Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-18
EVERLASTING ECHOES.
ETERNITY IS BUT A MAGNIFED ECHO OF
TINE.
Dr.. Ialmage Discourses Upon the Echoes Of
Spiritual Sounds and Their Never
Ending Continuance.

Iect was Echoes" and his text: Ezekiel
~, The sounding again Of the noun
tains."
At last have found it. The Bible
has in it a recognition Of all phases Of
the natural world from the aurora of
the midnight heavens to the phoSphor-
essence Of the tumbled sea. But the
weli-knOwn sound that we call the echo,
! found not until few days ago l dis
covered Ia 1t my text: ''Ihe sounding
again OF the mOuntaigs." That
Is the Echo. Ezekiel OF the
text had heard it again and again. Born
among mountains and in his Journey to
distant exile he had passed among
mountains, and il was natural that all
through his writings there should loom
up the mountains. Among them he
has heard the sound OF cataractS and Of
tempeSJS in wreStle with OAK and cedar,
and the voices OF the wild beasts, but
man Of so poetic nature as Ezekiel
could not allow another sound, viz, the
Echo, TO be dlSregarded, and so he gives
US in our text "the sounding again OF
the mountains" Have you noticed the
tremendous fact that what we say and
do comes back in recoiled gladness or
disaster? About this resonance preach
this sermon.
PARENTAL TEACHING
and example have their Echo in the
character OF descendants. Exceptions?
Oh, yes. SO in the natural world there
may be no Echo, or a distorted Echo,
by reason Of peculiar prOximities, but
the general rule is that the character
OF the children is the Echo Of the char
acter OF parents. The general rule is
that good parents have good children.
II the old man is 4 crank, his son is apt
to be a crank, and the grandchild
crank. The tendency is so mighty in
that direction that it will get worse and
worse unless some hero or heroine in
that line shall rise and say: Here!
by the help OF God, l will stand this no
longer. Against this hereditary ten
dency to QueerneSS 1 protest" And he
or she will set up an altar and mag
nifcent life that will reverse things
and there will be no more cranks among
that kindred.
A Vermont mother, as her boy was
about to start for life on the sea, said:
Edward, have never seen the ocean,
but l understand the great temptation
is strong drink. Promise me you will
never touch it," Many years after that,
telling Of this in a meeting, Edward
said: Il gave that promise TO mother,
and have been around the world and at
Calcutta, tho ports OF the Mediterra-
mean, San Francisco, Cape Of Good
Hope, and North and South poles, and
never saw a glass OF liquor in all those
years that my mothers form did not
appear before me, and I do not know
how liquor tastes. / never have tasted
il, and all because Of the promise /
made to my mother" This was the re-
suit of than conversation at the gate Of
the Vermont farm house.
so, THE JUDGMENT DAY
will be an Echo Of all our other days.
The universe needs such a day, for
there are so many things in the word
that need to be fixed up and explained.
If God had not appointed such day all
the nations would cry out, sob, God,
give US Judgment Day" But, we are
apt to think Of 10 and speak about II as
a day away off in the future, having no
special connection with this day or any
other. The fact is that we are now
making up its voices, its trumDetS will
only sound back again TO Us what
we now say and do. That is the
meaning Of all that Scripture which
saws that Christ will on that day ad-
dress the soul, saying, Il was naked and
We clothed me; was sick and in prison
and ye visited me-" All the footsteps
in that prison corridor as the Christian
Reformer walks 70 the wicket Of the in
carcerated, yea all the whispers Of con-
dolence IN the ear of that poor soul dy-
ing In that garrett, yea all the kind
nesses 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.
Ny subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself is only an Echo Of time.
Mind Won, the analogy warrants my
saving this The Echo is not always
exactly I'm kind like the sound originally
projected. Lord Raleigh says that a
wOman's voice sounding from a grove
was returned an octave higher. a sci
enlist playing q flute In Fairfax county,
Va, found that all the notes were re-
turned, although some OF them came In
raised pitch. a trumpet sounded ten
times near Glasgow, Scotland, and the
ten notes were all repeated, but q third
lower And the spiritual law CORE
spends with the natural world. What
we do Of good or bad may not come
back 10 US I'm Just the proportion we
expect il, but come back IL will; 1t may
be from higher gladneSS than we
thought or from a deeper woe, from
mightier cOnQueror or from worse
captive, from higher throne or deeper
dungeon.
YEA, TAKE STEP FURTHER
in this subject, and say that our own
eternity will be reverberation OF our
own earthly lifetime. What we are
hero we will be there, only on larger
scale. Dissolution will tear down the
body and embank il, but our faculties
OF mind and soul will so right on with
out the hesitancy of moment and
without any change except enlargement
and intenSifcatiOn. There will be no
more difference than between lion be-
hind iron bars and lion escaped into
the field, between an eagle in a cage
and an eagle in the sky. Good
here, good there: bad here, bad
there. Time is only bedwarfed eter
nity. Eternity is only an enlarged
time In this life our soul is In dry
dock. The moment we leave this lie
We are launchedsfor our great voyage,
end we sail on for centuries quintilllan,
INIT the ship does not change its funds-
mental structure after IL gets
out Of the dry dock,slt does not pass