GOOD OR EVIL RETURNS
Dr. Talmage Says Actions May Make
the Circuit of Many Years,
But They Will Surely Come Back te Us to
Bless or Blast Our Lives.
[Copyright, 11.)
Wasmxarox, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows that the good or evil
we do returns to bless or blast us; text,
Isaiah xi, 22, “It is He that sitteth upon
the circle of the earth.”
While yet people thought that the
world waz flat and thousands of years be-
fore they found out that it was round
Isaiah, in my text, intimated the shape
of 1t—Got sitting upon the circle of the
earth. The most beautiful figure in all
geometry is the circle. God made the uni-
verse on a plan of the circle.
There are in the natural world straight
lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals,
uadrangles, but these evidently are not
od’s favorites Almost everywhere
where you find Him geometrizing vou find
the circle dominant, and if not the circle
then the curve, which is a circle that died
young. If it had lived long enough it
would have been a full orb, a periphery.
An ellipse is a circle pressed only a little
too hard at the sides.
Giant's causeway in Ireland shows what
God thinks of mathematics. There are
over 35,000 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 shanes, but he chooses
one shape as preferab.e all others. 1
will not say that the Giant's
was ‘the world's molding room, but I do
say out of a great many figures God seems
to have selected the circle as the best.
“It 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
in a circle and the throne of God the cen-
tre of that circle.
Appreciation of this we
cture of churches, v
often a defiance of divine
When men build churches they ought
imitate the idea of the Great hitect
and put the audience in a circle, knowing
that the tides of emotion roll more easily
that way than in straight lines. Six thou-
sand vears ago God fl this world out of
His night hand. But He did not throw it
out in a straight line, but in curvilinear,
with a leash of love holding it so as to
bring it back again. The world started
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from His hand pure and Edenic. It has
been rolling on throvgh regions of mora
ice and distemper. How long it will »
God only knows, but it will in due
make complete circuit and ec
the place where it started—the hand
@God—pure and Edenic.
The history of the world goes in a cir
cle. Why is it that the shipping in our
day is improving so rapidly? A scientifi
shipbuilder says it is because men
imitating in some respects what the sm
wits deride, the old model of Noah’
not as we see it in old time pictur
as it really was according to the
given. Great ships have we n
where is the ship on the sea to-day
sould outride a deluge in which the heav
and the earth were wrec landing
the passengers in safety, two of each kine
of living creatures, hundreds of thou
f apecies?
Pomology will go on
ments until after many
world will have plums and pears ¢
the paradi } The art of
will grow | centuries, and
Downings and Mitchell
done their best in the far fut
gardening will come up to the ari
ar 1.
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ceutnr
lored glas
hes in some os
able to make sor hing equal to 3st
window of York minster, which was built
in the vear 1200. We are six centuries }
hind those But the world
on toiling until it shall mal
complete circuit and come up to
of those very men.
If the i yntinues to
masonry, we shall have after
haps after the ad of centuri
artists.
baving
stone. 1 say, {
years masonry may advance
If the world stands long e Ly
have a city as large as they had in old
times— Babylon. fis of Lon-
don. You may go into the potteries of
England and vou find them
and vases after the rl
humed from Pr
d 12 not
swinging
to the
ive times Lhe size
ago as the day
keep on
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it Becomes § .
_ what is true in the material
niverse is true in God's moral govern
ment and spiritual arrangement, That is
the meaning of Ezekiel’'s wheel. All com-
mentators agree in saying that the wheel
means God's providence. But a wheel is
of no use unless it turns, and if it turn it
turns around, and turns around it
moves in a circle. then? Are we
parts of a great iron machine whirled
around and around whether we will or
not. the victims of inexorable fate? No!
So far from that I shall show you that we
ourselves start the cirele of good or bad ac-
tions, and that it will sureiy come around
again to us unless by divine intervention
it be hindered. Those bad or good actions
may make the circuit of many years, 1
come back to us thev will az certainly as
that Cod sits on the circle of the earth
Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible
~Shakespeare copying his Lady Macbeth
from her picture—slew Naboth because ehe
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 to the dogs that should eat the
bodv of Jezebel, the murderess. “Impossi-
ble!” 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 Jezebel and the dogs that devoured
Naboth., Oh, what a swift, what an awful
circuit!
But it is sometimes the case that this
circle sweeps through a century or through
many centuries. he world started with
a theocracy for government--that is. God
wag the president and emperor of the
world. People got tired of a theocracy.
They said: “We don’t want God directly
interfering with the affairs of the world.
