Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-09-09
MOVING EVER In CIRCLES,
THE REV. DIR. 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.

hat, anu THOUSANDS OF years before they found
out that 1t 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 fayorites. AL
most everywhere where you find Hin
geometrlzing you find the circle dominant, and
II not the circle then the curve which Is cir.
Gle that died young. II 1t had lived long
enough it would have been 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 bis 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. at is
lie that stitch on the circle Of the earth "
The stars in circle the moon in circle, the
sun in 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 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 he did not throw it out in a straight
line but curyilinear, with leash of love hold
ing it so as to bring it back agaiu. 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.
plete circuit, and come back to the place
where 1t 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. ship
carpenter gives that as his opinion. Although
SO much dcrided by small wits, that ship of
Noah's time beat the Etruria and the Ger
manic, OF which we boast SO much. Where is
the ship on the sea to-day that could outrde
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 oUTIINLD.
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 Downngs and Mitchells of the
world have done their best, in the far future
the art of gardening will come up to the
arbOrcsccnce of the year one. If the makers
pnlnrn1 90 n N iD11 fn1 th,.tr 10,
some centuries be able to make something
equal to the east window of York Minister
which was built in 1900. We are six centuries
behind those artists but the world must keep
on toilng until it shall make the complete
circuit and come up to the skill of those very
men, III the world continues to improve in
masonry we shall have after 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 she Romans,
900 years ago-that mortar to-day as good as
the day in which it was made, having outlast-
ell the brick and the stone. | 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 90 into the potterics of England
and you find them making cups and vases
after the style of the cups and vases exhumcd
from Pompeii. The world is not going back.
O. no, but it is swinging in circle, and will
come back to the styles of pottery known so
long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world
must Keep on progressing until 1t makes the
complete circuit. The curve is in the right
direction. The curve will keep on until it
becomes a circle.
EVILS SURE To COME BACK.
Well, now, my friend, what is true in the
material universe Is true in Gods moral gov
eminent and spiritual arrangement. That is
| the meaning of Ezekiers wheel All commen-
| Tot tl,,t H.,
Gods providence. But wheel is of no use
unless 1t turn, and if 1t turns it turns around,
and il 1t turn around it moves In a circle.
What thenf Are we parts of great iron ma.
chine whirlcd around whether we will or not,
the victims Of memorable fate! No! So far
| from that shall show You that we ourselves
| start the circle of good or bad actions, and
| that 1t will surely come around again to us
| unless by Divine intervention it be hindered
| Those good or bad actions may make he cir.
| cult OF many years, but come back to us they
will as certainly as that God sits on the circle
| of the eartl. JeZebel, the worst woman of the
| Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted his
| vineyard. While the dogs were eating the
| body of Naboth, Elisha the prophet put down
| his compass and marked a circle from those
| dogs clear around to the dogs that should cal
| the body of Jezcbel the murderess "Impos
| sible." the people said; that will never hap
pen" Who is that being flung out of the pal
ace window! Jezebcl. A few hours after
they came around hoping to bury her. They
| find only the palms Of her hands and the
skull. The dogs that deyOured Jezebel and
| the dogs that devoured NabOth, o, what
| swift, what an awful circuit
THE STEPS IN GOVERNMENT.
| But 1t is sometimes the case that this cir
Gle sweeps through a century, or through many
| centuries. The world started with theocra
cy for government; that iss God was the
| president and emperor Of the world. People
| got tired of theOcracy. They said: ave
| don't want God directly interfering with the
affairs Of the world give us a monarchy
| The world had monarchy. From monarchy
| it is going to have limited monarchy Afte
| awhile the limited monarchy will be given up
and the republican form Of government vii
| be everywhere dominant and recognized
Then the world will get tired OF the republican
form Of government and it will have an an
| arChy, which Is no government at all. AnC
| then, all nations finding out that man Is no
capable of rightcously governing man, vii
cry out again for thCOcracy, and say: lie
| God come back and conduct the affairs Of TIT
| world" Every step-monarchy, limited mon
arcv, repuD'icanism, anarchy, only differen
| steps between the first theOcracy, and the las
| theocracy, or sesments of the great cir
| Gle OF the eartl on which God sits
But do not become impatient because yol
can not see the curve of events, and there
fore conclude that Gods government !
going to break down. History tells us tina
in the making OF the pyramids it took 200
| men two years to drag one great ston
from the quarry and put it into the pyra
mids Well, now, If men, short lived, cal
afford TO work so slowly as that can no
God in the building of the eternities affor,
to wait. What though God should TAX
10000 wears to draw a circlca Shall W
take our little watch which We have {
wind up every night lest it run down an
hold it up beside the clock of eternal ages
II, according TO the Bible, thousand year
are in Gods sight as one day, then accord
ing TO that calculation the 5000 years c
the worlds existence has been only to Go
as from Monday to Saturday.
GOOD FRUITS BORNE SOON.
But 1t Is often the case that the rebound
quicker, and the circle ia sooner completed
You resolve that you will do what good 20
can. In one week you put word Of couns,
in the heart OF a Sabbath school child. Durin
that same week you gave letter Of introduC
ton to young man struggling in bushes
During the same week you made an cXhort;
tiOn in prayer meeting. 1t is all gone: 20
will never hear OF it perhaps, you think.
few years after man comes up TO YOU an
says: "You don't know me, do your "Yo
say, mo, don't remember ever to have see
you" "Why," he says, ~ was in the Sabbat
school class over which you were the teache
One Sunday you invited me to Christ. a
ceptcd the offer. You see that church wit
two towers yOnderr' Yes" you say. j