Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-19

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ATLANTA, Jan. l5--Rey Dr. Talmage,
who is now making ten days tour Of the
| southern cities. preached here today The
| ,hrcngs in and around the audience hall
were beyond estimate The subject chosen
was. 1.-The Circle of the Earth, the text be
ing Isaiah xl, q. ut is he that stitch upon
| the circle of the earth.
! While vet people thought that the world
| was fiat, and thousands of years before
! they found out that it was round, lssliah
/ in nv 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. di
| agonals, quadrlngles, but these evidently
| are not Gods favorites. Almost every
| where where You will find him geometriz
| ing you will find the circle dominant, and
| If not the circle, then the curve. which * a
| circle that died young, If it had lived long
enough it would have been full orb--a
periphery. An ellipse is circle pressed
only little too hard at the sides
Giants Causeway in Ireland shows what
| God thinks Of mathematics. There are
| over IS 600 columns of rocks-octagonal
| hexauonal. 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 ms preferable to all others viii
| not say that the Giants Causeway was the
| worlds moIding ROOM but ! do say out OF
a great many figures God seems to have
selected the circle as the best. 1T is be
that stitch ON the circle Of the earth.
| The stars in circle, the moon in a circle
| the sun in a circle, the universe in II circle,
the throne of God the center of that circle
SUGGESTION FOR CHURCH ARCHITECTURE.
When men build churches they ought u
| initiate the idea of the Great Architect and
put the audience in a circle, knowing 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 ont in
straight line, but curvingly, with leash
of love holding it so as TO bring It back
ayaiu The world started from his hand
pure and Edenic. 1t has been rolling on
through regions of moral ice and distem
per How long il will roll God only knows
but il will in due time make complete cir
cult and come back 70 the place whence II
started-the hand of God-pure and Edenie
The history of the world goes 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 ark
A ship carpenter gives that ms his opinion
Although so much derided by small wits
that ship of Noah's time beat the Majestic
and the Etruria and the City Of Paris, OF
which we boast so much Where IS the
ship on the sea today that could outride a
deluge in which the heaven and tho earth
were wrecked. landing all the passengers
in safety-two Of each kind OF living cre''
lures, thousands Of speeiesp
pomology will 90 ON with its achieve
ments until after many centuries the world
will have plums and pears equal to the par
adis;licsl The art of gardening will grow
for centuries, and after the Downlngs and
Mitchells OF the world have done their best
in the far future the art of gardening will
come up TO the arborescence Of the year ].
IF the makers Of colored glass go ON i'm
proving. they may in some centuries Tx
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 toiling on
until it shall make the complete circuit and
If the world continues TO improve in ma
sonry. we shall have after awhile. per
haps 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, 1000 years ago
that mortar today as good as the day IN
which il was made, having outlasted the
brick and the stone. | 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 Babylon five times the size OF
London.
You go into the potteries in England and
you fnd them making cups and vases after
the stvle of the cups and vases exhumed
from Pompeii. The world is not going
back. Oh. no. but it is swinging in cir
Gle and will come back to the styles of pot
terry known so long ago as the days Of Pom
peii The world must keep on progressing
until it makes the complete circuit The
curve il in the right direction, the curve
will keep on until il becomes the circle
THE GREAT MORAL CIRCLE
Well, now, my friends, what is true IN
the material universe is true in God s moral
government and spiritual arrangement.
That is the meaning OF Ezekiels wheel
All commentators agree in saying that the
vince. means Gods providence. Butawheel
is of no use unless il turn, and IL it turn il
turns around, and if it turn around il
moves in circle. What theng Are we
parts Of great iron machine whirled
around whether we will or not the victims
of memorable fatey MOI SO far from that,
| shall show you that we ourselves start the
circle of good or bad actions, and that it
viii surely come around again TO us unless
by divine intervention il be hindered
Those bad or good actions may make the
circuit of many years, but come back to u
they win as certainly as that God Sits on
the circle Of the earth
Jezebel. the worst woman Of the Bible
slew Naboth because she wanted his vine
yard While the dogs were eating the lady
Of Naboth. Elisha the prophet pi - MI lii, I
compass aud marked a circle from Thor,
dogs clear around to the dogs thai should
eat the body Of Jezebel the muricp->s.
Impossible" the people said: that viii
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