Milford chronicle., 1893-01-20

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That was cheap fire, considering all the
circumstances, but it kindled 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, cOnvolut-
ing, Overrunniug, circumscribing, overarch
ing all heaven-R circle.
But what is true of the good is just rs
true of the bad. You utter slander 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 hin?"
That word has gone out, that slanderOus
word, on its poisonous and blasted way.
You think it will never do you any harm.
But ana watching that word, and l see it
beginning to curve, and it curves around,
and it is aiming at your heart. You had
better dodge it. You cannot dodge it. 1t
rolls into your bosom and after it rolls in
a Woid Of an old book, which says, with
what measure ye mete, it shall be meas
ured to you again"
You maltreat an aged parent. You be-
grudged him the room in your house. You
are impatient of his whimscalities and gar
rulity. It makes you mad TO hear him tell
the same story twice Eou give him food
he cannot masticate. You wish he was
away. You wonder if 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 awhile
your eye will be dim, and your quit viii
halt, and the sound of the grinding will be
low, and you will tell the same story twice,
and your children viii wonder if you are
going to live forever and wonder If you
will never be taken away.
They called you father" once; now they
call you the ''nld man" If you live few
years longer they will call you the "old
chap" What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting your
They 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 Unmasticable
and your jaws ache and you surrender the
attempts Perhaps it may be the gristle
which you gave to your father for his break |
fast forty years ago.
Agentleman passing along the street saw
a son dragging his father into the street by !
ragged at this brutal conduct, was about to |
punish the offender when the old man |
arose and said: Don't hurt him. It's all |
right. Forty years ago this morning |
dragged out my fnther by the hair Of his /
head" 1t is circle Ny father lived into |
the eighties, and he had very wide expert |
ence, and he said that maltreatnent of par |
ents was always punished in this world. !
Other sins may be adjourned to tho next /
world, but maltreatment of parents is pun
ished in this world.
THE EVIL RETURNS ON THE DoER.
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,
she good and the bad we have done coming
back to us unless divine intervention hind
back to us with welcome Of de
or curse Of condemnation
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid
ct the moment when his in
iuence comes to full Orb-his influence
.olling out through Antioch, through Cy-
)rus, 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
centuries, through Garth,
trough heaven, and at last, the wave OF
havi=2 maaS f--ll ei.i.r;k sti;-.--as
is great soul Oh, then / would like to
90 him. No one can tell the wide sweep Of
be circle of his influence save the one who
seated on the circle CT the earth.
/ should not want to see the ccuntenance
( fVoltaire when his influence comes to full
rb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized
i'm at eighty-three years of age his infiu-
nee did not cease. The most brilliant man
his century, he had used al his faculties
or assaulting Christianity-his bad inf!u-
nee widening through France, widening
ut through Germany, widening through all
.urope, widening through America, widen
lg through the ll5 years that have gone
y since lie died, widening through earth,
-idening through hell, until at last the &c
nmulated influence Of lis bad life in fiery
urge of Omnipotent wrath win beat against
is destroyed spirit, and at that moment it
ill be enough to make the black hair Of
Hernal darkness turn white with the hor-
Dr.. No one can tell how that bad mans !
girslled the earth save the one who
seated on the circle Of the earth--the Lord
.lmighty.
''Wcll, now" +" say people in this audience,
this In SOME respects is q very good theory,
nd in some others a very sad one. We
2uld like to have all the good we have
.r done come buck TO Us, but TIE Thought /
IN all lie sins we have ever cummitted
e,spie hack to Us ellis us with adrisht.'
49, Ter, / have to tell yc- God oiin .
f>lt circle and will do IS at your
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