Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-01-27

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70 nhiIanthropies and public interests Come
| I'D and see me-" 81,
Cr A man comes to you and says: L
want tn introduce myself to you went
into a prayer meeting in Atlanta some
wears ago: sat back By the door; you aross
to make an exhortatio1; tnae TAX cIdnseo
the course of my life, AMI IL ever se;@
heaven, under God VIII owe my Saitav. D,D
| 70 voun In only ten, twenty OF CnirOy
! wears the circle swa1- ol6 al s"ep' D'o"
| ayain to YOUR Owl gtItetul near.
Hus sonetlmes l. - a WIDER cHc.e aud
do,s not return for great while. l Sd" q
Xii Of expenses fot burning Latiner am
Ridley The bill OF expenses says
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! Carriage of four loa Is Of WOOD. ."''''''''' * "A
| Item, post ..,.'..''''''''''''' - 81 id
Item, Two chains .,...',''''"''"'' - al
Item, two slap les ....,...''''''''' '''' "a sd
i Fen, four LAHORE rs '''''''''''''"''' -,
That was cheap fire, considering all I'll,
! o;rcnnestanc,s Int it kindled ilght tla'
shone ali around the word AMI arouse1 'n,
MARTYR spirit aut out from that burning VI
Latimer and Rid! ey rolled the cuole 800
and wider, starting other circies' oUn orarcb
ing, overrunning, clrcuu'sei i''ne'
| ing all heaven circle. ;,4 q
Bnt what is true of the good is ]uSO a
trus of the bad. You utter SANDER agalns
vour neighbor. 1t has gone Iortp Iroo
| your reeUn; IL VIII never come PACK, YOU
think. You have done the man al! the ms
chief you can. You reioics to see him winca
You say, "Ddnt give it to hlmT ina'
yvord has gone 2ut that slanderous word. on
IFS noisopous and blasted way. You thlns
it will never do you any harm. But am
watching that word and see it BEGINNING
to curve, and it curves around, and 1t Is ann
ing at your heart. You hal better do1ge
It. You cannot Dodge it. 1t rolls into you,
bosom and after it rolls in word OF an on
! book, which says with what measure yS
mete. it shall be measure to you again.
You maltreat an age1 parent. YOU De-
unload him the room in your house. You
are irnpatient of his whimscalties AMI gar,
r,ilitv. Itmakes you mad to hear him tell
the same story twice. You give him food
ha cannot masticate. You wish he was
away. You wonder IL he is going to i've
forever He will be gone very soon. MS
step are shorter and shorter he Is gong
10 stop. But Go has an account to settle
with you on that subject. After awhile
your eye will bs dim, AMI your gait VIII
halt, and the sound of the grinding will bs
low, and you will tell the same story twice.
and your children will wonder IL you are
going to live forever and wonder il you will
never be taken away.
They calei you father once; now they
call you the "old man." If you live few
years longer they will call you the odd
chapr' What are those rough words with
which your children are acco5tiug your
They are the echo Of the very words you
used in the ear Of your old father forty
wears ago. What is that which you are
irving to chew but find it unmas-
tica5le. and your jaws ache, AMI you sur
render the attemptS Perhaps it may be the
gristie which you gave to your father Tor
his breakfast forty years ago.
ILL.,, ct,,>ra al
a son dragging his father into the street by
the hair Of the head The gentleman, out
ragged at this brutal conduct, was about to
punish the offender when the old man arose
and sid, Don't hurt him: its all right;
forty years ago this morning | dragged out
nv father BY the hair of his head" 1t is a
circle My father live1 into the eighties
and he had very wide experience, ana ne
said that maltreatment of parents was
always punished ia this world Other sins
NAV be adjourned to the next world, but
maltreatment of parents is punished In this
world.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly
o.. what a stupendous thought that tne
good and the evil we start come back to u.s.
Do you know that the Judgment Day Will
be only the points at which the circles join.
tho good and the bad we have done coming
back to us, unless divine intervention hinder
or curse of condemnation.
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment wnen his iniiu--
ence comes TO full orb-his influence rolling
out through Antioch, through Cyprus,
through Lystra, through Corinth, through
Athens, through ASIA through Europe,
through America, throu yh the first century,
through five centuries. through twenty CEN
turtles. through all the succeeding centuries,
l.1u ny a
the wave OF influence having made 1uil CIR
cult. strikes his great soul. Oh, then would
like to see himi 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.
I should not want to see the countenance
of Voltaire when his inhu ence comes TO tull
'orb. When the fatal hemorrhage selze1
him at eighty-three years OF age MS inna'
ence did not cease. The most brilliant man
of his century, he had used all bis tacu itie'
for assauting Christianity, his bad lnnu'
ence widening through France, widening oul
through Germany, widening through al
Europe, widening through America widen
ing through the 115 years that have gone DI
, since he died, widening through earth,
widening through hell, until at last the &C
cumulatei influence OF his bad lIf9 IN merry
surge OF omnipotent wrath will beat 5ainst
his destroyed spirit, and at tnat momen5 II
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. eternal darkness turn white with the horror
, No one car tell how that bad mans lnt1u
5 ence girdled the earth save the one VINO l
a seated on the circle of the earth -the Lori
Almighty
+ .'Well, now" say people in this audience,
r ''this in some respects is very glad theory
2 and in others very sad one; We would Ike
=, to have all the goo1 we have ever done come
back to W., but the thought that all the sins
. we have ever committe will cone back tc
i us fills us with alright" Ny brother,
I have to tell you God can break that circle
and will do so at your call. | can bring
twenty passages Of Scripture to prove tina
when God for Christ's sake forgives maj
). the SINS of his past life never come bacI.
The wheel may roll on and roll Oh, bu
you take your position behind the eros:
a and the wheel strikes the cross and is shat
. tered forever. The sins fly off from the Gil
Gle into the perpendicular, falling at RICH
angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven
Forgiven! The meanest thing that ma
q can do l., after some difficulty has been SCI
tied, to bring 1t up again, and God Will nc
{, be so mean as that. Gods memory Is might
, enough to hold all the events OF the age
but there is one thing that is sure to slip II
memory, one thing He is sure TO forget, an
, that is pardoned transgression. How 90
know it? l will prove 1t. Their SINS an
their lniqu ties viii | remember no more
) Tome INTO that state this morning. my des
brother nv dear sister. blessed is I'll
on whose transgressions are forgiven"
But 90 not make the mistake OF thinkin
, that this doctrine or the circle stops VA
this lite: it rolls on throu gh heaven. XC
might quote in opposition to me what .
Jonn says about the city OF heaven, L
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