Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-21

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with which your children are accosting
you? They are the echo of the very
words you used in the ear of your old
father forty years ago. What Is that
which You are trying to chew, but find
1t unmasticable, and your jaws ache,
and you surrender the attempt? Per-
haps it may be the gristle which you
give to your father for his breakfast
forty years ago. A gentleman
passing along the street saw n son
dragging his father into the street by
the hair of the head. The gentleman,
outraged ut this brutal conduct, was
about to punish the offender, when the
old man arose and said: Don't hurt
him; it's all right. Forty years ago
this morning dragged out my father
by the hair of his head" 1t is circle.
Nv father lived into the eighties, and
he had very wide experience, and he
said that maltreatment of parents was
always punished in this world. Other
sins may be adjourned to the next
world, but maltreatment Of parents is
punished in this world.
The circle turns quickly. very quick
~. Oh, what n stupendous thought that
the good and the evil we start come back
to us. Do you know that the judg nent
day will be only the points at which
the circle 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.
Oh, would like to sec Paul, the in
valid missionary, Mt the moment when
his influence comes to full orb-his in
fiuence 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 ut last,
the wave of influence having made full
circuit. strikes his great soul. Oh, 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 on
the circle of the earth. should not
want to see the countenance OF Voltaire
when his influence come to full orb
When the fatal hemorrhage seized him
ut SO years of age his influence did not
cease. The most brilliant man of his
century he had used all his facul-
ties for assaulting Christianity; his
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France, widening out through Ger
many, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through the 115 years that have gone
by since he died, widening through
hell, until at last the accumulated in
fiuence of his bad life in fiery surge Of
omnipotent wrath will beat against
his destroyed spirit, and at that mo-
ment it will be enough to make the
black hair of eternal 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 AL
mighty.
''Well, now" say the people in this
audience, this in some respects is q
| very glad theory, and in others 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
circle, and will do so at your call. 1
can bring twenty passages OF Scripture
to prove that when God for Christ's 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 perpendicular, falling at
right angles with complete oblivion.
Forgiven! Forgiven!
But do not make the mistake OF
thinking that this doctrine of the circle
stops with this life; it rolls on through
Heaven. You might quote in opposi-
ton to me what St. John says about
the city of Heaven. He says it "lieth
four-square. That does not seem to
initiate against this idea, but you know
there is many square house that has
family circle facing each other, and in
a circle moving, and can prove that
this is SO in regard to Heaven. St John
saws: ~ heard the voice of many
angels round about the throne, and the
beasts and the elders" Again he says:
There was a rainbow round about the
throne" The two former instances
circle, the last either circle or semi
circle. The seats facing each other, the
angels facing each ether. The men
facing each other. Heaven an amphi-
theater of glory. circumference OF
patriarch and prophet and apostle.
circumference of Scotch Covenanters
and Theban legion and AlbigenseS
circumference of the good Of oil ages