Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-30
The World Keeps on Progressing I'm
til It Shall Make the Complete
Circuit, so With Man.
As In The Material Universe, 60 In
Gods Moral Government and
Spiritual Advancement.
The Circle Turns Very Quickly, ana the
Good and the Evil We start Always
Como Back 10 Us.
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was: isaiah xl, ~; ut Is He that 81
teth upon the circle OF the earth" 70
lowing Is the sermon:
While yet people thought that tn
world WAS fiat, and thousands OF yea:
before they found out that II was round
Isaiah 10 my text lntimated the shape {
II, God sitting upon the circle Of tn
earth. The most beautiful figure In a
geometry Is the circle. God made tn
universe on the plan OF circle
There are in the natural worl
straight lines, angles, PARALLEL
grams, dlagonals, quedrangles; bu
these evidently are not Gods fayorltes
Almost everywhere where you find hin
geometrizing you 1nd the circle domi
nant, and II not the circle then the curve
which is circle that died young
II II had lived long enough II
would have been full orb,
periphery. An ellipse Is circle pressed
a little too hard at the sides, Giants
causeway In Ireland shows what God
thinks OF mathematics. There are ovei
thirty-hve thousand columns Of rocks
octagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. These
rocks seem to have been made by rule
and by compass. Every artist has
HIS MoULDNG-RooM
where he may make fifty shapes, but he
chooses one shape as preferable TO all the
others. | viii 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 He that sitteth
on the circle OF the earth.n The stars In
a circle, the moon IN circle, the sun In
circle, the universe In circle, aud 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 hung this world
out OF His right hand; but He did not
throw II out In a straight line, but curyill-
near, with a leash Of love holding IL so as
to bring II back again. The world started
from His hand pure and Edenic. IL has
been rolling on through regions OF moral
Ice and distemper. How long IL will roll
God only knows; but It will, In due time,
make complete circuit and come back
to the place where II started--the hand of
God-rure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in n
circle. Why Is II that the shipping In our
day Is improving so rapldly2 1t is be-
cause men are initiating the old model
oil Noah's ark, A ship.car
gives that as his opinion. Although
80 much derided by small
wits, that ship Of Noah's time beat the
Etruria and Germanic, OF which we boast
so much. Where Is the ship on the sea
to-day that could outride deluge 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 specimens. Pomolo-
gy VIII go on with Its achievements until
after many centuries the world will have
plums and peas equal to the paradisaical
The art OF gardening VIII grow for cen
turtles, and after the DoWnlngs and
hltchells OF the world have done their
best, In the far future the art OF garden
ing will
CONF VI TO THE ARBoREscENCE
OF the year !. II the makers OF colored
glass go ON In improving they may In some
centuries be able to make something
equal TO the east window of York Min.
ster, which was built in 1890.
we are SIX centuries be.
hind those artists, but the
world must keep on tolling until 1t shall
mako the complete circuit and come nm
to the skill OF those very men. II the
world continues TO improve In masonry
we shall have after a while, perhaps after
the advance OF centuries, mortar equal Ia
that which saw In the wall OF an ex.
humed English city, built In the time Of
the Romans 1900 years ago-that mortar
to-day as good as the day In which /,
was made, having outlasted the brick and
stone. | say, after hundreds of wears
masonry may advance to that point. II
the world stands long enough we NAV
nave city as large as they had In old
times. Babylon, dive times the size OF
London, You 20 into the potteries oi
England, aad you find them making Guns
and vases after the style OF the cups and
vases exhumed from Pompet. The
world is not going back oh, no; but n
Is swinging ina circle, and will come back
to the styles Of pottery known 90
long ago as the days OF Pompeii. The
world must keep ON progressing until 1,
makes the circuit. The curve Is In the
right direction, The curve will keen on
until II becomes q circle,
Well, now, my friends, what ia true IN
the material universe Is true In GOD,
moral government and spiritual arrange
ment. That is the meaning Of Rzeklei',
wheel. All commentators agree in sayipl
that the wheel means Gods providence
But y wheel Is OF no use unless il turn
aud II IL turn II turns around, and II n
turn around II moves in a circle. Wha,
thenp Are we parts OF great iron ma
cAine whirled around
WHETHER WE WILL OR NOT,
tue victims OF inexorable fate2 mol Sc
far from that shall show you that we
ourselves start the circle OF good or bad
actions, and that II will surely come
around again to us unless by
divine Intervention Il be hindored
Those bad OF good actions may make the
circuit OF many years; but come back Ia
as they will RS certainly as that God sits
on the circle OF the earth. Jexebel, Tho
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 COM
pass and marked q circle frem those dogs
clear around TO the dogs that should est
the body OF Je1ebel, the murderess
"impossihle,h the people said, "lhat viii
never happen.n Who Is that being dung
out OF she palace Window Jezebel. A