Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-06
REV. DR.. TALMAGE


HC~ 49, 49, -
n recognition Of all phrases Of the natural
world from the anrora Of the midnight
heavens to the rh0sphorescence OF the tuIn-
bling sea, But the well known sound that
We call the Echo | found rot until a few
days ago | discovered /: in M text, THE
souuHiag again o. the mountajns.' That is
tie Echo. Ezektei Of tta, text heard it
again and again.
Born among mountains. AMI III his jour
nTr 70 distant exile. he hai passed among
mountains. AMI 1t was natural that all
through his writings tilcre should loom up
the mountains Among them he had heart
The sound Fl C1taractS AMI OF tempests in
"rt-ti" WITH Oin AMI collar, and the voices
q "t!si beast. bat a man % 50 poetic'a ma
tnr+ a. FL keel could not allow another
s"hi5, IN. the Echo. - be disregaried.
AMI &" lie gives n in our te2c The sound
~ a2aiu .. tae mountains"
Grcet laEtbolngE represented the Echo as
nntMph, the daughter OF Earth and Air,
following Narcissus through forests and into
grcttoes AMI every whittier. and 81 strange
and weird and s%tort'ias Is the Echo | DO not
Woil4er that the supcrstitid1s have lifted it
into the supernatural. You AMI I in boy
fCp1 of glr!LUDd eyDerimentel with this re-
spp! S.FenessQ O .Ound- Standing half way
between tie hoIsA AM barn, we shouted
many times to hear tfia reverberations, or
cut among the mountains back of our home.
on some long tramp. W. stopped and made
exclamation s1eltii tuii lungs Just to hear
what Ezekiel calls The sounding again OF
the mountains"
The Echo has fr ightene many a child and
many a man. II is no tame thing after you
have spoken % hear the same woI. Is repeated
by the Invisible. All the slIences are filed
with vo!ces ready to answer. Yet it would
not be.sO startling il they said something
else, Int why do those lips Of the air say Just
Whnt you say: Do they mean to mock or
mean t. p'easeS Who are you and where
aEI yr1y ~ b.. -
ITS Response IS Il reiteratiOn. The shot of a
gun, The clapIing Of the hands, the beating
Of n drum, the voice OF a violin are some
tunes repeated many times by the Echo,
Near .Coblentz that which is said has
seventeen Echoes. /" 17.6, a writer says
that near Milan, Italy, there Were seventy
SUCH reflections ri sound t. one snap of a
Tlsto'. Play a bugie near d lake Of killar-
ney ami the tune Is played back to YOU as
dlst!hetly as when YOU played it. There is
q Wei t"o hundred and ten feet deep at
I arl,hrooko castle, in the Isle of Wight.
DroPa pin into that well and the sound Of
1t ia'l comes to the top Of the we'll distinct
~. a blast OF IN Alpine horn comes back
from TIE rocks Of Jun2irau in surge after
surg of reflected sound. until it seems as if
every Ieak had lifted and blown an Alpine
Gerlr.
fut have you ~nqticel-and this is the rea-
son III til" present discOurse-that this Echo
in Tie natural world has its analogy in the
moral and religious world? Have you noticed
thr tremendous fact that what we say and
% comes -hacl: ii, rccollel glaAness or dis
n>t~i' About this resonance | preach this
sermon.
Parental teaching AMI example
have their Echo in the character Of descend
ants. Exceptions? Ga, yes. So in the
natural world there may be no Echo, or q
distorted Echo, by reason OF peculiar prox-
mites. bat the general ruiz is that the char
acter of the children is tho Echo of the char
hcttr OF the parents. TIE general rule is
that good parents have gooi children and
lad PARENTS bayc bad children. If the old
man Is a crank, his son is apt to be a crank
nnd the grandchild Il crank. The tendency
Is 50 mighty IN that direction that it will get
worse and worse unless some hero or heroine
IN that line shall rise and say: "Here! Bv
the hep of God, | will stand this no longer.
Against this hereditary tendency to queer
ness | protest" And he or she will set up an
altar and a magnificent life that will reverse
things, and there will be no more crarks
among that kindred.
In another family the father and mother
are conaecrated people. What. they do is
night. What they teach is right. The BOYS
niay for soma time be wild and the daugh-
ter worldly, but watcht Years pass on, per
haps ten years, twenty years, and you go
back to the church where the father and
mother used t. he consistent members.
You have heard nothing about the family
for twenty years, and at the door of the
church you see tho sexton AMI you ask him,
Where is old Mr.. WebsterE" "Uh. he has
been dea many years. Where is Mrs.
Webster" "Dh, she diel fifteen years agof'
Il suppose their son 10, went to the dogsg'
ooh, no" says the sexton, she is I'd there in
the elders sat, He is one OF our best and
most important members. You ought to
hear him pray and sing. He is not Joe any
longer, he Is Elder Webster.' We'll, whero
IS the daughter Mary; | suppose she is the
same thoughtless butterfly she used to
she IS the president Of our missionary
society AMI tn, Girectr1ss in the
orphan asylum, AMI when sha goes down
the street all tha.ragamutfins take nod Of her
dress and cry. Auntie, when are You going
to trlng rs some more books AMI shoes and
things And WHEN, in times of revival,
there : some hard case back in a church
pew that 10 ole else cantouch, she goes where
he Is. AMI in one minute she has hin
C-cTylnC. ana II" NESt InlugW we Know she Is
fetching the har ie!el man NJ to the front
TO be prayed for, ana SAYS, Here is a brother
who wants to lind the way into the kingdom
of,+Cod.' Aud If notofv seems ready to
PRAY, She knees doHyn IN tln aisle beside hin,
and says, . Lori. with apathos and a
power AMI Il triumph tAat seam instantly II
emanc.pute the harianai sinner. Oh, 40,
Won must not call he- a thbl -htless butter
fly III our presence. You Sc We would nc,
stand H. Tie fact is tnat the son an
daugnter Of that fanny dill not promise
much II the start, !ur th>y are now AZ
Echo. & Gloylau- Erho, a p.o.ongel Echo O.
parental Teaching ana aylmple.
Y Xxx. y tae". i, H. boy was 2bau.
tn.tal+ 'er life ct t.a Sna .Sq5t: = /
w.uo, .-,c never s,an-l, ~ IN. M IN.
derstaal ne great temgcltion Is str5n.
drink. Pgemis rae You Will never teuci
it" ..tauy wears after :l,a-. tel!tnr 81 IL,