Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-01-19
SERMON AT ATLANTA.
DR.. TALMAGE ON A PREACHING CIR
CUT OF SOUTHERN CITIES.

Tho Great C'4,lo of Good and Evil, of Sin
and Its PI-ishmcnt--B BE Net Deceivcdi
the Evil Dc.igned Against Another viii
neturn to Plague the Inventor
ATLANTA, Jan 1j.-.Eey DR.. Talmagc,
hho is now making II ten days tour Of the
touthcrn cities, preached here today Tho
throngs in and around the audience hall
were beyond estimate. The subject chosen
was, 1.-The Circle Of the Earth" the text he
ing Isaiah Il, %. at is he that stitch upon
the circle OF the earth"
While yet people thought that the world
was fiat, and thousands Of years before
they found out that it was round, Isaiah,
in my text. minated the shape of it--God
sitting upon the circle Of the earth The
most beautiful figure in all geometry is the
circle God made the universe on the plan
of n circle There are in the natural world
straight lines. angles, para,lelograms, di-
agonals, Quajrnal2s, but these evidently
are not Gods fA"oritc-. Almost every
where where you win find him geometri2-
INK You will lind The circle dominant. and
Ii not the circle, then tae curve, which is Il
circle that died Young. If it had lived long
enough it would have been full orb-a
periphery. IN cilipse is circle pressed
UulY Il little too hard ut the sides.
Giants CarsewGy in Ireland shows what
God thinks Of mathematics. There are
over $1,000 columns of racks-octagonal,
heynconal. pentagonal These rocks seem
TO have been made hy rule and by compass.
livery artist Las his holding room, where
ke may make fifty shapes but he chooses
one shape as preferable TO all others. will
not say that the Giants CNuSeWay was the
worlds molding room, but do say out Of
"A great MANY figures God seems to have
selected the circle "a the best. ut is he
that stitch on the circle of the earth"
The stars in Il circle. the neon in a circle,
the sun in u circle, the universe in a circle,
che throne of God the center Of that circle
SUGGESTION FOR CHURCH ARCHITECTURE.
When men build churches they ought to
initiate the idea of the Great Architect and
put the audience in a circle knowing thatthe
tides of emotion roll more easily that way
than in STRAIGHT lines Six thousand wears
ago God flung this world out of his right
hand, but he did not throw it out in a
straight line, but c1lrvingly, with a leash
of love holding it 50 a. TO bring it back
again. The world started from his hand
pure and Fdenic. 1t has been rolling on
through regions of moral ice and distem-
per How long it Will roll Cd only knows
but it will in due time make complete cir
cult and come back TO the place whence it
etarted-the hand of God-pure and Edenic
The history Of the world goes in a circle
Why is it that the shipping in our day is
improving so rapidly? 1t is because men
are initiating the old model of Noah's ark
A ship carpenter gives that as his opinion.
Although so much derided by small wits
that ship of Noah's time beat the Majestic
and the Etrur;a and the City of Paris, of
50 81
ship on the sea today that could outride a
6eluge in which the heaven and the earth
were wrecked. landing all the passengers
In safety-two of each kind of living crea-
lures, thousands of species?
Pomology will 20 on with its achieve
Rents until after many centuries the world
will have pluns and pears equal t o the par
Rdisaical The art of gardening will grow
for centuries, and after the Downings and
Mitehells of the world have done their best
in the far future the art of gardening will
come up to the arborescence of the year l.
" the makers Of coored glass go on i'm
proving, they may in some centuries be
able TO make something equal to the east
window of York minister. which was built
in 1890 We are six centuries behind those
artists, but the world must keep toiling on
until it shall make the complete circuit and
come up to the skill of those very men
If the world continues to improve in ma
sonry, we shall have after awhile, per
haps after the advance of centuries. mortar
equal to that which | saw last summer in
the wall OF an exhumed English CITY. built
in The time of the Romans, 900 wears ago
that mortar today as good as tie day in
which it was made, having outlasted the
brick and the stone. | say, after hundreds
nj years ,,,osonry- r,ur, ndV,pca 10 tto+