The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-16

Der thirty years ago giving a letter
of introduction 20 young man-a
GrinnellF' Eyes, yes, l do.n He says;
81 am the man; that was my first
step toward a fortune, but l have retired
from business now, and am giving my time
to philapthropies and public interests. Come
up and see me-" Or man comes 70 you
and saws, 81 want to introduce myself to
you. went into a prayer meeting in At
lanta some years ago; sat back by the
door; you arose TO make an eThortatton
that talk changed the course Of my life, and
if ] ever get TO heaven under God | will
owe my salvation to you.n In only ten,
twenty or thirty years. the circle swept out
and back again to your own grateful heart
But sometimes it is q wider circle, and
does not return for great while. | saw a
bill OF expenses for burning Latimer and
Ridley. The bill Of expenses says:
One load Of frs fagots ................. IS. 3D.
Carriage for four loads of wood ......,... Is.
Item, post. .-..-........-..-... Is. Id.
item. cnalns ......-''.................. %. "a.
Item, staples. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. I'd.
item, laoorers. ...-......... IS Sd.
That was cheap fire, considering all the
circumstances; but it kiudied light that
shone all around the world and aroused the
martyr spirit, and out from that burning
of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle
wider and wider, starting other circles. con-
volutinR, overrunntng, circumscribing,
overarching all heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good ia just as
true of the bad. You utter SANDER
against your neighbor. 1t has gone forth
from your teeth; it will never come back,
you think. You have done the man all the
mischief you can. You rejoice TO see
him vince. You say, Didn't | give
it to himw That word has gone out, that
slanderous word. on its poisonous and
blasted way. You think it will never do
you any harm. But | am watching that
it curves around, and it Ia aiming at your
heart. You had better dodge it. You
cannot dodge it. It rolls ito your bosom,
and after it rolls in a word OF an old boo (
which says: with what measure ye mete
it shall be measured to you again"
You maltreat an aged parent. You be-
grudged him the room in your house. You
are impatient Of bis whimsicalities and
garrulity. Ii 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 IL he is going to
live forever. He will be gone very soon
His steps are shorter and shorter. He is
going to stop. But God has an account to
settle with you on that subject. After
a while, your eye will be dim, aud your
gait will halt, and the sound Of the grind
the same story twice, and yeur children will
wonder II you are going to live forever,
aud wonder II you will never be taken
away. They called you father" once: now
they call you the "old man." II you live a
few years longer they will call you the "old
chap" What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting youg
They are the echo OF the very words you
used in the ear of your old father forty
10 hat oh
trying TO chew. but find it unmasticable,
and your jaws ache, and you surrender
the attempts Perhaps it may be the
gristle which you gave to your
father for his breakfast forty years
agol A gentleman passing along the street
saw a son dragging his father into the street
by the hair Of the head. The gentleman,
outraged at this brutal donduct, was about
to punish the offender. when the old man
arose and said: Don't hurt him; it's ell
right; forty years ago this morning /
dragged out my father by the hair of his
head" 1t is a circle My father lived into
the eighties, and he had very wide expert
ence, 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 pun
ished in this world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
o, what stupendous 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 circles ioin.
the good and the bad we have done com
ing back TO us unless divine interven-
tion Understanding back 90 us with
welcome OF delight or curse Of condemna-
ton.
o, would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment when his influ-
ence COMES to full orb--his 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
centuries through all the succeeding CEN
turtles. through earth, through heaven; and
at last the wave OF influence having made
full circuit. strikes his great soul o, then
/ would like TO see him. No one 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
countenance Of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb. When the fatal hem
morrhage siezed him at eighty-three years
of age his influence did not cease. The
most brilliant man Of his century, he had
used all his faculties for assaulting Chris
tianity: his bad influence, widening through
France, widening out through Germany,
widening through all Europe, widening
through America, widening through the one
hundred and fifteen years tibet 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 influence girdled the earth save the
one who is seated on the circle Of the earth
the Lord Almighty.
We'll now, say people In this audience,
this In some respects is a very glad theory,
and in others very sad one; we would
like TO have all the good we have ever done
come back to us, but the thought that all
the sins we have ever committed will come
back TO us fills us with alright
My brother, I have to tell you God
can break that circle, and will do
80 at your call. can bring twenty
passages OF scriptures 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 shattered for
ever. The sins fly off from the circle into
the perpendicular, falling at right angles
with complete Oblivion. Forgivenl For
giveni The meanest thing a man can do is,
after difficulty has been settled to bring
it up again; aud God will not be so mean as
that. Gods memory is mighty enough to