Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-18

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e~aatIfot ftsssaa Sewers spr4Ds up where
tbs straw Lad been cast, tor IL e lad
heea sessse III tas seeds ~ Italian fossxs,
ard. sletAsE conscious OF Is or not, nc arc
al rhe time pl@asiEg fox ourselves And
planting fer others Fo>ss or t1oraA- foa
thsaxat II saly straw, yss saoas Is wess
aceta0nez.
Bat here is siipshod home. The
parents arr goddess pair. They leo their
do As they please No example
IL 10 follo~ No leaseas ii morality or
religion Susd4y 40 better than any other
d4y. The Eisle nss bsttsr than a1y other
book. Tie Aesise Is a sort Of ian wheFo tho
older and yoaaseg people u the household
step far askile. TAe theory acted "a.
thostsn p-srasPs not announced. IL: The
c-A4lareE. wlii hsEs - 10 ~ dad and take
their ehaaees. Life . lottery anyhow,
snd some draw prizes and some draw
blanks, and We will trust 10 luck.
Skip twenty years and eonle back 10 the
neis hboFhood swhere that family used 90
live. foa aasst On the street OF on the
road an ola iahabltznt Of that neighbor~
hool. aaa you say. Can you tell nae any
thing ABOUT lie Prssrsons sho used 20 1--we
here ~Ycs says the old iuhabitant. Il
remember them very well The father
and mother have been dead for years.
well, how about the children What
has become Of them The old inhabitants
replies: ''Taey turned oat badly You
know the Oil man was about half an in
adel and the boys were all inndeis. The
oldest son married, bat got into drinking
habits. aud IN a few years his wife MAS not
able 90 live with him any longer aud his
children Were taken by relatives. and he
died OF deliriam tremrns on Blackwell $
island. His other 500 forged the name OF
his employer and fled 10 Canada.
One Of the daughters of the old folks
married an inebr:ate with the idea Of re-
forming him, and yon know how that
always ends-in the ruin OF both the ex-
perimenter and the one experimental with.
The other daughter disappeared mysteri-
ously and has not been heard Of There
was young woman picked out of the
East river and put in the morgue, and
some thought IL was her, but cannot say"
us it po<sible," you cry out. Yes. it is
possible. The family is complete wreck a."
Ny hearers. that is just what might have
been expected All this is only the Echo,
the dismal Echo. the awful Echo. the
dresdful Echo Of parental obliquity and
unfaithfulness. The old folks heaped up q
mountain OF wrong influences. and this ia
only " aat my text calls The sounding oi
the mountains"
Indeed cur entire behavior in this
world will have a resound While oppor.
tuaities fiy in straight line and Just
touch Us once and are gone never to return,
the wrongs We practice upon others ty in
a circle, and they come back 10 the place
from which they started. Doctor Guillo-
tine thought IL smart TO introduce the in
s.r,aInent of death named after him, but
did not like It so well when his own head
was chopped of with the guillotine.
TIKI BAY or ALL DAYS
SO also the Judgment Day will be an
Echo OF al cur other days The universe
needs such Z day, for there are so many
things il the world that need to be fixed
up and explained. II God had not ap-
pointed such - day al the nations would
cry cut, 'Oh. God, give Us "A Judgment
Day" But We are apt to think OF it and
speak about it Is = day away OF in the fu-
ture, having no special connection with this
day or any other day. The fact is that we
are now making Up its voices; its trumpets
VIII only SQUAD back again to US what we
now say and do. That is the meaning of all
that Scripture which says that Christ will
on that day address the soul, saying. Il was
naked and ys clothed me, / was sick and in
prison and yc visited me-"
AL the footsteps in that prison corridor
Is the Christian reformer walks to the
wicket OF the incarcerated, yea all the
whispers Of coincidence in the ear Of that
poor soul dying in that garnet, yea all the
kindnesses are being caught up and rolled
on until they dash against the Judgment
Throne and then they will be struck back
into the ears OF these sons and daughters
OF mercy. Louder than the crash of Mount
Washington falling on its face in the
world wide catastrophe, and the boiling OF
the sea over the furnaces OF universal con-
fagration will be the Echo and Re-echo OF
the good deeds done and the sympathetic
words uttered and the mighty benefactions
wrought
On that day all the charities, all the self
sacrifices, ali the philanthropies. all the
benelcsnt last wills and testamenis. all the
Christian work Of all the ages, will be piled
ND into mountains. and those who have
served God and served the suffering human
race viii hear what my text styles 1.-The
sounding of the mountains"
Ny subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself Is only an echo Of time.
Mind you. the analogy warrants my saying
this The ecno is not always exactly in
kind hike the sound originally projected.
Lord Raleigh says that woman's voice
sounding from a grove was returned an
octave high.r. A scientist playing a flute
In Fairfax county. Va. found that all the
notes were returned. although some Of
them came in raised pitch.
A trumpet sounded ten times near Glas-
gov. Scotland. aud the ten notes were all
repeated. but third lower. And the
spiritual law corresponds with the natural
world. What we do Of good or bad may
not come back to as in just the proportion
we expect IL. but come back it will; IL may
be from a hisher giadness than we thought
or from deeper Voc from q mightier
eouqueroT OF from a worse captive. from n
higher throne or deeper dungeon. Our
prayer or cur blzsphemy. our kindness or
our cruelty, our faith or our unbeiicf. our
holy life or our dissolute behavior, viii
come hack somehow.
Suppose the boss of . factory or the head
Of n commercial firm some day comes out
among his clerks or employees. and putting
his thumbs ia tho arInboles of his vest
says, with an sir Of swsg@er aud jocosity:
Well. dou't believe la the Bible or the
church. The one IL an imposition and the
other is full q hypccrites. l declare |
weuld not trust one OF those very pious peo-
PIE further than could see him" That is
al be says. bur ne has said enough. The
young nrs 90 back TO their counters or
their shuttle- ard say within themselves,
well. he IL successful man aud has
probably studied MP the whole subject and
i~ probably right"
That one lyiag utsersnee against Bibles
snd churches has pat five young men an
the wrong tysez. and though the induen-
.fsl rsa haa spos en- nniy In half ie~t the