The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Discourse ON the Inevitable Sc
quences Of Good and Evil Deeds.

4 Discourse ON the Inevitable Sc
quences Of Good and Evil Deeds.
Circles - the TYPE u Psrseetion-An
Things Moving In Orbits, . Departure
fron which Means Rsin-Ehs
Nemesis q Sin.
Rev. 7. DEWITT Talmsxe, In . recent
sermon at "The Hamptons" chose for his
subject "The Sequences Of Good and Evil
Deeds" taking Tor his text:
tits he that sitsesh upon tho circle Of the
sartll-lsaiah ILL
While yet people thought that the world
was Nat, and thousands Of years before
they found out that il was round, Isaiah
In my text intimated the shape Of IL, God
sitting upon the circle Of the earth. The
most beautiful figure in al geometry i the
circle. God made the universe on the
plan Of circle. There are in the natural
world straight lines, angles, PARALLEL.
grams, diagonals, quadrangles; but these
evidently are not Gods favoritss. Almost
everywhere where you nnd him geometri.-
Ing you find the circle dominant, and II
not the circle then the curve, which 10 .
circle that died young. II Il had lived
long enough Il would have been . full orb,
. periphery. An eliipse is . circle pressed
only . little too hard at the sides.
Giants Causeway In Ireland shows
what God thinks of mathematics.
There arc over thirty-fve thousand
columns Of rocks-octagonal, bexagonal,
pentagonal. These rocks seem to have
been made BY rulea and by compass. Every
artist has his molding. room where he may
make fifty shapes, but he chooses one shape
as preferable to all others. will not say
that the Giants Causeway was the
worlds molding-roon,, but do say out Of
. great many figures God seems to have
selected the circle a. the best.
Il is He that sittcth on the circle Of the
earth.
The stars in circle, the moon In cir.
Gle, the sun in circle, the universe in q
circle, and the throne OF God the center of
that circle.
Wh.n 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 aung this world out OF his
right hand; but He did not throw it out in
. straight line but curvilinear. with lease
Of love holding Il 50 rs to bring it back
again. The world started from His hand
pure and Edenic. It has been rolling on
through regions Of moral ice and distem.
per. How long 1t will roll God only
knows; but 1t will in due time make COM
plete circuit and come hack to the place
where 1t started-the hand Of God, pure
and Edenic.
The history Of the world goes on in q
circle. Why is it tho shipping in our day
Is improving 40 rapidly: It Is because
men are initiating the old model Of Noah's
art A ship carpenter gives that As his
opinion. Although 20 much derided by
small wits, that ship Of Noah's time beat
the Etruria and the Germsnic, Of which
We boast 50 much. Where Il the ship on
In which the heaven and the earth were
wrecked, landing all the passengers In
safety, two Of each kind Of living crea.
lures. thousands OF species! Pomolozy
viii 60 on with its achievements until
after many centuries the world viii have
plums and pears equal to the Paradisai.
cal. The art Of gardening will grow for
centuries, and after the DowninRs and
Nitchei!s OF the world have done their
best, In the far future the art Of garden.
ing will come up 70 the arborescens Of the
year I. II the makers Of colored glass 70
on improving they may In some centuries
be able TO make something squal to the
east window Of Yorkminstsr, which was
built In 1890. We are six centuries behind
those artists, but the world must keep on
toiling until it shall make the complete
circuit and como up TO the skin Of those
very men. II the world continues to i'm.
prove In masonry We shall have after
awhile, perhaps after the advance Of con.
turtles, mortar equal to that which I
saw in the wall Of an ex.
humed English city, beilt in
the time Of the Romano, 1,GD0 years ago
that mortar to-day n good ~ the day in
which Il was made, having outlasted tho
brick and the st,ne. say, after hun.
dreds Of years, masonry may advance to
that point. II tbs world stands long
enough We may have . city ~ large as
they had in old times. Babylon, i've
times the size Of London. You 20 into the
potteries Of England and you ind them
making cups and vases after the style of
the cups and vases exhumed from Pom.
peii. The world is not going back. Oh,
no! but it is swinging in . circle and will
como back to the styles Of pottery known
30 long ago Is the days of Pompeii. The
world must keep on prozressin, until it
makes the complete circuit. The curve il
in the right direction. Tho curve will
keep on until it becomes circle.
Well, now. my friends, what is true in
the material universe Is true in Gods
moral government and spiritual arrange
ment. That is the meaning of Ezekiel's
wheel. AL commentators agree in saying
that the wheel means Gods providence.
But wheel Is Of NO use unless it turn, and
IL it turn around it moves in q circle. What
then! Are We parts Of great iron machine
whirled around whether we will or not,
the victims Of memorable fatei So far
from that shall show you that
we ourselves start the circle Of good or
bad actions, and that IL will surely come
around again to rs, unless by divine in.
PREVENTION it be hindered. Those bad or
good actions may make the circuit Of
many years; but como back to Us they
will Is certainly as that God sits on the cir.
Gle Of the earth. Jezebel, the worst woman
Of the Bible, slew Naboth because she
wanted his vineyards. While the dogs
were eating the body Of Naboth, Elisha,