The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-10
]: DIR l: TALMAGE'S SERMON ::
lCopyright, 1901. Louis Klopsch. N IT .s. ss, Nss x d,

1tseststsesederdrsSs with two towers yonderr' Yes you say. He says, That is where I preach, " CT: Do you see that Governors house?
 The Circle of Good Deeds.
 Good morning." You look at him and say: Why, you have the advantage oi me: 1 cannot place you" He says, Don't you remember thirty years ago giving letter of introduction to a young mana letter of introduction to William E. Dodge?" Yes yes: I do." He says: T am the man. That was my first step toward fortune, but have retired from business now and am giving my time to philanthropies and public interests. Come up to my house and see me-"
 Or man comes to you and says: T want to introduce myself to you. l went sat back by the door. You arose to make an exhortation. That talk changed the course of my life, and if ever get to heaven under God I will owe my saliva ton to you" In only ten. twenty or thir- ty years the circle swept out aud swept back again to your own grateful heart
 But sometimes it is a wider circle and a bill of expenses for burning Latimer and Ridley. The bill of expenses has on. ,o., ., or. :. .o,. Shilling Pence Carriage for four loads of wood .: Item, a post ..6................... Item. two chains ............... I Item. two staples ...-............ :. making % T in ali Ss. sd. That was cheap fire. considering all the circumstances. but it kindled light which shone all tyr spirit, and from out that burning of I.atimer and Ridley rolled the circle wider and wider. starting other circles, convolutinR. overrunning, circumscribing I. At.
 Hut what is true of the good is just as true of the bad. You utter siahoer against your neighbor: It has gone forth from your teeth. It will never come back. the mischief you can. You rejoice to see him vince You say, Didn't I give 1t to himl'' That word has gone out-that slanderous word-on its poisonous ana you any harm. But I am watching that word and I see it beginning to curve, and 1t curves around. and 1t Is aiming at your heart. You had better dodge 1t. You cannot dodge it. It rolls into your boosm and after 1t rolls in word or an old book rolls in after 1t, saying, With what measure ye mete 1t shall be measured to YOU again"
 The Echo of Past Misdeeds.
 You maltreat an aged parent. You be- grudge him the room in your house. You are Impatient of his whimsicalties and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice. You give nm food he cannot masticate You wish ne was away. You wonder if he is going to live forever. He will be gone very soon. His steps are shorter and shorter. He Is going to stop. But God has an account 10 settle with you on that subject AIter awhile your eye will pe dim. and your wait will halt. and the sound of the grind ing will be low. and you will tell the ss me story twice. and your cnllnren VIII wonder if you will never be taken away. o1 ssfatnar'' now thcY call you "old man. If you live a few years longer, they will call you the old chap" What are those rough words with which your children are aocosting you! used In the ear of your old father forty years ago. What Is that which you are trying to chew. but find It unmasticabie and your jaws ache. and you surrender the attempt? Perhaps 1t may be the gris- tie which you gave to your father TOT ms breakfast forty years ago.
 A gentleman passing along the avenue saw a son dragging his father into the street by the hair of the head. The gen. tleman, outraged at this brutal conduct, was about to punish the offender when the old man arose and said; Dont hurt him. It's all right. Forty years ago this morning I dragged out my father by the hair of his head" It is circle. other sins may be adjourned to the next world That circle Is made qnlckiy, very si;a good and the evil we start come bacS to us! Do you know that the judgment day will be only the points at which the cir cles toin the good and the bad we nave done coming back to us unless divine ln- tervention hinder-coming back to us with welcome of delight or curse of con demnation7 =
 Oh. I would like to see Paul, the inya- lid missionary, at the moment when his influence comes to full orb, his influence rolling out through Antioch, through Cy- prus through Lystra, through Corinth through Athens, through Asia, through Europe, through America. through the first century, through five centuries, through twenty centuries through earth: through heaven. and at last the wave or influence, having made full circuit, strikes his soul Oh then would like to see him! No one can tell the wide sweep of the circle of Pauls influence save the one who Is seated on the circle Of the earth.
 should not like to sec the countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized him at eiShty-three years of age, his influence did not cease. The most brilliant man of his century, he had used all his faculties for assaulting Christiani- ty, his bad influence widening through France widening out through Germany, widening through all Europe, widening through America, widening through the 123 years that have gone since he died widening through earth. widening through the great future until at last the accu- mulated influence of his haieful teachings and absolute life will beat against his dismayed spirit. and that moment 1t will be enough to make the black hair of eternal darkness turn white with the nor TOT No one can tell how that bad man influence girdled the earth save the one who is seated on the circle or the eartn the Lord Almighty
 Gods Omnipotent Mercy.
 ''Wen now" say some. this in some ,oaoaots ic q very glad theory and in Dth-