Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-09

years longer, they Will call Ecu The old
chap What are those UoGgh worlds with
which your children are accosting you?
TheS are the echo OF the very words You
used in the ear of your old father forty
years ago. What is that which you are
trying To chew, but dat it uumaSticabIe.
and Your jaws ache. aud you surrender
the attemptE Perhaps it may be the girls
| lie which you gave 10 yoHc father for his
breakfast forty years aga.
y gentleman passing along the avenue
, saw a son dragging his father into the
street by the hair of the head. The gem
tleman. outraged at this brutal conduct,
was about TO punish the offender. when
| the old man arose and said. Don't hurt
him. It's all right. Forty years ago This
morning | dragged out my father by the
hair of his head 1t ia 4 circle. Other
siss may be adjourned to the next world.
That circle is made quickly. very quickly.
Oh, what a stupendoas thought that the
good and the evil We start come back TO
us. Do you know that the Judgment Jay
will be only the points At which the cir
cles join. the good aud the bad we have
| done conjri back TO us unless divine in
| tervention understanding back to us
demnation2
oh, ! would like TO see Paul. the inva-
lid missionary. ut the moment when his
| influence comes to full orb, his influence
rolling out through Antioch, through Cy-
prus, through Lystra, through Cornth.
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 Of
influence. having made full circuit.
strikes his soul, Oh, then | would like 10
see him! No one can tell the wide sweep
of the circle of Paurs influence save the
one who is seated on the circle OF the
earth.
should not like to see the countenance
Of Noltaire when his influence comes tn
full! orb, When the fatal hemorrhage
seized him AT S3 years Of age. his intlu-
ence did not cease. The most brilliant
man of his century, he had used all his
faculties for assaultng Christianity, his
bad influence widening through France.
widening out through Germany, widening
through all Europe widening through
America. widening through The l23 years
that have gone since he died. widening
through earth. widening through the
great future, until at last the accumulat
ed influence Of his baicful teachings and
dissoute life will beat against his dsmay-
ed spirit and at that moment it will be
enough to make the black hair Of eternal
darkness turn white with the horror. No
one can tell how that bad mans influence
girdled the earth save the one who is
seated on the circle or the earth. the
Lord Almighty.
Gods Omn potent Mercy.
Well, now" say some, this in some
respects is very glod ,heory and in 9th
ers a very bad one. We would like To
have the good We have ever done come
back 10 us. but the thought that all The
sins We have ever committed will COME
back 10 MS fills us with alright" Ny
brother, | have to tell you God can break
that circle and will do SO at Your call. /
can bring twenty passages OF Scripture
Ia prove that when God for Christ sake
forgives a man the sins Of bis past life
never come back. 1ae wheel may roll on
and on. hut You take your position he
hind the cross, and the wheel strikes the
cross and is shattered forever. The sins
fly off from the circle aud fall at right
angles with complete obliyiou Forgiven!
Forgiven! The meauest thing man can
do u.s. after some difficulty has been set
tied. to bring it mp again, aud God will
not do anything like that. Gods memory
is mighty enough 10 bold MI the events
or the ages, but there is one thing hat ia
sure TO slip his memory. Que thing he is
sure to forget, and that is pardoned
transgressions. How 10 know il? |
viii prove il. Their sins aud their nioni-
ties will | remember no more" Blessed
is he whose transgressiou is forgiven"
But do not make tho mistake Of think
ing that this doctrine OF the circle stops
with this life, Ii rolls on through heav-
en-. You might quote in opposition, TO me
what ST. John says about The city of
heaven. He says it 'lieth fonr square"
That d0cs seem TO initiate against this
idea of a circle. but DO you not know
there is many square house that has a
family circle facing each other lnd in
circle moving, and | can prove that this
is So in regard to heaven. St John says
II heard the voice Of many angels round
about the throne and the beasts and the
elders. And again he says, Il saw r0nUd
about the throne four and twenty seats. "
And again he says. "There was 4 rain
bow round about the throne
The two former imply a circle. the last
either a circle or a senli-eircle the seats
facing each other. the angels facing elch
other, the men facing zach other, heaven
an amphtheatcr of glory, circumference
of patriarch and prophet and apostle. cir
conference Of Scotch coycnan'prs and
Thcban legion and Albi;ense-, circBm,
ference Of the good Of al 3g"s periphery
of splcndor ulimagjned and uiescrjba-
bic, n circle, circle
Bnt every circumstance must have
center. and what is the center of this
heavenly circumference Christ his an
the glory, his all the praise, his MI III,
crowns, all heaven wgrathcd into a gar
land round about him Take off the M
peral sandal from his foot ami behold
the scar Of the spike. Lift the coronct of
domi lion from his brow anl sae whore
was he laceration Of the brjers. Come
close, all heaven. Narrow the circle
around his great heart. . Christ. the
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