Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-19
TO US with welcome of delight or curse

TO Us with welcome of delight or curse
Of condemnation
Oh. would like to see Paul, the inva-
lid missionary. at the moment when his
influence comes to full orb-his influence
rolling out through Antioch. through
Cyprus, through Lystra. through Cor
NTH. 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 influence having lade
full circuit. strikes his great soul. On.
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 Oh
the circle of the earth.
should not want to see the counte-
nance of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb When the fatal hem
orrhage 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 widening
through France. widening out through
Germany. widening through all Europe
widening through America. widening
through tho ll5 years that have gone by
since he died. widening through earth.
widening through hell. until at last TIE
accumulated influence of his bad life IN
fiery surge of omnipotent wrath Will beat
agains: his destroyed spirit. and at that
moment it will be enough to make the
black hair of eterna! darkness turn white
with the horror No one CAN tell how
that bad mans influence girdled the
earth save the one who Is seated on the
circle of the earth-the Lord Almighty.
We'll. now" say people in this add
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 affrigh:" My brother, have to
tell you God can break that circle and
will do so at your call. l can bring
twenty passages of Scripture to prove
that when God for Christs sake forgives
a 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 shattered forever. The sins fly
off from the circle into the perpendicu-
lar. falling at right angles with COM
plete oblivion. Forgiven. Forgiven. The
meanest thing a man 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 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 trans
gression. How Go know 1t: Will
prove it. Their sins and their iniqul-
ties Will remember no more" Come
into that state this morning, my dear
brother. my dear sister. Blessed is the
one whose transgreSsions are forgiven.
THE CIRCLE OF GLORY.
But do not make the mistake of think
ing 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 it ''lieth four square
That does seem to initiate again@t this
idea. but you know there is many a
square house that has family circle
facing each other. and in a circle nov
ing. and can prove that this Is so IN re-
gard to heaven. ST. John says. Il heard
the voice of many angels round about
the throne, and the beasts, and the eld-
ers
Again he says, There was rainbow
round about the throne" The former
two instance q circle; the last either
circle or a semicircle. The ais facing
each other. the angels facing each other.
the men facing each other. Heaven an
ampnitheater Of glory. Circumference
of patriarch ana prophet and apostle.
Circumference of Scotch Covenanters
and Theban legion and Albigenses. Cir
cumference of the good of all ages. Pc
riphery of splendor unin:agired and in
describable a circle. a circle!
But every circumference must have
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 linn. Take.
off the imperial sandal from his foot and
behold the scar of the spike. Lift the
coronet of dominion from MS brow and
see where was the laceration OF the
briers. Come closer. al heaven. Mar
row the circle around his great heart.
o Christ. the Saviour. O Christ. the
man. 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.