The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-01-28
the Young Mems Christian Association


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sun comes out and the clerks 90 to their
places, and they say within themselves:
| "WcIl, he Is successful merchant and
guess he knows what he is talking
about, and the Christian religion must
be a good thing. God knows L want
some help III this battle with tempta-
ton and SIM" The successful merchant
who uttered the kind words did not know
no" much good he was doing, but the
Echo Will come back in five lifetimcs OF
virtue and usefulness and five Christian
deathbeds aud five heavens. From all
the mountains Of rapture and all the
mountains Of glory and all the mouu :
tains ofeternity, he will catch what Ese-
klal IN my text styles, 1.-The sounding
again of the mountains"
Yea, l take step further in this sub
iect and say that our own eternity vii!
be revcrberatlon Of our own earthly
lifetime. What we are here we VII be
there, only on larger scale. Dissolu-
tlon will tear down the body and en-
bank it, but our faculties OF mind un,l
soul Will 90 right Oh without the hes-
fancy OF momCn! and without any
| change except enlargement and inrcusl-
hcailon. There will be no more differ
| ence than between lion bchlsd t!!. iron
bars and lion escaped into the iiold,
between an eagle III a cage ond an raylc
in the sky. Good here, gool there: bad
herc, bad there. Time is only 4, be-
dwaried eternity. Eternity is only n on
| larged tioic.
! lu this life ouy soul is n dry ..0rk.
The moment We leave this life we arc
launched Tor our crtaC voyage, and -
SAL on for centuries Quiptition, b,r. the
ship does not chNLge rs IunlJa,eI,19,
structure alter il .scis out Of tho ,iry
! do:k. 1t does not pass from hr,. t.,
schooner or trom schooner to II ,u-Ci-
war. What We are when launched Iro.:i
this world we viii be in the wcr!d -
come. Oh, God! hy thy convertn.. and
sanctliying spirit make us right he;g aud
now that we may be right forever!
"Wcll," says some one, this lea of
moral, spiritual and eternal Echo i new
TO me. Is there not some way of stop
ping This Echs:" NY answer is God
can and he only" If it is n cheerful
EcEo We do not want it stoppcl; il a
| bal, full Echo we would Ike to have i
stopped. The hardest thing in thi,
world TO do ls to stop an Echo. Many
an Oration has been spoi!eG and naly an
orator contoundcd by an Echo. Costly
churChes, cathcdrals, theatCrS and mus
Ic nails have been ruined bv IA Echo,
Archltects have strung wires across aud
ltorllms to arrest the Echo, and huuu
| upholstery against the walls, honino TO
:ntrap 1t, and hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars have been expended in l.ublic
buildings OF this country to keep the air
from ans ns%erlng when it ought 20 bc
quiet.
And II 1t Is SO hard to destroy a natur.
al Echo, how much harder 10 Stop a
moral Echo, a aspiritual Echo, an immor-
tal Echo. You know that the Echoes
are affected by the surfaces, and the
shape OF rocks, and the depth of ravines?
and the relative position OF buildings.
And once in heaven God will 80 arrange
| the relative position Of mansions and
temples and thrones that one of tho ever
lasting charms Of heaven will be the
rolling, bursting, ascending, descending,
! chanting Echoes. All the songs we
ever sang devoutly, all the prayers we
have ever uttered earnestly, ali the
Christian deeds we have ever done will
be waiting to spring upou us in Echo.
The scientists tell us that in tn is
world roar of artillery and the boom of
the thunder are so loud, because they
are combination Of Echoes-a!l the
hlllsldeS, and the caVerns and the walls
furnishing share of the resonance
And never will we understand the full
power ana music Of an Echo untii with
supernatural faculties able to endure
them we hear all the COMBINED sounds
OF heavenly Echoes-harps and trum-
pets, orchcStraS and oratOrioS, hosan
nahS and hallelujahs, east side of heay.
en- answering to the west side. aorth
side to south side, and all the heights,
and all the Depths and all tho imnensi.
ties. and all the cternities joining in
Echo upon Echo, Echo in the wake Of
Echo.
In the future state, whether Of rap
lure OF ruin, we viii listen for rev rbtr-
atlons OF earthly things and du!ngs.
fOitalre standing amid the Sh;.tioWs
VIII listen, and from the millions whose
godiesSnesS and NDertlnism anG de-
OaucheTy were consequence of hla bril-.
iiaht DlaSphemlC3 VIII come back Il
weeping, WailinG, 0eSrairing, anr,IiH.
ing, million-VOiccd Echo. Paul viii
while standing III the light, lster, and
from all the cirCicS Of the rausrmeL,
ana from all the many manSi0ns whom
ne helped TO penpte. and from III the
InIOneS ne help2d 10 occupants, ana
iroIn all the gates he helped rouE
with arrivals, and from all the tempitS s
he helped fill with wOrshiperS there snail
come back to him d glorioas, cvrr ac-
cunlatlng, transporting ana triu NIB
ant Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and oppres.
sorS Of the earth do with the Ec Iors?
Those who are responsible for the wars
OF The world will have come b& tx TO
them all the groans, the shrieks, tho
cannonades, the bursting shells, the
crackle of burning cities and the crash
of a nations s-IIohenIindcn and
Salamanca. Wagram and Sedan, Mara
thon and ThermopyiM, Bunker Hill
and Lexington, South MOuntair and
Gettysburg. Sennacherib listen. Sc
miramis listen! Marc Antony listen!
ArtaxereXes listen! Darius listen!
julius Cesar listen! Alexander and
Napoleon listen! But to the righteous
will come the Dlissful Echoes.
Composers of Gospel Hymns and sing
ers will listen for the return Of Antioch
and Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundce,
HarWell and Woodstock, Mount Plsgah
and Coronation, IIOmeWaId Bound aud