Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-16

his influence comes to full orb--his In
fuenee rolling out through Antioch,
through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth, through Athens,
through Asia, through Europe, through
America, through the first century,
through five centuries, through twenty
centuries, through all the succeeding
centuries. through earth, through heav-
en-: and at last the wave OF influence
having made full circuit, strikes the
great soul. Oh, then l would IKE 10
see him. No on can tell the wide sweep
of the circle of his influence, save the
one who is seated on the circle OF the
earth. I should not want to see coun-
tenance of Voltaire when his Influence
comes to full ORD. When
the fatal hemorrhage seized him at 90
years of age his influence did not cease.
The most brilliant man OF his century,
he had used all his faculties for assault
ing Christianity; his bad influence wild
ening through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through
all Europe, widening through America,
widening through the one hundred anc
fifteen years that have gone by since he
died, widening through earth, widening
through he'll; until at last the. accumu-
lated
INFLUENCE OF HIS BAD LIFE
in fiery surge of omnipotent wrath Will
beat against his destroyed spirit, aud at
that moment it will be enough 10 make
the black hair of eternal darkness turn
white with the horror No one can tell
how that bad mans influence girdled
the earth save the one who is seated on
the circle OF the earth-the Lord Al
mighty.
''Well now" say the people in this
audience, "this in some respects is
very glad theory, and in others very
sad one; we would like to have ali the
good we have ever done come back TO
us. but the thought that all the sins we
have ever committed will come back to
us, fills us with alright" My brother,
l have TO tell you God can break that
circle, and viii do so at your call. l
can bring twenty passages of Scripture
to proye that when God for Christ's
sake forgives a man, the sins of his past
life never come back The wheel may
roll on and roll on, but you take your
position behind the Cross and the
wheel strikes the Cross and is shattered
forever The sins fly of from the
circle into the perpendicular, falling at
right angles with complete oblivion.
Forgiven! Forgiven The meanest
thing man can do is, after some diff
Guilty has been settled, to bring 1t up
again and God will not be so mean as
that. Gods memory is mighty enough
to hold all the events OF the ages, but
there is one thing that is sure to slip
his memory, one thing he is sure to for
get and that is pardoned transgression.
HOW DO KNOW IT?
will prove it. Their sins and their
iniquitles will remember no more"
Come into that state this morning, my
dear brother, my dear sister. blessed
is the one whose transgressions are for
given"
But do not make the mistake OF think
ing that this doctrine of the circle stops
with this life; it rolls on through
heaven. You might quote in opposi-
tion to me what st. John says about the
city of heaven. He says it "lieth four
square," That does seem to initiate
against this idea; but you know that
there is many a square house that has a
family circle facing each other, and in
a circle moving, and l can prove that
this is so in regard to heaven. St. John
saws: 81 heard the voice Of many an
gels round about the throne, and the
beasts and the elders" Again he says:
There was rainbow round about the
throne" The two former instances a
circle; the last, either circle or semi
circle. The seats facing each other,
the angels facing each other, the men
facing each other. Heaven an ampi-
theatre of glory. circumference of pa
triarch and prophet and apostle. Cir
cumference Of Scotch Covenanters and
Theban legion and Albigenses. Cir
cumference of the good of old ages.
Periphery of splendor unimagined and
undesirable. A cir Gle!
But every circumference must have
centre, and what is the centre OF
THIS HEAVENLY CIRCUMFERENCE?
Christ. His all the glory. His all the
praise. His all the crowns. All heaven
wreathed into a garland round about
him. Take off the imperial sandal from
his foot, aud behold the scar of the
spike. Lift the coronet of dominion
from his brow, and see here was the
laceration of the briers. Come closer
ull heaven. Narrow the circle around
his great heart o Christ, the Saviour!
o Christ, the man! o Chi ist, the God!
Keep thy throne forever, seated on the
circle OF the earth, seated on the circle
OF the heaven.
On Christ, the solid rock l stand;
All other ground Is sinking sand