Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-11-06

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Oh, woes. like to see Paul, the inva.
lid mission ny, at the moment when his
influence aaes to full orb, his influence
rolling on; through Antioch, through Cy-
prus, through Lystra, through Corinth.
through Athens. through Asia. through
] Europe. through America, through the
first century, through five centuries,
/ through twenty centuries. through earth,
thro' I'll heaven, and at hast the wave of
influence, having made fun cit cult,
/ strikes his soul. Oh, then | would like 10
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.
l should not like 70 see the countenanee
| of Yoltaire when his influence comes to
| full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage
/ seized him at s3 years of age his intlu-
! ence did not cease. The most brilliant
| man of his century, he had used all his
| faculties for assaulting Christianity. his
bad influence widening through France.
/ widening our through Germany, widening
! through all Europe, widening through
Ameriea, widening through the 1873 ~ears
! THAI hare gone since he died. widening
| through earth. widening through the
great future, until at last the aeeumulat-
| ed influence of his baleful teachings and
/ dissolute life viii beat against his dismay-
ed spirit aad at that moment it will be
| enough TO make the black hair of eternal
! darkness turn white with the 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 omnipoteut Mercy.
well. now" say some. this in some
respects is a very glad theory and in 9th
ers a very lad me. We would like to
| have the good We have ever done come
back to us, but the thought that all the
sins we ha 5e ever committed will come
back to us fills us with fright" My
brother. have to tell you God can break
that circle am will do so at your call l
can bring twenty passages of Scripture
to prove that when God for Christ's sake
| forgives man the Sins of his pas life
never come back. The wheel may roll on
and on, but you take ytur position be-
hind the cross, and the wheel strikes the
cross and Is shattered fort yer. The sins
fly off from the circle ana fall at right
angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven.
| Forgiven, The meanest thing a man can
do is, after some difficulty has been set
tied, to bring it up again, and God Will
not do anything like mat. 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
1 sure TO forget, and that Is pardoned
transgressions. How do | know it?
will prove it. "Their sins and their iniqui-
ties will remember no more" Blessed
| is he whose transgression is forgiven"
But do not make the mistake of think
ing that this doctrine of the circle stops
with this life. 1t rolls on through heav-
en-. You might quote in opposition TO me
| what St. John says about the city of
heaven. He SAY il "lieth four square"
| That does seem to initiate against this
idea of circle, but dc you not know
| there il many square house that has 2
family circle facing each other and in a
circle NOV ng. and | can prove that this
is so in regard to heaven. st. John says.
| Il heard the voice of many angels round
about the throne and the beasts and the
elders" And again he says, Il saw round
about the throne four and twenty seats.
And again kc says, There was r;dn-
bow round about the throne"
The two former imply circle, the last
either a circle or a semi-eircle, the seats
facing each other, the angels facing each
other, the men facing each other. heaven
an amphitheater of glory, circumference
of patriarch and prophet and apostle, cir
conference OF Scotch covenanters and
Theban legion and Albigenses, circum-
ference of the good of all ages periphery
/ of splendor unimagined and indescriba-
Bile, circle, a circle.
But every circumstance must have a
| center, and what is the center of this
| heavenly circumference? Christ-his all
! the glory, his all the praise. his all the
crowns, all heaven wreathed into gar
! land round about him. Take off the inn
uerial sandal from his foot and behold
! me scar of the spike. Lift the coronet of
! dominion from his brow and see where
! was the laceration of the briers. Come
closer. all heaven. Narrow the circle
| around his great heart. O Christ, the
Saviour, o Christ. the man, o Christ, the
| God, keep thy throne forever, seated on
,he circle of the earth, seated ON the cir
sic of heaven.
On Christ, the solid rock, | stand;
All other ground is shifting sand.