The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-03-11
TlLMAGE'S SERMON.
How the Influences OF Good and
Evil Acts Move in Circles.
Years. or Even Centuries. May be Needed
to Complete the Circle, But the
Ends VIII Eventually Como
Together.

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the following discourse at Atlanta, Ga
while on recent tour of southern cities
on the topic: 1.-THE Circle of the Earth.
His text was:
1t is he that stitch npor tbs circle Of tn
earth.-Isaiah H., e.
When yet people thought that tn
world was fiat, and thousands of year
before they found out that IL wa
round. Isaiah, in my text, intimat
ed the shape of it, God sitting upor
the circle of the earth. The mos
beautiful figure in all geometry is tn,
circle. God made the universe on the
plan of a circle. There are in the
natural world straight lines, angles
parallelograms, diagonals, quadran
giles; but these evidently are not Gods
favorites- Almost everywhere where
you will find Him geometrizing, you
will find the circle dominant, and if not
the circle, then the curve, which is a
circle that died young! If it had lived
long enough it would have been full
orb, periphery. An ellipse is circle
| pressed only little too hard at the
sides Giants Causeway in Ireland
shows what God thinks of mathemat-
les. There are over thirty-dye thousand
columns OF rocks-octagonal, hexag-
onal, pentagonal. 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 Causeway was the
worlds moiding room, but do say, out
OF great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best ut
is He that stitch on the circle of the
EARTH" The stars in circle. the moon
in circle, the sun in circle. the uni
verse in circle, the throne of God the
center of that circle.
When men build churches they ought
to initiate the idea of the Great Archi-
tect and put the audience in q circle,
knowing that the tides of emotion roll
more easily that way than in straight
lines Six thousand years ago God
flung this world out of His right hand;
but He did not throw it out in straight
line, but curviliEear, with 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 Edenic.
The history of the world goes in
circle. Why is it that the ship
ping in our day is improving SO rapidly? |
1t is because pen are initiating the |
old model of Noah's ark. A ship cor
penter gives that as his opinion. Al |
though SO much derided by small wits, |
that ship of Noah's beat the Majectic
and the Etruria and the City of Paris,
of which we boast SO much. Where is
the ship on the sea to-day that could
outride n deluge in which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked, landing
all.the passengers in safety?-two of
each of living creatures, thousands of
species Pomology will go on with its
achievements, until after many GEN.
turies the world will have plums and
pears equal to the Paradisaical The
art OF gardening will grow for centu.
'ies, and after the Downings and Mitch
els of the world have done their best,
n the far future the art of gardening
will come up to the aborescence of the
7ear one. If the makers of colored
ylass go on improving. they they may
u some centuries be able to make
equal to the east window of
York minister, which was built in 1890.
We are six centuries behind those art
SITS, but the world must keep on toll
ng until it shall make the complete
ircait and come up to the skill of those
cry men. If the world continues to +,
in masonry, we shall have
fter awhile. perhaps after the advance
# centuries. morter equal to that
which / saw last summer sin the wall
f an exhumed English city. built in
he time of the Romans, one thousand
tx hundred years ago-that mortar to-
ay as good as the day in which it was
lade, having outlasted the brick and
he stone. / say, after hundreds of :
ears, masonry may advance to that
oint If the world stands long 7
nough, we may have. a city as they :,
ad in old times. Babylon, five times l
ne size of London. You 90 into the !
otterries in England, and you find 7
lem making cups and vases after the
syle of the cups and vases exhumed
ON Pompeii. The world is not going a
ack. Oh no! but it is swinging in a J
rcle, and will come back to the STYLES q
pottery known SO long ago as the a
ays of Pompeii The world must "
eep on progressing until it makes the n
,mplete circuit The curve is in the
ght direction, the curve will keep on
ntil it becomes the circle.
Well now. my friends, what is true in !
lie material universe is true in Gods q
oral government and spiritual ar 7.
Ingement. That is the meaning of I
zekiePs wheel. All commentators !
yree in saying that the wheel means II
DDS providence. But wheel is of no 0
sc unless it turns, and if it turns it 81
rms around. and if it turns around it 81
owes in circle. What then? Are we "
lrts of great iron machine whirled y
'ound whether we will or not, the VIC q
ms of memorable fate? No! So far
ON that, l shall show you that we 81
irselves start the circle of good or bad
,tions, and that il will surely coue al