Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-01-21

word has gone out. that slanderous word, on
its poisonous and blasted way. You thinh
IT win never do you any harm. But am
watching that word, and see IL beginning
to curve, and 1t curves around, and It is aim
ing at your heart You had better dodge
II. You cannot dodge it. 1t rolls into youi
bosom and after it rolls in word of an old
book which says, with what measure ys
mete. 1t shall be measured to you again. y
You maltreat an aged parent. You be-
CRU iged him the room in your house. You
are impatient Of his whimsicalities AMI gar
rulity. 1t makes you mad to hear him tell
the same story twice. You give him food
away. You wonder It he is guing to livs
forever He will be gone very soon His
steps are shorter and shorter. He is going
to stop. But Co has an account to settle
with you on that subject After awhile
! your eye will be dim, and your gait will
halt, and the sound of the grinding will be
! low, and you will tell the same story twice.
and your children will wonder IL you are
going to live forever and wonder il you will
never be taken away
they callei you father, once: now they
| call you the ''old man. IL you live a few
years longer they will call you the ''old
chapg What are those rou III words with
which your children are accosting you?
They are the echo of the very words YOU
used in the ear of your old father forty
years ago. What is that which you are
trying to chew, but find it unmas-
ticaoie, and your jaws ache, and you sur
render the attempt Perhaps it may be the
gristle which you gave to your father for
his breakfast forty years ago.
A gentleman passing along the street saw
a son dragging his father into the street by
the hair of the heal The gentleman, out
ragged at this brutal conduct, was about to
punish the Offender when the old man arose
and IL, Don't hurt him. its all right;
forty years ago this morning dragged out
my father by tie hair of his headm 1t is
circle. My father livei into the eighties,
and be had very wide experience, ami he
said that maltreatment of parents was
always punished in this world Other sins
may be adjourned to the next world, but
maitreatment of parents is punished in this
world.
TIE circle turns quickly, very quickly.
"a, what stupendous thought that the
good and the evil we start come back to usl
Do you know that the Judgment Day will
be only the points at which the circles join
tho good and the bad we have done coming
back to us. unless divine Intervention hinder
coming back to us with welcome of delight
or curse of condemnation.
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment wnen his infiu-
epce comes to full orb-his influence rolling
out through Antioch, through Cyprus
through Lystra, through Corinth, throu III
Athens, through Asio. through Europe
through America, throu III the first century,
throu IN five centuries, through twenty cen
turtles, through all the succeeding centuries
through earth, through heaven, aud at last,
the wave OF influence having made full cir
cult, strikes his great soul. Oh, then | would
like to see himl, No one can tell the wide
sweep of the circle OF his influence save the
I'M who ics tad tha ,i,. ~ h
l should not want to see the couutenancs
of Noltaire when his influence comes to full
orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seizsi
him at eighty three y ears of age his infiI-
ence did not cease, The most brilliant man
of his century, he had used all his faculties
for assaulting Christianity, his bad infiu-
ence widening through France; widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe; widening through America. widen
ing through the ll5 years that have gone by
since he died, widening through earth,
widening through hell, until at last the ac-
cumuatei influence OF his bad life in fiery
surge of omni potent wrath will beat 3ainst
/ bis destroyed spirit, and at tnat moment it
/ will be enough to maze the BLACK hair of
eternal darkness turn white with the horror.
No one can tell how that bad mans iu6u.
ence girdled the earth save the one who is
seated on the circle of the earth the Lori
Almighty
''Well, now" say people in this au Hence.
''this il some respects is a very glad theory
| and in others very sad one; W. would Ike
to have all the goo1 we have ever done CO ne
back to Us, but the thou sht that all the sins
! we have ever committe will cone 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. l can bring
twenty passages of Scripture to prove UnaG
when God for Christs sake forglves a man
the sins OF his past life never come bacl.
/ The wheel may roll on AMI roll on, but
you take your position beh nd the cross
| and the wheel strikes the cross aud is shat
tered forever. The sins fly off from the cir
Gle into the perpendicular, failing at righ
angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven
Forgivenl The meanest thing that mar
can do L., after some difficulty has been set
tied, to bring 1t up again, and God Will no
| be SO mean as that Gods memory is mighty
enough to hold all the events OF the age
but there is one thing that is sure to slip HI
memory, one thing He is sure TO forget, am
that is pardoned transgreSslon. How do
know III l will prove 1t. Their sins am
/ their Iniqu ties Will | remember no more
! Come into that state this morning, my dea
brother, my dear sister. Blessed is tn
on: whose transgressions are forgiven"
But do not MAKE the mistake OF thInkin;
that this doctrine of the circle stops VIII
this lite; it rolls on through heaven. Yo
might quote in opposition to me what 81
John says about the city OF heaven. d
says it "Iieth IL square, That does seen
to initiate ag INST this idea, but you know
| there Is many square house that has
family circle facing each other, AMI in a
circle moving, and can prove that this i
/ SO In regard to heaven. st. John says, 90
heard the voice OF many angels round about
the throne, and the beasts, AMI the elders
Again he says: There was a rainboy
round about the throne The former two
Instance circle: the last either circle or a
| semiclrc.e. The seats facing each other the
| angels facing each other, tbs men facing
! each other. Heaven an amphitheatre of
| glory Circumference of patriarch and proph-
ct and apostle. Circu inference Of Scotch
| Covenanters and The5an lie giop AMI Albi-
| genses. Circumference o, the good of all
ages. Periphery of splendor unimaginsi
and indescribabe. A circle! A circ,el
But every Circumference must have a
centre and what Is the centre Of this helv-
/ emily circumference; Christ. His all tbs
glory His all the praise. HIS all the
crowns. All heaven wreathed into a gar
land round about HIM. Take on the imperi-
al sandal from His foot AMI behold the sea-
of the spike. Lift the coronet Of dominion
from His brow and sea where the LAGER
alton of the briers. Come closer, all heav-
en-. Narrow the circle around His great
heart. o Christ the Saviouri o Christ.
the mani Christ, the God Keep Thy
throne forever, seated on the circle of the
elrth, seated on the circle of the heaven
On Christ, the selid rock stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.