The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-11-08
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject; Good or Evn Returns "a bless ar
Blast-Actions May Make the Circuit
OF Many Years, Hut Come Back To H.
They win.



They WIN.
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WASHINGTON, ID. C.-ln this discourse
DR.. Ialmage shows that the good or evil
We DO returns 20 bless or blast US, text.
Isaiah N. -, 1t is He that stitch upon
the circle OF the earth"
While yet people thought that the
word was fiat aud thousands OF years be.
fore they found out that IL was round
Isaiah, IN my text. lntimated the share
OF lt-G2t sitting upon the circle ot the
earth. The most beautiful figure IN all
geometry Is the circle. God made the UNI
verse on plan of the circe.
There are IN the natural world straight
lines, angles, parallelograms. diagonals.
quadraugleS. but these evidently are not
Gods favoritcs Almost everywhere
where YOU find him geometrizing you find
the circle dominant, and II not the circle
then the curve, which is a circle that died
young. Ii It had lived long enough IL
would have been a full orb, a periphery.
An clllpse Is circle pressed only a little
too hard at the sides.
Giants causeway IN ireland shows what
God thinks OF mathematics. There are
over $1,000 columns of rocks -octagoual.
heNaconal. pentaSonal, These rocks seem
20 have been made by rule and compass.
Every artist has his mclding room where
he may make fifty shapes, but he chooses
one shape as preferable to all others. |
will not say that the Giants causcway
was the worlds moldins room, hut | do
say out Oi a Creat many figures God seems
TO have selected the circle as the nest.
1T Is He that Sitteth on the circle of the
earth. The stars IN a circle the moon
IN a circle, the sun in a circle, the universe
IN circle and the throne OF God the cen
tire OF that circle
Appreciation OF this would correct the
Il .,ht
often defiance Of divine suggestion,
When men build churches they ought 20
initiate the idea OF thc Great Architect
and put the audience Ia a circle knowing
that the tides of emotion roll more easily
that way than in straight liucs. Six thou
sand years ago God flung this world out OF
His right hand bat He did not throw it
out in a straight line. but in curviiincar,
with leash of love holding Is 40 as to
bring II back again. The world started
from His hand pure and Edenic. IL has
been rolling on through regions OF moral
ice and distemper. How long it viii roll
God only knows but II will IN due time
make complete circuit and come back Co
the place whore II started-thc hand of
God-pure and Edenic
The history of the world goes IN cir.
Gle. Why is II that the shipping IN our
day is improving so rapidly? \ scientific
shipbuilder saws II IL because men are
initiating in some respects what the small
wits deride the old model OF Noahs ark
not as we see IT in old time pictures, but
az 10 really was according 10 the account
given. Great ships have we now, hut
where IL the ship on the sea to-day that
could outride a deluge IN which the heaven
and the earth were wrecked, landing all
the passengers IN safety, two OF each kind
Of living creatures, hundreds OF thousands
OF species'
D,n,clocv ,,-,i M IN ,,-;tk 80 ,ch,o,.o
ments until after many ceutnrles the
world viii have plums and pears equal 60
the paradisaical The art OF gardening
will grow for centuries, and after the
Downings and Mltchells Of the world have
done their best in the far future the art of
gardening will come up TO the arborescence
of the year |.
If the makers Of colored glass 60 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 be-
hind those artists But the world must
keep on toiling until it shall make the
complete circuit and come up to the skill
OF those very men.
If the world continues 60 improve in
masonry. we shall have after awhile, per
haps after the advance OF centuries, NOR
tar equal TO that which | saw IN the wall
Of an eXhumed English city built in the
time OF the Romans 1909 years ago, that
mortar to-day rs good az the day IN which
it was made having outlastcd the bricl,
and the stone. J cay, after hundreds ol
years masonry may advance to that point.
II the world stands long enough wc may
have city as large az they had IN old
timcs-BaLylon. five times the size OF Lon.
don. You may 90 into the p0ttercs OF
England and you find them making cups
and vases after the styl" O. the cups and
vases eyhumcd from Pompcn.
The word Is not going back oh, ro'
But it Is swinging ~ a circle, and VIII
come around 10 the slvIc3 OF pottery
known 50 long AGO as the days OF Pompcii.
The word must keep on progressing until
it makes the complete circuit. The curve
AZ IN the right direction: the curve VIII
keep on until u becomes The circle.
Well, now. what is true IN the material
universe ls true IN Gods moral govern
mont and spiritual arrangement That IS
the meaning OF Fzckicis wheel. All com
mentators agree IN saying that the wheel
means Gods providence. But a wheel -
OF no use unless it turns, aud II ~ turn 1t
turns around. and II II turns around 1t
moves in a circle What then? Are we
parts Of great iron machine whirled
around and aronnG whether we will or
not. the victims 0i ipeNOrab.c iatey No.
SO far from that ] shall show you that we
ourselves start the circle OF good or bad &C.
tlo1s, and that 1t will surely come around
again 20 Us unless by divine Intervention
IL be hindercd. Those bad or good actions
may make the circuit OF many years, but
come back TO US they VIII 8s certainly az
that God sits on the circle of The earth.
.Iczcbcl. the worst woman Of the Bible
Shakespeare copying hls Lady Macbeth
from her Dicture-slcw NabDth because she
wanted his vineyard. While the dogs were
eating the body Of Naboth Elijah, the
prophet, put down his compass and
marked a circle from those dogs clear
around 10 the dogs that should eat the
body of Jczebcl the rnurderess. "lmpcss-
blc'" the people said. That viii never
happen" Who is that being flung out OF
the ualacc window Jezebcl A few hours
after they came around. hoping TO bury
her They find ony the palms OF the
hands and the skull The dogs that dc.
vourpd Jczebel aud the dog that deyoured
Naboth. On what a swift, what an awful
circuit
But IL is sometimes the case that thI7
circle sweeps through a century or tnrOurn
many centuries The world started with
a thcocracy for rovornmert-that is. God
was the president and emperor Of the
world. People got tired of a theOcracv
They said: I'VE don't want God directly
interfering with the affairs of the world
Give W. a monarchy The world had
monarchy. From n monarchy u ~ gong
20 have limited monarchv; After awhile
the limited monarchy viii be given up
and the republican form Of government
will De everywhere dominant and recOc
nized. Then the world VIII get tired 81
the republican form of gofsrnment, and u
will have an anarchy, winch - no govern
ment At all.
And then al nations finding out that
man Is not capable of righteous.y govern.
ing man, vill cry OIt again for thcocracv
and say. "I.et God come back and conduct