The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-07
GOOD OR EVIL RETURNS
Or. TaImage Says Actions May Make
the Circuit of Many Years.
But They Will Surely Come Back to Us TO
Bless or Blast Our Lives
Copyright. Iaul.l


WASHINGTON, ID. C.-In this discourse
DIR. Ialmage shows that the good or evil
we do returns 20 bless or blast us; text,
Isaiah n, p, at is He that stitch upon
the circle of the earth"
While yet people thought that the
world was fiat and thousands of years be
fore they found out that 1t was round
Isaiah, IN my text, intimated the shape
OF lt-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 geometrizing YOU find
the circle dominant, and if not the circle
then the curve, which is n circle that died
young If it had lived long enough it
would have been a full orb, periphery.
An elhpse Is 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 roc1s-octagonal
hexagonalj 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. L
will not say that the Giants causeway
was the worlds molding room, but L do
say out OF a great many figures God seems
ut is He that stitch on the circle of the
earth. The stars in a circle. the moon
IN circle, the sun in q 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 a defiance of divine suggestion
When men build churches they ought to
initiate the idea of the Great Architect
and put the audience in a circle, knowing
40 Of all L.
that way than in straight lines. Six thou
sand years ago God flung this world out of
His right hand. But He did not throw it
out in a straight line, but in curvilinear,
with a leash OF love holding 1T so as to
bring 1t 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 will roll
God only knows, but it will in due time
make complete circuit and come back to
the place where it started-thc hand of
God-pure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in a cir
Gle. Why Is 1t that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? a scientific
shlDbuilder says 1t Is because men are
initiating In some respects what the small
wits deride, the old model of Noah's ark,
not as we see it in old time pictures, but
as 1t really was according to the account
given. Great ships have we now, but
where is the ship on the sea to-day that
and the earth were wrecked, landing all
the passengers in safety, two of each kind
of living creatures, hundreds of thousands
of species?
Pomology will go on with its achieve
ments until after many countries the
world will have plums and pears equal to
the paradisaical. The art of gardening
will grow for centuries, and after the
Downings and Alitchells of the world have
done their best in the far future the art of
rnNn -
of the year /.
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
III the year 1890. We are SIX cent uries 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 to 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 1900 years ago, that
mortar to-day as good as the day in which
1t was made, having outlasted the brick
and the stone. / say, after hundreds of
years masonry may advance to that point
If the world stands long enough we may
have city as large as they had IN old
times-Babylon. five times the size of Lon.
England and you find them making cups
and vases after the style of the cups and
vases exhumed from Pompei
The world is not going back. Oh, no!
But 1t is swinging in a circle, and will
come around to the styles of pottery
known so long ago as the days of Pompen
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 1t becomes the circle.
AT.NI = Nrr.a . h. 80, saV
universe is true in Gods moral govern
ment and spiritual arrangement. That Is
the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel. All com
mentators agree in saying that the wheel
means Gods providence. But a wheel is
of no use unless 1t turns, and If ID turn 1t
turns around. and If it turns around it
moves in circle. What then? Are we
parts of a great iron machine whirled
around and around whether we will or
not, the victims of memorable fate! No!
So far from that | shall show you that we
ourselves start the circle of good or bad ac-
tions. and that it will surely come around
again TO us unless by divine Intervention
IL be hindered Those bad or good actions
may make the circuit of many years but
come back TO us they viii as certainly as
that God sits on the circle of the earth.
Jezcbel the worst woman OF the Bible
Shakespeare copying his Lady Macbeth
from her picturc-sew Naboth because she
wanted his vineyard While the dogs were
prophet, put down his compass and
marked u circle from those dogs clear
around to the dogs that Should cat the
body of Jczcbel. the murdercss. 'Impossi-
BILE" the people said. THAT viii never
happen" Who is that being flung out Of
the palace window? Jezebel. A few hours
after they came around, hoping 90 bury
her. They find only the palms of the
hands and the skull The dogs that de.
vourcd Jezebel and the dogs that devoured
Ncboth. Oh, what a swift, what an awful
circuit
But 10 is sometimes the case that this
circle sweeps through a century or through
many centuries. The world started with
q thcocracy for government-that is. God
was the presidents and emperor Of the
world. reope got Urea or tneocracy.
They said. 1--WE don't want God directly
interfering with the affairs of the world
Give us o monarchy" The world had
monarchy. From a monarchy it IS going
20 have % limited monarchy. After awhile
the limited monarchy will be given up
and the republican form of government
will be everywhere dominant and rccoq-
nized. Then the world will get tired Of
che republican form of government and 10
viii have an anarchy, which Is no govern
mcnt at All.
And then an nations finding out that
man is not capable of righteously govern
ing man. viii cry out again for thcOcracy
and rrr ffT OF God como I,noL .rH 0o~Turf