The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-10
NO. 81.

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 D of the circle of his influence, save
the One who is seated on the circle of the
earth.
I should not want to 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, ne 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 101 years that have gone
by since he died, widening through hell;
until at last the accumulated influence Of
his bad life in fiery surge Of omnipotent
wrath will beat against his destroyed
spirit and at that moment It 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.
"Weu, now" say people in this audi~
ence, "this in some respects is O very glad
theory, and in others very sad one; we
would like to have all the good we have
ever done come back to US, but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to US fills US
with alright"
My brother, have to tell you God can
break that circle and will do so at your
call. can bring twenty passages of
Scripture to prove thas when God for
Christ's sake forgave man, the sins of his
past life never come back. The wheel may
roll on and roll on, but you take your posi-
tion behind the cross, and the wheel
strikes the cross and it is shattered for
ever. The sins fly off from he circle into
the perpendicular, falling at right angles
with complete oblivion. ForgivenI for
gigenI The meanest thing man can do
IS, after some difficulty has been settled,
to bring It up again; and God viii not be
so mean as that. Gods memory is mighty
enough to ho'd all the events Of the ages,
but there is one thing that is sure to slip
his memory, one thing he is sure to forget,
and that is pardoned ransgression. How
do know it2 will prove it.
Their sins and iniquties will remember
no more.
Come into that state this morning, my
dear brother, my dear sister.
Blessed is the one whose transgressiong
are forgiven.
But do not make the mistake of thinking
that this doctrine OF the circle stops with
this life; it rolls on through heaven. You
might quote in opposition to me what st.
John says about the city of Heaven. He
says it "lieth four square," That does
seem to mitigate against this idea, but you
know there is many square house that
has a family circle facing each other and
in a circle moving, and / can prove that
this is so in regard to heaven. st. John
says:
heard the voice OF many angels round
about the throne and the beast and the
elders.
And again he says:
There was a rainbow round about the
throne.
The two former instances a circle; tha
last either circle or a senG circle. The
seats facing each other, the angeig facing
each other, the men facing each otne=s
Heaven an amphitheater of glory. Cir
conference of patriarch, and prophet, and
apostle. circumference of Scotch cove
nanters, and Theban legion, and AIbi-
genses. Circumference of tine good Of all
ages. Periphery of splendor unimagined
and indescribable. A circlel A circlel
But every circumference must have a
center, and what is the centor 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 of the inn
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 lacerations of the briars. Come
closer, all Heaven. Narrow the circle
ere Fthrfuf ha
Saviour o Christ, the mani 0 Christ,
the God! Keep Thy throne forever, seat
ed on the circle Of the earth, seated on the
circle of the heavenl
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is shifting sand.