The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-02-10

done coming back to rs unless Divine
) Intervention understanding tack to u.
with welcoms of delight or curse of con.
demnation?
oh, would like to see Paul, the in.
valid missionary. at the moment when
his influence comes to full orb-his in.
nuence 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. through Heaven, and \:
last the wave Of influence having made
full circuit strikes his great soul. Oh.
then 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 counte-
nance Of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb When the fatal
hemorrha2e seized him at So years of
age his influence did not cease. The
most brilliant man of his century, he had
used all his facilities for assaultine
Christianity-his bad influence widen
ing through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe. widening through America
widening through the us years that
have gone by since he died, widening
through earth. widening through hell.
until at last the accumulated influence
OF his bad life in fiery surge of omni-
potent wrath will beat against his de-
stroyed spirit, and at that moment it will
be enough to make the black hair of
eternal darkness turn white with tho
horror. No one can tell how that bad
mans influence had girdled the earth
save the one who is seated on the circle
OF the earth-the Lord Almighty.
"Well, now." say people in this audi
ence. this in some respects is a very
good theory. and in some 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" NV brother, l have
to tell you God can break that circle and
will do so at your call. can bring
twenty passages of Scriptures to prove
that when God for Christ's sake forgives
a 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 f1y off from
the circle into the perpendicular, falling
at right angles with complete oblivion.
Forgiven! Forgiven! The meanest thing
a man can do is, after some difficulty has
been settled. to bring it up again, and
Tod 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
one thing he is sure to forget.
and that is pardoned transgression. How
10 l know it? l will prove it. Their
sins and their iniquities will 1 remem-
Der no more" Come into that state
his morning. my dear brother, my dear
sister. blessed IS the one whose tran
yressions are forgiven
But do not make the mistake of think
ne that this doctrine of the circle stops
With this life; it rolls on through
heaven. You might quote in opposition
o me what st. John says about the cry
4 Heaven. He says it ''lieth four square"
That does not seem to initiate against
his idea, but you know there is manv a
quare house that has a family circle
acing each other, and l can prove that
his is so in regard to Heaven. st. John
avs. II heard the voice of many an
els round about the throne, and the
casts. aud the elders"
Again he says, There was rainbow
ound about the throne" The former
wo instance a circle; the last either a
Ircle or semicircle. The seats facing
ach other. the angels facing each other,
be men facing each other. Heaven an
mpitheater Of glory. Circumference of
atriarch and prophet and apostle. Cir
adherence Of Scotch Covenanters and
heban legion and Albigenses. Circum-
'rence OF the good of all ages Peri
hery OF splendOr unimaeined and inde-
,ribable. A circle! A circle!
But every circumference must have a
inter, and what is the center of this
eavenly circumference? Christ His
the glory. His all the praise. His &
the crowns. All Heaven wreathed .
to garland round about Him. Take
the imperial sandal from His foot and =
hold the scar of the spike. Lift the :
ronet OF dominion from His brow and Q
where was the lsceration Of the 4
lers. Come closer, all Heaven. Mar 4
W the circle around His great heart y
Christ, the Saviour! O Christ the
In! o Chist, the God! Keep thy
rome forever, seated on the circle OF
e earth, seated on the circle of the
,aven! q
On Christ, the solid rock. stands =
All other ground is sinking sand