The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-03-11
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Oh, what q stupendous thought tina
, the good and the evil we start com
back to us. Do you know that tn
judgment day will be only the point
at which the circle join, the good AM
] the bad we have done coming back t.
!. us, unless Divine Intervention hinder
coming back to us with welcome of de
light or curse of condemnation.
''Oh, would like to see Paul, the In
valid missionary, at the moment wher
his influence comes to full orb-his in
fluence 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 oil succeeding
centuries. through earth, through
Heaven; and at last, the wave of infiu-
ence having made full circuit, strikes
his great soul Oh, then / would like
to see him. No one can tell the
wide sweep of the circle of his infiu-
ence, save the One who is seated on the
circle of the earth. / should notsyvant
to sec the countenance of Voltaire
when his influence comes to full orb.
| When the fatal hemorrhage seized him
at eighty-threc years of age his infiu-
ence did not cease. The most brilliant
man Of his century, he had used all his
faculties far assaulting Christianity:
his bad influence widening through
France, widening out through Ger
many, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through the one hundred and fifteen
years that have gone by since he died,
widening through earth. widening
through hell; until at last the ac-
cumulated influence of his bad life in
fiery surge of omnipotent wrath will
beat against his destroyed spirit, and
at that moment it will be enough to
make the black hair of eternal dark
ness turn white with 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 Almighty.
well, now" say people in this audi,
ence, "this in some respects is a very
glad theory, and in others very sad
one; we would like to have all 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,
have to tell you God can break that
circle, and will do SO at your call.
can bring twenty passages of Scripture
to prove 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 shat
tered forever. The sins fly off from
the circle into the perpendicular, fall
ing at right angles with complete OBJ
livion. Forgiven! Forgiven! The
meanest thing a man can do Is, after
some difficulty has been settled, to
bring it up again; and God viii 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 forget, and that is pardoned |
How do I know it? |
will prove it. Their sins and their
niquities will / remember sno more"
Come into that state this morning, my
lear brother, my dear sister. BLESSED |
S the one whose transgressions are for
given"
But do not make the mistake of
thinking that this doctrine of the cir
lie stops with this life; it rolls on
through Heaven. You might quote in
opposition to me what St John says
lbout the city of Heaven. He says it
lieth four-square. That does not
eem to initiate against this idea, but
vou know there is many a square house
het has family circle facing each 9TH
#, and in circle moving, and can
prove that this is so in regard to Heaven.
It. John says: Il heard the vo ice of many
.ngels round about the throne, and the
'easts and the elders" Again he says:
There was a rainbow round about the
hrone." The two former instances a
ircle; the last either circle or semi
ircle. The seats facing each other, the
ngels facing each other. The men
acing each other. Heaven an ampi- j
uCoUCi Va hOIy. OiTCuiulcTcuCe OF pa |
riarch and prophet and apostle Cir !
umference of Scotch Covenanters and
'heban legion and Albigenses Circum-
srence of the good of all ages. Peri
hery of splendor unimagined and in
escribable. A circle! circle.
But every circumference must have a
enter, and what is the center of this
eavenly circumference? Christ. His
Il the glory. His all the praise. His
II the crowns. All Heaven wreathed
ito garland about Him. Take off
he imperial sandal from His foot, and !
ehold the scar Of the spike Lift the !
,ronet of dominion from His brow and
,e where was the laceration of the
riers. Come closer, all Heaven. Mar
wv the circle ;around His great heart .
Christ, the Saviour! o Christ, the
an! @ Christ, the God! Keep Thy /,
lrone forever, seated on the circle of Ii
lie earth, seated on the circle of the {
eaven.
On Christ. the solid rock stand:
All other ground is sinking sand. t
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