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ITS OCCUPANT BREACHES AT
ATLANTA.
The Circle OF tho Earth and Its Rela-
tion to God--A Sermon ON Isaiah
lit Is He That sitteth Upon tho
Circle of the Earth"

ATLANTA. Ga, Jan Is 1903 Tho Rev. Or.
Talmage who Is now making ten days tour
VI the Southern cities. preached here to-day
The throngs in and around the audience haIl
were beyond estimate The subject chosen
was ''The Circle Of the Earth" the text being
Isaiah 40;2e: 1t is he that stitch upon the
circle OF the earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was Hat, and thousands OF years
before they found out tEat it was
round, Isaiah, in my text, intimated
the shape of it, God sitting upon the
circle of the earth. The most beauti-
full figure in all geometry rs the circle.
God made the universe on the plan OF
q circle. There are in the natural
world straight lines. angles, parallelo-
grams, diagonals, quadrangles; but
these evidently are not Gods favorites.
Almost everywhere where you will find
him geometrizing, you find the ciySle
dominant, and If not the circle, thea
the curve which is a circle that died
young. If il had lived long enough,
IL would have been full orb, a peri
phery. An ellipse is n circle pressed only
a little too hard at the sides Giants
Causeway in Ireland shows what God
thinks of mathematics. There are
over thirty-fve thousand columns of
rocks-octagonal, heXagonal pentago-
nal. These rocks seem to have been
made by rule and by compass Every
artist has his moulding room where he
may make fifty shapes; but he chooses
one shape as preferable to all others,
/ will not say that the Giants Cause
way was the worlds moulding room,
but do say, out of great many hg-
ures God seems to have selected the
circle as the best lit is he that sit
teth on the circle Of the earth" The
stars in a circle, the moon in circle,
the sun in circle, the universe in a
circle, the throne of God the center of
that circle.
When men build churches, they
ought TO initiate the idea of the great
architect, and put the audience in a
circle, knowing that the tides of emo
ton roll more easily that way than in
straight lines Six thousand years ago
God flung this world out Of his right
hand; but he did not throw it out in a
straight line. but curvilinear, with a
leash of love holding il so as to bring
1t back again. The world started from
his hand pure anc Edenic. IT has been
rolling on through regions of moral ice
and distemper. How long it will roll
God only knows; but il will in due
time make complete circuit and come
back to the place whence it started
the hand of God--pure and Edenic.
The history OF the world goes in a
circle. Why Is it that the shipping in
our day is improving so rapidly 1t is
because men are initiating the old
model OF Noahs ark. A ship carpenter
gives that as his opinion. Although so
much derided by small wits, that ship
of Noah's time beat the Majestic and
the Etruria, and the City of Paris,
of which we Soast 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 kind of living creatures, thous-
ands of species Pomology will go on
with its achievements, until after many
centuries the world will have plums
and pears equal - the Paradisai-
/ cal The art CT gardening will grow
for centuries, and after the Downings
and Mitehells of the world have done
their best, in the far future the art of
gardening will come up 10 the arbor-
escence OF the year one. il the makers
of colored glass go on improving, they
may in some centuries be able to make
something equal to the east window of
York Minister, which was built in 1890
We are six centuries behind those
artists, but the world must keep on
( toiling until it shall make the COM
plete circuit and come up To the skill
of those very men. If the world con-
J tinues to improve in masonry we shall
have after . while, perhaps after the
advance of centuries, mortar equal TO
that which saw last summer in the
wall sof an exhumed English
city, built in the time of the
Romans, sixteen hundred years
ago-that mortar to-day as good as
the day on which it was made, having
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orld,stdnds lSnd enough, we. NAV
fines. !, Babylon. 4vb times the size of
London. You go into the potteries in
England, and You find them making
cups and vases after the style of cups
and vases ,exhumed from Pompeii The
world is not going back. Oh no! but
1t is swinging in n circle, and will
come back to the style OF pottery
( known so lorrg ago DIS the days of Pom
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