Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-11-23
SWINGS IN A CIRCLE.
Dr. rst~-.ge Use. the Beautiful Geo
nstrsest Fssare fs Hi- Discourse
Circle OF Centuries and
OF Good Deeds.
rcovyrixnt ieci. BY Louis Kiopsch. ~. II
washfrston Nov. 3


shows that the good or evil we do re-
turas 90 bless or blast rs; text. Isaiah
7i:22. 1T is He that stitch upon The
circle - the earth"
While yet people though that the
world was fat and thousands Of years
before they found out that IL was
round. Isaiah. in my text, intimsted
she shape OF IL. God sitting upon the
circle OF the earth. The most beau
tisal figure in all geometry Is the
circle God made the universe on the
plan OF a circle.
There are in the natural world
straight lines. angles. Parsllelo-
grams. diagonsls. quSdrangles. but
these evidently are not Gods favor
ties. Almost everywhere you find him
geometrizing you ind the circle dom
inant. and IL not the circle then the
curve. which Is a circle that died
young II IL had lived long enough,
It would have been full orb, a peri
phcrv. An elhpse Is a circle pressed
only q little too hard at the sides.
Giants Causeway. in Ireland. shows
What God thinks OF mathematics-
There are over $4,000 columns CT
-e-.sz-octag onsl. hexagonal, pentas-
onal. These rocks seem 70 have
been made BY rule and compass
Every artist has his moldng room.
where he may make Atty shapes. but
he chooses one shape as prefera bic
10 al others. viii not say that the
Giants Causeway was the worlds
moldinr-roon. but do say ont Of
great many figures God seems 20 have
selected the circle as the best. "If Is
he thst sittcth on the circle Of the
earth" The stars IN a circle. the
. moon in a circle. the sun in circle,
the universe ia circle and the throne
OF God the center OF that circle.
Appreciation OF this would correct
the architecture OF churches whose
shape IS often defiance OF divine
tuvces tion. When men build church
e.. they ought 10 initiate the iGca OF
the Great Architect and put the audi
eucc in a circle. knowing that the
tides OF emotion roll more easily that
way than in straight lines. Six thou
sand years ago God flung this world
out OF His right hand. but He did not
throw q out in straight line. but
curvilinear. with a leash OF love hold
ing Il 20 as 70 bring IL back again
The world started from His HAND
pure and E6enic- IL has been rolling
On through regions OF moral ice auS
distcmper. How long il VIII ron Coo
only knows. bat it viii 10 due tim
make complete circuit and come bacl
20 the place where IL started. ia
p hand OF God. pure and Edenic.
The history Of the world goes in
81 e - D. Inc
our day is improving 90 rapidly
K scientific builder says IL "a becaus
men are initiating in some respect
e. what the small wits dcridc. the oil
model OF Noah's ark. not as we sec
: IN old time pictures. but as IL real
!. was according 20 the account giveI
A.. Great ships have We now, but wheT
p j. the ship on the sea to-day ths
!, could outride a delugs in which a.
/. heaven and earth were wrecked. Ian,
y inF all passengers in safety-tvyo
each kind Of creatures, hundreds
thousands Of species.
Pomology viii 90 on with j
achievements until after mary &C
turtles the world will have plums al
pears equal 10 the paradisaicaL IL
a art OF gardening viii grow for CO
turtles, and after the D0wnings al
Mitchells OF the world have do
their best in the far future the a
Re OF gardening will come up 20 the q
r. borescence Of the year /. If the ma
Ir era Of coiored glass go on improvil
he they may in some centuries be al
d 10 make something equal 10 the ga
d? window OF York Minister, which "
in centuries behind those artists.
,u the world must keep on toiling IN
IS IL shall make the complete circuit a
- come ep 10 the skill of those "
Sc men
Is IL the world continues 10 imprC
te IN masonry. we shall have, af
or awhile. perhaps after the advance
u centuries. mortar equal 10 that VIII
-, I saw IN the wall OF En exhumed Fl
"a lish city built In the time OF the Re
"a ana. 1000 years ago. that mortar
h. day as good as the day in which
:, was made. having outlasted the br
"a and Gtonc. ! say after hundreds
= years masonry may advance 10 4
,er point.
"a II the world stands long enough.
~ may have a city as large as they
III ia old times-babyl lon. FIVE times
s,. size Of London. You go into the
A. tSries OF England. and you find Il
-. making cups and vases after
o. style OF the cups aud vases eXhuI
-. from POmpeii. The world H. not
ing back. On. no. Bat IL Is swins
In q circle and will come around
the styles OF pottery known so
ass ago as the days Of Pompeii.