Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-09

,ourse DR. Talmage shows that the
good or evil we do returns to bless or
blast US; text. Isaiah xl. %, 1T is he
that sitteth upon the circle Of the
earth.',
While yet people thought that the
world was fat and thousands Of years
bcforc. they found out that It was round
Isaiah lin ny text. infimated the shape
of It-t.aas.tting upon the circle Of the
earth. fhe most beautiful figure In all
geometry Is the circle. God made the
universe.on plan of the circle.
There ':arc in the natural world
straight lines. angles, parallelograms,
dlagonals. quadrangles, but these evil
dently are not Gods favorltes. Almost
everywhere where you find him geome-
trizins you find the circle dominant,
and II snot the circle then the curve.
which Is a circle that died young. If 1t
had lived long enough 1t would have
been full orb. a periphery. An elllpse
is a 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
and compass. Every artist has bis mold
Ing room where he may make fifty
shapes. but he chooses one shape as
preferable TO all others. | Will not say
that the Giants causeway was the
worlds moldng room. but do say out
of a great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best. 1T
is he that sitteth on the circle OF the
earth" The stars In n circle, the moon
In a circle, the sun In q circle. the uni
verse 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 defiance OF divine sug-
gestion. When men build churches,
they ought to initiate the idea Of the
Great Architect and put the audience
In a 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 straight line, but curyilinear,
with a leash of love holding 1t so as to
bring It back again. The world started
from his hand pure and Edenic. 1t
has been rolling on through regions
Of moral Ice and dstemper. How long
It will roll God only knows, but 1t Will
In due time make complete circuit and
come back to the place where 1t start
ed--the hand Of God-pure and Edenic.
The Circle of Historv.
The history of the world goes In
circle. Why Is 1t that the shipping
in our day Is improving so rapidly? A
scientific shlpbuilder says it is because
men are initiating In some respects
what the small wits deride. the old
model of Noahs ark. not as we see 1t
in old time pictures. but rs 1t really
was according to the account given.
Great ships have we now, but where Is
the ship on the sea today that could
outrlde q deluge In which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked. landing
all the passengers In safety, two or
each kind of living creatures. hum
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 paradisacal. The art Of garden
Ing will grow for centuries. and after
the Downlngs and Mitchells of the
world have done their best In the far
future the art OF gardening will come
I'D to the nrbOrescence 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 1900. We
are six centuries behind those artists.
But the world must keep on tolling
until 1t shall make the complete circuit
and come I'D to the skill Of those very
men.
IL the world continues to improve IN
masonry. we shall have after awhile,
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 l.GOO years
ago, that mortar today as good as the
day In which ii was made. having out
lasted the brick and the stone. say,
after hundreds of years masonry may
advance TO that point.
4 pnnt1nh
may have Il city as large as they had In
old times Babylon. five times the s'Ze
of London. You 90 into the pottcries or
England. and YOU find them making
CUBS and vases after the style OF the
Guns and vases exhuned from Pompeii.
The world Is not going back. Oh. no.
But 1t is swinging in u circle anc VIII
come around 10 the styles OF pottery
known SO Icng ago as the days OF Pom
peii. The world must keep on progress
ing until It makes the complete circuit
The curve is in the right direction; the
curve will keen on until II becomes the
circle
nnd Deeds Come Back.
We'll. now. what Is true In the mate
rial universe Is rue in Gods moral gov
ernment and spiritual arrangement.
That Is the meaning of EzekiePs wheel
All commentators agree In saying that
the wheel ,lcans Gods providence. But
q wheel Is OF no use unless 1t turns, and
II II turn IL turns around. and IL 1t turns
around 1t moves in circle. What thenf
Are re parts OF great iron machine
whlrled around and around whether we
will or not. the victims o. inexorable
fate? No! So far from that shall show
you that we ourselves start the circle
of good or bad actions and that 1t VIII
surely come around again to us unless
by divine Intervention it be hindered.
Those bad or good actions may make
the circuit Of many years, but come
back to US they will as certainly as