Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-30

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father lived into the eighties, and he ma
a very wide experience, and he said tina
maltreatment OF parents was always pun
ishcd in this world. Other sins may b.
adjourned TO the next world, but NAL
treatment Of parents Is punished in thi
world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly
Oh, what stupendous thought that thu
coed and the evil we start come back Il
us. DO you know that the judgment da,
will be only the points at which the cir
cles join, the good and the bad we have
done coming back to us, unless divine
Intervention hinder--coming back to u.s.
welcome OF delight or curse Of condem
nation?
Oh, would like TO see Paul, the In.
valid missionary, at the moment when his
influence comes TO full orb--his influence
rolling out through Antioch, through
Cyprus, through Lystra, 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 at
last the wave Of inhuerce having made
full circuit strikes his great SOUL Oh,
then | would ike TO see him! No one
can tell the wide sweep of the circle Of
his influence save the One who is seated
on the circle Of the earth. | should not
want to see the countenance OF Vol
taire when his influence comes
to full orb When the fatal
hemorrhage 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 facilities for assaulting
Christianity; his bad influence widening
through France, widening out through
Germany, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through l0l years that have gone by since
he died, widening through earth, widen
ing through hell, until at last the accumu-
lated influence OF his bad life In fiery
surge of 0mnipotent wrath will beat
against his destroyed spirit, and at that
1t Will be enough to make the
black hair Of eternal darkness turn white
with the horror. No one can tell how
that bad mans influence girdled the
earth, save the One who is seated on the
circle OF the earth-the Lord Almighty.
"Well, now" say people in this au-
Hence, "this in some respects is very
glad theory, and In others very sad one;
we would Ike to have all the good we
nave ever dore back to us, but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to us, fills us
With alright" Ny brother, have to
ell you that God can break that circle
md will do so at your call. ! can bring
wenty passages OF scripture 10 prove
hat when Sod for Christ's sake forgiyes
! man, the sins Of his past life
NEVER COME BACK.
The wheel may roll on and roll on,
tut you take your position behind
he cross, and the wheel strikes the cross
md 1t Is shattered forever. The sins fly
III from the circle into the perpendic-
liar, falling at right angles with com
,lete oblivion. Forgiven forgiven!
The meanest thing man can do is' after
ome difficulty has been settled, to bring
t up again; and God will not be so mean
IS that. Gods memory is
mighty enough to hold all
he events of the ages. but
here is one thing that is sure to slip His
memory, one thing He is sure to forget,
ND that Is pardoned transgression.
low do l know itP | will prove it.
'Iheir sins and their iniquities Will re-
member no more" Come into that
tate this morning my dear Brother my
lear sister. blessed Is the one whose
are forgiven"
But not make the mistake of think
ng that this doctrine OF the circle stops
With this life; 1t rolls on through heaven.
You might quote in opposition to me
what st, John says about the city of
heaven. He says sit lieth four square,
Toes seem TO initiate against this
dea; but you know there is
many square house that has
'amily circle facing each other and in a
circle moving, and can prove that this
s so In regard to heaven. Saint John
says; 81 heard the voice of many angels
round about the throne, and the beasts
aud the elders" And again he saws
There was rainbow round about the
.hrone." The two former Instances
circles the last either circle or a semi
circle The seats facing each other, the
Angels facing each other, the men fac
ng each other. Heaven an ampi-
theatre OF glory; circumference of
patriarch, and prophet, and apos-
Llei circumference OF Scotch COW
and Theban legion, and Abb.
senses circumference of the good of all
ages. Periphery Of splendor unimaglned
and indescribable. A circlel A circlel
But every circumference must have A
center, and what is the center of this
heavenly circumference Christ. His all
the glory, HIS all the praise, His all the
crowns. All heaven wreathed into gar
land round about him. Take off the i'm.
perial sandal from his foot, and behold
the scar OF the spike. Lift the coronet of
dominion from his brow, and see where
was the laceration of the briars. Come
closer, all heaven. Narrow the circle
around His great heart. 0 Christ, the
Sayiourl o Christ, the man! o Christ
the God! Keep Thy throne forever, seat.
ed on the circle OF the earth, seated on
the circle OF the heaven!
son Christ, the solid rock, stand;
All othor ground ia shifting sand"