Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-19

/ NAlG L ' aiiitN" N'tIt INV, ~ lbNh
shUri-liyed can afford to work SO
slowly as that, cannot God in the
building of the eternities afford to
wait? What though God should take
10000 years to draw Il circle? Shall
we take our little watch, which we
have to wind every night lest it run
down, and hold it up beside the clock
OF eternal ages? If according to the
Bible, 1000 years are in Gods sight
as one day, then according to that cal
"ulation the 5000 years of the world S
existence have been only to God s.s
from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the re-
oound is quicker, and the circle Is
sooner completed. You resolve that
cou will do what good you can. in
one week you put word of counsel n
,he heart of Sunday School child.
During that same week you give
letter of introduction to Il young man
struggling in business. During the
same week you make an eXhortatiou
in prayer-mceting. 1t is all gone;
you will never hear of ii perhaps, you
think. A few years after Il man comes
up to you, and says, "lou don't knew
nc, do you?" You say, NO, | dor't
remember ever to have seen you"
Why" he says, II was in the sabbath
School class over which you were the
teacher; one Sunday you invited me TO
Ihrist: accepted the offer: yOu see
that church with two towers yondcr"
"Yea." You say. lie says, That is
where preach" or, "Do yoL see that
Governors house? That is where |
| live" One day man comes to you,
aud says, Good morning" You look
! l. an ln
| advantage of me; cannot place you"
! He says, Don't You remember thirty
| years ago giving u letter of introduc.
! ton to Moses II. Grinncll?' Eyes,
| yes, do" lie says, II am tie
man; that was my first step
toward Il fortune; but have re.
tired from business now, and am Civ.
ing my time ophi!anthropics and pub
lie interests. Come up and see me-
Or man comes to me and says, Il
want to introduce myself to YOU. |
went into praycr.mccting in Atlanta
some years ago; sat back by the door;
you arose to make an cXhOrtation: that
talk changed the course Of my life, and
if ever get to heaven, under God
VIII owe my salvation t. you In
only ten, twenty, or thirty years the
circle swept out and swept back again
to your own grateful heart
But sometimes ii is a wider circle,
and does not return for Il great while.
saw bill of expenses for burning
Latimcr and Ridley. The bill of *.
pcnses says:
One load of frs fagots. .......3s id. |
Carriage for four loads of wood...@s.
Item, pOSt,............... III.
Item, chains. .................3 is. Al. !
Item, two stap,es Sd !
Item, four laborerS, ............2s. sd. |
That was cheap fire, considering all |
the circumstances; but it kindltd a |
light that shonc all around the world |
and aroused tho martyr spirit, aud out |
from that burning of Latimer and Rid. |
ley rolled the circle wider and wider, !
starting other circles, cOnvolut' |
ing, ovcrrunning, circumscribirg, |
ovrrarching all hcavcu--a circle
Emit what is true of the good is just
as true of The bad. You utter u SLAM !
der against Your neighbour 1t has
gone forth from Your teeth; it will
never como back, you think. You
have done tine man all the mischief
vuu can. Nnu rejoice to see him vince,
Iou say, "Didu't give it to him"
That word has gone out that SANDER
Jus W OlA, On us t". SbnpUS anu Dld~ ltl
way. NOu think it will never do you
any harm Eut am watching that
word, and sec it beginning to curve,
and it curves around. and it is aiming
at your heart. You had better dodge
it, You cannot dodge 1t. 1t rolls into
vOur bosom. and after it, rolls in a
word Of an old book which says with
what measure We metc. it shall be
measured t. You again"
You matrpat an aged parent. You
! begrudgcd him the room inyour house.
You are impatient of his whimsicali-
| ties and garruIity. 1t makes YOU mad to
hear him tell the same story twice. Iou
! give hun food he cannot masticatc. 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. lie is going to stop. But
| God has an account to settle with yoI
! on that subject. After a while, your
! .yc will be dim and your gait will,
1alt, and the sound of the grinding will
| be low and you will tell the same
story twice, and your children
will wonder if you are going to live
! forever, and wonder if you will never
be taken away. They called you
father" once; row they call you the
''old man" If you live n few years
longer, they will call you the ''old
chap.' What are those rough words
with which your children are accost-
ing you? They are the echo of the
very words you have used in the car
Of your old father forty years ago
What is that which you are trying TO
chew, but find unmasticable, and
your jaws ache. and YOU surrender
the attempt? Perhaps it may be
the gristlc which you gave to your
father for his breakfast forty years
ago? gentleman passing along the
street SOW n son dragging his father
into the street By the hair of the head
The gentleman, outraged at this brutal
conduct, was a0oG. to punish the
offender, when the old man arose and
said: Don't hurt him; it's all right:
forty years ago this morning draggei
out my father by the hair of the headm
1t is circle. My father lived into the
eighties, and he had u very wide cx-
pericnce, and he said that maltreat-
ment Of parents was always punished
in this world. Other sins NAV be all,
journed to the next world, but NAL
treatment of parents punished in this
world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly.
Oh, what Il stupendous thought that
the good and the evil we start comes
back TO MS. Do You know that the
judgment day will be only the points
at which the circles join, the coed
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.
o, ! would like to see Paul, the in.
valid missionary, at the moment when
his influence comes to full orb-his in.
huence 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 at last, the wave of infu-
pnpp having mazda full nircuit c+,;l,o,