Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-21
IN CIRCLES.
DR.. Talmage on the Movements Of
Good and Bad Influences.
The Ends Will Eventually Como Together.
Although IL May Take Centuries to
Complete the Circle-God's Uni
verso Similarly Governed.


7. Dewitt Talmage, of Brooklyn, took
for his subject THE Circle of the
Earth" the text being Isaiah xl. %:
at is lie that sitteth upon the circle OF
the earth" DR. Talmage said:
When the people thought that the
world was fiat. and thousands of years
before they found out that 1t was
round, Isaiah, in my text, intimated
the shape of it, God sitting upon the
circle of the earth. The most beautiful
figure in all geometry is the circle.
God made the universe on the plan OF
circle There are in the natural world
straight lines, angles, parallelograms,
diagonals, quadrangles, but these evil
IDENTITY are not Gods favorites.. Almost
everywhere where you will find Him
gcomctrizing, you find the circle DOM
inant. and if not the circle, then the
curve, which is circle that died
young! If it had lived long enough 1t
would have been full orb, u periphery.
An ellipse is circle pressed only n
little too hard ut the sides Giants
Causeway in Ireland shows what
God thinks of mathematics There
are over $4,000 columns of rocks-octa-
gonal. heXagonal, pentagonal These
rocks seem to have been made by rule
and by compass. Every artist has his
lnolding 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 room, but do say, out
of a great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle rs the best ut
is He that sitteth in the circle of the
earth" The stars in a circle, the moon
in circle, the sun in a circle, the universe
in q circle, the throne of God the center
of that circle.
When men build churches they ought
TO initiate the idea of the Great Archi-
tect. 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 flung
this world out of his right hand; but he
did not throw it out in a straight line,
hut curvilinear, with leash OF love
holding it so as to bring it back again.
The world started from his hand pure
and Edenic. 1t has been rolling on
through regions of moral ice and dis
temper. How long it will roll God only
knows; bnt it will in due time make
complete circuit and come back to the
place whence it started-the hand OF
God-pure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in cir
Gle. Why is it that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? 1t is be-
cause men are initiating the old model
of Noah's ark. A ship carpenter gives
that as his opinion. Although so much
derided by small wits, that ship of
Noah's time beat the Majestic and the
Etruria and the City of Paris, of which
we boast so much. Where is the ship
on the sea to-day that could outride a
.deluge in which the heaven and the earth
were wrecked, landing all the passen-
gers in safety?-two of each kind of liv-
ing creatures, thousands of spe-
cies. Pomology will go on with
its achievements, until after many
centuries the world will have
plums and pears equal to the Para
disaical. The art of gardening will
grow for centuries, and after the Down.
ings and Mitchells of the world have
done their best, in the far future the
art of gardening will come up to the
airborescence of the year one. If the
makers of colored glass go on improv-
ing, they may in some centuries be able
to make something equal to the east
window of York Minister, which was
built in 1890. We are six centuries be-
hind those artists, but the world must
keep on toiling until it shall make the
complete circuit and come up to the
skill of those very men. If the world
continues to improve in masonry, we
shall have after awhile, perhaps after
the advance of centuries, mortar equal
TO that which saw last summer in the
wall of an exhumed English city,
built in the time of the Romans, 1000
years ago-that mortar to- day as good
as the day in which it was made, hav-
ing outlasted the brick and stone.
Well, now, my friends, what is true
in the material universe is true in Gods
moral government and spiritual ar
rangement That is the meaning OF
Ezekiel's wheel All commentators
agree in saying that the wheel means
Gods providence. But wheel is of no
use unless it turn, and if it turn, 1t
turns around, and If it turns around it
moves in a circle What then? Are
we parts of a great iron machine
whirled around whether we will or not,
the victims of memorable fate? No!
So far from that, shall show you that
we ourselves start the circle of good or
bad actions, and that it will surely
come aroung again to us unless by di-
vine intervention Il be hindered. Those
bad or good actions may make the cir
cult of many years; but come back to
us they will as certainly as that God sits