Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-20


tired of IA theocracy. They said, I'VE
don't want God directly interfering
with the affairs of the world; give US a
monarchy" The world had mon
archy. From monarchy it is going
to have limited monarchy. After a
while the limited monarchy will be
given up, and the republican form Of
government will be everywhere domin-
ant and recognized. Thrn the world
will get tired of the republican form of
government, and it will have an an
archy, which Is no government at all.
And then, all nations finding out that
man is not capable of righteously gov
erning man, will cry out again for a
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 theocracy, or
segments of the great circle of the
earth on which God sits But do not
become impatient because you cannot
see the curve of events, and therefore
conclude that Gods government
is going to break down. History
tells us that in the makIIg
of the Pyramids it took two thousand
men two years TO drag one great
stone from the quarry and put 1T into
the Pyramids. Well now, If men
short-lived can afford to work so
slowly as that, cannot God in the
building of the eteruities afford to
wait? What though God should take
10000 years to draw circle? Shall
we take our little watch, which we
have TO wind every night lest it run
down, and hoId it up beside the clock
of eternal ages? If according to the
Bible, 1000 years are in Gods sight
as one day, then according to that cal
culation the q. 900 years of the worlds
existence have been only to God as
from Monday TO Saturday.
But it is often the ease that the re-
bound is quicker, and the circle Is
sooner completed You resolve that
you will do What good you can. Ir
one week you put a word of counsel in
the heart of u Sunday School child.
During that same week you give n
letter of introduction To Young man
struggling in business. During the
same week you make an exhortation
in prayer-meeting. II is all gone;
you will never hear of II perhaps, you
think. A few years after man comes
up to you, and says, "You don't know
me, do you?" You say, mo, i dom
remember ever to have seen you"
"N hy," he s1ys, IL 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. lie says, THAT is
where PREACH" or, "Do yoL see that
Governors house? That is where l
live" One day n man comes to you,
and says, "Goodmorning." You look
at him and say, "Why. you have the
advantage of me; cannot place you. "
He says. Don't you remember thirty
years ago giving a letter of introduc'
ton to Moses Ii. Gyinnell?" eyes,
yes, / do" He says, Il am the
man; that was my first step
toward a fortune; but have re-
tired from business now. and am Civ
ing my time to ilanthropies and pub
lie interests. Come up and see me. ="
Or man comes to me and says, IL
want TO introduce myself to you.
went into a prayer-meeting in At anita
some years ago; / sat back by the door;
you arose to make an exhortation; that
talk changed the course of my life, and
il ever get to heaven, under God
Will owe my salvation t. you" In
only ten, twenty. or thirty years the
circle swept out and swept back again
to your own grateful heat.
But sometimes it is wider circle,
and does not return for great while.
! saw bill. of expenses for burning
Latimer and Ridley. The bill OF ex-
penses says:
One load of frs fagots. 4d.
Carriage for four loads of wood 2s.
Item, post, ..................1s 4d-
Item, chalns. ................ IS. 40.
Item, two staples. ............ Cd
Item, four laborers, .2s- Sd.
That was cheap fire, considering all
the circumstances; but it kindied a
light that shone all around the world
and aroused the martyr spirit, and out
from that burning of Latimer and Rid
icy rolled the circle wider and wider,
starting other circles, convolut-
ing, overrunning, circumscribing,
overarching all heaven---a circle
But what is true of the good is just
as true of the bad. You utter slam
der against your neighbour 1t has
gone forth from your teeth; it will
never come Odch, you lnlnk. Il on
have done the man all the mischief
you can. You rejoice to see him vince.
You say, Didn't / give it to himr'
That word has gone out, that SANDER
Gus word. on it's poisonous and blasted
way. You think it will never do you
any harm. But / am watching that
word, and l see it beginning TO curve.
and il curves around, and it in aiming
at your heart You had better dodge
It. You cannot dodge it. 1t rolls into
your bosom, and after it, rolls in n
word of an old book which says. with
what measure We mete, IL 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 garrulty. 1t makes YOU mad TO
hear him tell the same story twice. You
give him food he cannot masticate. You
wish he was away. You wonder II he
is going to live forever. lie will be
gone very soon. His steps are shorter
and shorter. He is going to stop. But
God has an account 10 settle with you
on that subject. After while, 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