The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-17
"GOD OF THE CIRCLE. "
DIR. TALMAGE PRE4CHED IN At
LANTA LAST SUNDAT.
An Immense COngreg"li"n-Ovor Thou
sand People Were Turned Away
From the Church.

card in Atlanta last Sunday.
The auditorium of the First Tresbyte-
rian church, in consequence OF that fact,
was crovaeu 10 its utmost capacity.
1t was just is every one expected. AS
earIy as 9 o'clock the crowd began to gath
or. and by the time the doors were opened
a perfect mob was surging about the en-
trance TO the church
;n From, If the Doors.
The crowd came from every part or the
CITY and represented every denomination.
There were many in the rush who were
not members Of amy church. aud VINO Went
out of curiosity to see and hear the eminent
Brooklyn divine. -
If * doubtful if such congregation ever
gathered at the church before hot even
whom the sanctuary was dedicated over
s;xrcen wears ago. Fully a thousand peo-
ple were turned away who were hot "oie
10 procure standing room.
Many crowded around the pulpit ana iiol
few croucheI ut the feet of tue uiStia'
finished clergyman. Such WaS the oVSiI9
of the ncople Of Atlanta to hear the re-
aovaied lupt orator.
,er.r The reading of the scriptures ana
ferYent prayer by I.ey Dr 5 T,i,s, r' Eos
No. ;rtrnduced and delis the following
sermon: II, 40. +bo world
was lIat and thousands OF years ,ps:t
tbpr found out that it was round iSil"h'
l., nv. tnyt iutiInated the shape OK IT, Nod si'-
lin un0n the circle of the earth. L Ne inoSt
beautiful figure in all geometry IS the circle
God made the universe on the plan Oh Il CIR
cln There, are in the natural world straight
limos angles. paralelugrams, dagonalS.
Oundraugles: but these evidently are not
Gods favUrites. Almost everywhere where
Won will find Him GeomctrzlnS you VIII ma
The circle dominant, and If not the circle,
A., is
young. Ii IL bad lived long enough 1t would
have been ii full orb. periphery. An ell
Iirse IS a circle pressed only little too hard
al The SIDES Giants Causcway III Ireland
shows what God thinks of mathematics:
There over thrty-fiye thousand columns OF
rocls--octagonal. hcXtaSVnal penthgonal
These rocks seem TO have been made by
rule and by compass. Every artist has MS
holding room where lie may make fifty
shapes, but he chooses one shape as pretcra-
BILE 10 all others ! will not say that the
Giants CauseWay was the worlds mnlt!lng
room. bat | q" say, out of great many
figures Tod seems to have selected the cir
Gle as the best. lit is he that stitch on
the circle Of the earth" The stars III
circle, the moon i'll a circle, the sun in
circle, the universe III Il circle, the throne
Of God the center Of that circle.
When men build churches they ought to
;-'aI ate the idea of the Great Architect and
C{3le audience in circle knowing that the
cinaIIf emotion roll more easily that way
Cherd flung this world out of his right
ConfOut he did not throw it out in
lit line. but curyilinear, with leash of
gliding il as to bring it back again.
rWorld started from his hand pure and
mic. 1t has been rolling on through re-
i of moral ice and distempcr. How
DIT viii roll God only knows: but it will
Ia Ia time make complete circuit and come
Tis the place where it started-the hand
C--pure and Edenic.
II history of the world goes in circle
- Y is it that the shipping III ou. day is
Ibeui2. sFoortiTlly? 1t is because men are
p@ior Cupid, b b. ":s' Wa lr(t2aah ark
peld,eSe' v ~ by Julian rs ,o TPl,i3 mon
sDean ard Us l w Ian Caipe Majestic
D eednsi!Tee;;s Eve. The. TX of Paris, of
ia DDriven ia Bay. 4non Where is the ship
.. Eastern Easter 81 mat could outrde a deluge
Ethcis o he5ven ami the earth were
Eagranding all the passengers in safe
- h,vo of each kind of living creatures,
Eres Of species Pomoogy will 60 on
Eaacnlevemen.S until after many cell
4isie world will have plums and pears
to the paradisaical. The art of gar
will grow for centuries. and after the
jugs aud Mitches of the world have
1Eeir best, in the far future the art of
rs will come up to the aIboresccnce
, Fredg one. If the makers of colorcd
-. Fredcrnproving, they may in some CEN
Frederit to make something equal to
treueLEHiows Of York Minister which
IstD we are SIN centuries be
---- lose artists, but the world must keep
on toiljng until it shall make the complete
circuit and come up To the skill of those very
men, If the world continues to improve in
ma sorry. we shall after q while, perhaps
after the advance of centuries, mortar equal
to that which | saw last summer in the wall
of an tNhImcd English city. built in the
time e. the Romans, sixteen hundred years
ag"-'hat mortar today good as the day
il which it was made having 0utIasted the
q aft hmm rp1
or years. masonry may advance TO that
point. II the world stands long enough, we
may nave city as large as they had in old
times. EabyloA. five times the size of Lon
don 4ou go into the potteres III England,
ami you find them making cups and vases
after the style of The cups and vases ex-
humed from P9mpeii. The world is not 60
ing back Oh, no, but it is swinging in q
circle and viii come back to the styles of
pottery <noWn so long ago as the days of
!oin1eiI. he world must keep on progress
Big Uiti II makes the complete circuit The
CO. is III the right direction. the curve
VIII Frrp en- until i ht~oraes the cireI~
Well now. my friends. what is true in the
material universe is true in Gods moral
government and spiritual arrangement That
Is the meaning OF Ezekies wheel All
commentators agree in saying that the wheel
means Gods providence But Il wheel is
OF no use unless it turn, and if it turn, it
turns around and If II turn around it moves
Ill a circle. What then? Are we parts of
around
whether we will not, the victims of in
exhorabe fate? No! So far from that |
shall show you that we ourselves start the
Circle Of good or bad actions, and that it
Will surely come around again to us unless
by dlvinn Intervention it be hindered Those
bad II good actions may make the circuit
OF lnany years: hut come back to us. they
will as certainly that God sits on the
circle Of the earth. .IeZcbeI the worst wo-
man OF the Bible. slew Naboth because she
waited his vineyard While the dogs We're
eating the body of Naboth, Elisha. the
prophet. put down his compass. and marked
circle from those dogs clean around to
the dogs that should eat the body of .Jezo-
bel, the murderess "Irnpossible,'" the
people said; that will never happen" Who
IS that being flung out of the palace window?
Jezcbel. \ few hours after. they came
around. hoping to bury her. They find only
the palms of her hands and the skull The
dogs that devoured .Iezebel and the dogs
that devoured Naboth. Oh. what "a swift
what awful circuit.
But it is sometimes the case that this
circle sweeps through Il century, or through
mauy centuries. The world started with
theocrucy for government; that is God was
president and emperor of the world. Poo