Connecticut western news., 1893-01-19
A TALK BY TALMAGE,
HE IS ON A PREACHING TOUR Or TEN DAYS IN THE SOUTH.


 TEN DAYS IN THE SOUTH.
 At Atlanta He Breaches on the Great Cis
 slss of Code Providence and the Mora
 0overnmsnt of the worid-Recurrir,
 Cycles of History.
 ATLANTA, Jan. 16.-Rev. Dr. Talmag who Is now making ten days tour the southern cities, preached here toda. The throngs in and around the audienct hall were beyond estimate. The subjec; chosen was "The Circle of the Earth, the text being Isaiah xl, 22, "It is he tha, Etteth upon the circle of the earth"
 While yet people thought that the world was fiat, and thousands of years before they found out that it was round Isaiah, in my text, intimated the shapt 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. Thert are in the natural world straight lines angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quad rangles, but these evidently are moi Gods favorites. Almost everywher where you will find him geometrizin you find the circle dominant, and if n1. tho circle, then the curve, which is ci. cle that died young. If it had lived lo,i enough it would have been @ full orb, periphery. An elhpse is circle pressed only little too hard at the Mdes.
 Giants Causeway, in Ireland, show what God thinks of mathematics. Ther; OA tagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. Thesc rocks seem to have been made by rulf and by compass. Every artist has hi molding room, where he may make fifty shapes, but he chooses one shape as pref erable to all others. will not say tha the Giants Causeway was the world molding room, but do say out of [ great many figures God seems to hay selected the circle as the best. sIt is he that sttteth on the circle of the earth. The stars in 8 circle, the moon in a cir. cle, the sun in circle, the universe in q circle, the throne of God the center of that circle.
 When men build churches they oughf to initiate the idea of the Great Architec. and put the audience in circle, know ing 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 threw 1t out in Q straight line, but curvilinear, with leash of love holding it Q as to bring it back again. The world started from his hand pure and Edenic. It has been rolling on through = @<~~ ov,1 l o<o long 1t will roll God only knows, but it will in due time make complete circuit and come back to the place whence it stsztsd-the hand of God-pure and Edenic.
 THE DIVINE PLAN RESUMED.
 The history of the world goes in cir cle. Why is it that the shipping in our day is improving 50 rapidly It is be- causs men are initiating the old model of Noeh's ark. A ship carpenter gives that as 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 @ much. Where is the ship on the sea today that could outride deluge in which the heaven and the earth were wrecked, landing all the passengers in safety-two of each kind of living crea- turcs,s thousands of species?
 Pomology will go on with it's achieve ments until after many centuries the world will have plums and pears equal to the paradisaical. The art of garden ing will grow for centuries, and after the Downings and Mitchells of the world have done their best in the far future the art of gardening will come up to tho arborescence of the year 1. If the makers of colored glass go on improving they may in some centuries be able to make something equal to the east win dow of York minister, which was built in 12o0. We are six centuries behind those artists, but the world must keep on toil- ing until it shall make the complete cir cult and come up to the skill of those very men.
 N If the world continues to improve in masonry we shall have after awhile, perhaps after the advance of centuries summer in the wall of an exhumed Eng. hah city, built in the time of the Ro. mans, 500 years ago-that mortar to- day e good as the day in which it wal made, having outlasted the brick and the stone. say, after hundreds of years masonry may advance to that point. Il the world stands long enough we may have 2 city as large as they had in old times-Babylon i've times the size oi London.
 You go into the potteries in England and you find them making cups and vases after the style of the cups and vases exhumed from Pompeii The world h not going back. Oh, no; but il is swinging in circle and will come back to the styles of pottery known se long ago as the days of Pompei. The wesd must keep on progressing until il makes the complete circuit. The curve is in the right direction; the curve vii kesP on until 1t becomes the circle.
 THE EVER REVOLVING WHEEL.
 Well, now, my friends, what is true 1T thsEnaterial universe is true in God, moral government and spiritual ar rangement. That is the meaning O Ezehels wheel. All commentators agre, in saying that the wheel means Godt providence. But wheel is of no us, unless 1t turn, and if it turn it turn around, and if it turn around it move in ancircle. What then? Are we part of . great iron machine whirled around whether we will or not, the victims O memorable fatef No! So far from that shall show you that we ourselves star the circle of good or bad actions and tha 1t will surely come around again to u unless by divine intervention it be hin dered. Those bad or good actions ma, make the circuit of many years, bu come back to us they will as certainly a thst God sits on the circle of the earth.
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