The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-01-20
IA TALK BY TALMAGE.
NE Is ON A PREACHING TOUR OF
K TEN DAYS IN THE SOUTH.

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cIes of Gods Providence and the Mors
Government of the world-R ecurrin
Cycles of History.
ATLANTA, Jan. 15.-Rev. DR.. Talmage
Rho is now making ten days tour o
The southern cities, preached here today
The throngs in and around the audienc
hall were beyond estimate The subjec
chosen was 1.-THE Circle of the Earth,
the text being Isaiah xl, 20, 1T is he tina
Gtteth upon the circle of the earth"
I While yet people thought that thu
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 a circle pressed
only little too hard at the Sides
Chants 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
shapes, 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
great many figures God seems to have
iselected the circle as the best. ut is he
that sitteth on the circle of the earth.
The stars in circle, the moon in a cir
Gle, the SUN in a circle, the universe in
circle, the throne of God the center of
that circle. r...
When men build churches they ought |
b initiate the idea of the Great Architect |
and put the audience in a circle, know
ing 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 a straight line, but
with leash of love holding
t 80 as to bring it back again. The
xorld started from his hand pure and
Edenic. It has been rolling on through
egions Of moral ice and distemper. How
ong it will roll God only knows, but it
will in due time make complete circuit
md come back to the place whence it
tarted-the hand of God-pure and
Gdenic
THE DIVINE PLAN RESUMED.
The history of the world goes in cir
lie. Why is it that the shipping in our
lay is improving so rapidly? 1t is be-
cause men are initiating the old model
IF Noah's ark. A ship carpenter gives
hat as his opinion. Although so much
ierided by small wits, that ship of Noah's
lime beat the Majestic and the Etruria
md the City of Paris. of which we boast
70 much. Where is the ship on the sea
oday that could outride a deluge in
which the heaven and the earth were
wrecked, landing all the passengers in
afety-two of each kind of living crea-
ures, thousands of species?
Pomology will go on with its achieve
nents until after many centuries the
world will have plums and pears equal
o the paradisaical The art of garden
ng will grow for centuries, and after the
)ownings and Mitchells of the world
ave done their best in the far future
he art of gardening will come up to
he arborescence of the year l. If the
makers of colored glass go on improving
hey may in some centuries be able to
make something equal to the east win
low of York minister. which was built in
800. We are six centuries behind those
rtists, but the world must keep on toll
ng until it shall make the complete Cir
uit and come up to the skill of those
'ery men.
If the world continues to improve in
masonry we shall have after awhile.
,erhaps after the advance of centuries,
Mortar equal to that which l saw last
hummer in the wall of an exhumed Eng
ish city, built in the time of the Ro-
mans, 1000 years ago-that mortar to-
lay as good as the day in which it was
made, having outlasted the brick and
he stone. say, after hundreds of years,
masonry may advance to that point. Il
he world stands long enough we may
lave a city as large as they had in old
imes-Babylon five times the size of
london.
You go into the potteries in England
md you find them making cups and
Iases after the style of the cups and
vases exhumed from Pompeii. The
world is not going back. Oh, no; but it
8 swinging in a circle and will come
,ack to the styles of pottery known so
ong ago as the days of Pompeii. The
world must keep ON progressing until it
makes the complete circuit. The curve
s in the right direction; the curve will
teep on until it becomes the circle.
THE EVER REVOLVING WHEEL
Well. now. my friends, what is true in
he material universe is true in Gods
moral government and spiritual ar
That is the meaning of