The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-03

show you that we ourselves start the
circle OF good or bad actions, and that
IL will surely come around again to US
unless by divine intervention II be
hindercd. Those bad or good actions
may make the circuit Of many years;
but come back TO US they will as
certainly rs that God sits on the
circle of the earth. Jezebel. the
worst woman of the Bible, slew
Naboth because she wanted his vine
yard. While the dogs were eating the
body of Naboth Elisha, the prophet,
put down his compass, and marked n
circle from those dogs clear around TO
the dogs that should eat the body of
Jezebel, the murdercsS Impossible"
the people said; that will never hap
pen" Who is that being flung out OF
the palace Window Jezebel A few
hours after they came around, hoping
to bury her. They find only the palms
of her hands and the skull. The dogs
that devoured Jezebel and the dogs that
devoured Naboth. Oh, what q swift
what an awful circuitl
But 1t is sometimes the case that this
circle sweeps through century, or
through many centuries The world
started with theocracy for govern
ment; that Is, God was the President
and Emperor of the world. People got
tired of thcocracy. They said, 1--WE
don't want God directly interfering
with the affairs of the world; give us n
monarchy" The world had monarchy.
From monarchy it is going to have a
limited monarchy. After while, the
limited monarchy will be given up, and
the republican form of government will
be everywhere dominant and recog-
nized. Then the world will get tired of
the republican form of government, and
it will have an anarchy, which is no gov
ornment at all And then, all nations
finding out that man is not capable of
rightcously governing man, will cry out
again for theocracy, and say, Let
God come back and conduct the affairs
of the world" Every step-monarchy,
limited monarchy, republicanism,
anarchy-only different steps between
the first theocracy and the last theo-
cracy, or scgmcnts of the great circle
of the earth on which God sits. But do
not become impatient because you can
not see the curve of events, and there
fore conclude that Gods government is
going TO break down. History tells us
that in the making of the pyramids II
took 1900 men two years to drag one
great stone from the quarry and put IL
into the pyramids
Well, now, If men short-lived can af-
ford to work so slowly as that, can not
God in the building of the eternities af-
ford TO wait? What though God should
take 10, 900 years to draw n circle? Shall
we take our little watch, which we
have TO wind up every night lest it run
down and hold it up beside the clock OF
eternal ages? II, according to the Bible,
n thousand years arc in Gods sight rs
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 il is often the case that the re-
bound is quicker, and the circle is soon
err completed. You will resolve that
you will do what good you can. In one
week you put n word of counsel in tho
heart of n Sabbath-school child Dur
ing the same week you give letter of
introduction to young man struggling
in business. During the same week
YOU make an eXhortation in n prayer
meeting; it is all gone; you will
never hear OF it perhaps, you
think. A few years after n man comes
up to you and says: You don't know
me, do you?" You say, mo, don't re-
member ever TO have seen YOU"
why" he says, II was in the Sabbath
school class over which you were the
teacher; one Sunday you invited me To
Christ | accepted the offer; you see
that church with two towers yonder?"
Yes" you say. He says, THAT is
where preach" or, "Do you see that
governors house? That is whore ]
live" One day man comes TO you and
saws, Good morning" You look ut
him and say, why, you have the adj
vantage of me; | can not place
YOU" He says, Don't you re-
member thirty years ago Civ
ing n letter OF introduction to n
Young mana letter OF introduction 10
Moses ii. Grinncll?" "Yes, yes, do"
He says, II am the man; that was my
first step toward fortune; but have
retired from business now, and am Civ
ing my time TO philanthropies and pub
lie interests. Come up and see me-" Or
a man comes to you and says: Il want
TO introduce myself to you. Invent into
n prayer-mccting in Atlanta some years
ago; l sat back by tho door; you arose
TO make an cxhortation; that talk
changed tho course of my life, and IL
ever get 10 Heaven, under God will
owe my salvation to YOU" In only ten,
twenty or thirty years the circle swept