Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-01-21
REV. DR.. 7ALMAGH.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
Subject, "The Circle Of tho Earth"

Subject. "The Circle OF tho Ea-th."
TEXT: TT is He that stitch upon III
c'rc'e Of the earth.h-Isaah H., %.
While yet people thought that the world
was nat, and thousands of years before they
found out that it was round. isaiah, in NV
text, fntimate1 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 1
circle. There ars in the natural world
straight lines, angles parillslo grams, dag.
onals. quadran2ies, bu; these evidently are
not Gods favoritss. Almost everywhere
where you will finl Him geom 1trizing YOU
lind the circle dominant, and il not the
circle, then the carve which is a circle that
died youn :. If it had lived long enough it
would have been full ora-a periphery.
An ellipse is a circle pressed only a little too
hard at the sides.
Giants Caussway, in ireland. shows what
God thinks OF mathematics. There are over
I $1,000 columns of rocks-octa gonaI hexa-
gonal, pentsgonal. 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 as preferable to all others. [ will
not say that the Giants Cluseway was the
worlds molding room. but l do say out of a
great many figures God seems to have SCI
ected the circle as the best. ut is He that
sitteth on the circle of the earth" The stars
in circle, the moon in circle, the sun in
circle, the universe in circle, the throne of
God the center OF that circle
When men build churches they ought To
initiate the idea of the Great Architect and
put the audience in circle knowing that
the tides of emotion roll more easily that
way than in straight lines. Six thou ,and
years ago God flung this world out OF His
right hand, but He did not throw it out i,i
a straight line but curvilinsar, with leas,
OF love holding it so as to bring 1t back
again. The. world started from His hand
pure and Z len;c. 1t has been rolling OF,
through regions o. moral ice and distemoer.
How long it will roll God only knows, but
1t will in due time make complete circuit
and come back to the place whence it started
the hand of God -pure and E ienic.
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 o. Noah's ark.
/ ship carpenter gives that as his opinion
Although so much deride by small wits.
that ship of Noah's time beat the Majestic
and the Etruria and the City of PARIS of
! which We bosst SO much. Where is the
ship on the sea to-day that could outride
deluge in which the heaven an the eartn
were wrecked, landing all this passen gers in
safety-two of eaca kind of living creatures,
thousands of species?
Pomology will go on with its achieve.
ments until after many centuries the ,rid
Will have plums and pears equal to the pari-
I disalcal The art OF gardening will grow
/ Tor centuries, aud after the Downinys an
Mitchells OF the world have done their best
in the far future the art OF gardening will
come up TO the arborescsncs Of tia year |.
II the makers OF colorei glass go on improv.
ing they may In some Centuries bs able to
make something equal to the east win 10 v OF
York Minister whoa was built in 1890 We
are SIX centuries behind those artists, but
the world must keep on toling Until it sh,ll
make the complete circuit AMI come W to
the skill of those very men,
II the world continues to improve in ma
! sonry we shall have after awhile. perhaps
after the advance of Centuries, mortar equal
to that which | saw last SUI inner in the wall
of an exhumed English city, built in the
time OF the Romans. 1900 years ago-that
mortar to-day as good as the day in wh;c it
was made, having outlasted the brick aud
the stone. say. after hundreds of years
masonry may advance to that psint. IL the
world stands long enough we may have a
city as large as they had in old times-Baby-
lon five times the sizs of London
You go into the potteries in England an
you find them making cups and vases after
the style Of the cups and vases exhu nsi
from Poupei. The world is not going
back. oh, no; but it is swinging in circle
and will come back TO ths Styles of pottery
known so long ago as the days OF Ponpeii.
The world must keep on pro sressiny unti it
makes the complete circuit. The curve is in
the right direction, the curve will keep Oh
until 1t becomes the circle.
Well, now, my friends, what is true in the
material universe is true in Gods moral
| government AMI spiritual arrangement.
! That is the meaning of Ezexie'S wheel. All
/ commentators agree in saying that the
! wheel means Gol's providence. But a wheel
! is of no use unless it turn, and it it turn
/ it turns around, and il it turns aroun it
moves In a clrcie. What them Ara wa
/ parts of great iron machine whirle
around whether we will or not. the victims
of ine1orat IL tatef No So far from that,
/ L shall show you that we ourselves start tn !
] circle OF good or bad actions and that it will
surely come arouni again to It's ualess by
divine Intervention it be hiulered. Those
bad or good actions may make the circuit OF
many years, but come back to US they will
as certainly as that God sits on the circle oil
the earth.
/ Jtz4bel, the worst woman of the Bible
slew NaboGh because she wanted his vine
yard. While the dogs were eating toe cody
OF Nabotb, Elisha the prophet puT down hi,
compass an marcel a circle from the dog,
clear around TO the dogs that SHOULD eat til,
body Of Jezsbal thu mur1ersss. ''Impos.
slole| tae people said; that will never
hapreu" Who is that being flung out of tht
palace Window Jezs5el. A few hours afte,
they came around hoping to buoy her Taay
ma only the palms OF her hands an the
skull The dogs that devoure Jez4bel and
the dogs that devoured Nabothl Oh, wat
swift what an awful circuit
But 1t is sometm IS the case tn ut this circle
sweeps throu III century or throu I'll many
centuries. The world started with a theoc,
racy Tor government-that is God was tbs
president an emperor OF the worli Psopla
got tired of theocracr. They said: I'VE
don't want Col directly intarferin with le
an mrs OF the world give US a monarchy. -
Inc world had monarchy. From mon
archyl is going to have Unite monarchy,
After awdile the limited monarchy will BE-
given no, ant the republic IN form o, gov
eminent will be everywhere dominant and
recognlzei. Then the world will get tired
OF the republican form of governm sat, au
10 VIII have an anarchy; which is no govern.
ment at all. And then all nltious fin ing
out that man is not capable of rghteously
governing man. will cry out for tn ,ocracy
and say! "Let God come back and conduct
the aft airs OF the world"
Every step-mouarcly limitoi mon
arcYi republic inism, anircay-only differ,
ant steps between the first theocracy aud the
last theocracy, or ssgnents OF the great cir.
Gle OF the earth on which GJi sits. Bus do
not become impatient because you canuot
see the curvs OF events. and theretore con
clude that Co.'s governm ant is goiug to
break down. History tails US that in the
making OF the pyramids it took 2)0D men
two years to drag ons great stone fro the
quarry AMI put it into the pyrami Is.
We'll, now, If men short lived can afford
II work so slowly as that, cannot Got in the
bullding of the eternities affori to wait,
What though God should take 10, 900 years
to draw a circle? Shall VS. take our little
watch, which We have to wind up every
1ight lest it run down. aud hol it up beside
the clocs Of eternal ayes2 If, according to
The Bible, a thousand years are in Gods
sight as one day then, &C :orduy to that
calculation, the 500 years of the worlds
existence have been only to God as from
Monday to Saturday.
But it is often toe case tlat the rebouu
squicker AMI the circ.e is sooner completel
You resolve that you will do what COOL
you can In one week you put word Of
counsel in thu heart of Sabbath school
.hild. Daring that same week you give
sitter OF intro iuetion to young man strus-
Cling in business. During the same week
fou make an ex lortatio1 in PRAYER meet