Milford chronicle., 1892-01-22

=. difference In AnOther-Eterntty TO Ech
" the DOlngs OF Time.
nd BROOKLYN. Jan. l7.-Dr. Talmage gave
90 new illustration in his sermon this morn
X ing Of his mastery of the art Of drawing
: spiritual lessons from common natura
Or phenomena. His subject was Echoes,
Of and his text, Ezekiel vii, Z, THE sounding
y again Of the mountains"
~ At last have found it. The Bible has in
n it a recognition Of all phases Of the natural
n world from the aurora Of the midnight
b heavens to the phosphorescence of the
/ tumbling sea. But the well known sound
J that we call the Echo found not until a
few days ago l discovered it in my text,
'The sounding again of the mountains "
That is the Echo. Ezekiel of the text heard
II again and again.
Born among mountains, and in his jour
ney to distant exile, he had passed among
mountains, and it was natural that all
through his writings there should loom up
the mountains Among them he had heard
the sound Of cataracts and Of temyests in
wrestle with oak aud cedar, and the voices
Of the wild beasts, but u man of so poetic
nature as Ezekiel could not allow another
sound, viz. the Echo to be disregarded,
and so he gives us in our text The sound
ing again OF the mountains"
Greek mythology represented the Echo
as a nymph, the daughter Of Earth and
Air. following Narcissus through forests
and into grottoes and every whittier, and so
strange and weird and startling is the Echo
! do not wonder that the superstitious
have lifted it into the supernatural. You
and in boyhood or girlhood experimental
with this responsiveness Of sound. Stand
ing half way between the house and barn,
we shouted many r time to hear the reYer
berations, or out among the mountains |
back of our home, on some long tramp We |
stopped and made exclamation with full /
lungs just to hear what Ezekiel calls ''The
sounding again Of the mountains"
The Echo has frightened many child
and many q man. Il is no tame thing after
you have spoken to hear the same words
repeated by the invisible. All the silences
are filed with voices ready to answer
Yet It would not be so startling If they
said something else but why do those lips
of the air say just what you say? Do they
mean to mock or mean to please? Who
are You and where are you, thou wondrOus
EchoP Sometimes its response is a reitera-
tiOn. The shot Of gun, the clapping of
the hands, the beating Of drum, the Ypee
Of violin are sometimes repeated many
times by the Echo
Near COblentz-that which is said has
seventeen Echoes. In 1896 writer says
that near Milan, Italy there were seventy
such reflections Of sound to one snap of
pistol Play bugle near a lake Of Killar
ney and the tune is played back to you as
distinctly as when you playe7 it. There is
a well two hundred and ten feet deep ut !
CRFlsbrooke castle, in the Isle Of Wight
Drop q pin into that we'll and the sound
Of its fall comes to the top of the well
A blast Of an Alpine horn
comes back from the rocks Of Jungfrau in !
surge after surge of reflected sound, until
it seems as il every peak had lifted and
blown an Alpine horn.
But have you noticed-and this is the 7
reason for the present discOurse-that this
fohn in the natural world has its analogy Z
10 the moral and religious worlds Have 7
You noticed the tremendous fact that what
re say and do comes back in recoiled glad Z
less or disaster? About this resonance ! <
preach this sermon. y
FARREACHING MORAL EXAMPLES, !
First Parental teaching and example y
AVE their Echo in the character Of de X
pendants ExceptionsP Oh, yes, So in y
be natural world there may be no Echo "
II a distorted Echo, by reason OF peculiar y "
but the general rule is that ~ ~
he character of the children is the Echo u
t the character of parents. The general W
ule is that good parents have good chi y"
rem and bad parents have bad children. a.,
the old man is a crank, his son is to a.
. = crank and the grandchild crank, ~
he tendency is so mighty IN that direc y,
ion that it will get worse and worse un- -
,gs some hero or heroine in that line shall p
se and aayi "Herel BY the help Of God, ~
af nd f1fa tto frtef 10 ~
tendency to queerness ] pro -
ist." And he or she will set up an altar 81,
nd magnificent life that will reverse ~ ~
lings, and there will be no more cranks ~ ~
niong that kindred. "a "a
In another family the father and mother -, -
. cpAsecl9ted people. What FheY do Is ~, ~,
ght, What they teach is right, The r.
lys may for some time be wild and the -,
lgghters worldly, but watch Years pass hH.
l. perhaps ten years, twenty years, and w
III go back to the church where the "a - .
eF and mother used to I've consistent 81
embers. ~
You have heard nothing about the fam r. r.
for twenty years and ut the door Of the ~ ~
urch you wee the sexton and you ask NV NV
n, rWheHe is old Mr., WehsteFF" "Qh, ~
haS been dead many yenrs" rWhere is y
rs Websterl" "Oh. she died fifteen ~
lrs ago" Il suppose their son Joe went ~, NJ,
the d0gsP iiQh, no." says tho sexton, AIs
a is nm tbora a. tba olls-,,, soat IL 10 pra
~ ,i. J,o.,. and ,,',,t i,,,orta,,t ,,,o,, our
. M Won o"1ht +o ~ be.r bjn, s nrsv D''s md hpll
X, He is not Joe any longer; he Is Elder Wy ~,
sbsteF," "Well, where is the daughter, s-
.ry! suppose she is the same thought w., y, =
B butterfly she used to beg" "Oh, no." fsHs ~.
= the sexton, "she is the president Of our ae ~
ssonary society and the directPess In the ~ ~
han asylum, and when she goes down
street all the ragamuffins take hold of o.I. o,iu
dress and cry, 'Auntie, when are you l. ollie
ng to bring US some more books and W W.,
es and thingsP And when, in times IN !
revival, there il some hard case back ''il :
a church pew that no one else can ~.
ch, she goes where be is, and in one g.t,E. ..1s-.
ute she has him a-crying, and the first -. -,
lg we know she is fetching the hard - P
man up to the front TO be prayed for = N, N
says Here is brother who wants to
the way into the kingdom Of God, ~ ~
! If nobody seems ready to pray, ahs ~, W
els down in the aisle beside him and .lai
) % I.OrdP with pathos and power sopo 81 :.
triumph that seem instantly to Iilevi
ncipate the hardened sinner. Oh, no! 4uu
must not call her a thOughtless but W 81 q
y in our presence. YOn see we would ran
stand it" The fact is that the son and tpIls
ghter OF that family did not promise from
II at the start, but they are now an vlls
o, glorious Echo, a prolonged Echo sll'u l'a !. !
arental teaching and example. Du' !
THE MOTHERS REQUEST. ~ ele q
Vermont mother, as her boy WAS about leAs' LES
tart for life on the sea, said: I'D uenSs s.St
:, Ia, s.io oSe!.,'' - God
! ,s'a' - Iii :. ,'' rem
a. te ~ ~. - t.IIi- - .Lia just
9l'ns ss'Is r,,., 81 - t,,'t city Il
'neo'''is' i-1 "'''u ''''''' s'''e ''i''. The (
liSe 70 mother, ana nave neeh arouha the ol
woria' ana Ae CaicuSSa' Ihe ports u it, an
Medlterrahean' pan rrahciscO' O;.Pe the c
oou ROPE ana hors1 ana sou0n p9les' clerks
5 that my mothers form did not mp keen
before me, and do not know how Iie5pu