Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-28

echo shall come back to hum in I'VE riliilee
lifetimes and five destroyed eterfiltieS.
You see the Echoes are an octave lowerttan
he. anticipaieG On the other hand, some
rainy day. when there are hardly any Gus
TONERS the Christian merchant comes otlt
from his countngsroon and stands among
the Young men VINO have nothing To 40,
Hul saws. well, boys. this is dull day,
but il will clear off after awhile. There
ARE a good many ups and downs IN bilsl
ness but there is an everything Prov
Ilence
Years ago made mp my mind TO trust
God and he has always seen me through
/ remember when | was your age, had
Just come 10 town nnd the temptations OF
yity life gathered around me, but resisted.
The fact is there were two old folks out on
the old farm praying for me and knew
it. and somehow cosh not do ~ some oil
the clerks did or 90 where some of the
clerks went | tell you boys. it is best al
ways to do right, and there is nothing to
keep one right like the old fashioned re-
ligion of Jesus Christ. John, where did
you 20 to church last Snn,layy Henry, how
is the Young Mems Christian association
prosperingl'
About noon the rain ceases and the sun
comes ont and the clerks 20 To thsir pieces,
and they say within themselves Wen, he
is Il successful merchant and | guess he
knows what he is talking about. and the
Christian religion must be good thing.
God knows want some help in this battle
with temptation and sin" The successful
merchant who uttered the kind words did
not know how much good he was doing
but the Echo will come back in five life
- .ss.. 4 sfs,s.l nd a
Christian deathbesls and five heavens
From all the mountains Of rapture and all
the mountains Of glory and all the noun
tains Of eternity. he will catch what Eze.
kiel in my text styles "Ihe sounding again
of the mountains"
TINES DolNGs ECHOED IN ETERNITY.
Yea, take step further in this subject
and say that our own eternity will be a
reverberation of our own earthly lifetime.
What we are here we will be there, only
On larger scale. Dissolution viii tear
down the body and embank IL, but our
faculties Of mind and soul will 20 right on
without the hesitancy OF moment and
without any change except enlargement
and intensifcgtion There will he no more
difference than between lion behind the
iron bars and n lion escaped into the field,
between an eagle in cage and AN eagle "a
the sky Cool here, good there. bad here,
bad there. Time is only bedwaried eter
nifty Eternity is only an enlarged time.
In this life our soul is IN dry dock. The
moment we leave this life we are launched
for our great voyage, and we sail on for
centuries quintillion. hut the ship does not
change its fundamental structure after IL
gets out Of the dry dock, IL does not
pass from brig TO schooner or from schoon
err TO man.of war What we are when
launched from this world we will he in /
the world to come oh Cod by thy con
verting aud Slnctfying spirit make us
right here and now that we niay be right |
foreverl
well" says some one, this idea of I
moral. spiritual and eternal Echo is new
to me- Is there not some way Of stopping 1
this Echof" My answer is, God can and /
he only" II il is a cheerful Echo we do I
not want il stopped If baleful Echo we 4
would like to have il stopped. The hard /
est thing ia this world 10 do is TO stop an /
Echo. Many AN Grafton has been spoiled !
and many an orator COMPOUNDED by an +
Echo. Costly churches. clthedrals. thea
tiers and music halls have been ruined by I
an Echo. Architects have strung wires
across auditoriums TO arrest the Echo, and
hung upholstery against the walls. hoping
to entrap il, and hundreds Of thousands Of 4
dollars have been expended in public I
buildings Of this country To keep the air
from answering when it ought to be quiet
Aristotle and Pythagouts and Isaac New
ton and la Place and our own Joseph Hen.
~ tried To hunt down the Echo but still
the UNEMPLOYED realms Of acoustics are
larger than the explored When our first
Brooklyn Tabernacl, aas heing construct
I'd. We were told los architects that il was
IF such shape that the human voice
could not be heard la il, or. II heard. il
would he tangled into Echoes
In state Of worrimeut went to Joseph
Henry, the president OF the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington, and told him Of
his evil prophecy, and be replied II have
probably experimental more with the laws
If sound than any other man, and | have
rot as far rs this. Two buildings may
eem TO he exactly alike and yet in one the
acoustics may be good and in the other
nd Go on with Your church building
md trust that all win he well And all !,
vas -el Oh, this mighty law OF sound
Oh, this subtle Echo There is only one
icing IN the universe who thoroughly un j
1.-THE sounding again Of the {
ETERNAL MORAL CONSEQUENCES.
And if it is so hard to destroy natural
echo. how much harder to stop ! moral
lcho "A spiritual Echo. an immortal Echo s
ION know that the Echoes are affected by I
he surfaces, and the shape OF rocks. and !
be depth Of ravines. aud the relative posi- J
ion Of buildings. Aud once in heaven !
iod will so arrange the relative position
mansions aud temples and thrones that Z
ne OF the everlasting charms OF heaven /
nil be the rolling. bursting, ascending, S
ascending, chanting Echoes. All the |
ongs we ever sang devoutly, all the pray I
rs we have ever uttered earnestly, all the
deeds we have ever done will be
rafting to spring upon rs in Echo.
The scientists tell us that in this world
be roar Of artillery and the boom Of the l
lundtr ar 80 loud because they are a
OF Eehoes-ai the hillsides.
nd the ciiverns and the walls furnishinga :
lare OF the resonance And never will we
Understand the full power and music Of an &