Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-01-29

the fetersons who used To live hereE Yes,
says the old inhabitant; IL remember tn s'T
/ very we'll The father and mother have
been dead for years" "Well, how abCu,
| the children' What has become of them
/ The old inhabitant replies: "fhey turned
! out badly. You know the old man was
about half an inhdel and the boys were oil
/ infdels. The oldest son marriei, but 90.
| into drinking habits, and in few years his
wife was not able to live with him any long
/ err and his children were taken by relatives,
and he died OF delirium tranens on Black
wells island. His other son forged the name
/ of his employer and fed to Canada.
| ''One Of the daughters of the OH folks
/ married an lnebriate with the idea OF reform
/ ing him, and you know how that always
/ ends-in the ruin of both the experimenter
and the one experimental with. The other
daughter disappeared mYsteriously and has
not been heard of. There was a Young
/ woman picked out of the East River aud put
in the norgue, and some thought it was her,
but clnnot say" as it possib!ef' you cry
out. YES, it is possible. The family is a
| complete wrecS." Ny hearers, that is Just
what might have been expected All this is
| only the Echo. the dismal Echo, the awful
! Echo, the dreadful Echo Of parental obliquity
and unfaithfulness. The old folks heape up
mountain of wrong influences, ana this is
only what my text calls "Ihe sounding OF
| the mountains"
Indeed our entire behavior in this world
will have 2 rescuu1. While opportunities
hy in straight lin3 and just touch US one
and are gone never to return, the wrongs
we practice upon others fly in "a circle, and
| they come back to the place from which
they started. Doctor GuIlotne thought it
smart to Introduce the instrument Of death
named after him, but did not like it 80
well when his own head was chopped off
with the guillotine
So also Jhe Ju lgment Day will be an Echo
Of all our other days. Tne universe needs
| suca day. for there are TO many things in
the world that need TO be fixed up and ex-
plainel. II God had not appointed such II
day all the nations woull cry out ION,
God, give us Judgment Day" But we are
apt TO think of it ani speak about it Us
iay away Off in the future, having no spe-
,ial connection with this day or any other
lay. The fact is that we are now making
lp its voices; its trumpets will only sound
oack 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 al
ireSs the soul, saying, Il was uaEel ami Ye
,Iothed me; | was sicS AMI i'll prison and y Q
visited me-"
All the footsteps in that prison corriio- rs
.ha Christina retormer walks too the wicS ct
/ II the inCprcerate1, Yea all the whispers of
cando.ence III the ca. OF that poor soul dying
in tLat Carret yea all the kin lnCSSes are be-
ing caught up AMI rollel on until they dasl
against the Judgment throne and then they
will be struck back into the ears OF these
sons aud 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 c,nflsgraton will lie tue Echo an
re.ecno OF the goo dee Is done AMI the sym-
pathetic words uttere and the mighty bene-
factions wrought
On that Gay oil the charities, all the self.
sacrificies all the phianthropies, oil the
oeneiicent last wills AMI testaments, all the
Chrstilu work OF all the ages will be piled
Ip into mountain, and thoSs who have
served God and served the suf ring human
ace will hear what my text styles ''Ihe
sounding of the mountains
Ny subject advances TO tell you that
,tern.ty Itself is only all echo OF time. Mind
iou, thu analogy warrants my saying this.
Ihe echo is noJ always exactly in kind like
he sound originally projected, Lord Ra-
cigh says tnat TOmans volCe sounding
rom grove was return1d an octave higher.
4 scientist playing dute in Fairfax County,
Ia, found that all the notes were returned,
:lthough some OF them in n raise1 pitch.
a trumpet sounded ten times near Glas-
!ow, Scotland, AMI the ten notes were all
epeata1, but third lower And the spir-
tual law corresponds with the natural
world. What we do of Gool or bal may
lot come back to us in just the proportion
Ee exDect it, but come back il will; it may
oe from higher glnlness than we thought
u from n deeper woe, from mightier con-
lucror or from a worse captive, from a
higher throne or deeper dungeon. Our
prayer or our blasphemy, our kindness or
)ur cruelty, our faith or oar unbeiet, our
loly life or our disSolute behavior, will come
)ack somehow.
Suppose the boss Of a factory or the head
If a commercial firm some day comes out
tmoug his clerks or employees, and putting
lis thumbs in the armholes OF his vest says,
With an air of swagger and joe sity: well,
don't believe in the Bible o. the church.
The one is an imposition and the other Is
'ull of hypocrites. | declare | would not
rust one OF taoss very p.ous people further
:han could SEQ hiul.' That Is all he seys,
out he has sail enough. the young men go
back to their counters or their snuttles AMI
ay within themselves, well, ho il n sue
.essful man and has probably studied up the
Hhole subject an | is PROBABLY right.'
That ono lying utteranCe against Bibles
lnl churches has put five young m 1n Oh the
wrong track, aud though the influential man
lad spoken only in half jest, the echo shall
come bac.l to him il five ruined lltetlmes
iui five destroyed eternIties. You ses the
Echoes are an octave lower than no antici'
,ated On the other hand, some ralay Gay,
when there are hardly any customers, the
Christian merchant comes out from his
counting room and stands among the young
nen who have nothing to Go, and says
well, boys this is dull day, but 1t will
clear Off after awhile. There are II gco1
many ups and downs i'll business, but there
an overruling Providence.
Years ago made up my mind to trust
God and lie has always seen me through.
remember when was your age, ha / just
come to town and the temptations OF city
ife gathered around me, but | resisted
rhe fact is there were two oil folks out OF
the old farm praying for me and | knew it,
and somehow | could not do as some of tn:
clerks did or 20 where some OF the clerk
went. tell you, boys, it is best always t.
10 right, anil there is nothing to keep on,
right like the old fashioned religion OF Jesu
Christ. John, where did you go to churcl
last Sunday? Henry, how is tho Eounl
Mems lristan association prosperngE
About noon the rain ceases and the sur
comes out and the clerks 70 to their places
and they say within themselves: "Well, h
is a successful merchant and | guess II
knows what he is talking about, and tn
Christian religion must DO q good thing
God knows Iwaut some help in this battl
with temptation and SIM" The successit
| melcnanU VINO utteTeu IHe hlnl NOihe ul
not know how much good he was doing, bu
the echo will come back in five lifetimes {
virtue and usefulness, and five Christia
deathbels and five heavens From all IL
mountains OF rapture and all the mountaiI
of glory and all the mountains Of eternit.
, he will catch what Ezekiel in my text styl
| The sounding again OF the mountains"
Yea, take a step further in this subje
l an say that our own eternity will be a r
: yerberation OF oup own earthly lifetim
S What we are here we will be there, on
, on u larger scale Dissolution will tear dow
r the body and embank it, but our faculties
Q mind and soul will go right on without &
r hesitaucy OF moment and without al
t change except enlargement an1 intensiac
tion. There will be no more difference th
s between lion behind the iron bars aud
n lion escaped into the field, between au eas
;. in a cage and an eagle in the sky. Go
y here, 6ood there; bad here, bad there. Til