Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-01-27
maltreatment of parents is punished in

maltreatment of parents is punished in
this world
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
Oh, what a stuperdous thought that
the good and the evil we start come
back to us. Do you know that the
judgment day will be only the points
at which the circle join, the good and
the bad we have done coming back to
US, unless Divine intervention hinder
coming back to us with welcome of de-
light or curse of condemnation.
ooh, would like to see Paul, the in
valid missionary, at the moment when
his influence comes to full orb-his in
fuence rolling out through Antioch,
through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth, through Athens,
through Asia, through Europe, through
America, through the first century,
through five centuries, through twenty
centuries, through all succeeding
centuries, through earth, through
Heaven; and at last, the wave of infu-
ence having made full circuit, strikes
his great soul. Oh, then would like
to see him. No one can tell the
wide sweep of the circle of his infiu-
circle of the earth. I should not want
to see the countenance of Voltaire
when his influence comes to full orb.
WhC7 the fatal hemorrhage seized him
at elgh ty-three years of age his intlu-
ence did not cease. The most brilliant
man of his century, he had used all his
faculties far assaulting Christianity;
his bad influence widening through
France, widening out through Ger
many, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through the one hundred and fifteen
years that have gone by since he died,
widening through earth, widening
through hell; until at last the &C
cumulated influence Of his bad life in
fiery surge of omnipotent wrath will
beat against his destroyed spirit, and
at that moment it will be enough to
make the black hair of eternal dark
ness turn white with horror. No one
can tell how that bad mans influence
girdled the earth save the One who is
seated on the circle of the earth-the
Lord Almighty.
well, now" say people in this andi-
ence, this in some respects is a very
glad theory, and in others a very sad
one; we would like to have all the good
we have ever done come back to u.s.
but the thought that all the sins we
have ever committed will come back to
us fills us with alright" My brother
l have to tell you God can break that
circle, and will do SO at your call. |
can bring twenty passages of Scripture
to prove that when God for Christ's
sake forgives a man the sins of his past
life never come back The wheel may
roll on and roll on, but you take your
position behind the cross and the
wheel strikes the cross and is shat
tered forever. The sins fly off from
the circle into the perpendicular, fall
ing at right angles with complete OBJ
iivion. Forgiven! Forgiven. The
meanest thing q man can do is, after
some difficulty has been settled, to
bring it up again; and God viii not be
SO mean as that Gods memory is
mighty enough to hold all the events of
the ages, but there is one thing that is
sure to slip His memory. one thing He
is sure to forget, and that is pardoned
transgresson. How do | know it? |
will prove it. Their sins and their
iniquities will I remember mo more"
/ Come into that state this morning, my
dear brother, my dear sister. blessed
is the one whose transgrcSsions are for
given"
! But do not make the mistake OF
thinking that this doctrine OF the cir
Gle stops with this life; it rolls on
through Heaven. You might quote in
opposition to me what St John saws
about the city of Heaven He says it
''lieth four-square." That does not
seem to initiate against this idea, but
you know there is many square house
tibet has family circle facing each 9TH
er, and in a circle moving, and l can
prove that this is SO in regard to Heaven.
StJOhn says: Il heard the vo ice of many
angels round about the throne, and the
beasts and the elders" Again he says:
"There was rainbow round about the
throne" The two former instances a
circle; the last either circle or semi
circle The seats facing each other, the
angels facing each other. The men
facing each other. Heaven an ampi-
theater of glory. Circumference Of pa
triarch and prophet and apostle Cir
cumference Of Scotch Covenanters and
Theban legion and Albigenses. Circum-
ference of the good of all ages. Peri
phery of splendor unimagined and in
describable A circle! A circle.