Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-11-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE LAW OF COMPENSATION, SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.

| Good Evil Deeds Return to Bless
or Blast Our Livcs---A achievements of
PomoloEy--"It Is He That stitch Upon
tho Circle or the Earts,"---Is. iO 2:.
copyright. 1901 by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
| Washington, Nov. Sin this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows that the
/ good or evil we do returns to bless or
blast US; text, Isaiah xl, %, 1T is
he that stitch upon the circle Of the
earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was fat and thousands of years
before they found out that it was round
Isaiah, in my text, intimated the shape
! of it. 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 evil
| IDENTITY are not Gods favorites. Almost
! everywhere where you find him geo.
metrizing you find the circle dominant;
| and If not the circle then the curve,
| which is a circle that died young. If
| 1t had lived long enough, it would have
been full orb, a 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
CT hoe jc
molding room, where he may make so
shapes, but he chooses one shape as
| preferable to all others. I will not say
| that the Giants Causeway was the
worlds holding room, but do say out
Of great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best. cit
is he that stitch on the circle of the
| earth" Tho stars in circle, the moon
in a circle, the sun in circle, the uni
verse in circle and the throne Of God
the center OF that circle.
| The Achievements of PomoloEy.
/ Pomology will go on with it's achieve
| ments until after many centuries the
world will have plums and pears equal
to the paradisaical. The art of garden
ing 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 arborescence of the year !. If
the makers of colored glass go on i'm
proving they may in some centuries be
able to make something equal to the
east window of York minister, which
was brilt in the year 1890. We are six
centuries behind these artists, but the
| world must keep on toiling until it
shall make the complete circuit and
come up to the skill of these very
1nen.
II the world continues to improve in
| masonry, we shall have after awhile,
| perhaps after the advance OF centuries
! mortar equal to that which 7 saw in
/ the wall OF an exhumed English city
! built in the time of the Romans. 1900
years ago, that mortar today as good
| as the day in which it was made, hay
| ing outlasted the brick and stone
! say after hundreds of years masonry
| may advance to that point.
| II the world stands long enough, we
| may have 4 city as large as they made
| in old times-Babylon, five times the
! size of London. You go into the pot
! terias 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 it is swinging in cir
Gle and will come around to the styles
of pottery known SO long ago as the
days of Pompeif. The world must
keep on progressing until it makes
ha firc in,
the right direction: the curve will keep
on until II becomes the circle.
Well, now. what is true in the mate
rial universe is true in Gods moral
government and spiritual arrangement.
That is the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel.
All commentators agree in saying that
the wheel means Gods providence. But
wheel is of no use unless it turns.
and il it turn it turns around, and if
it turns around it moves in a circle.
What then? Are we parts Of great
iron machine whirled aroun@ whether
we will or not, the victims of inexCr-
able fate? No! So far from that
shall show you that we ourselves start
the circle of good Or bad actions, and
that it will surely come around again
to us unless by divine intervention it
be hindered. Those bad or good ac
tons may make the circuit of many
years, hut come back to us they will
as certainly as that God sits on the
circle OF the earth.
The Circle or Centuries.
But it is sometimes the case that
this circle sweeps through a century
or through many centuries. The world
started with theocracy for govern
nent-that is. Cod was the president
and emperor of the world. People got
tired Of a theocracy. They said: 1--WE
don't want God directly interfering