Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-27

Hope aud North aud south Poles and
never saw glass Of liquor In all those
years that my mothers form did not
appear before me. and I do not know
how liquor tastes have never tasted
A. aud all because of the promise I
made to my mother"
This was the result OF that converaa-
ton mt tho gate of the Vernon, farm
house. The statuary OF Tborwaldscn
was sent from Italy TO Germany, and
the straw. In which tho statues had
been packed. was thrown upon the
ground The next spring beautiful
Italian flowers sprang mp where the
straw had been cast. for In Il had been
some OF tho seeds of Italian flowers.
and whether conscious OF IL OFT not. we
arc all the time planting Cor ourselves
and planting for others roses or thorns
You thought IL only straw. yet among
IL were ancmonc>
But, hero Ii siip-shod home. Thu
parents arc goddess pair. They lot
their children do ms they please. No
example it to follow. No lessons of
morality or religion. Sunday no bet
ter than any other day. Tho Bible no
better than any other book The house
Ia SORT of inn, whore tho older and
younger people OF the household stop
for awhile. The theory acted on, though
perhaps not announced, IL: "Thc chill
drcn VIII have to do ns did. and take
their chances LITE IL n lottery anv-
how. and some draw prizes and some
draw blanks, and we will trust TO luck.
Skip twenty years and come back 10
the ncighhorhood where TINT family
used To- live yoa meet on the street
or ON the road an old inhnbitant OF that
ncighborhood. and you say; Can Won
tell mo any thing about tho PetersouS
who used To- live here9' Yes" says
the old inhabitant, ~ remember them
very well The father aud mother have
been dead for years well how
about the children What has become
OF them?"
The old inhabitant replies: "They
turned out badly. You know the old
man was about half an infidel and the
boys were Nil intdels The oldest son
married, but got into drinking habits.
and In few years lis wife was not
able 10 live with him any longer aud
his children were taken by relatives,
and he died OF dclirium tremcus on
Blackwclfs island Ills other son
forged the namc of his employer and
He'd To Canada. Ono of tho daughters
OF the old folks married an inobriate
with the idea OF reforming him, and
you know how that always ends-in
the ruin OF both the experimenter aud
the one experimental with. The other
daughter disappeared mysteriousiy. and
has not been heard Of There was n
" ~ esy.. ..t. - A. -
river and put In tho morguc, and
some thought II was her, but | cnn not
say"
us IL possiblcy' you cry out YES.
~ Is possible The family ~ n completc
wreck" My hearers, that II Just what
might have been expected All this is
only the echo. the dismal echo, tho avs-
ful echo. tho dreadful echo of parental
obliquity and unfaithfulnesa The old
folks heaped up n mountain OF infiu-
ences, and this IL only what my text
calls The sounding OF the mountains. {"
Indeed, our entire behavior i'm this
world will have resound. While on
portunitics fly in straight line and
just touch us once. and are gone never
To return, the wrongs we practice upon
others fly in circle. and they come
back to the place from which they
started DIR. Guillotine thought II
smart TO introduce the instrumsnt OF
death named after him. but did not like
IL so well when his own head was
chopped Oft with the guilIotine.
So, also, the Judgement Day will be
an echo OF all our other days The un-
VERSE needs such day, for there are no
many things In the world that need 10
be fixed up and explained II God had
not appointed such day all the nations
would cry out ''Oh. God, give us a
Judgement Day" But, we are apt 10
think OF and speak about ID ms a day away
on In the future, having no special con-
nection with this day or any other day.
Inc fact Is that we are now making up
its voices, its trlimpets will only sosind
back again 10 MS what we now say and
do. That Is this meaning OF ali that
Scripture which says that Christ win
on that day address the soul, saying;
II was naked and ye closhed me. was
sick and In prison and ye visited uas."
All the footsteps In that prison corri-
dor as the Christian reformer walks 20
the wicket 81 the iDcsreerated Yea, all
the whispers Of coincidence Ia the ear
of that poor soul dying in that garrett;
yea, all the kindnesscs are being caught
up and rolled on until they dash against
the Judgment Throne and then they
viii be struck back into the ears OF
these sons and daughters Of mercy.
Louder than the crash of Nj Washing.
ton falling on its face Ia the world.
wide catastrophe. and the boiling Of
the sea over the furnaces Of universal
confiagration will be the echo and re.
echo 81 the good deeds done and the
sympathetic words uttered and the
mighty benefactioos wrought On that
day all the charities. all the self.sacri.
fees all the philantbropies all the
beno6eeDt last Wills and testaments.
all the Christian work Of all the ages.
will BE- piled up into mountains. and
those who have served God and served
the suffering human race will hear
what my text STYLES the sounding Of
the mountains"
Ny subject advances 20 tell you that
eternity itself IL only an echo Of time
Mind you, the analogy warrants my
saying this The echo IL not always
exactly in kind like the sound original
~ projected Lord Raleigh says that a
womsn's voice sounding from a grove
uss returned an octave higher. A