Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-11-21


is going to break down. History tells US
that in the making of the pyramids it took
1000 men two years drag one stone from
the quarry and put it into the pyramids.
If men short lived can afford to work so
slowly as that, cannot God in the building
of eternities afford to wait?
What though God should take 10000
years to draw circle? Shall we take our
| little watch which we have to wind up
every night lest it run down and hold it
| according to the Bible, a thousand years
are in Gods sight as one day, then, accord
| ing to that calculation the 6000 years of
| the worlds existence has been only to
God as from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the rebound
| is quicker the return is much quicker than
| that. The circle is sooner completed.
| You resolve that you will do what good
| you can. In one week you put word of
| counsel in the heart of a Sabbath-schooI
child. During that same week you give a
| letter of introduction to young man
struggling in business. During the same
| week you make an eXhortation in a prayer
meeting. 1t is all gone. You will never
| hear of it, perhaps, you think. A few
says, "You don't know me, do you's" You
| say, No, don't remember ever to have
| seen you." "Why," he says, Il was in
| the Sabbath-school class over which you
were the teacher One Sunday you in
vited me to Christ; / accepted the offer.
| You see that church with two towers yon-
DER" yes" YOU say. He says, THAT is
! where | preach" or. .'Do you see that gov
ernor's house? That is where l live.
One, day man comes to you and says
| Good morning" You look at him and
cannot place YOU He says. Don't YOU
remember thirty years ago giving me let
| ter of introduction to Young mana let
ter of introduction to William +. Dodge:'
eyes, yes, I do He says, Il am the
man. That was my first step toward a
| fortune. But | have retired from business
now and am giving my time to philanthro-
| pies and public interests. Come up to my
| house and see me-"
Or man comes to YOU and saws: Il
want to Introduce myself to you. / went
| into a prayer meeting some years ago. |
sat back by the door. Yon arose to make
an exhortation. That talk changed the
course of my life and if l ever get to
heaven under God will owe my salvation
| to you" In only ten, twenty or thirty
years the circle swept out and swept back
| again to your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is wider circle and
| does not return for a great while. / saw
| a bill of expenses for burning Latimer
and Ridley The bill of expenses has these
Shllings. Pence.
| One load Of fire fagots. ..........3
1artaSe LOT lOuI !Odus VI "cou..S
| Item, post. ..............-...I
| Item, two chains. ns...-...-.......3 .3
! Item, two staples. es...-.....-.---...
| Item. for laborers. rs...............2
making in all 25s Sd. That was cheap
fire, considering all the circumstances, but
| it kindled light which shone all around
| the world and aroused the martyr spirit,
and out from that burning of Latimer
and Ridley rolled the circle wider and
wider. starting other circles, convolutlng,
overrunning, crcumscribing, overreaching
| all heaven-a circle.
| true of the bad. You utter SANDER
| against your neighbor. 1t has gone forth
| from your teeth 1t will never come back:
| you think. You have done the man all
the mischief YOU can. You rejoice to see
him vince You say, Didn't give It to
him." That word has gone out, that
slanderous word, on its poisonous and
| blasted way You think it will never do
You any harm. But | am watching that
word. and I see it beginning to curve and
| it curves around. aud it is aiming at your
heart You had better dodge it. You can
not dodge it. 1t rolls into your bosom,
and after it rolls in word Of an old book
rolls in after it, saying: with what meas
ure We mete it shall be measured to you
again"
You maltreated an aged parent. You
begrudge him the room in your house
| i
and garrulity. 1t makes you mad to hear
him tell the same story twice. You give
him food he cannot masticate. You wish
he was away You wonder if he is going
| to live forever. He will be gone very soon.
His steps are shorter and shorter. lie is
going to stop But God has an account to
| settle with you on that subject. After
awhile your eye will be dim, and your gait
| will halt and the sound of the grinding
will be low, and you will tell the same
story twice. and your children will wonder
ii you will never be taken away; They
you the "old man If you live few
years longer they will call you the "od
| chap" What are those rough words with
which your children are accostlng, you!
! They are the echo of the very words you
used in the ear of your old father forty
| years ago.
A gentleman passing along the avenue
| saw son dragging his father into the
| street by the hair of the head. The gentle
man, outraged at this brutal conduct, was
about to punish the. offender, when the
| old man arose and said: Don't hurt him.
It's all right. Forty years ago this very
morning | dragged out my father by the
| hair of his head!' 1t is a circle. Other
sins may be adjourned to the next world,
but maltreatmeut of parents Is punished IN
| this world That circle is made quickly,
| vecy quicklr
1
| 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 transgression.
How do know it? l will prove it.
'Their sins and their iniquities will ! re-
| member no more" BLESSED is he whose
| transgression is forgiven"
But do not make the mistake OF think
ing that this doctrine of the circle stops
with this life 1t rolls on through heaven.
You might quote in opposition to me what
ST. John says about the city Of heaven.
He says it .'iieth four square, That does
seem to initiate against this idea OF cir
| Gle. But do YOU not know there is many a
square house that has family. circle fac
ing each other and in a circle moving;
and l can prove that this is so in regard
to heaven ST. John says, Il heard the
voice of many angels round =, about ,tl the !,
throne and the beasts and the elders
And again he says. Il saw round about
the throne four and twenty seats And