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ing back to us unless divine interven.
ton hinder-coming back to us with
welcome of delight or curse OF con-
demnation?
Oh, would like to see Paul, the
invalid missionary, at the moment
when his influence comes to full orb.
his influence rolling out through An
tioch, through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth, through Athens,
through Asia, through Europe,
through America, through the first
century, through five centuries.
through twenty centuries, through
earth, through heaven, and at last the
wave of influence, having made full
circuit. strikes his soul. Oh, then /
would like to see him! No one can
tell the wide sweep of the circle of
PauPs influence save the one who is
seated on the circle of the earth.
I should not like to see the counte-
nance of Vo1taire when his influence
comes to full orb. When the fatal
hemorrhage seized him at eighty-three
years of age, his influence did not
cease. The most brilliant man of his
century, he had used all his faculties
for assaulting Christianity. his bad in
fuence widening through France,
widening out through Germany, wild
ening through all Europe, wild
ening through America, widen
ing through the 123 years that have
gone since he died, widening through
the earth. widening through the great
future, until at last the accumulated
influence of his baleful teachings and
dissolute life will beat against his dis
mayed spirit, and at that moment it
will be enough to make the black hair
of eternal darkness turn white with
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 Omnipotent Mercy.
We'll, now" say some, this IN
some respects is very glad theory
and in others a very bad one. We
would like to have the good we have
ever done come back to us, but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to us, fills
us with alright" My brother, I have
to tell you God can break that circle
and will do SO at your call. I can
bring twenty passages of Scripture to
prove that when God for Christ's sake
forgives a man the sins of his past
life never come back. The wheel may
roll on and on, but you take your
position behind the cross. and the
wheel strikes the cross and is shatter-
ed forever The sins fly off from the
circle and fall at right angles with
complete oblivion. Forgiveni For
given! The meanest thing man can
do is. after some difficulty has been
settled, to bring it up again, and God
will not do anything like that 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 sure to forget, and that
is pardoned transgressions. How do
know it? I will prove it. "Their sins
and their iniquities I will remember
no more" blessed is he whose trans
gression is forgiven
But every circumference must have
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
a garland round about him. Take off
the imperial sandal from his foot and
behold the 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 Savior, Christ
the man, Christ, the God, keep thy
throne forever. seated on the circle of
the earth, seated on the circle of
heaven!
On Christ, the solid rock, stand:
All other ground is shifting sand.