The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-20


centuries, through twenty centuries
through all the succeeding centuries,
through earth, through heaven. and al
Inst, the wave Of influence having made
full circuit, strikes his great soul. Oh
then would like to see himl 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 counte-
nance of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb When the fatal hem.
nrrhage seized 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
Christianity, his bad influence widening
through France, widening out through
Germany, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through the ll5 years that have gone by
since he died, widening through earth.
widening through hell. until at last t, t
accumulated influence of his bad life in
fiery surge of omnipotent wrath will beat
against his destroyed spirit, and at that
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 tl,c
circle of the earth-the Lord Almighty.
We'll, now" say people in this audi
ence, this in some respects is u very
glad theory and in others a very sad one;
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have ever done come back to us, but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to MS fills us
with alright" My brother. 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 tiod for Christ's sake forgivcs
man the sins of his past life never
come back.
The wheel may roll on and roll OF
but you take your position behind the
cross, and the wheel strikes the cross
aud is shattered forever. The sins fly
off from the circle into the perpenGicu-
lar, falling at right angles with COM
plete oblivion. Forgiven! Forgiven! The
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some difficulty has been settled. to bring
it up again and God will not be so
hlean rs 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 sU:e
to forget, and that is pardoned trans
gression. How do know it? l will
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ties will remember no more" Come
into that state this morning. my dear
brother, my dear sister. BLESSED is the
one whose transgressions are forgiven"
THE CIRCLE OF GLORY.
But do not make the mistake of think
ing that this doctrine of the circle stops
with this life; it rolls on through heaven.
You might quote in opposition to me
what St. John says about the city of
heaven. He says it ''lieth four square"
That does seem to initiate againat this
idea, but you know there is many
square house that has a family circle
facing each other. and in a circle NOV
ing, and can prove that this is SO in re-
gard to heaven. st. John says, Il heard
the voice of many angels round about
the throne and the beasts. and the ED
ers.
Again he says. There was rainbow
round about the throne" The former
two instance circle; the last either
circle or semicircle. The seats facing
each other the angels facing each other,
the men facing each other. Heaven an
amphitheater of glory. Circumference
Of patriarch and prophet and apostle.
Circumference of Scotch Covenanters
and Theban legion and Albigenses. Cir
conference of the good of all ages. Pc
riphery Of splendor unimagined and in
describable. A circle A circle!
But every circumference must have
center, md what is the center of this
heavenly circumference? Christ. His
all the glory. His all the praise. His
all the crowns. All heaven wreathed
Into garland round about him. Take
off the imperial sandal from his foot and
behold the scar of the spike. Lift the
coronet of dominion from his brow and
see where was the liberation of the
briers. Come closer, all heaven. Mar
row the circle around his great heart.
| o Christ the Saviour! o Christ, the
man! o Christ, the God! Keep thy
throne forever, seated on the circle of
| the earth, seated on the circle of the
heaven
On Christ, the solid rock, stand;
All other ground is sinking sand