The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-27


the good and the evil we start come back
to us Do you know that the Judgment
day will be only the points at which
the circle join. the 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 sec Paul, the in
valid missionary, at the moment when
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 all the
succeeding centuries, through earth,
thror@sI Heaven; and at last,
the wave of influence having made full
circuit, strikes his great soul Oh, then
l would like to see him. No one can
tell the wide sweep of the circle of his
influence, save the one who is seated on
the circle of the earth. should not
want to see the countenance of Voltaire
when his influence come to full orb
When the fatal hemorrhage seized him
at SO years of age his influence did not
cease. The most brilliant man of his
century he had used all his facul-
ties for assaulting Christianity; his
bad influence, widening through
France, widening out through Ger
many, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through the 115 years that have gone
by since he died, widening through
hell, until at last the accumulated in
fluence of his bad life in fiery surge of
omnipotent wrath will beat against
his destroyed spirit and at that mo-
ment it will be enough to make the
black hair of eternal darkness turn
white with the 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 Al
mighty.
We'll, now" say the people in this
audience, this in some respects is a
very glad theory, and in others a 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" Ny brother,
l have to tell you God can break that
circle, and will do so at your call. 1
can bring twenty passages of Scripture
to prove that when God for Christs sake
forgives 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 shattered
forever The sins fly off from the
circle into the perpendicular, falling at
right angles with complete oblivion.
Forgiven! Forgiven! The meanest
thing man can do is, after some /
difficulty has been settled, to bring it |
up again; and God will 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 l know it? ! |
will prove it Their sins and iniqui-
ties will | remember no more" Come |
INTO that state this morning, my dear
brother, my dear sister. blessed is
The one whose transgreSsions have
been forgiven"
But do not make the mistake of
thinking that this doctrine of the circle
stops with this life; it rolls on through
Heaven. You might quote in oppos-
ion to me what St John says about
he city of Heaven. lie says it ''lieth
That does not seem to
initiate against this idea, but you know
here is many a square house that has a
amily circle facing each other, and in |
/ circle moving, and l can prove that
his is so in regard to Heaven. St. John
,ays: II heard the voice of many !
angels round about the throne, and the
beasts and the elders" Again he SAYS:
There was n rainbow round about the
hrone" The two former instances n
ircle. the last either a circle or a semi
.ircle. The seats facing each other, the
lngels facing each other. The men
acing each other. Heaven an amphi-
heater of glory. circumference OF
patriarch and prophet and apostle.
circumference of Scotch Covenanters
mi Theban legion and Albigenses.
circumference of the good of all ages.
of splendor unimagined and
A circle! A circlei
But every circumference must have a
enter. and what is the center of this
heavenly circumference? Christ His
II the glory. His all the praise. His
III the crowns. All Heaven wreathed
nto garland about Him Take
IF the imperial sandal from His
DOT and behold the scar of
he spike. Lift the coronet of do
ninion from his brow and see where
vas the laceration of the briers. Come
loser, all Heaven. Narrow the circle
round his great heart o Christ, the
aviour! o Christ, the man! o Christ,
he God! Keep Thy throne forever,
Gated on the circle of the earth, seated
n the circle of the heaven.
On Christ, tie solid rock. stand,
AL other ground is sinking sand.
Glossy 'iair.
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