The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-07

DR.. TaIisage Says Actions May Make
tAs Circuit Of Many Years.
Bat They VIII Surely Come Back 10 Us Ia
Bless or Blast Our Lives.


WASHINGTON, ID. C.-In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows that the good or evil
we do returns TO bless or blast us; text.
Isaiah xi, p, 1T is lie that sittcth upon
the circle of the earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was fat and thousands of years be-
fore they found out that il was round
Isaiah, IN my text, intimated the shape
OF it-Got sitting upon the circle of the
earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle God made the uni
verse on plan of the circle.
There are in the natural world straight
lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals,
quadrangles, but these evidently are not
Gods favorites Almost everywhere
where you find Him geometrizng you find
then the curve, which is a circle that died
young. Ii it had lived long enough it
would have been full orb periphery.
An .ellipse is circle pressed only little
too hard at the sides.
Giants causeway in Ireland shows what
God thinks of mathematics. There are
over 5000 columns of rocks-octagonal,
hexagonal, pentagonal. These rocks seem
to have been made by rule and compass
Every artist has his molding room where
he may make fifty shapes, but he chooses
one shape as preferable to all others I
will not say. that the Giants causeway
was the worlds molding room, but / do
say out OF great many figures God seems
10 have selected the circle as the best,
ut is He that sitteth on the circle of the
earth" The stars in circle, the moon
in a circle, the sun in circle, the universe
in circle and the throne of God the cen.
tire of that circle
Appreciation OF this would correct the
architecture of churches. whose shape is
often defiance. of divine suggestion.
When men build churches, they ought to
initiate the idea of the Great Architect
and put the audience in circle, knowing
that the tides of emotion roll more easily
that way than in straight lines. Six thou
sand years ago God flung this world ont Of
His right hand; But He did not throw it
with leash of love holding it so as to
bring it back again. The world started
from His hand pure and Edenic. 1t has
been rolling on through regions of moral
ice and distemper. How long it viii roll
God only knows, but it will in due time
make complete circuit and come back to
the place where it started-the hand of
God-pure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in a cir
Gle. Why is it that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? A scientific
shipbuilder says it is because men are
initiating In some respects what the small
wits deride, the old model of Noah's ark
not az we see it in old time pictures, but
as it really was according to the account
given Great ships have we now, but
where is 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 speciesf
Pomology will go on with its achieve
ments until after many ceutnries the
world viii have plums and pears equal to
the paradisaical. The art of gardening
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 l.
If the makers Of colored glass 90 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 1900. 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.
Ii the world continues to improve in
masonry, we shall have after awhile, per-
haps after the advance of centuries, NOR
tar 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 to-day as good as the day in which
it was made, having outasted the brick
and the stone. | say, after hundreds OF
years masonry may advance to that point.
If the world stands long enough we may
hdNC Clll dS idi " rs lDti HuQ III Olu
tlmes-Babylon, five times the size Of Lon
don: You may go into the potteries 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!
come around to the styles of pottery
known so long ago as the days OF Pompeii.
The world must keep on progressing until
it makes 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 material
universe is true in Gods moral govern
ment and spiritual arrangement. That 10
the meaning of Ezekiels wheel. All com.
mentators agree in saying that the wheel
means Gods. providence. But 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 a great iron machine whiIcd
around and around whether we will or
not the victims of inexorabe fate? Mol
So far from that l shall show YOU that We
ourselves start the circle OF good or bad ac.
tons, and that it viii surely come around
again to lis unless by divine intervention
1t be hindered. Those bad or good actions
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
Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible
: Srakespearc copying his Lady Macbeth
from her picture-slew Naboth because she
wanted his vineyard. While the dogs were
eating the body OF Nahoth Elijah, the
prophet, put down his compass and
marked a circle from those dogs clear
around 10 the dogs that shonld eat the
body OF Jezebel, the murderess "Impossi-
blel" the people said "That will never
happen" Who is that being flung out of
the palace window? Jezebel. A few hours
after they came around, hoping to bury
her. They find only the palms OF the
hands and the skull. The dogs that de.
voured Jezehel and the dogs that devoured
Nahoth, Oh, what swift, what an awful
ercuitl
But it Is sometimes the care that this
circle sweeps through a century or through
many centuries. The world started with
theocracy for government-that ia, God
was the president and emperor Of the
world People got tired of q thcocracy.
They said; eve don't want God directly
interfering with the affairs Of the world.
Give us monarchy" The world had a
monarchy. From monarchy it 10 going
70 have 4 limited monarchy. After awhile
the limited monarchy will be given up
and the republican form of government
VIII be everywhere dominant and recog-