Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-01-27
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE's SUN.
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: THE CIRCLE OF The
EARTH" (PREACHED AT AT
LANTA, GAL


God made the universe on the plan of a
circle. There are in the natural world
straight lines, angles, parallelograms, dag
onala qusdrangles, but these evidently are
not God's favoritss. Almost everywhere
where you will find Him geomotriIing you
find the circle dominant, and IL not the
circle, then the curve, which is circle that
died youn-. IL 1t had lived long enough it
would have bsen a full orb-a periphery,
An ellipse is a circle pressed only little too
hard at the sides.
Giants Causeway, In Ireland. shows what
God thinks OF mathematics. There are over
85, 900 columns OF rocks-octagonal, hexa-
gonal, 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 molding room. but do say out of a
great many figures God seems to have sci.
ected the circle as the best. sit is He that
sitteth on the circle Of the sarth.' The stars
In circle the moon in circle the sun in
circle, the universe in 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 aud
put the audience in circle, knowing that
the tides of emotion roll more easily that
years ago God flung this world out OF His
| right hand, but He did not throw 1t out in
q straight line, but curv!linear, with lease
| OF love holding 10 80 as to bring IL back
again. The world started from His hand
pure and Eienic. IL has been rolling on
through regions OF moral ice aud distemper.
How long It will roll God only knows, but
| 1t will in due time make complete circuit
and come back to the place whence II started
the hand Of God-pure and Edenic.
The history Of the world goss in a circle.
Why is it that the shipping in our day Is
improving so rapidly 1t is because men
are initiating the old model OF Noah's arr.
A ship carpenter gives that as his opinion.
Although so much deridei by small wits,
that ship OF Noah's time beat the Majestic
and the Etruria and the City of PARIS, Of
which we boast 30 much. Where Is tine
ship on the sea to-day that could outride q
delugs in which the heaven and the earth
were wrecked, landing all the passengers in
safety-two Of each kind OF living creatures,
thousands Of speciesi
Pomology will go on with it's achieve.
ments until after many centuries the world
will have plums and pears equal to the para.
disaical. The art Of gardening will grow
for centuries, aud after the Downngs and
Mitchells Of the world have done their best
In the far future the art OF gardening will
come up to the arborescencs Of the year /.
II the makers OF colored glass 90 on improv.
ing they may in some centuries be able to
make something equal to the east window Of
York minister, which was built In 1890. We
are six centuries behind those artists, but
the world must keep on toling until it shall
make the complete circuit and come up to
the skill OF those very men.
IL the world continues 10 improve in ma
sonry 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 English city, built In the
time OF the Romans 1900 years ago-that
was made, having outlasted the brick and
the stone. l say, after hundreds of years,
masonry may advance to that point. II the
world stands long enough we, may have a
city as large as they had in old times Baby.
lon five times the size Of London.
You 60 into tho 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 1t
makes the complete circuit The curve Is In
the right direction; the curve will keep on
until 1t becomes the circle.
Well, now, my friends what Is true in the
material universe Ii true In Gods mora
government and spiritual arrangement
That is the meaning Of Ezekie.'s wheel. Al
Commentators agree in saying that tn
wheel means Gods providence But q whee
10 Of no use unless it turn, and II 1t turI
It turns around, and IL it turns around 1
moves In a circle. What theui Are W
parts Of Q great iron machine whirlet
around whether We will or not, the victim
Of inexorable fate? mol So far from that
I shall show you that we ourselves start tn
circle Of good or bad actions and that 1t vii
surely come around again to Us unless b.
divine intervention 1t DO hindered. Thos
bad or good actions may make the circuit O
many years, but come back to US they wi
as certainly as that God sits on the circle q
the earth.
Jesebel, the worst woman OF the Bibl,
slew Naboth because she wanted his vim,
yard. While the dogs were eating the bod
Of Naboth. Elisha the prophet put down b
vumpass un'i nnrged a circle from tue dos
clear around to the dogs that should eat Il
body of Jezebsl tho murderess. "lmpo
sbleF' the people said ''that will neve
happen" Who Is that being flung out OF Il
palace Window Jezebel. A few hours aft.
they came around hoping to bury her. The
find only the palms OF her hands and Il
skull. The dogs that devoured Jezsbel ar
the dogs that devoured Nabothi Oh, VIII
swift, what an awful circuiti
But IL is sometimes the case that this crc
sweeps throu yh q century or through man
centuries. The world started with a theo
racy for government-that Is, God was Il
, president and emperor of the world. Poop
got tired of theocracy. They said. Nv
0on't want Col directly interfering with tl
affairs OF the world give US q monarchy
! The world had monarchy. From mo
archy it is going TO havea limited monarch
After awhile the limited monarchy will
given up. and the republican form of go
ernment will be every where dominant at
= Of the republican form Of governmeat, an
, 1t will have an anarchy. which is no govern
. ment at all. And then all nations, fin iir
D out that a man is not capable Of righteous
{ governing man. will cry out for a theocrae
aud say: "Let God come back and condu
the affairs OF the world"
Every step-monarohy, limitod mol
arcY, republicanism, anarchy only diffe
ent steps between the first theocracy aud Il
9 last theocracy, or segments OF the great ci
Gle of the earth on which God sits. But {
not become inpatient because you cam
see the curve OF events, and therefore co
= clude that Gods government Is going
: break down. History tells US That in tl
$ making OF the pyramids it took 5000 me
y. two years to drag one great stone from th
i quarry aud put 1t into the pyramids.
: Well, now, II men short lived oan sffo
: 10 work so slowly as that, cannot God in Il
!, building OF the eternities afford to wal
: What though God should take 10, 900 yea
to draw a circlef Shall we take our lit
watch, which we have to wind up eve
night lest it run down, and hold 1t up besi
y the clock Of eternal ngesi II, according
Is the Bible, q thousand years are In Got
g sight ,. as one a. day oe Snen, according to IN 20
2. existence have been only to God as fro
r. Monday to Saturday.
is But it Ia often the case that the reboul
is quicker and the circle Is sooner complete
You resolve that you will do what goi