The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-03
CIRCLE OF THE EARTH.
A Novel Theme Mastery Discussed
by Or. Talmage.
Onward with Awful Momentum the Earth
WIN Continue Its Flight Among the
Ethereal Inhabitants

throngs in and around the audience
hall were beyond estimate. The sub
feet chosen was: 1.-THE Circle of the
Earth" the text being Isaiah XII, 90:
"It is He that stitch upon the circle Of
the earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was fat, and thousands of years
before they found out that IL was round,
Isaiah, in my text intimated the shape
of il: God sitting upon the circle of the
earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry Is the circle. God made tho
universe on the plan of a circle.
There are in the natural world
straight lines, angles, parallclograms,
diagonals, quadrangles; but these evil
IDENTIFY are not Gods favorites. Almost
everywhere where you will find Him
geometrizing you find tho circle
dominant, and IL not the circle, then
the curve, which is.accircle that died
youngl II it had lived long enough it
would have been full orb, periphery.
An ellipse is n circle pressed only n
little too hard at the sides Giants
Causeway in Ireland shows what God
thinks of mathematics. There are
over 35, 900 columns of rocks-octagonal,
hexagonal, pentagonal. These rocks
seem to have been made by rule and by
compass. Every artist has his molding-
room, where he may make fifty shapes;
but he chooses one shape rs preferable
TO all others, will not say that the
Giants Causcway was the worlds mold
ing-room, but do say, out of n great
many figures God seems to have select
ed the circle as His best. ut is He
that sitteth on the circle of the earth. :"
The stars in n circle the moon in n cir
Gle, the sun in a circle. the universe in
a circle, the throne of God the center OF
that circle.
When men build churches they ought
TO initiate the idea of the Great Archi-
tect and put the audience in n circle,
knowing that the tides of emotion roll
more easily that way than in straight
lines six thousand years ago God
flung this world out of His right hand.
but He did not throw il out in straight
line, but curvilinear. with leash of
love holding it so rs to bring it back
again. The world started from His
hand pure and Edenic. 1t has been
rolling on through regions of moral ice
and distemper. How long it will roll
God only knows, but it will in due time
make complete circuit and come back
10 the place whence it startcd-thc hand
of God-purc and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in
circle, Why is it that the shipping in
our day is improving so rapidly? 1t is
because men are initiating the old mod
ell 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
Etruria, and the City of Paris, OF which
we boast so much. Where is the ship
on the sea to-day that could outride n
deluge in which the heaven and the
earth were wrecked, landing all the
passengers in safcty?-two of each kind
of living creatures. thousand of species
Pomology will go on with Its achieve
world will have plums and pears equal
10 the Paradisaical The art Of garden
ing will grow for centuries, and after
the Downings and Mitchells of the
world have done their best, in the far
future the art OF gardening will come
up the arborescence of the year /.
IL the makers of colored glass go on
improving they may in some centuries
be able TO make something equal to the
east window of York Minister, which
was built in 1900. We are six centuries
behind those artists, but the world
must keep on toiling until it shall make
the complete circuit and come up TO the
skill of those very men. II the world
continues 10 improve in masonry we
shall have, after while, perhaps 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, sixteen hum
dred years ag-,-that mortar to-day as
good as the day In which II was made,
having outlastcd the brick and the
stone l say, after hundreds OF years,
masonry may advance TO that point IL
the world stands long enough we may
have city as large as they had In old
five times the size OF
London.
You go into the potteries in England
and you find them making cups and
vases after the style of the cups and
vases exhumed from PompeiL The
world is not going back oh, mol but
It is swinging in circle, and will come
back to the style of pottery known so
long ago as the days OF Pompeii The
world must keep on progressing until II
makes the complete circuit The curve
Is In the right direction, the curve will
keep on until IL becomes circle.
Well, now. my friends, what Is true
In the material universe Is true in Gods