The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-01-26
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The BROOKLYN DIvINEs Sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject, 1.-THE Circle of the Earth. :
Preached at Atlanta, Ga.

TEXT. "B is He that sitteh upon tn,
eirc of The earth."-Isaiah XII, %.
While yet people thought that tae world
was fat, and thousands OF years before they
found out that it was round. Isaiah, in my
| text intimatei the shape OF lt--dod slttln
| upon the circle Of the earth. The most
beautiful figure in all geometry is the Gree
| Col made the universe on the plan OF a
| circle. There ar in the natural world
\ straight lines, an yles paralleiogrl u.s. dag
! onals, ouadrangies, put thsss evidently are
not Gods favorites. Almost every where
where YOU will lind Him geomotrizlng you
find the circle dominant, and II not the
| circle then the curve. which IS circle tnat
| died youn If it mad lived long enough 1t
| would have bsen full orb-a periphery.
An ellipse is a circle pressed only little too
| hard at the sides.
| G ants Caussway, in ireland, shows what
| God thinks or mathematics. There are over
| So 900 columns OF rocks-octagona1, hexa-
! ponaI. pentagonal. These rocks seem to
| have been made by rule and by compass.
| Every artist has his molding room, where
| he may maze fifty shapes, but ne chooses
| one shape as preferable TO all otaers. VIII
not say that tho ants C4useway was the
worlds molding room. but 1 do say out OF a
great many figures God seems to have sell
ectsd the circle as the best at is de that
sltteth on the circle of the EARTH The stars
in a circle the moon in circle the sun IN
circle the universe in a circle, tho throne of
God the center o that circle.
When men build churches they ought to
initiate the idea OF the Great Architect and
put the audience in 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 out in
a straight line, but curvlinear, with LEASE
OF love holding 1t SO as to bring 1t back
again. The world started from His hand
pure and enc. 1t has been rolling on
through regions OF moral ice and distemper.
How long it will roll God only knows, but
it will in due time make complete circuit
and come back to the place whence it started
the hand of God-pure and Edenic.
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 as his opinion.
Although SO mucn oerdei 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 to-day that could outride
deuge in which the heaven and the earth
were wrecked, landing all the passengers in
safety-two of each kind Of living creatures,
thousands of species?
Pomology will go on with its achieve.
ments until after many centuries the world
will have pums and pears equal to the psra-
disaical. The art Of gardening will grow
for centuries, and after the Downings and
Mitchells OF the world have done their best
in the tar future the art of gardening will
come up to the arborescence of the year 1.
Ii the makers OF colored glass go on improv
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make something equal to the east wiudo v OF
FORK minister, when was built in 1890 We
are SIX centuries behind those artists, but
the world must keep on tolling until it shall
make the complete circuit and come up to
the skill OF those very men.
II the world continues to improve in ma
sorry we shall have after awhile, perhaps
after the advance OF centuries, mortar equal
to that which | saw last su inner in the wall
of ali exhumed English city, built in the
time OF the Romans. 1900 years ago-that
mortar to-day as good as the day in which it
was made, having outlasted the brick and
the stone. l say. after hundreds of wears.
masonry may advance to that point. II the
world stan is long enough we may have a
city as large as they had in old tmes-Baby.
lon five times the size OF London.
You go into the potteries in England AMI
you find them making cups and vases after
from Pompeii. The world is no. going
back. Oh, no; but IL is swinging in a circle
and will come BACK to the styles OF pottery
known SO long ago as the days of Pompeii
The worl must Kesp on pro crossing until IL
makes the complete circuit The curve is in
the right direction; the curve will keep on
until II becomes the circle.
Wei, now, my friends what is true in the
material universe is true in Gods moral
,nr1f and trr~,
That is the meaning OF Eze6ie's wheel. All
commentators agree in saying that the
wheel means Goa's providence. But wheel
is of no use unless it turn, and ii it turn
it turns around, and il it turns arount it
moves in circle. What then? Ara We
parts of great iron machine whirlat
around whether we will or not, the victims
of inexorarle tate? MOI So Iar from that,
| shall show you that we ourselves start the
circle Of Good or pad actions anu that it will
surely come aroun1 again to US unless py
divine Intervention it oe hindered. Those
bad or good actions may make the circuit OF
many years, but come Dach TO Us they will
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 cody
OF Naboth, Elisha the prophet put down bis
clear aroun to tae 10 IS tla5 sqoIll eat the
body Of Jez abel the murieress. "lmpos-
sible" the geo DE said; ''that will never
ha loen." VINO is that being fung out OF the
palace window? Jezeo9l. A lew hours after
they came around hoping t. ourg her They
lind onv the palns o. her hands AMI the
skull. The dogs at devoure Jez4bel and
the dogs that devoure1 Naboth! o., what
a swift, what an awful circuit
Rut il is SOnoo I'M the "a n ~ a
sweeps tnrou IN a century or throu III many
centuries. The world started with theoc-
racy Tor government-tha is, God was the
president an / emperor OF the w)rl People
got tired of theocracy. Taey sail: ave
cont want Go directly intsrierin with 10
afr airs OF the world give US monarchy"
The world had IA monarchy. From a mon
archylt is going to have Unite monarchy.
After awhile the limited monarchy will be
given 10. AM the republican form o. gov.
eminent will be everywhere dominant and
recognized Then the world will get tired
of the republican form Of governmeat, aui
1t will have an anarchy, watch is no govern