Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04

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blast us; text Isaiah Il. 80. 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. n my text. intimated the shape
OF it-God sitting upon the y-rcle of the
earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle. God made the
universe on 4 plan Of the circle.
There are in the natural world
straight lines. angles. parallelograHs,
diagonals. ~quadrangies. but these evil
IDENTITY are not Gods favorites. Almost
everywhere where you find him geOme-
trizing you find the circle dominant,
and If not the circle then the curve,
which is 4 circle that died young. If it
had lived long enough it would have
been a full orb. n periphery. An ellipse
is a circle pressed only Il 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-
tagOnaI, hexagonal. p~entagonal. 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. l will not say
the Giants causeway was the
worlds moldipg room. but l do say out
OF q great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best. 1T
IS he that stitch on the circle of the
m ~ Il 81 Two c+o nc in n circle Tho n1nHn
in n circle. the sun in a circle, the uni
verse in 4 circle and the throne OF Cod
the center OF that circle.
Appreciation OF this would correct
the architecture Of churches. whose
shape is often Il defiance Of divine Sug-
gestiOn. When men build churches,
they ought to initiate the idea of the
Great Architect and put the audience
in Il ciTcIr, knowing hat 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 it
out In Il straight line, but curvilinear,
with a leash OF love holding it so as to
bring it back again. The world started
from his hand pure and Edenic. It
has been rolling or through regions
OF moral ice and distemper. How long
Ii will roll GOd only knows, but it VIII
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 Historv.
The history of the world goes in q
circle. Why is it that the shipping
in our day is improving so rapidly? A
scientific shipbuilder says it is because
pen are initiating in some respects
what the small wits deride. the old
model of NOah's ark. not as we see it
In cid time pictures. but as it really
according to the account given.
Great ships have we now, but where is
the ship on the sea today hat could
outride a deluge in which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked. landing
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
AZ DOh ms oilO VI IIO
have done their best il the far
future the art of gardening will come
up to the a~rbOrescence of the year 1.
IL the makers Of cOlOred glass go on
they may in some centuries
be able to make something equal to
the east window of York minister,
was built in the year 1900. We
are six centuries behind those artists.
But the world must keep on toiling
until ii shall make the complete circuit
and come up to the skill of those very
IL the world continues to improve In
masonry, we shall have after awhile,
perhaps after the advance of centuries.
equal to that which l saw in the
wall Of an exhumed English city built
IN the time of the Romans 1.600 years
ago. that mortar today as good as the
day in which it was made. having out
lasted the brick and the stone. l say.
after hundreds of years masonry may
advance TO that point.
II the world stands lOIg 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 pottcries 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 a circle and will
around to the styles of pottery
so long ago as the days of Pom
peii. The world must keep OF progress
ing until it makes the complete circuit
The curve is in b right direction; the
eurve will keep on until it becomes the
Bad Deeds Come Back.
Well. now. what is true in the mate
rial universe is true in Gods moral gov
eminent and spiritual arrangement