Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-09

q to bless or blast us; text, Isaiah XII,
| 80, 1T is he that stitch upon the circle
| of the earth"
! While yet people thought that the world
| was fiat and thousands OF years before
they found out that it was round, Isaiah.
in my text, intimated the shape of IT,
| God sitting upon the circle of the earth.
The most beautiful figure in all geom-
etry is the circle. God made the universe
on he plan of circle.
There are in the natural world straight
lines. angles, parallelograms, diagonals,
| quadrangles, but these evidently are not
! Gods favorites. Almost everywhere
where you ind him geometrizing YOU find
the circle dominant. and if not the circle
then the curve, which is circle that
died young. II it had lived long enough,
it would have been Il fun orb,a periphery.
An ellipse is circle pressed only a little
too hard at the sides.
Giants Causeway, in Ireland. shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
| are over $4,000 columns of rocks-octagc-
nal. heXagonal, pentagonal. These rocks
seem to have been made by rule and com
pass. Every artist has his molding room,
where he may make fifty shapes, but he
chooses one shape as preferable to all
others. / will not say that the Giant
Causeway was the worlds moldng room.
hut ! do say out of a great many figures
God seems 10 have selected the circle as
the best. 1T is he that stitch on the cir
Gle Of the earth The stars in circle,
the moon in n circle the sun in a circle
the universe in a circle and the throne of
God the center of that circle.
Appreciation of this would correct the
architecture OF churches whose shape is
often a defiance of divine suggestion
When men build churches. they ought 10
initiate the idea OF the Great Architect
and put the audience in 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
1t out in straight line, but curvilinear
with a leash of love holding ii so as 10
bring it back again. The world started
from his hand pure and Edenic. 1t has
| been rolling on through regions of moral
ice and distemper. How long it will roll
God only knows. but 1t will in due time
make complete circuit and come back TO
the place where 1t started, the hand OF
God. pure and Edepic.
Thc history OF the world goes in a cir
ele- Why is it that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? A scientific
shipbuilder says it is because men are
| initiating in some respects what the small
| wits deride, the I'D model of NOah's ark
not as we see it in old time pictures, but
as it really was according to the account
| given. Great ships have we now, but
| where is the ship on the sea to-day that
! could outride a deluge in which the heav-
en- and the earth were wrecked, landing
all the passengers in sacety-two Of each
kind of living creatures, hundreds Of
| thousands of species
The Achievements of PomoloRy.
Pomology will go on with its achieve
ments until after many centuries the
world will have plums and pears equal to
the paradisaical. The art of gardening
| will grow for centuries, and after the
Downings and Mitchels of the world
have done their best in the far future the
art of gardening will come up to the ar
borescence of the year l. IL the makers
/ of colored glass go on improving, they
may in some centuries be able to make
| something equal to the east window of
| York minister, which was built in the
year 1890. We are six centuries behind
those artists, but the world must keep on
| toiling until it shall make the complete
circuit and come up TO the skill Of those
very men.
II the world continues to improve in
masonry, we shall have after awhile, per-
haps after the advance of centuries, NOR
tar equal to that which l saw in the wall
| Of an exhumed English city built in the
time of the Romans 1000 years ago, that
mortar to-day as good as the day in
which it was made, having outlasted the
brick and stone. say after hundreds Of
years masonry may advance to that
point.
If the world stands long enough, we
may have city as large as they had in
old times-Babyion. FIVE times the size Of
London. You 90 into the pottercs OF
England, and you find them making cups
and vases after the style Of the cups and
vases exhnmed from Pompeii The world
IS not going back Oh, no! But it is
swinging in q circle and will come around
to the styles Of pottery known SO long
ago rs the days Of Pompcii. The world
must keep on progressing until it makes
the complete circuit. The curve is in the
right direction; the curve will keep on
until it becomes the circle.
Well, now, what is true in the material
universe is true in Gods moral govern
ment and spiritual arrangement. That is
the meaning of Ezekiefs wheel. All COM
mentators agree in saying that the wheel
means Gods providence. But n wheel is
Of no use unless it turns, and if It turn it
turns around, aud if it turns around il
moves in a circle. What then? Are VIC
parts Of great iron machine whirlcd
around whether we will or not, the vic
Tins of MEMORABLE fate? No, So far
from that / shall show you that We our
selves start the circle Of good or bad ac
tons and that it will surely come around
again to us unless by divine Intervention
1t be hindered. Those bad or good actions
may make the circuit Of many years, but
come back to US they will az certainly IS
that God sits on the circle Of the earth.
Jezebel, the worst woman Of the Bible.
Shakespeare copying his Lady Mac
beth from her picture, slew Naboth be