Connecticut western news., 1901-11-07

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 WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage shows that the good or. evil we do returns to bless or blast us; text, Isaiah xl, 9, Tt is he that sitteth upon. the circle of the earth.''
 While yet people thought that the world was flat 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 plan of the circle.
 There are in the natural world straight lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles, but these evi- dently are not Gods favorites. Almost everywhere where you find him geome- trixing you find the circle dominant, and if not the circle then the curve, which is circle that died young. If 1t had lived long enough 1t would have been a 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 5000 columns of rocks-oc- tagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. These rocks seem to have been made by rule and compass. Every artist has his mold Ing room where he may make fifty shapes, but he chooses one shape as preferable to all others. 1 will not say that the Giants causeway was the worlds molding room, but I do say out of a great many figures God seems to have selected the circle as the best. Tt Is he that sitteth on the circle of the earth" The stars in a circle, the moon In a circle, the sun in a circle, the uni verse in a circle and the throne of God The center of that circle.
 Appreciation of this would correct he architecture of churches, whose shape Is often n defiance of divine sug- zestion. When men build churches, they ought to initiate the idea of the Great Architect and put the audience In q circle. knowing that the tides of emotion roll more easily that way than in straight lines. Six thousand years ago God flung this world out of his right hand. But he did not throw 1t out in Q straight line, but curvilinear, with leash of love holding it so as to bring 1t back again. The world started from his hand pure and Edenic. It has been rolling on through regionU of moral ice and distemper. How long 1t will roll God only knows, but 1t will In due time make complete circuit and come back to the place where it start ed-the hand of God-pure and Edenic.
 The Circle of History.
 The history of the world goes in circle. Why is it that the shipping In our day Is improving so rapidly? A scientific shipbuilder says 1t 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, but as it really was according to the account given. Great ships have we now, but where Is the ship on the sea today that could outride a deluge in which the heaven and the earth were wrecked, landing all the passengers In safety, two of each kind of living creatures, hun dreds of thousands of species?
 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 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 l. If the makers of colored glass go on Improving, they may in some centuries be able to make something equal to the east window of York minister, which was built in the year 1290. We are six centuries behind those artists. But the world must keep on toiling until 1t shall make the complete circuit and come up to the skill of those very men.
 If the world continues to improve in perhaps after the advance of centuries, mortar equal to that which saw in the wall of an exhumed English city built in the time of the Romans 1000 years ago, that mortar today as good as the day in which 1t was made, having out lasted the brick and the stone. I say, after hundreds of years masonry may advance to that point.
 If the world stands long enough, we may have a city as large as they had in old times-Babylon, five times the size of London. You go into the potteries 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 1t is swinging in circle and will come around to the styles of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pom peii. The world must keep on progress Ing until 1t makes the complete circuit. The curve is in the right direction; the curve will keep on until 1t becomes the circle.
 BaA Deeds Come Back.
 We'll, now, what Is true In the mate rial universe is true in Gods moral gov ernment and spiritual arrangement. That is the meaning of EzekiePs wheel. All commentators agree in saying that the wheeLmeans Gods providence But a wheel is of no use unless 1t turns, and if 1t turn 1t turns around, and if it turns around 1t moves in a circle. What then Are we parts of Q great iron machine whirled around and around whether we will or not, the victims of inexofable 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 1t 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
 Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bi. ble Shakespeare copying his Lady Macbeth from her picture - slew Ma both because she wanted his vineyard While the dogs were eating the body of Naboth Elijah the prophet put down his compass and marked a circle from those dogs clear around to the dogs that