The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-17
pie got tired Of theocracy. They said:
t1SNp don't want Cod directlY Interfering

monarchy. The world had il monarchy.
From a monarchy it is going TO have Il
ed monarchy will be given up, and the re-
publican form of government will he every
where dominant and recognized. Then Inc
world will get tired of republican form or
government and it will have al anarchy,
which is no government at all. And hen
all uations finding out that man is not
capable of rightcously governing man, VIII
cry out again for Il theocracy, and say, Let
God come back and conduct the affairs OF
the world. Every step monarchy, limited
monarchy, republcahi$m, ablrrhy, only DIT
ferrnt steps between the first thcocrncy and
the last theocrlcy, or seSnents OF the great
circle Of the earth on which God sits. But
do not become impatient because you can
not the curve of events, and therefore
conclude that Gods government is going TO
break down. History tells us thu i'll the
making of the pyramids ii took "A'" men
two years to drag one great St0 II the
quarry and put it into the pyl Wen
now, if hen short lived can n work
so slowly as tfat. cannot Got p3Iild
iy.g of the eternities afford to NN:i. What
though God should take 10000 years to
draw q circle: Shall we take our little
watch, which we have to wind up every
night lest ii run down, and hold il up beside
the clock Of eternal ages? If, according to
the Bible, n thousand years are in Sod y
sight as one day, then according to that cal
culation. the 5000 years of the worlds eX-
iStence have been only TO God as from Mon
day to Saturday.
But is often the case that the rebound
is quicker, and the circle is sooner com
plcted. You resolve that you will DO what
good you can. In one week you put a
word Of counsel in the heart of q Sabbath
school child. During the same week YOU
give a letter of Introduction to II young
man struggling in business. During the
same week Won make an cxhortation in a
~, Nalr 10 ILL
never hear of it perhaps, you think. A
lew years alter man comes up to you,
and says, You don't know me- do you?"
Iou say, No, | don't remember ever to
have seen you Why he says, 81 was
in the Sabbath school class over which you
we're The teacher; one Sunday you invited
me to Christ; | accepted the offer; you see
that church with two towers yonder?"
Yes" You say. He says, '"That is where
| preach, or DO you see that governors
house? That is where | live" One day
Il main comes to you. and says, Good morn
ing" You look ut the man and say. "\Vhy
you have the advantage Of me; l cannot
place YOU" He says, Don't you rencm-
Der thirty years ago giving letter of in
PRODUCTION to young man--a letter OF i'll
yes, | do" lie says, y am the man; that
was my first step toward 4 fortune; but l
have retired from business now, and am
giving my time to philantlropies and public
interests. Come up anG see me- Or
man comes TO You, ana says. Il want 20
introduce myself TO YOU. | went into Il
prayer meeting i'll Atlanta some years ago;
| sat back by the door: You arose to make
an cXhurtation; that talk changed the course
Of my life and if | ever get to heaven, I'M
der God | will owe my salvation to You.
In only ten. twenty or thirty years the cir
Gle swept ont and swept back again TO
your own grateful heart.
But some times 1t Is Wider circle, and
does not return for great while. | SAW
a bill eff expenses for burning Iatimer and
Ridley. The bill of expenses says:
One load frs tagots,. IS. i'd.
Carriage for four loads of wood. Is.
Item, post, ..............iS ga.
Item, chains, ................3S IS. Id.
Item, . staples. ................ 4d.
Item, laborors.. ..............2s Sd.
That was n cheap fire, considering all the
circumstances; but ii knllel a light that
shone all around the world and aroused
the martyr spirit, and ont from that burn
ing of Latimer and Ridley rolled a circle
wider and wider. starting other circles, cor
volutng, overrunning, circumscribing, over
archng all heaven-a circle.
But what is true of the good is just as
true of the bad. You utter SANDER
against your neighbcr. 1t has gone forth
from yG;r teeth; ii will never come back.
you think. You have done the man all the
mischief you can. You rejoice to see him
L
That word has gone out-that slanderoEs
word, on its poisonous and blasted way
You think it will never do you
any harm; But am watching
ginning to curve. and it curves around, and
it is aiming ut your heart. You had better
dodge it. You cannot dodge it. 1t rolls
into your bosom. and after it rolls in a word
of an old book which says. with what
measure ye meet it shall be measured to
you again.
You maltreat an aged parent. You be-
grudGcd him the room in your house. You
are impatient of his whimsicalitics and gar
rulity. 1t makes you mad to hear him tell
tell the same story twice You give him
food he cannot masticate. You wish he
was away. YOu wonder if he is going to
live forever lie will be gone very soon.
His steps are shorter and shorter. He is
going to stop. But God 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 viii
twice, and your children will wonder if
you are going to live forever. and wonder
if you viii never be taken away. They call
ed you father once; now they call you the
nod man If YOU live few y years Wh Longer,
those rough 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
unmasticable. and your jaws ache, and You
surrender the attempt? Perhaps it may be
the gristle which You gave To your father
for bis breakfast forty years ago: a gen
tleman passing along the street saw son
dragging his father into the street by the
hair Of the head. The gentleman, outraged
at this brutal conduct, was about 10 punish
the offender, when the Old man arose and
said: Don't hurt him; it's all right forty
years ago this morning, | dragged out my
father by the hair of his head 1t is IL
circle. My father lived into the eighties,
and he had very wide experience, and he
said that malreatment of parents was al
ways punished in this world. Other sins
may be adjourned to the next world, but
maltreatment of parents punished in this
world
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
good aud the evil We start come back to
US. DO you know that the judgment day
Will be only the points at which the circles
JON, the good and the bad we have done
coming back 10 us, unless divine interyen
ton understanding back to us with wei
come ot delight or curse of condemnation
on. would Ike to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment when his intlu-
ence comes to full orb-his influence rolling
out through Antioch, th2ougn Cyprus,
through l-yStra, through Corinth, through
Athens, through Asia, through Europe,
through America, through the first century.
through hNP centuries throu~h t1ypntV