News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-05-05

ism cried, "America for God" Now let
us add the battle shout, "Asia for Godp'
In this movement to give food TO starving
India hear The rustling of the wings of
the AT. calyptic angel, ready to fly through
the nd"st Of heaven proclaiming to all the
Kingdoms and people and tongues the I'M
searchable riches of Jesus Christ.
A Divine Circle.
And now l bethink myself of something
never thought of before had noticed
that the circle is God 5 favorite figure, and
upon that subject l addressed you some
time ago, but it did not occur to me until
pow that the gospel seems to be moving in
circle. II started in Asia, Bethlehem,
an Asiatic village; Jordan, an Asiatic
river; Calvary, an Asiatic mountain. Then
this gospel moved on to Europe; witness
the chartls and churches and cathedrals
and Christian universities of that CONT
nent. Then it crossed to America. 1t has
prayed and preached and sung its way
across our continent. 1t has crossed to
Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands in it's
way, and now in all the great cities on the
coast of China people are singing Rock
of Ages" and There Is Il Fountain Filled
With Blood" for you must know that not
only have the Scriptures been translated
into those Asatic tongues, but also the
evangelical hymns.
My missionary brother John translated
some of them into Chinese, and Mr.. Glad
stone gave me copy of the hymn, "Jesus,
Lover of My Soul" which he had himself
translated into Greek. The Christ who it
seems spent Is or Is years of his life in
India is there now in spirit, converting
and saving the people by the hundreds of
thousands, and the gospel will move right
on through Asia until the story of the
Saviour's birth will anew be made known
in Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour s
sacrifice be told anew on and around
Mount Calvary, and the story of Saviour's
ascension be told anew on the shoulder of
Mount Olivet. And then do you not see
the circle will be complete? The glorious
circle, the circle of the earth. This old
planet, gashed with earthquake and
scorched with conilagration and torn with
revolutions, will he girdled with churches
with schools, with universities, with mil
lennial festivities How cheering and how
inspiring the thought that we are, wheth-
er giving temporal or spiritual relief,
working on the segment of such circle,
anu lnaG Ine CnflStlS Il Isl Ion when start
ed in Asia will keep On its way until it
goes clear around to the place where it
started. Then the earth will have demon
strated that for which it was created and
as soon as a world has completed its mis-
sion it dies Part Of the heavens is Gem
etery of dead worlds. Our world, built to
demonstrate to the worlds which have
been loyal to God the awful results of dis
loyalty, so thar none of them may ever at
tempt it say our world, having finished
its mission, may then 60 ont of existence.
The central fires of the world which are
burning out rapidly toward the crust may
have reached the surface by that time and
the Bible prophecy be fulfilled, which de-
clares that the earth and all things that
are therein shall be burned up. The ran
somed human race at that time on earth
will start unhurt in those chariOts of fire
for the great metropolis of the universe,
the heaven where the redeemed of the
Lord shall talk over the famines, and the
plaques, and the wars which this earth
suffered and against which we struggled
and prayed as long as there was any breath
in US. Glorious contamination!