Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-19
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ATLANTA
Tho Circle OF the Earth and Its Rela-
tion to CODA Sermon on Isaiah
1T Is Ho That Stitch Upon the
Circle of the Earth"

ATLANTA. Ca Jan 10, 1898 The Rev. Or
1aimage, who is now making ten days tou
# the southern cities preached here to-day
The throngs in and around the audience hal
we're beyond estimate. The subject chOsei
vas The Circle of the Earth" The text bein
Isaiah 4J;2!: 1t is he that sItteth upon tn
crcle Of the earth"
While yet people thought that thu
world was fiat, and thousands of year,
before they found out that it wa
round, Isaiah, in my text, intimatet
the shape of it, God sitting upon tn,
! circle of the earth. The most beauti
full figure in all geometry is the circle
God made the universe on the plan o
L circle. There are in the natura
world straight lines, angles, parallelo
| grams, diagOnals, quadranglcs; bu
these evidently are not Gods favorites
Almost everywhere where you will fine
him geometrizing, You find the circle
dominant, and if not the circle, ther
the curve, which is circle that died
young. If it had lived long enough
it would have been full orb, a peri
phcry. An ellipSc is circle pressed only
" little too hard at the sides. Giants
! Causcway in Ireland shows what GOO
! I
| over thirty-fve thousand columns oi
! rocis-octagOnal, heXagOnal pcntago'
| nal. These rocks seem to have been
made by rule and by compass. Every
artist has his moulding where he
may make fifty shapes; but he chooses
! one shape as preferable to all others.
will not say that the Giants Cause
way was the worlds moulding rem,
m | Ia Of -
ureS, God seems to have selected the
circle as the best 1T is he that sit
teth on the circle of the earth" Tho
stars in a circle, the moon in u circle,
the sun in Il 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
architect, and put the audience in a
circle, knowing that the tides of emo
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. but curvilinear, with
leash Of love holding it so as to bring
it back again. The world started from
his hand pure and Edcnic. It has been
rolling on through regions of moral ice
and distemper. How long it wall roll
God only knows; but it will in due
sine make complete circuit and como
back to the place whence it started
the hand of God-pure and Edenic.
The history Of the world goes in a
circle. Why is it that the shipping in
our day is improving so rapidly? 1t is
because men are initiating the old
model of Noah ark A ship carpenter
gives that as his opinion. Although so
much deridcd by small wits, that ship
Of Noah's time beat the Majestic aad
the Etruria, and the City of Paris,
OF which we boast 50 much. Where is
the Snip on the sea to-day that could
outridc delugc In which the heaven
and The earth were wrecked, landing
all the passengers in Safcty?-two of
each kind Of living creatures, thous-
ands of species Pomology will go on
with its achievements. until after many
centuries the world will have plums
and pears equal u the Parudisai.
cal. The art Ct gardening will grow
for centuries, an after the DOwninGS
and MltChei!S OF the world have done
their best. in the far future the art of
gardening will come mp to the arbor-
essence OF the year one. II the makers
OF cojOrcd glass go On improving. they
may in some centuries be able to make
something equal 70 the east window of
York Minister, which was built in 1890
We are SIX centuries behind those
artists, but the world must keep on
tOilinG until it shall make the com.
plete circuit and come up to the skill
of those very men. If the world con-
tInucS to improve in masonry we shall
have after while, perhaps after the
advance of centuries mortar equal &c
that which saw last summer in the
wall of an cxhumcd English
city, built in the time of the
Romans, sixteen hundred years
ago-that mortar to-day as good as
the day on which it was made, having
OutjastcU the brick and the stone. |
say, after hundreds of years, masonry
| may adrance to that point. If the
world stands long enough, we NAV
have city as large as they had in old
/ times. Babylon, FIVE times the size OF
! London. You go into the potterirs in
! England, and you find them making
( cups ana vases after the style of cups
and vases eXhumcd from POmpeii. The
| world is not going back Oh no. but
! it is swinging in circle, and will
/ come back to the style of pottery
( known So long ago as the days of Pom.
| peii Tie world must keep on pro.
! crossing until il makes the complete
| circrit. The curve is in the right di.
rectiOn, the curve viii Gaep On until il
/ becomes the circle,
Well, now, my friends, what is true
in the material universe is true in
Gods moral government and spiritual
arrangement. That is the meaning OF
/ Ezekicls wheel. All commentators
agree IN saying that the wheel means
, Gods providence. But wheel is OF
no use unless it turn, and If it turns,
it turns around, and if it turn around
it moves in Il circle. What then? Arr
we parts of a great iron machine
! whirled around whether we will OF
not, the victims of ineXorable fate:
No. So Far from that, ! shall SHOW
. YOU that we ourselves start the circle
of good Of bad actions, and that i
/ will surely come around again to II.
unless by divine intervention it Gt
hinderc9. Those bad or good action!
may make the circuit of many Years
but come back to us they will as Ger
! tainly as that God sits on the circle o
the cartll. Jezebel, the worst woman
of the B be, slew Naboth because sh,
wanted his vineyard. While the dog
were catlr the body of Ma both, Elish;
the propaet put down his compass, auC
marked Il circle from those dogs clea
around t. the dogs that should eat tn
body of Jezebel the murderess. "Im
possible the people said: that will
never happen" Who is that bein!
flung out of the palace window? Jeze
bel. \ few hours after they cam
around, hoping to bury her. They fin
only the palms of her hands and tn
skull. The dogs that devourcd Jezebe
and the dogs that devourcd Naboth
oh. what swift, what an awful circuit
But IS sometimes the case that thi
circle sweeps through century, o
through many centuries. The worl,
started with theOcracy for govern
ment; that is, God was the Presiden
and Emperor of the world. People 90
tired Of p thcocracy. They said, wv
don't want God directly interferin;
with the affairs of the world: give us
monarchy" The world had mon
archy. From monarchy it is gon,
TO have - limited monarchy. After