The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-19
THE BIBLES GREAT CIRCLES.
OUR GOOD AND EVIL ACTIONS.
Or. Talmage Preaohes a Sermon in the
Sunny Southland

W nile yeU peOpe Thought tnat the world
was Hat, and thousands OF years before thev
found out that IL was round. Is,iab. In nv
text, intimated the shape of it-Goi sittinS
upon the circle OF the earth, rhe noq,
beautiful figure in all geometry is the circle.
Got made the universe on the plan of 4
circle. Tnere ars in the natural world
straight lines. AZ yles, parallelo grtms. diag.
onais, quadranries, bu, th-s, evidently nro
not GOd's favOritss. Almost evervghsrs
where you will hul Him geom )trizinr Won
find the circle dominant. and it NOT tho
circle, then toe cIrvc which is n circle that
died youn IL 10 had lived long enouyh IL
would have bcen full orb--a peripberv
An ellipse is circle pressed only a little too
hard ut the sides.
Giants Causswav, in Ireiiui. shows what
God thiIks Of mathematics. Tiere are over
3j. 900 columns OF rocks -octiconal, hexa
gonal. pentagonni. These rocks seem 10
hive been made 10y rule aud by c1npass
Every artist has his molding room. where
be- may make fifty Shapes. but he chooses
one shape as prclerable to all others 1 will
not .ay that the Giants Clu,ewav was tho
worlds molding room. but do say out of a
great many figures God seems 70 have sol.
ect3d the circle rs ths best. "lt is He tina.
sitteth on the circle of the enrth." The stars
ia a circle, the moon in circle the sun IN n
circle the universe ln circle tho throne of
God the center o that circle
When men bull churches they ought to
initiate the iica ot the Great Architect and
nut the audience M Il circle, knewtnr thar
the tiAcs of emotion roll more ensiiv that
way than IA straight lines Six thous,nI
year, ago God huaL thi, world out oil His
right han ,, but lie did not throw IL ont i'm
a straight imc, but Curv,linair with a Ions,
of love hOl ling 10 50 as % bring 10 b,rl,
again. The worl started from flis hand
pure anil Z enc :. has been rolling On
tat ugh regions o. mo al ice an distemner
How long 20 will roll God only knows. but
it will ~ due time make conplets circuit
an come hac', 90 the place whence il started
'da hand @, God pure aud T. lruic.
Tue history ut the world goss in A circle
Way ls 10 that ths Shipping In our day /.
improving 80 raniiiyg It D. bc,aus, mon
ugr initiating tue Old model %. Noah's ARK.
q .Iil carpenter gives that as hi, opiujpu.
Atiou.h $50 mucp der do [ by small wit.
that ship o, No1h's Slime beat the NIaie,tic
and the @uuria AMI tDc City Of PARIS, OF
which We boast so mucn. Where is tne
.h on the sea to-day that could outrile "A
d'.uyc IN which the hetvan an | tho earth
wet, wrecked, landing all thl passenger, in
.lfe;y-.wo OF each kind o. lving creatures,
thousands O. species
P1ma'o-y will 20 on with IT'S achieve.
meut. uuil after uGly centuries tue world
will have p,uns and pears equal TO the para.
iitclh The nrt of gardening viii grow
Tor ''u.ur. ,s, auj oit'r chs Downings AMI
Mi.ela.is of the world have dona their best
in the iar future the arc OK gardening will
cIuu uD 90 the ar0or.sceucs o. ths vpar l.
Il tde makers o: colorei glass 20 on improv.
ing uley may IN some centuries b1 able to
make something 'quil b the east window OF
Work minister. wh'cl was built in 1870 Wa
are six centuries behind those artists but
the w'r.i must keen ON tol,ny until it shall
make the complete circuit and come up 10
tlo skill OF those very men.
IL tha world continues TO improve in ma.
sonrywe shall havc after awhile. perhaDs
after the aivducs ot centuries. mortar equal
20 that which ! saw last summer in the wall
OF an exhumed English city, built i'm the
time OF the Romans. 1000 years ago-that
l;gortar To- as goal ~ tls dag IN wffrh n
was maize, having outiasted the brick and
the stone. say. after hundreds OF years
masonry may advance TO that point. II the
4 word stands long enough We may have a
Icty as large as they had in old times Baby.
lon five times the ,i2s Of London.
You 90 into the potteries In Englanl and
Eod ind thom making cups aud vases after
he -tyie OF the cups aud vases exhumeI
From PDnpei The world is nos roiug
PACK. Oh, no, but IL = swinging in a circle
PM Will co ne uIcS 10 tu. stv.e5 of pottery
,npNn 50 long a 20 as ta3 days OF Pompeii.
4 ne Wort must Kesp on pro gressin until it
3na6es the complete circuit. Tue curve is in
II Hhe right direction; the curve will keen on
Hlntil 10 becomes the circle.
II Wei, now my friends, what * true in the
%npJgrial universe j. true in Gods moral
n 1vartmenL ami spiritual ARRANGEMENT
y nat is the meaning ot ELeKie's wheel All
~ Commentators agree In saying that the
~ haei means GoI's providence But a wheel
- oi no usa unless it tu'n, and It IL turn
"a turns arouni, and u ~ turns urouni IL
m
Itrl, OF great iron machine whirlei
around whether we will Or not. the victims
~ ineNordtla fate No. 81 lar from that,
n ,hall show you that we ourselves start the
II lriis OF goot OF BAD actions and that it will
ely come arount again TO Us unless by
iNlne Intervention IL ue hindersd. Those
ad or good actions may make the circuit OF
nany years, but come bacS 10 Us they will
certainly as that Goa sits ON the circle OF
he earth
81 Jtlebel, the worst woman of tho Bible,
pew NabOth because sne wanted his vine
{Yarl. While the dogs were eating the body
~ Naboth, Elisha tle prophet put down his
ompass ana marked circle from the dog
ear around to the dogs that should eat the
3dy OF Jezebel the murderess 'lmpos.
iOle| the people said. ''that will nsyer
Pappen" Who Is that bsing fung out of tbc
alace Window Jezebel. A few hours afte,
neY came around hoping TO bury her. They
no only tho palms OF her hands ana the
tull. The dogs that devourei Jez sbel and
pc dogs that devoured Nabothl Oh, what
swift what an awful crcuiti
oet 10 Is sometlm IS the case that this circle
NeepS throu ,h century or through many
turtles. The world started with theoc.
~ ior government that IL. God was the
esldent AMI emperor OF the world. People
tlred OF theocracy. rney salt: "We
~ want Go directly interfering with tao
ilrs Oh the world. give Us u monarchy :"
world mad monarchy. From mon.
yt Is going to havsa limite monarchy
yer awhile the limited monarchy will hs
en- up, and the republican form o. gov.
iIhent VIII hs everywhere dominant and
oShizsi. Then this world will get tired
Gn ene republican form of governmsat, and
WIN nave an anarchy, which is no govern
uI az all. Aud then all nations, fin ling
tuht a man Is not capable of rightaousy
erhlng man. will cry out for th hsocracy
sayi Let God come back and conduct
3I AFFAIRS OF the world "
very step-monarcly, hmitoI NOM
y, repnoliclnlsn. anarchy-only differ
steps between the first theocracy and the
sneocracy, or seglnents OF the great cir
~ the earth on which TOD sits. But do
Vscohle lmpatient because You canuot
eSurVe OF events. and therefore con-
ri ~, it iuat Iois government Is going to
III uoWh. History tells us that in tina
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