The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-11-15
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y Returns to Bless or Blast Us,

An this Discourse DR., Talmage shows
that tho good or evil wo do returns to
bless or blast; text, Isaiah XII, %, ''lt
isi he that sittoth upon the oirole Of tho
& Garth.
While yet people thought that tho
/ world was fiat and thousands of years
I before they found out that it was round,
Isaiah, in my text, intihated tho shape
Of it, God sitting upon the oirolo Of tho
earth. The most beautiful figure in al
Geometry is the oirolo, God mado the
3 universe on the plan Of oirclo.
Thero arc in tho natural world
straight lines, angels, parallolograms,
& diagonals, quadrAngles, but those owl
A dently are not Gods favorites. AL
most everywhere whero you find him
geometrizipg you find tho cirolo domi
. nant, and if not tho oirole tbon tho
curve, which 10 . oirolo that died
young. If it had livod long enough, it
would havo boon d full orb, periphery.
An ellipso ID cirole pressed only lit
tic too hard at the sides.
Giants Causeway, in Ireland, shows
what God thinks Of mathematics. There
arc ovor 30, 600 columns Of rooke--oo.
tagonal, hexagona', pentegonsl. Those
rocks seem to have boon made by rulo
and compass. Nyory artist has hia
molding room, whore ho may mako fifty
shapes, but ho ohooseB ono shape as pro-
ferablo to all othors. I will not say
that tho Giants Ususeway was tho
worlds molding room, but do say out
Of o great many figures God, sooms TO
have selected tho oirole as the best. "Gt
is he that sitteth on tho oirolo Of the
earth" Tho stars in oirolc, the moon
in a oirole tho sun in oiralo, tho uni.
verso In oircle and tho throne Of God
the oentor Of that cirole.
Appreciation Of this would correct
the arohi teoturo Of churches whose
shapo is ofton deiisnoo Of divine aug
gostion. When men build churches,
they. ought to initiate tho idea Of tho
Great Architect and put the audionoo
in cirole, knowing that tho tides Of
emotion roll more easily that way than
in straight liaas. Six thousand years
ago God flung thie world out Of bid right
hand, but he did not throw it out ia O.
straight line, but ourvilinear, with a
leash Of lovo holding it 80 IS 10 bring
it back again. The world started from
his hand puro and Edenic. It has been
rolling on through regions of moral ice
and diBtomper. How long it will roll
God only knows, but it will in duo time
make complete circuit and como back
to the place whore il started, tho land
Of God, pure aud Edenlo.
The history Of tho world goes in a
oirolo.es Why IL it that The chipping in
our day is improving 50 rsp.dly? A
scientific shipbuildcr says it is because
mon are initiating in somo reupccts
what tho email wis dotidc. tho old
model OF Noah's ark, not as wo sec it Ia
old time pictures, but az il really WAS
according to tho account giyen. Great
ships have We now, but whore is The
ship. ON the SEA todsy that could out
ridc dolugo in which tho heavon ana
tho earth wore wrecked, landing all the
4 passengers in safety Of each KIND
Of living creatures, hundreds Of thous
ands Of piooes.
Pomology will 60 on with its achieve
ments until attor many centuries the
world will have plums and pears e4uKl
to the paradiaaical. The ert Of garden
ing will grow Tor oeniurics, Gnd af .si
the DoWnipgs and hlitohello Of rhe
world have done thoir bost in tho far
future the art Of gardening will coma
up to the arboreBenco OF ,ho year l. Ii
tho makers Of colored glass 90 on i'm
proving, they may in some centuries be
able to make something equal to the
cast window Of York minister, which
was built in tho yoar 1890. We a1e
six centuries behind those artists, bus
tho world munt keep on toiling until il
ehall make tho complete circuit and
como up to tho skill OF those very men.
If tho world continues to improve ia
masonry, we shall havo after awhile,
4 perhaps after tho advance Of centuries,
mortar equal to that which l saw in tho
wall CT an exhumed Engliuh ,oiy built
in tho time Of tho Romans, 1000 years
ago, that mortar today as good as the
day in whloh it was mado, uhaying out
lasted tho brick and stono. I say aftor
hundreds OF years masonry may advance
to that point.
II tho world stands long enough, We
may have oity as large as they had in
old timos- Babylon, five times tho eizo
OF London. You 60 into the potteries
OF England, and you find thoa making
cups and vasos after the style Of the
cups and vasOs cxhumod from pompeii,
Tho world is not going back. On,
mol But it is hwinging IN oirolo and
will como around 80 the styles Of pot.
terry known 80 long ago as the DAYS
Of Pompoii. The world must keep on
progressing until it makes tho com plotc
circuit. Tho curve is in tho right di-
reotion; tho ourvo will keep on until ii
becomes the Oil ole.
Well, now, what is true in the ma
torial universe is truo in Gods moral
government and spiritual arrangement.
That's the meaning Of Ezokiel'b whool.
All commentators agree in saying that
tho wheel means God IS providence. But
q whool is OF no uso unless it turns,
and it it tura in turns around, and IL il
turns around in o circle. WAT thon?
Are We parts Of q great iron machine
whirle d'arQund Whothep wo will or not,
the vio,ims IF iucxorasle late? MI
30 far from that shall shoH ou thas
we ourselves start tho ciroio Of good or
bad actions and t!,st il will huroiy come
around again TO us unless by divine in. |
torvontion il bo hindofod. Those bad
or good actions msy mako tho oilouit Of
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