Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-16
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE LAW OF COMPENSATION, SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
Good or Evil Deeds Return to Bless
or Blast Our Lfves-Achievements of
Pomology-'It Is He That Sftteth Upon
the Circle of the Earth"-Is. 10: 22.


good or evil we do returns to bless or
blast US; text, Isaiah xl, 22, 1T is
he that stitch upon the circle of the
EARTH
While yet people thought that the
world was fiat and thousands of years
before they found out that it was round
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, parallelograms,
diagOnals, quadrangles, but these evil
IDENTIFY are not Gods favorites. Almost
everywhere where you find him geo
metrizing you find the circle dominant;
and if not the circle then the curve,
which is a circle that died young. If
it had lived long enough, it would have
been full orb, a periphery. An ellipse
is a circle pressed only little too hard
at the sides.
Giants Causeway, in Ireland, shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
are over 35 GOO columns of rocks-oc-
tagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. These
rocks seem to have been made by rule
and compass. Every artist has his
molding room, where he may make so
shapes, but he chooses one shape as
preferable to all others. / will not say
that the Giants Causeway was the
worlds nolding room, but do say out
of a great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best. cit
is he that sitteth on the circle of the
earth" The stars in circle, the moon
in circle, the sun in a circle, the uni
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the center of that circle.
The Achievements of Pomology.
Pomology will go on with it's achieve
ments until after many centuries the
world will have plurns and pears equal
to the paradisaical. The art of garden
ing will grow for centuries, and after
the Downings and Mitchells of the
world have done their best in the far
future the art of gardening will come
up to the arborescence of the year 1. If
the makers of coloredr glass go On i'm
proving they may in some centuries be
able to make something equal to the
east window of York minister, which
was built in the year 1890. We are six
centuries behind these artists, but the
world must keep on toiling until it
shall make the complete circuit and
come up to the skill of these very
men.
If the world continues to improve in
masonry, we shall have after awhile
perhaps after the advance of centuries,
mortar equal to that which l saw in
the wall of an exhumed English city
built in the time of the Romans, 1000
years ago, that mortar today as good
as the day in which it was made, hav-
ing outlasted the brick and stone
say after hundreds of years masonry
may advance to that point
If the world stands long enough, we
may have city as large as they made
in old times-Babylon, five times the
size of London. You go into the pot
teries of England, and you find them
making cups and vases after the style
Of the cups and vases exhumed from
Pompeii. The world is not going back.
Oh, no, But it is swinging in a cir
Gle and will come around to the styles
of pottery known so long ago as the
days of Pompeii. The world must
the complete circuit. The curve is in
the right direction; the curve will keep
on until it becomes the circle.
Well, now, what is true in the mate
rial universe is true in Gods moral
government and spiritual arrangement
That is the meaning of EzekieTs wheel
All commentators agree in saying that
the wheel means Gods providence But
a wheel is of no use unless it turns
and if it turn it turns around, and if
it turns around it moves in a circle
What then? Are we parts of great
iron machine whirled around whether
we will or not, the victims of inexor-
able fate? No! So far from that I
shall show you that we ourselves start
the circle of good or bad actions, and
that it will surely come around again
to US unless by divine Intervention it
be hindered. Those bad or good ac-
tions may make the circuit of many
years, but come back to US they will
as certainly as that God sits on the
circle of the earth.
The Circle OF Centuries.
But 1t is sometimes the case that
this circle sweeps through a century
or through many centuries. The world
started with a theocracy for govern
ment-that is, God was the president
and emperor of the world. People got
tired of a theocracy. They said: I'VE
\ don't want God directly interfering
with the affairs of the world Give us
q monarchy" The world lad a mon
arcny. From a monarchy it is going
10 have a limited monarchy. After
awhile the limited monarchy will be