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WASHINGTON, Nov. BIN this discourse
DR.. Talmase shows that the good or evil
we do returns to bless or blast us; text.
Isaiah ri, 90, at is he that stitch upon
the circle of the earth
While yet people thought thnt the
world was fat and thousands Of years
before they found out that it was r"und,
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 n circle.
There are in the natural world straight
lines, angles, parallelograms. diasonals,
Uuadrangles, but these evidently nre not
Gods favoritcs. Almost everywhere
where you find him geometrizing you find
the circle dominant, and If not the circle
then the curve, which is n circle that died
Young. II il had lived long enough, ii
would have been n full orb, a periphery
An ellipse is a circle pressed only Il little
too hard at the sides.
Giants Causcway, in Ireland, shows
what God thinks of mathematics. There
AFRO over 80. 200 columns of r~ocks-octago
nal, %hexagonal, pentogonal. These rock
seem to have been made by rule and com
pass. Every artist has his holding room
where he may make fifty shapes, but H.
chooses one shape as preferable to Il,
Others. | will not say that the Giant
Causeway was the worlds molding room
but | do say out Of n great many figur'
God seems to have selected the circle :;
the best. at is he that stitch on the cir
Gle of the earth" The stars in n circl'
the moon in a circle. the sun in a circ'
the universe in Il circle and the throne e.
God the center OF that circle.
Apprcciation OF this would correct IT.
architecture of churches whose shape :
often a defiance Of divine sueg"stio'
When men build churches. they ought =
initiate the idea of the Great Architc,
md nut the audience in a circle, KNOWN
that the tides of emotion roll more cusll
that way thar in straight lines. Six tho.
sand years ago God flung this world on
of his right hand, but he did not throw
Il, ont in a straight line, hut curyilincai
with a leash of love holding it so as I
briuc il back again. The world starte
from his hand pure and Edenic. II ha
been rolling on through regions of NOR:
ice and distemper. How long it will ro
God only knows, but it will in due tim
make complete circuit and come back
the place where it started, the hand {
God. pure and Edenic. .
The history of the world goes in q CT
Gle. Why is it that the shipping in OF
day is improving so rapidly? A scientit
shiDhuilder says il is because men al
irritating In some respects what the sma
wits deride. the old model of Noah's ar
not as we see il in old time pictures. bl
as it really was according to the accou'
given. Great ships have we now, b'
whcr is the ship on the sea today TIL
could outride n deluge in which the hea
en- and the earth were wrecked, landil
all the passengers in s~afety-two of ea'
kind Of living creatures, hundreds
thousands OF species.
The Achievements of Pomology.
Tomolocy will go on with its achiev
mente until after many centuries q
world will have plums and pears equal
the paradisaical. The art of gardenil
VIII grow for centuries, and after Il
Down.ngs and Mitchells of the wor
have done their best in the far future 4
art Ct gardening will come up to the Il
bo.+,ceuce Of the year ]. If the make
of cClored glass go on improving III
may in some centuries be able to ma
something equal to the east window
York Minister. which was built in I
wear 1890. We are six centuries hehi'
those artists, but the world must keep
foiling until it shall make the compile
rircuit and come up to the skill of the
very men.
If the world continues to improve
masonry, we shall have after awhile, p
haps after the advance of centuries, m
tar equal to that which | saw in the w
of an exbumed English city built in
time of the Romans, 1,G00 years ago, Il
mortar today as good as the day
which it was made, having outlasted
brick and stone. ] say after hundreds
years masonry may advance to Il
point.
If the world stands long enough.
may have n city as large as they had
old times-Babylon, five times the size
London. You 20 into the potteries
England, and you find them making G.
pud vases after the style OF the cups 4;
vases exhumed from Pompeii. The wo
IS not going back. Oh, no. But it
swinging in Il circle and will come arol
to the styles OF pottery known so long
as the days of pompeii. The world n
keep on progressing until it makes
complete circuit. The curve is in
right direction; the curve will keep
until it becomes the circle.
Well, now, what is true in the mate
universe is true in Gods moral govt
ment and spiritual arrangement. Tina
the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel. All o.
mentators agree in saying that the VI
means Gods providence, But n whec
OF no use unless it turns, and If it tur
turns around, and il it turns arorn.
moves in a circle. What thenf Are
parts Of d great iron machine viii
around whether we will or not, the
tins of memorable fate? MOI So
from that | shall show you that we
selves start the circle Of good or bad
hons and that it will surely com AFRO
again to us unless by divine intervcn
L. Io bindarad ThoSa had ar mod mot