Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-11-08

therefore conclude that Gods govern
ment is going to break down. History
tells us that in the making of the pyra-
lnids it took 1000 men two years to
drag one great stone from the quarry
and put it into the pyramids. II men
short lived can afford to work so slow
ly as that. cannot God in the building
of eternities afford to wait?
What though God should take 10000
years to draw circle? Shall we take
our little watch. which we have to
wind up every night lest it run down,
and hold it up beside the clock OF eter-
nal ages? II, 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 man comes to you and
says. Good morning" You look at
him and say: why, you have the adj
vantage of me- l cannot place you"
He says, Don't you remember thirty
years ago giving letter of introduce
ton to a young mana letter OF In
PRODUCTION to William E. Dodge?"
Eyes, yes; do" He says, II am the
man. That was my first step toward
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: L
want to introduce myself to you.
went into prayer meeting some years
ago. sat back by the door. You
arose to make an exhortation. That
talk changed the course CT my life. and
If 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 great while.
Latimer and Ridley. The bill of ex-
penses has these items among others:
Shillings. Pence.
One load of fire fagots. ....3
Carriage for four loads OF
WOOD ....1 -.
Item. post.
Item, two chains. .......n ...3
Item, two staples. ......
Item, four laborers. ........2 y
making in all Cos. Sd. That was cheap
fire, considering all the circumstances.
but it kindled 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, convoiuting, 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 arc impatient Of his whimsicali-
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
rem will wonder if you will never be
taken away. They called you father"
once: now they call you the "old
man" If you live few years longer
they will call you the "old chap"
What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting
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 I'M
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 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
Forty years ago this morning I
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-co,ning back to us with
welcome Of delight or curse of con-
demnation?
Oh, 7 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,