Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-20

SNcTience, ana no SAID Jnab maltrea|
meat of parents was always punished
in this world. Other sins may be adj
journed to the next world, but mall
treatment of parents punished in this
world.
The circle tusns quickly, very quickly.
Oh, whae stupendous thought that
the good and the evil we start comes
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 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
fluence 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 infiu-
euce having made full circuit, strikes
his great soul. o. then l 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, l +. should not
want To see the couiitenance of Vol
taire when his influence comes TO full
orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized
him at eighty-three years of age his
influence did not cease. The most
brilliant man of his century, he had
used all his faculties for assaulting
Christianity; his bad influence, widen
ing through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through
all Europe widening through, America,
widening through the one hundred
and fifteen years that have gone
by since he died, widening
through earth, widening through
hell; until at last the accumu-
.ate influence of his bad life in
fiery surge of omnipotent wrath will
beat against his destroyed spirit, and
at that momen. it will be enough to
make tho black hair of eternal dark.
ness turn white with the horror. No
one can tell how that bad mans in
fuence girdled the earth save the one
who is scat, d on the circle of the earth
1.-The Lord Almighty.
well now" say people in this audi
ence, "this in some respects is very
glad theory, and in 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" My brother,
have to tell you God can break that
pi N tuil In nj
can bring twenty passages of Scrip
ture To prove that when God for
Christ's sake forgives 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 shat
tered forever. The sins fly off from
the circle into the perpendicular, fall
ing at right angles with complete
oblivion. Forgivenl Forgivenl The
neanest thing m4n can do is. after
some difficulty has been settled, to
bring it up again; and God will not be
SO mean as that. Gods memory is
mighty enough to hold all the events
of he ages, but there is one thing that
is sure to slip his memory, one thing
he is sure To forget and that ispar-
doned transgression. How do know
il? | will prove it. Their sins and
their iniquities will l remember no
more" Come into that state this
morning, my dear brother, my dear
sister. blessed is the one whose
transgressions are forgiven"
But do not mako the mistake Of
thinking that this doctrine OF the
circle stops with this life; it rolls on
through Heaven. You might quote in
opposition To me what ST. John says
about the city of Heaven. He says II
'lieth four-square. That does seem
to initiate against this idea; but you
know there is many a. square house
that has IA family circle facing each
other, and in a circle moving, and.
can prove that this is SO in regard to
heaven. st. John says: II heard the
voice of many angels round about
the throne, and the beasts
and the elders" Again he says:
There was rainbow round about the
throne" The two former instances n
circle; tho last, either circle or n
semi-circle The seats facing EACH
other, the angels facing each other, the
men facing each other. Heaven an
amphitheater of glory. Circumfer.
ence of patriarch and prophet aud
apostle Circumference OF Scotch Cow
enaniers and Theban legion and AL.
bigneses. circumference of the good
of all ages. Periphery of splendor un-
imagined and indescribabe. A circlel
A circle!
But every circumference must have
n center, and what is the center of this
heavenly circumference? Christ. His
all the glory. His all the praise. His
all the crowns. All heaven wreathed
into garland round about him. Take
off the imperial sandal from his foot
and behold the scar of the spike. Lift
the coronet of dominion from his brow,
and see where was the liberation of the
briers Come closer all heaven. Mar
row the circles around his great heart.
o Christ, the Saviorl o Christ, the
mani o Christ the God! Keep thy
throne forever, seated on the circle of
the earth, seated on the circle of the
heaven.
On Christ the solid rock stand:
All other ground is sinking sand