The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-26
temPt1 Perhaps it may be the gristle
which you gave to your father for his
breakfast forty years AGO.

| AOho JOdlS ago.
"A gentleman passing along the street
saw son dragging his father into the
sIreet Dy the hair of the head. The gen
tleman, outraged at this brutal con
uuct, was about to 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
ls circle. My father lived into the
eighties, and he had yer, wide exper-
lence, and he said that maltreatment
OF parents was always punished in this
"orio. Other SINS may be adjourned
parents Is punished in this world.
The circle turns quickly, very quick
~. on, what stupendous Thought
that 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 circles Join, the
good and the bad we have done coming
pack TO US unless divine intervention
hlnder-coming back to us with well
come of delight or curse of condemna-
tion?
| On, would like to see Paul, the in
Valld 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
Cnrough hVe centuries. through twenty
centuries, through all the SUCCEEDING
centuries. through earth, through heay,
en-. and at 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 counten-
ance of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb. When the fatal
hemorrhage seized him at eighty-three
years OF age his influence did not cease
Inc most brilliant man of his century,
ne mad used all his faculties for assault
ing Chrlstianlty-his bad influence
widening through France, widening
out through Germany, widenins
through all Europe, widening through
America, widening through the lis
years that have gone by since he died
widening through earth, widening
through hell, until at last the accum,l,
lated influence of his bad life in fiery
surge OF omnipotent wrath will beat
against his destroyed spirit and at chat
moment 1t Will De enough to make the
plack hair OF eternal darkness turn
white with the horror. No one can tell
now Chat bad mans influence girdled
INC earCn save the one who is seated
on the circle OF the earth-the Lord AL.
mighty.
"Well, now" say people in this audi.
once, tnls In some respects is very
good theory, and in some Others a yery
sad one. We would like to have all the
good we have ever done come back &c
us, put the thought that all the sins we
nave ever committed will come back
TO us fills us with alright" My broth
er, L have to tell you God can break
That circle and VIII do so at your call
can bring twenty passages of Scrip,
lures to prove that when God for ChrIst's
sake forglVes man the SINS of his past
lie never comes back.
The wheel may roll on and roll on.
put you take your position behind the
cross. and the wheel strikes the cross
and is shattered forever. The sins ny
OH from the circle into the perpendicu-
lar, railing at right angles with com
plete oblivion. Forglven! Forgiven
TIE meaaest thing man can do IS, af.
ter some difficulty has been settled, to
bring 1t up again, and God will not be
80 mean as that.
Gods memory is mighty enoush tn
mold 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 transgressionu.
How DO l know ltp / Will prove it
Their sins and their iniquities will |
remember no more" Come into that
state this morning, my dear brother
my dear sister. Blessed is the one
whose Jransgreasions are forgiven"
buC 90 not make the mistake OF
tnlnklng that this doctrine OF the circle
stops with This life; it rolls on through
neaVeh. You might quote in oppoSi.
sitlon to me what st. John says about
the city of heaven. lie saws it "IietlI
tour square," That does seem to mill
tate against this idea. but you know
there Is many a square house that has
a FAMILY circle facing each other, and
ia aclrcle moving, and can prove that
This IS so In regard to heaven. 81. Johr
says, ~ heard the voice of many angels
round ABOUT the throne, and the beasts
and the elders"
Again he says, "There was a rainbow
around about the throne" The forme,
two instance circle; the last either a
circle or semicircle. The seats facing
each other, the angels facing each other
the men facing each other. Heaven an
amphitheater Of glory. circumference
of patriarch and prophet and apostle
Circumference of Scotch Covenunters
and Theban legion and Albigeness
circumference Of the good of ali ages
Periphery OF splendor unimaglued and
lndescrlbable. a circle, 4 circle,
But every circumference must have
a center. and what is the center of this
heavenly circumference Christ. Ills
al the glory. His all the praise. His
all the crowns. All heaven Wreathed
into garland round about him. Take
OH the Imperial sandal from his foot
and behold the scars of the spike. Lift
the coronet OF dominion from his brow
and see where was the laceration of the
brlerS. Come closer, all heaven. Mar
row the circle around his great heart
. Christ, the Saviourl o Christ the
man! . Christ, the God! Keep Thy
throne forever, seated on the circle nl
the earth, seated OH the circle of the
, heaYenl
On Christ, the solid rock | stand;
All other ground iS sinking sand