The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-02

lions fndi * out that man is not
capable OF iiGhteouSly governing man,
will cry out again for a theocracy, and
say: "Let God come back and conduct
the affairs OF the world" Every step
! monarchy, limited mona, chy. republican
ism, anarchy, only different steps between
the first theOcracy and the last theoc-
racy, or segments of the great circle of
| the earth on which God sits.
But do not become impatient because
| you cannot see the curve of events, and
therefore conclude that Gods govern
ment is going to break down. Hist "
| tells IS that in the making of the Pvrl-
midSit took two THOUSAND men two years
! to drag one great stone from the qH;l! ~
and put it into the Pyramids. Wei, no9s,
| if men. shOrt-lived, can afford to work 50
| slowly as that, cannot God, in the build
ing OF eternities afford to wait? What
| though God should take ten Thousand
years to draw circle? Shall we take
| our little watch which we have to wind
up every night lest i; run down, and ho!.i
| it up beside the clock of eternal ages
| If, according to the Bible, Thousand
| years are in Gods sight as one day, then
| according to that calculation the tx
| thousand years OF the worlds existence
| has been only to God as from Monday
| to Saturday.
| But it is often the case that the re-
| bound is quicker, and the circle Is sooner
| completed. You resolve tina you will
| do what you can. In one Week yo.I put
a word of counsel in the he;iIl OF a Sab
| bath school child, During, the same
| week you gave a letter II INTRODUCTION
| to young man stru. lin IN business.
| During the same week 70. made In ex-
hortation in n prayer-me uig. II Is all
| gone; you will never hear OF it perhaps.
| you think. A few years after a man
comes up to you ami says. You don't
| know me, do your" You say: NO. don't
| remember ever to have seen you"
''Why," he says, II was i'll the Sabbath
school class over which ouwere teacher.
One Sunday you invited AZ L. Christ. !
| accepted the offer. You Sc. tat churc
with two towers yonder." Yes, you
say. Hesays That is where preach"
| Or: 'DO you see that governors house?
That is wh.-r 1 live" One day a man
| comes to you. and says: : Good morn
ing You look at him ani say: why
| you hay he advantage Of me: l cannot
| place you He says: ID. / you re-
| member, thirty years ago, giving .
| letter Introduction to you :, man
a Litter, of Introduction to u prominent
merchant q Yes. yes, do He says:
I II am the man. That was my first ste
| toward ii fortune bat have tired from
| busiu now, and .,ivin, my time
| to ph.lanthropies and public interests.
| Come up to my countr, place and Sc,
| me-? Or IL man comes to you and says:
II wait to introduce myself to you. l
went into u prayer-meetinS some years
ago sat back by tn door You arose
to make an exhortation. That talk
changed the course of my life, and if [
| ever get to Heaven, ,:Itder Go will
owe my salvation to you. In only tie
twenty or thirty years, til circle swept
out and swep. back again to your own
| grateful heart.
does not retur for a great Will. I -;aw
| "A bill sf expenses for burnt = LATIN.
| and Il DIZZY. The bill of expense says:
| On, load of fir fagots, IS. Id.
Car..t-,.. @; iour loads of wood Is
| HIM. =: post. Is. I'll.
| Item, two chains, Is /
item, two staples, Sd.
| Item, four lahorerS, IS s..
That cheap fire. con-i.'e err, AL
the circumstances; but it kind 81 :: I::,,t
| which shone all around it,' -, :. nj
around tn" martyr spi it: "i#i 80:
| that burning OF Lati ai..t :, tl.y
rolled the CIRCLE, wider ami 81. art
| ing other circles, convoluti..:. verrun-
ming. circumscribng, overarchinS all
heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good just as
| true of the bad You utter Il sl;t der
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 it to him. That word
| has gone out, that sland.roiIS word. on
| its poisonous and blasted way. You
| thinll it. will never do yo: ary harm.
| But am watching that word md | see
| 1T beginning to curve. and it curves
| around, and il is aiming ut your heart.
| You had better dodge it. You mot
dodge it, 1t rolls into your bosom, and
after it rolls III a word Of an old book
| which says: " With what measure We
mete. it shall be measured to you again.
You maItrcat an aged parent. You
begrudge him the room In your house.
| You are impatient OF his W: imsical:ties
| and garrulity. 1t makes you mad TO
hear him tell the same story twice. You
| give him food he cannot nIasticate. You
| wish he was away. You wonder if he is
! going to live forever. He will be 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 Il lille your eye will be
dim. and Your gait will halt, and the
sound OF tn" grinding will h- low, and
you will ell the same story twice, and
| your children will wonder il you are go
ing To live forever. and wonder II you
| VIII never be taken away They called
you father once; now they Call you
1.-The old man." Ii you live Il few years
longer they will call you the old chap"
What are those rough words with which
| your children are accosting you? They
| are the echo OF the very words you used
| in the ear of Your old father forty years
| ago. What is that which you are trying
| to chew but find it unrnasticable. and
your jaws ache as you surrender the at
| tempt? Perhaps it may be tn, ristle
| which you gave tn youf father fHr his
breakfast forty years ago. gentleman
| passing along the street saw Il So, rag
| ginS his father into the street by the
hair of the 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; is
all right; forty years ago this morning
| dra eyed out my father by the hair OF his
| head" 1t is a circle. Ny father lived
into the eighties, and lie lad a very wide