Give us a monarchy.” The world had a
monarchy, From a monarchy it is going
to have a limited monarchy. After awhile
the limited Tagharehy wi given up
and the republican form of government
will be everywhere dominant and recog:
nized, Then the world will get tired of
the republican form of government, and it
will have an anarchy, which is no govern.
ment at all,
And then all nations, finding out that
man is not capable of righteously govern:
man, will ery out again for theocracy
A “Let God come back and conduct
the affairs of the world.”
Every step-—monarchy, limited monar-
chy, republicanism, anarchy--only differ.
t steps between the first theocracy and
last theseracy or segments of
circle of the carth on which God sits,
impatient beca
But do not
you cannot see curve of events
therefore conclude that God's government
is going to break down. History tells us
that in the making of the pyramids it took
2000 men two years drag one stone from
the quarry and put it into the pyramids,
1f men short lived can afford to work so
slowly as that, cannot God in the building
of eternities afford to wait?
What though God should take 10,000
vears to draw a circle? Shall we take our
ittle wateh which we have to wind up
every night lest it run down and hold it
up beside the clock of eternal ages? If,
according to the Bible, a thousand years
are in God’s sight as one day, then, accord.
ing to that calenlation the 6000 years of
the world's existence has been only to
God as from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the rebound
is quicker, the return is rauch quicker than
that. The completed,
You resolve that vou will do what good
vou can. In one week you put a word of
counsel in the heart of a Sabbath-school
child. During that same week you give a
letter of introduction to a young man
struggling in business. During the same
veek vou make an exhortation in a prayer
meeting. It is all gone. You will never
hear of it, perhaps, yon think. A few
vears after a man comes up to yon and
says. “You don’t know me, do you?” You
say. “No, I don’t remember ever to have
geen von.” “Why,” he says, “I was in
the Sabbath-school class over which you
were the teacl One Sunday you in
vited me to ( [ accepted the offer,
You see that church with two towers yon
der?’ “Ye vou sav. He savs, “That is
where 1 pre ar, “Do vou see that gov:
ernor’s is where 1 live.”
One sa to you and says
] him and
intace of me;
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ood morning.” } on
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mber thirt
introduction to a vo
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do. He
into a praye
gat back by :
an exhortation
course of my
heaven under (
to vou.”
years the circle
again to your
But cle and
068 I saw
somelim
Item,
Item, two sia
Item, for lal
making in all
fire, considering
it kindled a |
the world
and ont fro
and Ridley
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But what is
true of i
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word, and I see i
it ongrves Around
harm
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It's all right. Forty
morning 1 dragged on
hair of his head!” t is ¢ le
sins may be adjourr to the next world,
t maltreatment parents is punished in
s world. That circle is made quickly,
very quickly,
The meanest thing a man can do is after
some difficulty has ben settled to bring
it up again, and God will not do anything
like that. God's memory is mighty enough
to hold all the events of the ages. but
there is one thing that is sure to slip His
memory, one thing He is sure to forget,
and that is pardoned transgression.
How do I know it? 1 will prove it.
“Their sins and their iniquities will I re-
member no more.” ‘Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven.”
But do not make the mistake of think.
ing that this doctrine of the circle stops
with this life. It rolls on through heaven,
You might quote in opposition to me what
St. John says about the city of heaven.
He says it “lieth four square.” That does
seem to militate against this idea of a cir
cle. But do you not know there is many a
square house that has a family circle fac
ing each other and in a circle moving
and I can prove that this is #0 in regar
to heaven. St. John save, “I heard the
voice of many angels round about the
throne and the beasts and the elders.”
And again he says, “I saw round about
the throne four and twenty seats” And
again he says, “There was a rainbow round
about the throne."
The two former imply a circle the last,
either a circle or a semicircle. The seats
facing each other, the angels facing each
other, the men facing each other. Heaven
an amphitheatre of glory. Circumference
of patriarch and prophet and apostle. Cir
enmference of Scoteh Covenanters and
Theban legion and Albigenses. Circumfer:
ence of the good of all ages. Periphery
of splendor unimagined oe ade able.
A circle! A circle!
But every circumference must have a
centre, and what is the centre of this heav:
enly circumference? Christ, His all the
elory: His all the praise; His all the
crowns, All heaven wreathed into a
land round about Him, Take off hy wl
perial sandal from His foot and behold the
sear of the spike. Lift the coronet of do-
minion from i brow and see where was
laceration of the briers. Come elon,
heaven. Narrow the circle around His
it heart. Christ, the Saviour! O
Hit, the man! the God
K throne forever, seated on t
cirle Loy Begin Rein dog JB
ven,
“On Christ, stand;
AL Cuner ground is shifting sand.”
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