Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-01-27
MOVING In CIRCLES.
Tho Far-Reaching Influences Of
Good or Bad Actions.
The Cause May be Present, But 1t May
be Years. or Centuries, Before
the Effect Is Seen, But
1t will Come.

The following discourse on the subject
OF 1.-THE Circle of the Earth was deliv-
cred by Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage during
recent visit to Atlanta, Ga, from the
! text:
n 1t is He that stitch upon the circle of the
earth.-Isaiah XII, 22
When yet people thought that the
world was fiat, and thousands of years
before they found out that it was
round, Isaiah. in my text, intimat-
ed the shape of it, God sitting upon
the circle of the earth. The most
circle. God made the universe on the
plan of a circle. There are in the
natural world straight lines. angles,
parallelograms, diagonals, quadrant
giles; but these evidently are not Gods
favorites. Almost everywhere where
you will find Him geometrzing, you
will find the circle dominant, and if not
the circle, then the curve, which is a
circle that died young. If it had lived
long enough, it would have been a full
orb, a periphery. An ellipse is a circle
pressed only little too hard at the
sides. Giants Causeway in Ireland
shows what God thinks of mathemat-
les There are over thirty-fve THOUSAND
columns OF rocks-octagonal, hexag-
onal, pentagonal. These rocks seem
to have been made by rule and
by compass Every artist has his
! molding room, where he may make
t fifty shapes; but he chooses one shape
as preferable to all others. | will not
say that the Giants Causewav was the
worlds mOIding room, but DO say. out
Of great many figures God seems to
| have selected the circle as the best. cit
is He that sitteth on the circle of the
! earth" The stars in circle, the moon
in circle, the sun in circle, the ami
verse in a circle, the throne OF God the
, center Of that circle.
When men build churches they Oumht
to initiate the idea of the Great Archi-
tect and put the audience in IL circle,
knowing 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 L;
but He did not throw it out in u straight
line, but curyilincar, with leash Of
love holding it 50 as t. bring it back
again. The world started from His
hand pare and Elenic. It has been
rolling on through regions Of lnoral ice
and distcmper How long it viii roll
God only knows; bat it will in due
time make u complete circuit and come
back to the place whence it started
! the hand Of God-pnre and Edenic
The history of the world goes in
circle. Why is it that the ship
! ping in our day is improving SO rapidly?
1t is because men are initiating the
Old model of Noah's ark. a ship cor
penter gives that as his opinion Al
though SO much derided by small wits,
that ship of Noah's beat the Maiectic
and the Etruria and the City of Paris,
! of which we boast so much. Where is
| the ship on the sea to-day that could
! outride deluge in which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked, landing
all the passengers in safety?-two of
each of living creatures, thousands Of
! species. Pomology will go on with its
achievements until after MANY CEN
turtles the world will have piums and
pears equal to the Paradisaical. The
art Of gardening viii grow for centu-
ries, and after the Downin|s and Mitch
ellis Of the world have done their best,
in the far future the art of gardening
will come up to the aborescence of the
year one. If the makers of colored
| glass go on improving, they they may
III some centuries be able to make
! something equal to the east window of
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! York minister, which was built in 1890.
| We are six centuries behind those art
lists, but the world must keep on toll
| ing until it shall make the complete
! circuit and come up to the skill of those
very men. If the world continues to
| improve in masonry, we shall have
! after awhile, perhaps after the advance
| of centuries, morter equal to that
! which | saw last summer in the wall
of an exhumed English city built in
/ the time of the Romans, one thousand
| six hundred years ago-that mortar to-
| day as good as the day in which it was
made, having outlasted the brick and
the stone. I say, after hundreds of
| years, masonry may advance to tina
! point If the world stands long
enough, we may have city as they
had in old times. Babylon, five times
the size of London. You go into the
potterries in England, and you find
| them making cups and vases after the
! style of the cups and vases exhumed
from Pompeii. The world is not going
! back. Oh no! but it is swinging in a
| circle, and will come back to the styles
of pottery known so long ago as the
days of Pompeii. The world must
keep on progressing until it makes the
/ complete circuit. The curve is in the
right direction, the curve will keep on
| until it becomes the circle