The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-27
IN CIRCLES.
Er. Talmage on the Movements Of
Good and Bad Influences.
EsAe Ends Will Eventually Come Together
Although 1t May Take Centuries to
Complete the CIrcIe-God's Uni
verse Similarly Governed.

In a late sermon at Atlanta, Ga, Rev.
Z Dewitt Talmage, of Brooklyn, took
Tor his subject 1.-THE Circle of the
Earth" the text being Isaiah XII 90:
ut is He 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 il was
round. Isaiah, in my text, intimated
She shape of it, God sitting upon the
circle of the earth. The most beautiful
figure in ali geometry is the circle.
God made the universe on the plan of a
circle There are in the natural world
straight lines, angles, parallelograms,
s{i2gonals. quadrangles, but these evil
IDENTITY are not Gods favorites Almost
everywhere where you will find Him
eysometrizing, you find the circle DOM
inant, and if not the circle, then the
curve, which is a circle that died
vonng' If it had lived long enough it
would have been a full orb, periphery.
An ellipse is a circle pressed only a
little too hard at the sides. Giants
Czuseway in Ireland shows what
Efod thinks of mathematics There
ARE over 81, 900 columns of rocks-octa-
9oual. hexagonal, pentagonaL These
rocks seem to have been made by rule
azd by compass. Every artist has his
IEzolding room, where he may make fifty
shapes, but he chooses one shape as
preferable 10 all others ] will not say
that the Giants Cahseway was the
worlds moldinC room, but do say, out
of great many figures God seems TO
tszve selected the circle as the best 1T
Is He that sitteth IN the circle of the
earth. The stars in a circle, the moon
raj circle the sun in q circle, the universe
In Il circle, the throne OF God the center
nj that circle.
when men build churches they ought
To initiate the idea of the Great Archi-
t.ct, and put the audience in circle.
iraowing that the tides of emotion roll
Hsone easily that way than in straight
Ines Siy thousand years ago God flung
tlsls world out of his right hand: but he
did not throw it out in n straight line,
bE& curvilinear, with leash of love
hGiding it so as 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 dis
'gEmper. How long it will roll God only
kuows; but it will in due time make
complete circuit and come back to the
place whence it started-the hand of
God-pure and Edenic.
Ehe history of the world goes in a cir |
Gle Why is it that the shipping in our |
dag as improving SO rapidly? 1t is be- |
cause men are initiating the old model |
Of Noah's ark. A ship carpenter gives |
tHzt as his opinion. Although SO much |
derided by small wits, that ship of |
Noah's time beat the Majestic and the |
Et<uria and the City of Paris, of which |
NC boast so much. Where is the ship |
on The sea to-day that could outride a |
deIuge in which the heaven and the earth |
we're wrecked, landing all the passen-
gers in safety?-two of each kind of liv- |
gag creatures, thousands of spe- |
cies- Pomology will go on with
It's achievements, until after many |
centuries the world will have |
pT3ms and pears equal to the Para
diss6caL The art of gardening will |
grGEE for centuries, and after the Down
5ugs and Mitchells of the world have |
done their best, in the far future the |
art Of gardening will come up to the
5I'bnresceuce 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. u are six centuries be-
bind those artists, but the world must
keep on toiling until it shall make the
cVEnplete 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
u that which l saw last summer in the
wall of an exhumed English city,
SaVzilt in the time of the Romans, 1,600
years agO-that mortar to- day as good
as the day in which it was made, hav-
ing outlasted the brick and stone. 1
say, after hundreds of years, masonry
zaay advance to that point If the
world stands long enough we may have
"A city as large as they had in old times.
Babylon. five times the size of London.
TsE go into the potteries in England
and you find them making cups and
vases after the style of the cups and
vases exhumed from Pompeii. The
world Is not going back. Oh, no. but it is
SUI aging in circle and viii come back
10 the style of pottery known as long
ago as the days of Pompeii The world
must keep on progressing until it makes
the complete circuit The curve is in
che right direction; the curve will keep
on until it becomes the circle.
We'll, now, my friends, what is true
Tn the material universe is true in Gods
moral government and spiritual ar
Management That is the meaning of
ISxskiels wheel Ali commentators
zgree in saying that the wheel means
Gods providence. But a wheel is of no ;
use unless it turn, and if If turn. it {
turns around, and If it turns around it {
moves in a circle What then? Are |
Te parts of a great iron machine ;
Vhirled around whether we will or not, !
che victims of memorable fate? No! 5
So far from that, / shall show YOU that '
we ourselves start the circle of good or
bad actions, and that it viii surely
come aroung again TO us unless by di-
vine intervention 1t be hindered. Those
bad or good actions may make the cir
emit OF many years; but come back to {
US they viii as certainly as that God sits '
en- the circle OF the earth. Jezebel, the J
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 i
his compass and marked circle from g
those dogs clear around to the dogs that
should eat the body of Jezebel, the {
nurderess- Impossible" the people