The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-10

| Washington, Nov. s.-In this discourse Dr. Taimage shows that the good or evil we do returns to bless or blast us; text Isaiah xl P. '.It Is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth"
 While yet people thought that the world was fiat and thousands of years before they found out that 1t was round Isaiah. in my text, intimated the shape of 1t. God sitting upon the circle of the earth. The most beautiful figure in all | geometry is the circle. God made the universe on the plan of circle.
 | There are in the natural world straight | lines. angles, parallelograms. diagonals. | quadrangles but these evidently are not Gods favorites. Almost everywhere where you find him geometrizing you md | the circle dominant, and if not the circle | then the curve, which is a circle that died | young. If it had lived long enough 1t | would ihave been a full orb. peripnW An ellipse is a circle pressed only little l too hard at the sides.
 Giants Causeway, in Ireland, shows what God thinks of mathematics. There
 are over 35,000 columns of rocks--octago- nal, hexigonal, pentagonal These rocks seem to have been made by rule and com pass. Every artist has his molding room, where he may make fifty shapes. but ne
 chooses .one, shape as preferable @ to ai Causeway was the worlds molding room but do say out of a great many figures God seems to have selected the crcie as
 the best, it is he that stsetn in on cirs1e the moon in a circle, the sun in a circle; the universe in a circle and the throne oi
 God the center of that circle.
 Appreciation of this would correct the
 architecture of churches whose shape Is
 often a 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
 that the tides of emotion roll more easily that way than in straight lines. Six thou sand years ago God flung this world out of his right hand. but he did not throw 1t out in a straight line, but curvilinear, with a leash of love holding 1t 90 as to bring it back again. The world started from his hand pure and Edenic. It has been rolling on through regions of moral ice and distemper. How~long It Will roll God only knows but 1t 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 cle. Why is 1t that the shipping in our day is improving so rapidly? A scientia shipbuilder says 1t is because men are initiating in some respects what the small wits deride. the old model Of Noahs Ark not as we see it in old time pictures. but as 1t 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 heav- en and the earth were wrecked, landing all the messengers in safety-two of each kind of living creatures. hundreds ef
 thousands of species.
 The aAchhievements of Pomology.
 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 of gardening will come up to the ar- borescence of the year 1. If the makers
 of colored glass go on improving. they may in some centuries be able to make 1 something equal to the east window of York minister. which, was built in the year 129O. We are six centuries behind | those artists, but the world must keep on toiling until it shall make the complete | circuit and come up to the skill of those very men.
 If the world continues to improve in masonry, We shall have after while. per- haps after the advance of centuries. mor- | tar equal to that which l saw in the wall
 of an exhumed English city built In the 1 time of the Romans. 1G00 years ago. that
 mortar today was as good as the day 1T | which 1t was made, having outlasted the
 brick and stone. I say after hundreds oi
 years masonry may advance to thai | point.
 If the world stands long enough, w may have q city as large as they had IT
 old time-Babylon. five times the size oi
 London. You go into the potteries O
 England. and you fin1 them making cups and vases after the style of the cups anC
 vases exhumed from Pompeii. The work
 is not going back. Oh. no! But it Il
 swinging In circle and will come around
 to the styles of pottery known so long ag'
 as tho days of Pompen The world must
 keep on progressing until it makes the
 complete circuit. The curve is in thu
 right direction the curve will keep or
 until 1t becomes the circle.
 Well, now, what is true in the materia universe is true in Gods moral govern t..fA, fIanf Ac
 the meaning of EzekiaTs wheel. All com
 me ntators agree in saying that the wheel
 means Gods providence. But wheel is | of no use unless 1t turns, and if 1t turn II turns around. and if 1t turns around II
 moves in circle. What then? Are wt parts of a great iron machine wh1rled
 around whether we will or not the vic l tims of memorable fate? No! So fal from that I shall show you that we our
 selves start in a circle of good or bad ac- tions and that 1t will surely come around l again to us unless by divine intervention it be hindered. Those bad or good actions | may make the circuit of many years, but
 come back to us they will as certainly as
 that God sits on the circle of the earth. l Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible, l Shakespeare copying his Lady Mac | beth from ner picture slew Naboth be-
 cause she wanted his vineyard. While | the dogs were eating the body of Naboth
 Elijah, the prophet. put down his com | pass and marked circle from those dogs | cicar around to tne uoBs thdt shouiu -, Sa | the body of Jezebel, the murderess. I'm
 possible!" the people said That VII
 never happen" Who is that being flung
 out of the palace window? Jezebel. A | few hours after they came around hop | ing to bury her. They find only the palms
 of the hands and the skull The dogs l that devoured Jezehel and the dogs that
 devoured Naboth-oh, what a swift what | an awful circuit
 The Circle of Centuries.
 | But it is sometimes the case that this l circle sweeps through century or