Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-11-08

course DIR. Tnlmage shows that the
EeoG or evil we do returns to bless or
blast. US; text, Isaiah xl, 30. "It is he
that sitteth upon the circle OF the
sarth.'
While yet people thought that the
= world was fat and thousands Of years
s.'before they found out that IL was round
Isaiah, IN my text, intimated the shape
or ft-God sitting upon the circle of the
earth. The most beautiful figure In all
geometry is the circle. God made the
universe on plan OF the circle.
There ere in the natural world
straight lines, angles, parallelograms.
diagonals, quadrangles, but these evil
IDENTITY are not Gods favorites. Almost
everywhere where you end him geome-
trizing you end the circle dominant
and II not the circle thea the curve.
which Is circle that died young If II
had lived long enough It would have
been fun orb, periphery. An ellipse
IS circle pressed only little too hard
at the sides.
Giants causeway in Ireland shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
are over $4,000 columns OF rocks-oc-
tagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. These
rocks seem TO have been made by rule
ana compass. Every artist has his mold
ing room where he may make fifty
shapes, but ne chooses one shape as
preferable to all others. L will not say
that the Giants causeway was the
worlds molding room, but do say out
or great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best. SIT
is he that stitch on the circle of the
earth" The stars In circle. the moon
IN circle, the sun in circle, the uni
verse In circle and the throne of God
the center Of that circle.
Appreciation OF this would correct
the architecture OF churches, whose
shape Is often n defiance OF divine sug-
gestion. When men build churches,
they ought to initiate tho idea of the
Great Architect and put the audience
IN circle. knowing THAI the tides of
emotion roll moro easily that way than
In straight lines. Six thousand years
ago God flung this world oct of his
right hand. But he did not throw It
out in q straight line, but curvilinear,
with n leash OF love holding IL so as to
bring It back again. The world started
Prom his hand pure and Edenic. 1t
hos been rolling on through regions
of moral Ice and distemper. How long
IL will roll God only knows, but Il Will
In due time mako complete circuit and
come back to the place where IT start
ed-tho hand Of God-pure and Edenic.
The Circle os History.
The history OF the world goes in a
circle. Why Is it that the shipping
an our day is improving SO rapidly? a
scientific shipbuilder says ii is because
men are Initiating I'm some respects
what the small wits derlde. the old
model OF Noah's ark. not as we see It
In old time pictures, but as II really
was according to the account given.
Great ships have we now, but where Is
the ship on the sea today that could
outride deluge in which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked, landing
oil the passengers IN safety, two OF
each kind OF living creatures. hun
dreds of thousands OF species?
Pomology Will so on with it's achieve
ments until after many centuries the
world VIII have plums and pears equal
TO the paradlsaical. The art OF garden
Ing VIII grow for centuries. and after
the Downings and Mitchells of the
world have done their best in the far
up TO the arborescence OF the year /.
IL the makers OF colored glass go on
improving, they may in some Centuries
De able to make something equal to
tho east window OF York minister.
which was built In the year 1900. We
are six centuries behind those artists.
But the world must keep on tolling
until it shall make the complete circuit
and come up 10 the skill of those very
men.
IL the world continues to improve In
masonry, we shall have after awhile.
perhaps after the advance of centuries. |
mortar equal 10 that which saw in the
wall OF an exhumed English city built |
In the time of the Romans LOGO years |
ago, that mortar today as good as the |
day In which IL was made, having out |
lasted the brick and the stone. i say, |
after hundreds OF years masonry may |
advance TO that point
II the world stands long enough. we |
may have city as large as they had In |
old timcs-Babylon, five times the size
OF London. You 60 into the pottcrles OF
England, and you find them making
cups and vases after the style of the
cups and vases exhumed from Pompeii.
The world is not going back. Oh, no!
But 1t Is swinging In circle and VIII
come around 10 the styles OF pottery
known so long ago as the days of Pom
peii. The world must keep on progress
ing until It makes the complete circuit.
The curve Is In the right direction; the
curve VIII keep on until IL becomes the
circle.
Bad Deeds Come Back.
Wei, now. what is true in the mate
rial universe Is true In Gods moral gov
eminent and spiritual arrangement
That II the meaning OF Ezekieps wheel
All commentators agree in saying that
the wheel means Gods providence. But
wheel Is Of no use unless 1t turns, and
III 1t turn II turns around, and IL 1t turns
around 1t moves In q circle. What then?
Are we parts OF a great iron machine
whir'ed around and around whether we
Will or not. the victims of memorable
fate3 Mol SO Tar from that shall show
you that we ourselves start the circle
OF good or bad actions and that ii will
$ureSy come around again to us unIess
~ irvine Intervention It be hindered. |
1hose bad or good actions may make
the circuit OF many years, but come
back TO US they VIII as certainly as
mat God sits on the circle Of the earth. !,
Jezebel, the worst woman Of the b. A.,
oie - Shakespeare copying his Lady |.
macbeth from her picture - slew Ma f.
ooth because she wanted his vineyard.
while the dogs were eating the body
OF Naboth Elijah the prophet put down
MS compass and marked q circle from
nose dogs clear around to the dogs that
should eat the body OF Jezebel, the
murderess. 'Impossible?' the people
said. THAT win never happen" Who
IS that being flung out of the palace