The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-09

dren will wonder if you will never be
taken away. They called you father"
once: now they call you the "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 accosting you? They
are the echo of the very words you
used in the ear of your old father 40
years ago. What is hat which you are
trying to chew, but find it unmas-
ticable, and your jaws ache, and you
surrender the attempt? Perhaps it
may be the gristle which you gave to
your father for his breakfast 40 years
ago.
A gentleman passing along the ave
nue. saw a son dragging his father into
the street by the hair of the head.
The gentleman, outraged at this brutal
conduct, was about to punish the Of
fender. when the old man arose and
said: Don't hurt him. It's all right.
Forty years ago this morning l
dragged out my father by the hair Of
his head" In a circle. Other sins may
be adjourned to the next world. That
circle is made quickly, very quickly.
Oh, what a stupendous thought that
the good and the evil we start coIne
back to us! Do you know that the
Judgment day will be only the points
at which the circles join, the good and
the bad we have done coming back to
us unless Divine intervention hinder
coming back to us with welcome of
delight or curse of condemnation?
Oh, l would like to see Paul, the in
valid missionary, at the moment when
his influence comes to full orb, his in
fluence rolling out through Antioch,
through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth, through Athens,
through Asia, through Europe,
through America, through the first
century, through five centuries,
through 20 centuries, through earth,
through Heaven. and at last the wave
of influence, having made full circuit,
strikes his soul. Oh, then l would like
to see him! No one can tell the wide
sweep of the circle of Paul's influence
save the one who is seated OF the cir
Gle of the earth.
l would like to see the c%ountenance
of Noltaire when his influence comes
to full orb. When the fatal hemor
rhage seized him at SO years of age
his influence did lot cease. The most
brilliant man of his century, he hat
used all his faculties for assaultinG
Christianity, his bad influence widen
ing through France, widening through
Germany. widening through all Eu
rope, widening through America
| widening through the 1913 years tina
; have gone since he died, widening
= through earth, widening through tn
t great future, until at last the accumu
; lated influence of his baleful teaching
! and dissolute life will l-at against hi
= dismayed spirit, and at that moment i
e will be enough to make the black hal
! of eternaldarkness turn white with tn
= horror. No one can tell how that ba
: mans influence girdled the earth saw
o the one who is seated on the circle Q
t the earth, the Lord Almighty.
"Well, now say some, this in som
respects is q very glad theory and i
t others a very bad one. We would liz
i to have the good we nave ever don
~ come back to us, but the thought tha
0 all the sins we have ever committe
will come back to us fills us wit
alright" My brother, l have to tie
you God can break that circle and wi
do so at your call. l can bring 20 pa.
sages of Scripture to prove hat whe
s God for Christ's sake forgives q ma
the sins of his past life never CON
To- honly Tho NEhan1 NAV roll on md n
but you take your position behind II
!. cross, and the wheel strikes the cro'
and is shattered forever. The sins f
. off from the circle and fall at rigl
angles with complete oblivion. Flo
given! Forgiven! The meanest thin
a man cal do is, after some difficult
has been settled, to bring it up agai
and God will not do anything like tina
Gods memory is mighty enough
hold all the events of the ages, b.
t. there is one thing that is sure to s.
His memory, one thing He is sure
e. forget, and that is pardoned tran
% gressions. How do l know it? l W
X prove it. Their sins and their il
:: q~uities will | remember no more
e. BLESSED is he whose transgression
forgiven"
But do not make the mistake
: thinking hat this doctrine of the G
S Gle stops with this life. 1t rolls
through Heaven. You might quote
. opposition to me what St. John sa
N about the City of Heaven. He sa
no it 'lieth our square" That does see
n to initiate against this idea of a c
he Gle, but do you not know there is ma
a square house that has a family c
Gle facing each other and in a Giro
N. moving, and | can prove that this
so in regard to Heaven. St. John say
.st 81 heard the voice of many ang,
r.. round about the throne, and the bea'
os and the elders" And again he say
III ~ saw round about the throne 70
We and twenty seats" And again he say
IN. There was a rainbow round abe
on the throne
at The two former imply a circle, I
us last either Il circle or n semicircle, I
ed seats facing each other, the angels Fl