The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-09
SWINGS IN A CIRCLE.
Good or Evil We Do Shall Return
to Bless or Blast Us.
de. Tnimage Uses the Beautiful Geo.
metrical Figure in His
Circle of Centuries and
of Good Deeds.
Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. u
Washington.

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In this discourse DR.. Talmage
shows that the good or evil we do re-
turns to bless or blast us; text, Isaiah
1l;22: 1T is He that sitteth upon the
circle of the earth"
While yet people thought that tn.
world wa fiat and thousands of years
before they found out that it was
the shape of it, God sitting upon the
circle of the earth. The most beau
tiful figure in all geometry is the
circle. God made the universe on the
plan of q circle.
There are in the natural world
straight lines, angles, parallelo-
grams, ~diagonals, quadrangles, but
these evidently are not Gods favor
ties. Almost everywhere you find him
geometrizing you find the circle dom"
%inant, and if not the circle then the
curve, which is a circle that died
young. If it. had lived long enough,
it would have been n full orb, a peri
phery. An ellipse is a circle pressed
only a little too hard at the sides.
Giants Causeway, in Ireland, shows
what God thinks of mathematics.
There are over $4,000 columns Of
archaeological, heXagonal, pentag-
onal. These rocks seem to have
been made by rule and compass.
Every artist has his molding room,
where he may make fifty shapes, but
he chooses one shape as preferable
to all others. l will not say that the
Giants Causeway was the worlds
molding-room, but ! do say out of a
great many figures God seems to have
selected the circle as the best. at is
He that stitch on the circle of the
earth" The stars in a circle, the
o in a circle, the sun in a circle,
the universe in a circle and the throne
of 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 church
es, they ought to initiate the idea OF
the Great Architect and put the audi
ence in a 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 mo-
throw it out in a straight line, but
curvilinear, with a leash of love hold
ing IT so as to bring it back again
The world started from His hant
pure and Edenic. 1t has been rolling
on through regions of moral ice ant
distemper. How long it will roll Goo
only knows, but it will in due tim,
make complete circuit and come bacl
to the place where it started, tn
hand of God, pure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in
circle. Why is it that the shipping il
our day is improving so rapidly?
scientific builder says it is becaus
men are initiating in some respect
what the small wits deride, the oil
model of Noah's ark, not as we see j
in old time pictures, but as it reall,
was according to the account giver
Great ships have we now, but wher
is the ship on the sea to-day tina
could outride a deluge in which tn
:. heaven and earth were wrecked, land
ing all passengers in safety-two o
each kind of creatures, hundreds O
thousands of species.
Pomology will 60 on with it
achievements until after many Ger
turtles the world will have plums an
pears equal to the paradisaical. Th
art of gardening will grow for cer
turtles, and after the Downings an
Mitchells of the world have don
their best in the far future the al
of gardening will ONE up to the a
borescence of the year /. If the NAL
ers of colored glass go on improvinI
they may in some centuries be alb
to make something equal to the ca:
window of York minister, which wa
built in the year 1890. We are 81
centuries behind those artists, bl
.he world must keep on toiling unit
t shall make the complete circuit al
come up to the skill of those vel
men.
If the world continues to impro'
in masonry, we shall have, aft
awhile. perhaps after the advance
centuries, mortar tuudl W maj WIN
| saw in the wall of an eXhumed En-
lish city built in the time of the Ror
ans, 1000 years ago, that mortar t
day as good as the day in which
va made, having outlasted the brit
and stone. l say after hundreds
years masonry may advance to tn
point.
If the world stands long enough, '
:. may have a city as large as they hi
in old times-Babylon, five times t
I'll size of London. You go into the pc
- teries of England, and you find the
making cups and vases after t
= style of the cups and vases exhum
from Pompeii. The world is not 9
D ing back. Oh, no! But it is swingi
= in a circle and will come around
the styles of pottery known SO 10
ago as the days of Pompeii. L
world must keep on progressing u
til it makes the complete circuit. 7
curve is in the right direction; I
curve will keep on until it becom
the circle.