The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-20
A TALK BY TALMAGE.
HE is ON A PREACHING TOUR OF
TEN DAYS IN THE SOUTH.


cles of Gods Providence and the Moral
Government of the World Recurring
Cycles of History.
| ATLANTA, Jan. 15.-Rev. DR.. Talmage,
who is now making ten days tour of
the southern cities, preached here today.
The throngs in and around the audience
hall were beyond estimate. The subject
chosen was 1.-The Circle of the Earth"
the text being Isaiah Il, 90, 1T is he that
stitch upon the circle of tho earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was fiat, and thousands of years
before they found out that it was round,
Isaiah, in my text, intimated 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 circle. There
are in the natural world straight lines,
angles parallelograms, diagonals, quad
rangles, but these evidently are not
Gods favorites. Almost everywhere
where you will find him geometrizing
you find the circle dominant, and if not
the circle, then the curve, which is cir
Gle that died young. If it had lived long
enough it would have been full orb-a
periphery An ellipse is circle pressed
only u little too hard at the Sides
Giants Causeway, in Ireland, shows
| what God thinks of mathematics There
are over $4,000 columns of rocks--oc-
/ tagonal, 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
:hapes, but he chooses one shape as pref
cradle to all others. will not say that
the Giants Causeway was the worlds
molding room, but | do say out of a
great many figures God seems to have
| selected the circle as the best. 1T is he
that sitteth on the circle of the earth. ="
! The stars in circle, the moon in cir
Gle, the sun in circle, the universe III a
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, know
ing that the tides of emotion roll mere
easily that way than in straight lines.
Six thousand years ago God flung this
world ont of his right hand, but he did
mot throw it out in straight line, but
curyilinear, with a leash of love holding
it so as 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 to the place whence it
started-the hand of God-pure and
| Edynic
| THE DIVINE PLAN RESUMED.
The history of the world goes in Cir
Gle. Why is it that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? 1t is be-
cause men are initiating the old model
Of Noahs 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
80 much, Where is the ship on the sea
today that could outride a deluge in
which the heaven and the earth We're
wrecked. landing all the passengers III
safety-two Of each kind of living crea-
lures thousands of speciesi
Pomology will so on with its achieve
ments until after many centuries the
world will have plums and pears equal
to 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 to
the arborescence of the year /. If the
makers of colored glass go on improving
they may in some centuries be able to
make something equal to the east win
dow of York minister. which was built in
1890. We are six centuries behind those
artists. but the world must keep on toll
ing until it shall make the complete cir
cult and come up to the skill of those
very men.
If the world continues to improve in
masonry we shall have after awhile.
perhaps after the advance of centuries,
mortar equal to that which | saw last
summer in the wall Of an exhumed Eng
fish city, built in the time of the Ro-
mans. 600 years ago-that mortar to-
day rs good as the day in which it was
made, having outlasted the brick and
the stone. 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
times Babylon five times the size of
London.
You 60 into the potteries in England
and you find them making cups and
vases after the style of the cups and
vases exhumed from Pompeii. The
world is not going back. Oh, no; but it
is swinging in circle and will come
back to the styles Of pottery known SO
long ago as the days of Pompeii. The
world must keep on progressing until it
makes the complete circuit. The curve
is in the right direction: the curve will
keep on until it becomes the circle
THE EVER REVOLVING WHEEL.
| Well. now. my friends, what is true in
the material universe is true in Gods
moral government and spiritual ar
rangement That is the meaning of
Ezeliel's wheel. All commentators agree
in saying that the wheel means Gods
providence. But wheel is of no use
unless it turn, and if it turn it turns
around. and if it turn around it moves
in circle. What them Are we parts
Of great iron machine whirled around
whether we will or not the victims of
memorable fate? No! So far from that,
shall show you that we ourselves start
the circle of good or bad actions and that
it will surely come around again to us
unless by divine Intervention it be hin
dered 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 of'the earth.
Jezebel. the worst woman of the Bible
slew Naboth because she wanted his
vineyard. While the dogs were eating
the uouy on NaDoun, Elisha the prophet
put down his compass and marked {
circle from the dogs clear around to thu
DOGS that should eat the body of Jezebe
the murdercss. "Impossibler' the PEG
r., said; that will never happen" Wht
is that being flung out of the palac