The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life . the imageand likeness of God, form a most mutual,mythical and beautiful covenant, the one withthe other, and seal that covenant, in a purecirclet of gold — The Wedding Ring. The anointed King comes forth to have hishead encircled in a Crown and Diadem, flash-ing with precious jewels, as a symbol and em-blem of his Kingly and Royal Power. When we with the Psalmist, survey ThyHeavens, the Moon and the Stars, and theUniverse of Worlds, we behold them all en-throned in circles. It is
The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life . the imageand likeness of God, form a most mutual,mythical and beautiful covenant, the one withthe other, and seal that covenant, in a purecirclet of gold — The Wedding Ring. The anointed King comes forth to have hishead encircled in a Crown and Diadem, flash-ing with precious jewels, as a symbol and em-blem of his Kingly and Royal Power. When we with the Psalmist, survey ThyHeavens, the Moon and the Stars, and theUniverse of Worlds, we behold them all en-throned in circles. It is insisted, by many of the artistic andaesthetic, that all things of beauty and perfec-tion are formed in curves and circles. How-ever this may be, I desire, in the pages of thisbook, to call attention to three of the most im-portant and wonderful circles, in the consid-eration of man:—THE HOME, THECHURCH, AND THE HEAVENLY CIR-CLE. May He who sits enthroned in Majesty,Glory and Power, guide us in the home andthe church until we are all encircled in the haloof His Presence in our home in Heaven.— THE HOME CIRCLE. CHAPTER I. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE It Ever So Humble There Is No Place Like Home. Under overhanging boughs robed in na-tures green, and filled with the songsters ofthe air, trilling and singing their tuneful carolsand anthems, flows a placid river; upon itssurface, I see two tilting little boats, each con-taining a family of parents and children. Down the beautiful river they move; ineither boat may be seen the father bending tothe oars and the mother holding the helm, andlooking skyward beholds, dimly outlined inthe clouds, a beautiful city of palaces and man-sions, and above all a shining angel, beckon-ing them all onward toward the Holy City. Onward these vessels, with their freight ofhuman souls, move down the stream; quitenear and neighborly for a time, until a pointof land reaches out into the water, dividing itinto rivers, right and left, tha
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