The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-11-07
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE LAW OF COMPENSATION, SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT
Good Evil Deeds Return to Bless
Blast Our Lives of
PomoIogy-s.It He That Stitch Upon
the Circle Earth.-Is- 40: ee.

[Gopyright. 1901. by Louis klopseh, n "
Washington, Nov 3-In this dis
course Dr. Talmage shows that the
good or evil we do returns to bless or
blast us; text, Isaiah xl. %, 1T 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 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, paraI1elograms,
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 a full orb, a periphery An elEpse
is a circle pressed only little too hard
at the sides.
Giants Causeway, in Ireland, shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
are over $4,000 columns of rocks-oc-
tagona1, hexagonal, pentagonal. These
rocks seem to have been made by rule
and compass Every artist has his
mo1Gi1g room, where he may make so
shapes, but he chooses one shape
preferable to all others. I will not say
that the Giants Causeway was the
worlds nio1ding room, but I do say out
of great many figures God seems to
have selected the circle as the best 1t
is he that stitch on the circle of the
earth The stars in a circle, the moon
in a circle. the sun in circle. the uni
verse in circle and the throne of God
the center of that circle.
Pomology will go on with its achieve
ments until after many centuries the
world will have p1ums and pears equal
to the para6fisaical 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 afborescence Of the year L. If
the makers of colored 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 toi1ing until it
sheH 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 1 saw in
the wall of exhumed English city
built in the time of the Romans, 1000
years ago, that mortar today 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
II the world stands long enough, we
may have a city large they made
| in old tinleS@BabylOn, Ave 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 cir
| Gle and will come around to the styles
| of pottery known long ago as the
| days of Pompeii The world must
| keep progressing until it makes
| the complete circuit. The curve is in
1 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 Ezekie1's wheel.
| All commentators agree in saying that
| the wheel means Gods providence. But
| a wheel is of no use unless it turns
| and if 1t turn it turns around, and if
it turns around it moves in a circle
| What then2 Are parts of great
| iron machine whirled around whether
we will not, the victims of inexor-
| able fate MOI SO lar from that
| shall show you that ourselves start
/ the circle of good bad actions, and
that it will surely come around again
| to Us unless by divine intervention ii
| be hindered. Those bad good ac-
| tions may make the circuit of many
| years, but come back to they will
| as certainly as that God sits on the
| circle of the earth
Circle Centuries.
| But it 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 theocracy. They said 1sswe
| don't want God directly interfering
I with the affairs of the world. Give us
| a monarchy The world had a mon
/ archy- From a monarchy it is going
/ to have a limited monarchy Aftel
| awhile the limited monarchy Will be-
/ given up. and the republican form O