Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-11-08

and hold It up beside the clock Of etoe-
nal ages? If, according to the Bible.
a thousand years are in Gods sight as
one day, then, according to that calcu-
lation. the 5000 years of the worlds
existence has been only to God as
from Monday to Saturday
The Circle of Good Deeds.
One day a man comes to you and
says, Good morning" You look at
him and say: why, you have the ad-
vantage of me. 1 cannot place you"
He says, Don't you remember thirty
years ago giving a letter of introduce
ton to a young mana letter of in
PRODUCTION to William E. Dodge?"
Yes, yes; do" He says, 81 am the
man. That was my first step toward
a fortune. but have retired from
business now and am giving my time
to philanthropies and public interests.
Come up to my house and see me-"
Or man comes to you and says: Il
want to introduce myself to you. |
went into a prayer meeting some years
ago. I sat back by the door. You
arose to make an exhortation. That
talk changed the cOu,s sc CT my life, and
if l ever get to heaven under God |
will owe my salvation to you. In
only ten. twenty or thirty years the
circle swept out and swept back again
to your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is a wider circle
and does not return for a great while.
| saw bill of expenses for burning
Latimer and Ridley The bill of ex-
penses has these items among others:
Shillings. Pence.
One load of fire fagots- 30
Carriage for four loads OF
wood -.---- --..---2
Item, post. ...............l
Item, two chains. $1,000. ...3 4
Item, two staples. 1890.
Item. four laborers. ........2
making in all 25s. Sd. That was cheap
fire, considering all the circumstances,
but it kindled a light which shone all
around the world and aroused the
martyr spirit. and out from that burn
ing of Latimer and Ridley rolled the
circle wider and wider, starting other
circles. convOluting, overrunning. cir
cumscribing, overarching. all heaven,
a circle.
The Echo of Past Misdeeds.
You maltreat an aged parent You
begrudge him the room in your house.
You are impatient of his whimsical
ties and garrulity. 1t makes you mad
to hear him tell the same story twice.
You give him food he cannot masti-
cate You wish he was away. You
wonder if he is going to live forever.
He will be gone very soon His steps
are shorter and shorter He is going
to stop. But God has an account to
settle with you on that subject. After
awhile your eye will be dim, and your
gait will halt. and the sound of the
grinding will be low, and you will tell
the same story twice. and your child
ron will wonder if you will never be
taken away. They called you father
once; now they call you the "old
man." If you live a few years longer
What are those rough words with
which your children are accostins
you? They are the echo of the very
words you used in the ear of your old
father forty years ago. What is that
you are trying to chew, but find it un-
masticable. and your jaws ache, and
you surrender the attempt? Perhaps
it may be the gristle which you gave
to your father for his breakfast forty
years ago.
A gentleman passing along the
avenue saw a son dragging his father
into the street by the hair of the head.
The gentleman. outraged at this bru-
tai conduct was about to punish the
offender, when the old man arose and
said: Don't hurt him. It's all right.
dragged out my father by the hair of
his head" 1t is a circle Other sins
may be adjourned to the next world.
That circle is made quickly. very
quickly. Oh what a stupendous
thought that the good and the evil we
start come back to us, Do you know
that the judgment day will be only the
points at which the circles join. the
good and the bad We have done COM
ing back to us unless divine interven-
ton hinder-coming back to us with
welcome of delight or curse of con-
demnation?
Oh, / would like to see Paul, the
invalid missionary, at the moment
when his influence comes to full orb,
his influence rolling out through An
tioch. 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
earth. through heaven. and at last the
wave of influence, having made full
circuit, strikes his soul Oh, then |
would like to see him, No one can
tell the wide sweep of the circle of
Pau's influence save the one who is
seated on the circle of the earth.
| should not like to see the counte-
nance of Voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb When the fatal
hemorrhage seized him at eighty three
years of age. his influence did not
cease. The most brilliant man of his
century, he had used all his faculties
for assaulting Christianity. his bad in