Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-11-08
GOOD OR EVIL RETURNS
Or. TaIIaage Says Actions Hay Make
It's Circuit of Many Years.
But They VIII Surely Come Back TO Us 10
Bless or Blast Our Lives.
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lshan xl, Il, 1t Is lie that stitch upon
the circle of the earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was fiat and thousands OF years be-
fore they found out that it was round
Isaiah, in my text, intimated the shape
or it-Got sitting upon the circle of the
earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle. God made the uni
verse on plan of the circle.
There are in the natural world straight
lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals,
QuNdrangles, but these evidently are not
Gods favortes. Almost everywhere
where you find Him geometrizing you find
the circle dominant, and if not the circle
then the curve, which is circle that died
young, If it had lived long enough it
would have been full orb, periphery.
An ellipse is a circle pressed only little
too hard at the sides.
Giants causeway in ireland shows what
God thinks of mathematics There are
over $1,000 columns of rocks-octagonal,
hexasonal. pentagoral. These rocks seem
to have been made by rule and compass.
Every artist has his moiding room where
he NAV make fifty shapes, but he chooses
one shape as preferable to all Others !
will not cay that the Giants causeway
was the worlds moldipg room, but [ Go
say out of a great many figures God seems
to have selected the circle as the best.
earth" The stars in a circle. the moon
in circle the sun in a circle, the universe
in circle and the throne of God the cen.
tire Of that circle.
Appreciation OF this would correct the
architecture of churches, whose shape is
often q defiance Of divine suggestion.
When men build churches they ought to
initiate the idea of the Great Architect
and put the audience in circle, knowing
L.. 1lo +,Aos IS orNOtInr roll QoGliV
that way than in straight lines. Six thou
sand years ago God flung this world ont of
His right hand. But He did not throw it
out in a straight line, but in curvilinear,
with leash of love holding it so as to
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 1t will roll
God only knows, but it will IN due time
make complete circuit and come back to
the place where it started-the hand OF
God-pure and Edenic.
The history Of the world goes in cir
Gle. 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 old model of Noah's ark,
not as we see it IN old time pictures, bnt
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 deluge in which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked, landing all
che passengers in safety, two of each kind
Of living creatures, hundreds OF thousands
of species?
2 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 Mitchells of the world have
done their best in the far future the art oil
gardening will come up TO the arborescence
of the year !.
If the makers of colored glass go on i'm
proving they may in some centuries bt
able to make something equal to the eas'
window Of York minister, which was bull
in the year 1890. We are six centuries be
hind those artists But the world mus
keep ON toiling until it shall make tn;
complete circuit and come up to the ski
Of those very men.
IL the world continues TO improve II
masonry, we shall have after awhile, per
haps after the advance of centuries, nor
tar equal to that which | saw in the wal
of an exhumed English city built in tn
time Of the Romans 1900 years ago, tina
mortar to-day as good as the day in Whlc!
it was made, having outlasted the brlcl
and the stone. l say, after hundreds o
years masonry may advance to that point
If the world stands long enough we ma.
have q city as large as they had IN on
time.-Babylon, five times the size OF Lon
don; You may go into the pot!;eries SO
and vases after the style Of the cups an
vases exhumed from Pompeii.
? The world Is not going back. On, no
Bun 1t is swinging in circle, and WI
come around to the styles or potter
known so long ago as the days Of Pompeil
The world must keep on progressing unit
it makes the complete circuit. The curry
rs in the right direction; the curve WI
keep on until it becomes the circle
Well, now, wha. is true in the matters
universe is true in Gods moral govern
ment and spiritual arrangement. That
the meaning OF Ezekiel's wheel. All CON
mentators agree in saying that the. whee
means Gods providence. But a wheel
of no use unless it turns, and if it turn !
turns ar~und, and if it turns around
moves in s circle. What then? Are "
parts OF great iron machine WnlTle
around and around whether We will o
not. the victims of memorable fate? No
So far from that shall show you that W
ourselves start the circle OF good or bad 81
tions. and that it will surely come aroun
again to We unless by divine interventlo
it be hindered. Those bad or good action
NAV make the circuit of many years, bu
come back to US they will as certainly
that God sits on the circle of the earth,
Jezebel, the worst woman OF the Blbi
Shakespeare copying his Lady Macbet
from her picture--slew Naboth because sl
wanted his vineyard. While the dogs wei
eating the body of Naboth Elijah, tt
prophet, put down his compass en-
marked a circle from those dogs cles
around to the dogs that should eat tt
body of Jezebel. the murderess. "lmposs
ble!" the people said. "That will nev'
happen" Who is that being flung out
Che palace window? Jezebel. A few hou
after they came around; hoping to oul
hands and the skull. The dogs that d
voured Jezebel and the dogs that deVourre
Naboth. Oh, what a swift, what an awi
But it is sometimes the case that tn
circle sweeps through century or throu2
MANY centuries. The world started wit
theocracy for government-that Is; &c
was the president and emperor OF u
world. .PeOpe, got tired Of g Il thG G;csaf
They said: eve don't want zoo dlrect
interfering with the affairs Of the wori
Give us monarchy" The world had
monarchy. From monarchy. IT ID g9li
TO have a limited monarchy. After awhl
the limited monarchy will be given |
and the republican form of governme
will be everywhere dominant and reco
nged. Then the world will get tired,
the republican form of government, and
viii have an anarchy, which is no COVER
ment at all. :,
And then oil nations, finding out tn
man is not capable of righteousiy, COVER
ing man, will cry out again for theocra
and say, 'Iet God come back and condu
the affairs of the world"
Every step-monarchy, limited mona
ehy, repubhoanism, anarchy--only diffe
emit steps between the first theocracy al
the last theocracy or segments of the gre