Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-20

That was cheap fire, considering all the
circumstances, but 1t kindled light tlal
shone all around the world and aroused the
MARTYR spirit, and out from that burning OF
Latimer and Ridl ey rolled the circle "iaer
and wider, starting other circles, conVo.uI
ing, overruuning, circumscribing, oyerarcn
ing all heaven circle.
But what is true OF the good is Just a.
true OF the bad. You utter SANDER against
your neghbor. 1t has gone forth IRON
your teeth; 10 Will never come back, you
think. You have done the man all the mis-
chief you can You rejoice to see him Wines.
You say, "DIdn't give 1t to hinP That
word has gone out that slanderous wori, on
It's poisonous and blasted way. You think
1t will never do you any harm. But am
watching that word, and see it beginning
10 curve and it curves around, and IL IS ann
ing at your heart. You hal better do tgs
It. You cannot ige 1t. Ii rolls into your
bosom and after IL rolls In word OF an OH
book. which says with what msasure ys
met, it shall be measured 10 you again"
You maltrsat an aged parent. fo1 os-
rru iged him the room in your house. You
sre impatient of his whimsicalitiss and gar
rulity. II makes you mad to hear him tell
the same story twios. You give him fool
he cannot masticate. You wish he was
away. You wonder /, he Is going TO Iva
forever. He will be gone very soon. dis
steps are shorter and shorter. He is going
to stop But Col has an account to settle
With you on that subject. After awhile
your eye will be dim, AMI yout gait will
halt, and the sound OF the grinding will be
low, and you will tsll the same story twice.
and your children will wonder il you are
going to live forever aud wonder II you will
never be taken away.
They called you Gather" ones; now they
call you the "old man" II you live a few
years longer they will call you the ''old d
chap What are those rough words vita
which your children are aoeosting you'A
They are the echo OF the very words yog
usat in the ear OF your old father forty
years ago. What is that which you airs
trying TO chew, but find ID unmas-
ticaole, and your jaws ache, and you sur
render the attsmpti Perhaps it may be the
gristle which you gave to your father for
his breakfast forty years ago.
A gentleman passing along the street saw
a son dragging his father into the strest by
the hair OF the heal. The gentleman, out
ragged at this brutal conduct was about to
punish the offender when the old man aro5s
and S ID, Don't hurt him; its all right;
forty years ago this morning | dragged out
my father by tie hair of his head" 1t is a
circle. Ny father lived into ths eightiss
and he had very wide experience, and he
said that maltreatment OF parents was
Always punished in this world Other sini
may be adjourned TO thu mex, world, but
ms!treatmsnt Of parents Is punished IN ths
world.
The circle turns quickly, very quietly
o., what a stupendous thought that tbs
good aud the evil we start come back 70 IL
DO you know that the judgment Day Will
he only tho points at which the circles join.
tho good and the bad we have done coming
back to US unless divine Intervention hinder
coming back to US with welcome OF delight
or curse Of condemnation.
On would Ike 10 see Paul. the inYshi
missionary, at the moment wuen his in6u'
euce comes to full orb-hls influence rolin,
out through Antioch, through Cyprus
through LystTa, through COrinth, through
Athens through Asia, through Europa
through America. thrOu % the frat century.
tlrou % five centuries, through twenty cen
turtles, through all the succeeding centures.
through earth, through heaven, ami at last.
tine wave OF influence having made full CIR
cut, strikes MS great soul. On, then would
ike to SEQ him No one can tell the wide
swesp Of the circle OF his influence save tho
One who is seated on the circle OF the earth.
/ should not want to 500 ths countenanc,
OF Votaire when his influence comes % tuil
orb. When the fatal hemorrhaga seizsi
him at ighty-three y ears OF age his lnh1'
ence did not cease The most brilliant man
OF his century, he had used all his faculties
Tor assaulting Christianity, his osd inha
euce widening through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe. widening through America, widen
ing through the rs years that have gone ~
since he died, widening through earn,
widening through hell, until az last the "a
cumulate1 inf Iencs OF his bal life IN horJ
surge OF omnipotent wrath will beat galn's
his destroyed spirit, AMI at tlat moment 10
will be enough to make the black hair o:
eternal darkness turn whits with the horror.
No one can tell how that bad mans lnhl'
encs girdled the earth save the ons who .
seated on the circle OF tna esrta the Lori
Almighty.
Well now say people in this auilencs,
''Jhis ia some respects is a very glad theory
AMI IN otaers a very sal one; W. would Ike
10 have al the goo1 we have ever done CO IL
Lack 10 u, but the thou ht that all the sin,
W. have ever cOmmitt0 will cone b3c, ~
II, Ills u, with alright" Ny brother l
lave 10 tell you God can break that clrc.s
an will DO 50 at your call. l CAN brIs
twenty passages of Scripture 10 prove Inas
when God for Christs sa1e forg.ves man
the s.ns OK bis past lie never come bac].
The whss. may roll on ami roll Oh, but
YOU take your position behind tbs eros,
and the wheel strikes the cross and Is SHAT
tered forever. The sins fly of from the car
Gle into the Perpendicular, falling at riga.
angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven
ForgIveni The meanest thing that n4n
can 40 l., after some difficulty has been SET
tlec, to bring 1t up again, and God "lI nol
be 30 mean as that. Gods memory mighty
enough 10 hold all the events OF the age,
tut there Is one thing that is sure 70 slip III,
memory, one thing He is sure 10 forget, an
that is pardoned transgreSsion. How 10
know it, I will prove II. Their SINS anl
their iniqu ties viii l remember no more.
Come into that state this morning. my GEAR
brother, my dear sister. Blessed Is TINS
Oh whose transgTessiOns are forgiven
But DO not make the mistake OF thlaHinS
thar this doctrine OF the circle stops VIII
this life: it rolls on through heaven. foI
might quote in opposition to me what 81
Jonn says about rJls City Of hssyAD ~
SAYS it ''lleth 1r square, I nat dos5 sesni
to initiate against this idel, but you know
there Is many square house that mas
family circle facing each other. aud In =
circle moving, and can prove tha1 this j.
50 in gard to heaYen. st. John says -
hearl the voice OF many angels round about
the throne, and the beasts, AMI the elders VI
Again he says: There was rainbow
rount about the th~ons.' the former two
Instance circle; the last either circle or a
semic rc.e The seats facing each other, tbs
angels facing each other, ths men facing
each other. Heaven an amphitheatre Of
glory. Circumference OF patriarch and ptoph-
ct and apostle. Circu Inference OF Scotch
Covenanters and Thsoan legion AMI Abb
geuseS. Circumference o; thu good Of all
ages. Periphery OF splenior unimagiusi
and indesuribab Q. A circel A circle.
Bu5 every circumference must havs a
centre, aud what is the csutrs Of this heiv-
eniy circumference! Christ. His all this
glory. His all tho praise. His all tho
crowns. All heaven wreathei into gar
laud round about Hun. Take OF the imper
al sandal from His foot AMI behol1 the sca.
OF the spike. Lift the coronet o. domiDiol
from His brow and ses whers was the LAGER
alton OF the briers. Come closer, all heav
en- Narrow tbs circle around His great
heart. q Christ, ths Saviourl o Christ
the mani o Christ. tbs Goil Keep Ivy
throne forever. seated on thu circle OF tn'
eirth. seated on the circle Of the heaven
On Christ, the soui rock. stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.