIS i, du then.v
lis III so,.e iespects, Is very gnu tneI ~
anu III QUE. yer stio oLe we "oui' I'm
70 nave an 1he goca we nave uo n ~. come Dac
10 US, puo .ne enoue11 lii,'V an we slus '"
n nave eser eo g4 ~ Nh sonto o9Ch "
| MIS- US WIN aurlgnt. NY or9Cher' nave
Tell you you eau Va, oreah ehaC clrcIe, anu WI
no So az you eai. oan ullns S"en.y pa
snges o. scrlp.ure 70 liose sna. mieh ti 10Y, ~
ChIiSes sahe lol gives man, me siiis VI Il
past me never , come PACK. lne wnesi ma
ron on anu ioii on ous you os'n t .h Sou
posiolon oenii.u 'he 'ios' an. . VIC Nc sSs
strikes tne cross ana IL IS snaIteiea t 10,
esei i;e1a ~ III, W - NV W; w
perpenhi i,,;o,, or or,a ''I Faroi, nae
co"Pievo oohron' roi sNeh' fo'Si'eA
The meanest thing a man can do Is, atte
some difficulty has been settled, to BRING
up again,and dod Will not be SO mean as tnal
Gods memory IS mighty enough TO hold
| the events of the ages, but there IS QUE thin
that is sure to slip his memory, one thing h
J is sure to forget, and that is pardoned trans
| erosion. How do | know it! | will prov
it. Their sins and their mi Iuities will re
member no more" Come into that state TIL
morning, my dear brother, my dear sister
blessed is the one whose trangressions al
| forgiven"
But do not make the mistake of thinkin
that this doctrine of the circle stops with tn
life; it rolls on through heaven. You migf
quote in opposition to me what st. John SAY
about the city of heaven. He says it 'liet
four square," That does seem to militat
asan'S .nis luea otS yHu ni fo,',;I,, q;
..A"'J 3" od uoAo hou'S o".o A-''' :. .Ay " ~