Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-11-08
OIL XIV. NO. As. WHOLE NUMBER, l2l8

WASHINGTON, Nov. BIN this discourse |
Or. Talmage shows that the good or evil !
we do returns to bless or blast us; text,
Isaiah xl, %, at 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 r, und,
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 the plan of a circle.
There are in the natural world straight
lines, angles. paralelograms. diagonals,
quadrangles. but these evidently are not
Gods favorites. Almost everywhere
where you find him gcometrizing you find
the circle dominant and if not the circle
then the curve, which is a circle that died
young. II it had lived long enough, it
would have been a full orb, periphery.
An elipse is a circle pressed only a little
] TOO hard at the sides.
Giants Causcway. in ireland. shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
Rrc over 30. 900 columns Of rocks-octagO-
nal. hexagonal, pentagonal. These rocks
seem to have been made by rule and COM
pass Every artist has his holding 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 mOlding room,
but ! do say out Of n great many figures
God seems to have selected the circle as
the best. at is he that stitch on the cir
Gle Of the earth" The stars in a circle,
the moon in a circle. the sun in a circle,
the universe in n 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 suggestion.
When men build churches. they ought to
initiate the idea of the Great Architect
and put the audience in circle, knowing
that the tides of emotion roll more easily
that way than in straight lines. Six thou
sand years ago God flung this world out
of his right hand. but he did not throw
il out in a 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. 1t has
been rolling on through regions of moral
ice and distcmper How long it will roll
God only knows. but it will in due time
make complete circuit and come back to
the place whore it started, the hand of
God. pure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in cir
Gle. Why is it that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? A scientific
shipbuilder says il is because men are
initiating in some respects what the small
wits deride, TIE old model Of Noah's ark.
not as we see ted25ihdA 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 deluge in which the heav-
On and the earth were wrecked, landing
all the passengers in safety-two Of each
kind of living creatures, hundreds of
thousands of species.
The Achievements of POmOiogy.
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 gardening
will grow for centuries and after the
IDownngs and Mitchells of the world
!. have done their best in the far future the
- art of gardening will come up to the ar
lboresccnce of the year 1. If the makers
. of colored glass go on improving, the!
may in some centuries be able to make
something equal TO the east window o
York minister. which was built in thu
year 1890. We are six centuries behinC
those artists, but the world must keep OF
toiling until it shall make the complete
Circuit and come up to the skill of thOs
= very men.
:, If the world continues TO improve il
II masonry, we shall have after awhile, per
IS haps after the advance OF centuries, MOI
9 tar equal to that which | saw in the wal
~ OF an exbumcd English city built in tn
es time of the Romans. 1000 years ago tina
O. mortar today as good as the day j
which il was made, having outlasted tn
brick and stone. | say after hundreds G
years masonry may advance to thi
q point.
d Ii If the world stands long enough, W
{ may have a city as large as they had
old times-Babylon, 1--WE times the size {
( London. You go into the potteries {
England, and you find them making cuI
Z : and vases after the style of the cups al
Is vases exhumed from POmpeii. The wOr
az is not going back. Oh. no! But it
rs swinging in circle and will come arOuT
J. TO the styles of pottery known so long al
e las the days of pompeii. The world mu
Is keep on progressing until it makes Il
5 complete circuit. The curve is in Il
S right direction; the curve win keep
e until it becomes the circle.
WE'LL now. what is true in the materi
universe is true in Gods moral COVER
'ment and spiritual arrangement. That
the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel. All col
lmentators agree in saying that the vhI
means Gods providence. But wheel
= of no use unless it turns, and if it turn
turns around. and il it turns around
moves in a circle. What then? Are
OF parts of a great iron machine whirl
We around whether we will or not, the V
~ tins of memorable fate? Mo- So (
we from that | shall show you that we Oh
selves start the circle of good or bad
tions and that it will surely come arOu
again tn us unless by divine interventi
lii be hiudered. Those bad or good actiC
may make the circuit of many years,
come back to us they will rs certainly
" that God sits on the circle of the earth
Iezebel. the worst woman of the Bill
o. Shakespeare copying his Lady NJ
beth from her picture. slew Naboth
3 cause she wanted his vineyard. WI
the dogs were eating the body of Nah
Elijah. the prophet, put down his CO
pass and marked a circle from those
clear around 10 the uOgS Inal SnOulu
the body of .IeZchel. the murderess. d"
and !possiblew the people said. THAT
never happen" Who is that being fl
ON out of the palace window? Jezebel
llte few hours after they came around.
her ng to bury her. They find only the pal
ev. Of the hands and the skull The d
that devOured Jezebel and the dogs t
devoured Naboth-oh, what a swift, W
an awful circuit
The Circle of Centuries.
But it is sometimes the case that
circle sweeps through a century
through many centuries. The world st
ed with a theocracy for governme
N that is, God was the president and
" perOr of the world. People got tired
:. theocracy. They said: I'VE don't v
God directly interfering with the aft
Of the world. Give us a monarchy"
world had a monarchy From a 1
- archy it is going to have a limited I
,o,,t. Rrchy After awhile the limited l
YIN Rrchy will be given up, and the repu