Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-08

Ing back to us unless divine interven-
tion hinder-coming back to us with
welcome OF delight or curse OF con-
demnation?
Oh. I would like to see Paul, the
Invalid missionary, at the moment
when his influence comes to full orb.
his influence rolling out through An
tloch. through Cyprus. through Lystrs,
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 himl No one can
tell the wide sweep Of the circle OF
Paurs 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
fiuence widening through France.
widening out through Germany, Wild
ening through all Europe, wild
ouing through America, widen
ing through the 1913 years that have
gone since he died, widening through
no earth widening through the great
future. until at last the accumulated
influence of his baleiG! teachngs and
dissolute life will beat against HE dis
mayed spirit. and at that moment IL
Will be enough to make the black hair
of eternal darkness turn white with
horror. No one can tell how that bad
mans influence girdled the earth save
the one who is seated on the circle of
the earth. the Lord Almighty.
Gods Omnipotent Mercy.
well. now" say some, this IN
some respects is very glad theory
aDd in others a very bad one. We
would like to have the good we have
ever done come back to us, but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to us. fills
us with alright" My brother | have
to tell you God can break that circle
and will do so at your call. / can
bring twenty passages OF Scripture to
prove that when God for Christ's sake
| forgives man the sins OF his past
life never come back. The wheel may
roll on and on. but you take your
position behind the cross, and the
wheel strikes the cross and Is shatter-
ed forever. The sins fly off from the
circle and fall at right angles with
complete oblivion. Forgivenl For
given! The meanest thing a man can
do Is. after some difficulty has been
settled. to bring 1t up again, and God
will not do anything like that. Gods
memory is mighty enough to hold all
the events OF the ages, but there is one
thing that Is sure to slip his memory
one thing he is sure to forget. and that
is pardoned transgresslons. How do
know it? I will prove It. Their sins
and their iniquities l will remember
no more" Blessed is he whose trans.
gresslon Is forgiven"
But every circumference must have
a center. and what is the center OF this
heavenly circumference? Christ-hii
all the glory, his all the praise, his al
the crowns, all heaven wreathed into
a garland round about him. Take of
the imperial sandal from his foot ant
behold the scar of the spike. Lift the
coronet OF dominion from his brow
and see where was the laceration o.
the briers. Come closer, all heaven
Narrow the circle around his s.ca
heart. o Christ, the Savior, o Christ
the man. o Christ, the God. keep tn!
throne forever. seated on the circle o
the earth, seated on the circle o
heaven!
On Christ. the solid rock, stand;
All other ground Is shifting sand.