Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-01-19

ing. IL Is all gone; you will never hear OF
1t, perhaps, you think.
A few years after man comes up to Won
and says, You don't know me- do youT'
You say, mo, don't remember ever TO
have seen you.n ''Why," he says, II was In
the Sabbath-school class over which you
were the teacher. Ons Sunday you fnvitei
me to Christ I accepted tho offer. You
see that church with two towers yonderg'
Yes" you say. He says. THAT is where
preacu;a or, ''Do you see that governors
/ house, That is where | live.p One day a
man comes to you and says &c ooi morn
ing" You look at him and say, "Why, you
have the advantage OF me; | cannot placs
| you He says, Don't you remember thirtv
| years ago giving letter OF introduction to
| young man, letter OF intro luctioa to
Moses ii. Grinnelr Yes, yes, l do He
says: II atn the man; that was my first
| step toward a fortune, bus have retired
| fro II business nov an / am giving my time
| to philanthropies and public interests. Come
| up and see me-"
Or man comes to you and says: "a
| want to Introduce myself to You. l Went
into a prayer meeting in Atlanta some
| years ago; sat back by the door; you arose
to make an exhortation; that talk changed
the course of my life, and If ever get to
heaven, under God | will owe my salvation
to you" In only ten, twenty or thirty
years tue circle swept out AMI swept baeS
again to your owRgrateful heart.
But sometimes it is a wider Cree an
does not return for great while. saw d
bill of expenses for burning Litimar AM
Ridley The bill OF expenses says;
one loaa OF hr iagois 1880. ........ 81 "a
Carriage OF fonf oals OF w5od............. y.
Item, post e. ~
Item, Two chains ...,............,... 81 I'D
Item Lwo eta2 les ........,......,... 90
Item, - labofers .,....,..............,.. e. sd
That was cheap fire, considering ali the
circumstances but 1t kindled hight tlat
shone all arouli the word AMI aroused the
MARTYR spirit, and out from that burning OF
Latiner and Ridl ey rolled the circle wider
and wider starting other circles, conyoiut-
ing, oyerrunniug circumscribing, overarch-
ing all heaven-a circle.
But what is true Of the good is Just as
true OF the bad You utter SANDER against
your neighbor. 1t has gone forth from
| your teeth; it VIII never come back, you
think. You have done the man all the mis-
| chief You can. You reioics to see him wince
| You say, Didn't give it to him" That
word has gone out that slanierous word. on
| It's poisonous and blasted way. You think
! 1t Will never do you any harm. But | am
| watching that word, and | see it beginning
| to curve, and it curves around and it is aim
! ing at youf heare You hal better dodge
| it. You cannot dodge it, It rolls into your
| bosom and after it rolls in word of an old
BOOK. which says, With what measure ye
l bbSIst ~ oi1ii W liSiSiNSl " you again.
You msltreat an agsi parent. You be.
| CRU iged aim the room in your house. You
| are impatient of his whimsicalities AMI gar.
rullty. 1t makes you mad to hear him tell
| the same Story twica. You give him food
| he cannot masticate. You wish he was
| away. You wonder II he is going to live
| forever. He will be gone very soon His
steps are shorter and shorter. He is goinr
to stop. But Col has an account to settle
with you on that subject. After awhile
| your eye will be dim, and your gait will
! malt, and the sound of the grinding will be
| low, and you will tell the same story twice
ana your children will wonder il you ara
going TO I'VE forever and wonder If you will
| never be taken away.
iney caflei you father once; now they
call you the "old man. 1t you live a few
| years longer they will cali you the s'old
cnapP What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting your
lney are the echo OF the very words you
used In the ear of your old father forty
years ago. What is that which you are
trying to chew. but find it unmas
ticaoie, and your jaws ache, and you sur
render the attempt Perhaps it may be the
grlste which you gave to your father for
MS breakfast forty years ago.
/ A gentleman passing along the street saw
a son dragging his father into the street BY
the hair of the head. The gentleman, OUT
| ragged at this brutal conduct, was about to
/ punish the offender when the old man arose
and said, Don't hurt him; its all right;
forty years ago this morning dragged out
my father by tie hair of his headw It is
circle Ny father lived into the eighties.
and he had very wide experience and he
| said that maltreatment OF parents was
always punished in this world. Other sins
may be adjourned to the next world. but
maltreatment OF parents is punished in this
| world.
The circle turns quickly, very QUICKLY.
Oh, what stupendous thought that the
good and the evil we start come back to usi
Do you know that the Judgment Day will
be only the points at which the circles Join,
tho good aud the bad we have done coming
back to us, unless divine interv ention hinder
looming back to us with welcome of delight
or curse of condemnation.
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment when his inhu.
ence comes to full orb--hs influence 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 csn-
turtles, through all the succeeding centuries,
through earth, through heaven, and at last,
the wave OF influence having made full cir
cult, strikes his great soul Oh, then | would
like to see himl No ono can tell the wide
sweep OF the circle of his influence save the
One who Is seated on the circle of the earth
should not want to see the countenancs
of Voltaire when his influence comes to full
\ orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized
him at eighty-three years of age his infiu-
ence did not cease. The most brilliant man
Of his century, he had used all his faculties
for assaulting Christianity, his bad infiu-
ence widening through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe widening through America widen
ing through the 1l5 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 darkness turn white with the horror.
No one can tell how that bad mans infiu-
snce girdIed the earth save the one who is
seated on the circle OF the earth 1.-THE Lord
s Almighty
.Well, now" say people in this au Hence.
this ia some respects is a very glad theory
and in others very sad one Wa would like
TO have all the goo1 we have ever done come
8 back to us, but The Thought that all the sins
we have ever committed will come bacx to
US fills US with atfright.n My brother,
have to tell you Goa can break that circle
and will do so at your cau. can bring
twenty passages OF Scripture to prove that