The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-01-21
REV. DR.. TALMACE'S SERMON.
TEE ECHOES OF THE MOUNTAIN
The Sermon M Delivered by the Eloquent
Brooklyn Divine.

At last | have IL. The Bible has in 10
recognition OF all phrases OF the natural
A world from the aurora of the midnight
heavens 10 the ph6sphorescence OF the tum-
bling sea. But the well known sound that
we call the Echo | found not until a few
days ago | discovered il in my text, "The
\ sounding again OF the mountains" That IL
the Echo. Ezekiel of the text heard it
1 ngain and again.
Born among mountains and in his jour-
ney TO distant exile, he had passed smong
4 mountains, and it was natural that all
Il through his writings there should loom up
the mountains. Among them he had heard
the sound of cataracts aud of tempests i'm
1 wrestle with oak and cedar. and the voices
of wild beast, but n man OF 30 poetic ma
ture as Ezekiel could not allow another
sound. viz, the Echo. to be disregarded.
and So he gives US in our text "rhe sound
4 ing again OF the mountains"
Greek mythology represented the Echo as
nymph. the daughter of Earth aud Air,
following Narcissus through forests and into
& prottoes and every whittier, and so strange
4 and weird and startling is the Echo | do not
4 wonder that the superstitous have lifted IL
into the supernatural. You and I in boy
hood or girlhood experimented with this re-
spons veness OF sound. Standing half way
between the house and barn, we shouted
\ many times to hear the reverberations or
out among the mountains back OF our home,
on some long tramp. we stopped and made
exclamation with full lungs just to hear
n what Ezekiel calls "rhe sounding again OF
4 the mountains"
The Echo has frightened many n child and
4 many man. IL is no tame thing after you
have spoken to hear the same words repeated
3 by the invisible. All the silences are filed
with voices ready TO answer. Yet IL would
not be so startling IL they said something
! else, but why do those lips of the air say just
4 what YOU Sayi Do they mean to mock or
mean % plcase2 Who are YOU and where
4 are YOU. thou woudrous Echo. Sometimes
4 its response is n reiteration. The shot of a
gun, the clapping of the hands, the beating
\ OF n drum. the voice of a violin are some
times repeated many times by the Echo.
Near Coblentz-that which is snid has
seventeen Echoes. In l776, a writer says
that npor Milan Italy. there were seventy
n tuch reflections OF sound to one snap of q
pisto. Play a bugle near "A lake of Killar-
N ney and the tune Is played back TO you as
n distinctly rs when you played it. There is
well two hundred and ten feet deep at
arlstroOke castle, in the Isle of Wight
u, Drop pin into that well and the sound OF
its fall comes To the top Of the well distinct
ty. \ blast Of an Alpine horn comes back
trm the rocks OF Jungfrau in surge after
yuf ge OF reflected sound, until IL seems as il
Mry peak had lifted and blown an Alpine
But have you noticed-and this is the rea-
Oh for the present discourse-that this Echo
ithe natural world has its analogy in the
ora and religious world? Have you noticed
NuelutnuOuS lhCL tnht Wnnt we say and
BONES back in recoIled gladness or dis
b? About this resonance | preach this
mon.
rst-Parental teaching and example
&c their Echo in the character of descend
d. ExceptionsY Oh, yes so in the
nlrol world there may be 10 Echo, or "A
torted Echo, by reason Of peculiar prox-
hIcs. but the general rule is that the char
tfr Of the children is the Echo of the char
hr Of the parents. The general rule is
q good parents have good children and
,Qparents have bad children. IL the old
p is crank, his son is apt to be crank
n the grandchild crank. The tendency
mighty in that direction that it will get
be and worse unless some hero or heroine
fhat me shali rise and Say: "Herei BY
noe help of God, will stand this no longer
gainst this hereditary tendency to queer
Pss protest" And he or she will set up an
W tar and a magnificent life that will reverse
)pngs, and there will be no more cranks
bong that kindred.
t1n another family the father and mother
consocrated people. What they do is
NUht. What they teach isrght. The boys
Hfor some time be wild and the daugh-
rdly but watchl Years pass on per
Fen years, twenty years and you go
10 the church where the father aud
r used TO be consistent members.
fW have heard nothing about the family
Henty years. and at the door of the
MA you see the sexton and you ask him,
Pc is old Mr.. WebsterY "Oh, be has
teai many yearsw Where is Mrs
~ err" "Oh, she died fifteen years agow
oppose their son 10, went to the dogsp
Mno, says the sexton, ''he is up there in
eners' seat. He is one of our best and
important members. You ought to
~ him pray and sing. He is not Joe any
lgfr, he is Elder Webster" "Wel where
~ daughter Mary | suppose she is the
thoughtess butterfly she used TO
n "Oh, no." says the sexton,
is the president of our missionary
DIV and the directress in the
pan asylum, and when she goes down
Direct all the ragamuins take hold of her
and cry, 'Auntie, when you going
trinS us some more books and shoes aud
HgsF And when, in times of revival
Ie is some hard case back in a church
that no one else can touch, she goes where
4is. and in one minute she has him
Yang, and the first thing We know she is
<hlng the hardened man up TO the front
prayed for, and says, Here is brother
wants TO find the way into the kingdom
tiod.' And If nobody seems ready to
u, she kneels down in the aisle beside him
says % Lordp with pathos and n
Yer and triumph that seem instantly to
rncipate the hardened sinner. Oh. mol
must not call her thoughtless butter
in our presence. You see we would not
pd it, The fact is that the son and
uRhter OF that family did not promise
ch at the start but they are now an
h.. glorious Echo, "A prolonged Echo of
rental teaching and example.
AVermont mother, her boy was about
fart for life on the sea, said: ED
~, have never seen the ocean, but | un-
Nand the great temptation is strong
nk Promise me you will never touch
Many years after that, telling of this
meeting, Edward said: al gave that
onise 10 mother, and have been around
@orld, and at Calcutta, the ports of
Mediterranean, San Francisco Cape
Hpod Hope and north and south poles,
dfever saw glass OF liquor In all those
~ that my mothers form did not appear
kore me, and | do not know how LIQUOR
14. never have tasted II and all be-
We OF the promise made to my mother
lhis was the result of that conversation al
eKste OF the Vermont farmhouse The
ftuhry OF Thorwadsen was sent from
statues had been packed WAS throw,