Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-01-27

tired of theocracy. They said: 1--WE
don't want God indirectly interfering
with the affairs of the world; give US
archy. From a monarchy it is going
to have limited monarchy. After
awhile the limited monarchy is given
up, and the republican form of govern
ment will be everywhere dominant
and recognized. Then the world will
get tired of the republican form of
government and it will have an
anarchy, which is no government at
all And then, all nations finding out
that man is not capable of righteously
governing man, will cry out again for
theocracy, and say: Let God
come back and conduct the af-
fairs of the world. Every step
monarchy, limited monarchy, re-
publicanism, anarchy, only different
steps between the first theocracy and
the last theocracy, or segments of the
great circle of the earth on which God
sits. But do not become impatient be-
cause you can not see the curve of
events, and therefore conclude that
Gods government is going to break
down. History tells us that in the
making of the pyramids it took two
thousand men two years to drag one
great stone from the quarry and put it
into the pyramids Well now. if men
short-lived can afford to work SO slowly
as that, can not God in the building of
the eternities afford to wait? What
though God should take ten thousand
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our little watch, which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down,
and hold it up beside the clock of eter-
nal ages? If, according to the Bible, a
thousand years are in Gods sight as
one day, then according to that calcu-
lation the six thousand years of the
worlds existence have 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 that
you will do what good you can. In
one week you put word of counsel in
the heart of a Saba h-school child.
During that same week you give let
ter of introduction to a young man
struggling in business During the
same week you make an exhortatiOn in
prayer meeting. 1t is all gone; you
will never hear of it perhaps, you
think. few years after man comes
up to you and says: you don't know
me, do you?" You say: 'No, don't
remember ever to have seen you"
"Why," he says: 81 was in the class
over which you were teacher; one Sun
day Won invited me to Christ; I accepted
the offer; you see that church with
two towers yonder?" Eyes" you say.
He says: THAT is where I preach"
or, ssDo you see that governors house?
That is where | live" One day a man
comes to you and says: Good morn
ing" You look at him and say: "Why
you have the advantage of me; I can
not place YOU" He says: ''Don't you
remember thirty years ago giving a
letter Of introduction to young man
letter Of Introduction to Moses II.
Grinnell?" eyes, yes, I do" He says:
81 am the man; that was my first step
toward a fortune; but | have retired
from business now, and am giving my
time to philanthropies and public in
terests. Come up and see me" Or a
,
to introduce myself to you. went in
to prayer meeting in Atlanta some
years ago; sat back by the door; you
arose to make an cXhorta ton; that talk
changed the course of my life, and if
, ever get to Heaven, under God I will
. owe my salvation to you" In only
ten. twenty or thirty years the circle
swept out and swept back again to
your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is a wider circle,
and does not return for great while.
saw a bill of expenses for burning Lati-
mer and Ridley. The bill of expenses
says:
One load of fire fagots Observation-Disclosures. IS 4d
Carriage for four loads Of wood. 2S
I4 en' pocs ''''''''''''- - = Is
Item Two cnal1S ...''....'.. 80 ~
Item two staples. ............... ....... Cd
Item four lahorers.. 2s Sd
That was cheap fire, considering all
the circumstances; but it l5indled a
light that shone all around the world
and aroused the martyr spirit. and out
from that burning of Latmer and i'd
ley rolled the circle wider and wider,
starting other circles, convoluting
, overrunning, circumscribing, overarch-
ing all Heaven-a circle
But what is true of the good is just
as true of the bad. You utter a SLAM
der against your neighbor It has gone
forth from your teeth; it 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
ihas gone out, that slanderous word. on
is poisonous and blasted way. You
think it will never do you any harm
But I am watching that word, and I
see it beginning to curve, and it curves
around, and it is aiming at your heart
You had better dodge it. You can not
dodge it. 1t rolls into your bosom, and
/, after it rolls in word of an old book
which says: ''With what measure We
! mete, it shall be measured to you
again"
You maltreat an aged parent You
! begrudged him the room in your house.
You are impatient of his whimsicali-
ties and garrulity. It makes you mad
to hear him tell the same story twice.
! You give him food he can not mastlcate.
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 awhile
your eye will be dim and your gait will
halt, and the sound of the grinding
will be low, and you will tell the same