Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-02-03


to WORK 50 slowly as IL 1t, caan21 TO III tn7
buidt~.g OF the ecernIr.es al " I % WAX;
W. though G)i IOutI ta&e 1871 {et,'
raw a circle: SnaI ~ TaH7 our htce
watch, which We nave 70 VIM ~ 80
night lest IL run down AMI h0i II ID DIslde
the CLOG Of eternal ages; II, acroT lag q
the BIole, a THOUSAND years are III 101S
sight as one day, tnen accordinS 70 th4I
calculation, the 6OJ years or the "ori4s
existence have oeen only ID OOd as Alo'i
MOniay to saturday.
But it Is often toe case that the recount
is quicker and the circle Is sooner compleoeu.
You resolve that you will do wnaL goo
you can. IN one week you put "ord Q.
Counsel in the heart of a Sabbath school
child. During that same week you give
letter of intro 1uction TO a young man strue-
CLING in business. During the same week
You make exnortatlon in prayer meet
ing 1t is all gone; you will never near OF
it. perhaps, you think.
a few years after man comes up to you
and says You don't know me, do your
You say, mo. [ don't remember ever TO
the Sabbath-school class over which you
were the teacher. One Sunday you invite
me to Christ ! accepted the offer. on
see that church with two towers yonder?,
Yes" you say. He says. THAT Is where l
preach" or, do you see that governors
house? That is where live" One day
man comes TO you and says, "Good morn
ing" You look at him and say, why. you
have the advantage OF me; cannot place
you" He says, Don't you remember thirty
years ago giving letter OF intro 1uctlon TO
a young man, a letter OF introduction to
Moses II. Grlnnellg" Yes, yes, l do" He
says: Il am the man; that was my first
step toward a fortune, but | have retired
from business now AMI am giving my time
to philanthrOpies and public interests come
up and see me-"
Or a man comes to you and says: al
rrn1nca L
into a prayer meeting in Atlanta some
years ago; l sat back by the door; you arose
to make an exhortatiOn; that talk changed
the course of my life, and If ever l get to
heaven, under God [ will ow9 my salvation
to you" In only ten, twenty or thirty
years the circle swept out AMI swept BACK
again to your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is wider circle and
does not return tor great while. L saw
bill Of expenses for burning l. 4timer AMI
Ridley The bill OF expenses says;
One load of fir fagots Observation-Disclosures. 3s i'd
Garage OF four loads OF wood. ............ Is.
1tel, poSt =. Az
Item, Two chains ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS S. 4d
Item, Two stao les I'd
Item, lour IaDortrs ...................... IS. gu
That was cheap fire. considering all the
circumstances. but 1t kindled hight taaU
shone all around the world and aroused the
MARTYR spirit, and out from that burning OF
Latlmer and Ridl ey rolled the circle WIDER
and wider starting other circles, conVotut-
ing, Overrunning, circumscr1blng, overarch-
ing all heaven-1 clrcle.
But what is true or the good IS just as
true of the bad You utter SANDER against
your neighhor 1t has gone for tn from
you: teeth; it will never come back, you
think. You have doue the all the mis-
chief you can. You eioice to see him vince
You say, 'Didnt [ give it to him!" That
word has gone out, that slanierous wore, on
its poisonous and blasted way. You think
1t will never do you any harm. But | am
watching that wor1, and [ see it beginning
to curve, and it curves around, and it is aim.
ing at your heart. You had better dodge
it. You cannot dodge it. It rolls into YOUR
bosom and after it rolls in a word Of an old
book, which says, with what measure We
mete, it shall be measure to you again !"
You maltreat an aged parent. You be-
CRU ICED him the room in your house. You
are impatient of his whimsicaities and gar
ruity. 1t makes you mad to hear him tell
the same story twice. You give him food
he cannot masticate. You wish he was
away. You wonder il he is going to live
forever. he will be gone very soon. His
steps are shorter and shorter He is going
TO stop. But God has an account to settle
with you on that subject. After awhile
your eye will be dim, and your gait will
halt, and the sound of the grinding will be
low, and you will tell the same story twice.
and your children will wonder il you are
going to live forever and wonder if you will
never be taken away
They callet you ''father" once: now thew
call YOU the ''old man." # you live a few
years longer they will cali you the ''old
chapF' What are those rough words with
Whlcd your children are accosting YOU?
They are the echo of the very words you
used in the ear of your old father FORTY
years ago. What is that which you are
trying to chew. but find it unmas-
tlca6le, and your jaws ache, and you sur
render the attempt? Perhaps it may be the
grlstle which you gave to your father for
MS breakfast forty years ago.
A gentleman passing along the street saw
a son dragging his father into the street bv
the hair of the head. The gentleman, out
ragged at this brutal conduct, was about to
punish the offender when the old man arose
and sid, Don't hurt him; its all right:
forty years ago this morning | dragged out
my father by the hair Of his headm It is a
circle. Ny father lived into the eighties,
and he had very wide experience, and he
said that maltreatment of parents was
always punished in this world Other sins
may be adjourned to the next world, but
maltreatment Of parents is punished in this
world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
Oh, what a stupendous thought that the
good and the evil we start come back to usl
DO you know that the Judgment Day will
be only the points at which the circles ioin.
tho good and the bad we have done coming
pack to us, unless divine Intervention hinder
coming back to Us with welcome of delight
or curse of condemnation
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment when his inhu-
ence comes to full Orb-his influence rolling
out through Antioch, through Cyprus
through LyStra, through Corinth through
Athens, through Asia, through Europe
through America, through the first century
through hVe centuries, through twenty CEN
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