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conduct, was about 10 punish the offender.
when the old man arose and said:
"Don't hurt him: it's all right; forty
years ago this morDin dragged out my
father by the hair OF his head"
1t 10 circle. My father lived into the
eighties, and he had very wide expert
ence, and he said that maltreatment Of
parents was always punished in this
world. Other sins may be adjourned to
! the next world, but maltreatment Of par.
| enss is punished in this world.
The circle turns quietly, very quickly.
oh, what stupendous thought that the
good and evil we start come back to US!
Do you know that the judgment day will.
be only the points Al which the circles
join-the good and the bad we have done
coming back to us, unless divine interview
ton understanding back to us, welcome
Of delight or curse of condemnation?
| Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid.
4 missionary, at the moment wien his in.
4 Auence comes to full orb-his influence
rolling out through Antioch, through
Cyprus, through Lystra, through Cotinth,
through Athens, through Asia, through
Europe, through America, through the
first century, through five centu les,
through twenty centuries, through all the
succeeding centuries, through earth,
through Heaven, and. at last, the wave Of
influence having made full circuit, strikes
his great soul! No one can tell the wide
swe of the circle of his influence, save
the One who is seated on the circle OF tue
earth.
I should not want 10 see the coun-
tenance Of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb. When the fatal hemor-
rhage seized him at eighty three years Of
age his influence did not cease. The most
brilliant man of his century, he had used
all his faculties for assaulting Chris
tianity; his bad influence widening
through France, widening out through
Germany, widening through all Eu-
; rope, widening through America, widen.
ing through the 10l years that have gone
by since he died, widening through hell;
until at last the accumulated influence of
l his bad life in fiery surge of omnipotent
wrath will beat against his destroyed
spirit, and at that moment 1t will he
enough to make the black hair of eternal
darkness turn white with the horror. No
one can tell how that bad mans influence
seated on the circle of the earth-the Lord
Almighty.
o swell, now" say people in this audi
ence, "this in some respects Is very glad
I. theory, and in others q very sad one; we
Q would like to have all the good we have
o ever done come back to US, but the
It thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to Us fills us
with alright" tsJs 4NE
My brother, have to tell you God can
!? break that circle and will do SO at your
call. I can bring twenty passages ct
s, Scripture to prove that when God fer
Christ's sake forgave man, the sins Of hts
u past life never come back. The wheel may
q roll on and roll on, but you take your p 81.
ton behind the cross, and the wheel
Y strikes the cross and it is shattered for.
n ever. The sins fly of from the circle into
n the perpendicular, falling at right angles
with complete oblivion. Forgiven! for.
given! The meanest thing man can do
y is, after some difficulty has been settled,
D. to bring It up again; and God will not h
q so mean a. that. Gods memory is mighty
l. enough to hod all the events Of the ages
% but there 10 one thing that is sure to slip
his memory, one thing he is sure to forget
i and that Il pardoned transgression. How
1t DO Iknowit! win prove it.
Their sins and iniquities will remember
TO no more.
I'd Come into that state this morning, my
to dear brother, my dear sister.
l. Blessed Is the one whose, transgressiors
are forgiven.
10 But do not make the mistake Of thinking
70 that this doctrine Of the circle stops with
this life; itrolls on through heaven. Yor
ID might quote in opposition to me what st
John says about the city OF Heaven. HI
ID says II '"lleth four square," That does
seem to mi,i rate against this idea, but yo.
ID know there Is many d square house thai
has family circle facing, each other AM
Id in circle moving, and can prove that
Id this 10 so in regarl to heaven. 81. Johr
ID says: a+e III, -o1 n.
~ Iheard the voice of many angels round
"a about the throne and the beast and the
n elders. 't{it tl- fr HR
10 And again he says:
Il There was rainbow round about the
9, throne. VT y s-h t~s t#f ~ f# -
s. The two former instances . circle; tn,
g. last either circle or a semi circle. TIL,
seats facing each other, the angels fac n 4
- each other, the men facing each othe
er Heaven an amphitheater of glory. Cir.
70 conference of patriarch, and prophet, ans
X apostle. Circumference of Scotch cove
40 nanters, and Theban legion, and Abb
IN genses. Circumference of the good of al
ages. Periphery Of splendor unimaa inet
and indescribable. A circlel A circle!
rs But every circumference must have 4
=. center, and what is the ceuser of ,h
n. Heavenly circumference? Christ His al
IL the glory, His all the praise, His il III,
q, crowns. All Heaven wreathed into gar
"a land round about Him. Take of the in
~ perial sandal from His foot, and hehclr
In the scar Of the spike. Lift the coronet o
dominion from His brow, ami see wher,
Dc was the decorations Of the briars. Com,
closer, all Heaven. Narrow the circl
9. around His great heart. o Christ, til,
ou Saviour! o Christ, the man! o Christ
Id the God Keep Thy throne forever, sea
m ed on the circle Of the earth, seated on IT,.
~ circle of the heaven! -
ne On Christ, the solid rock. I stand;
70 All other ground is shifting sand
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