The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-29

never tasted it and all because of the
promise I made to my mother" This
was the result of that conversation at
the gate of the Vermont farm house.
But. here is a slipshoi home. The
parents are goddess pair. They let
their children do as they p'case. No
example fit to follow. No lessons of
morality or religion Sunday no better
than any other day. The Bible no
better than any other book. The house
is a sort of inn where the older and
younger people OF the household stop
for awhile. The theory acted on.
though perhaps not announced, is;
1.-THE children will have to do as did.
and take their chances. Life is a lot
terry anyhow. and some draw prizes and
some draw blanks, and we will trust to
luck" Skip twenty years and come
back to the neighborhood where that
family used to live. You meet on the
street or on the road an old inhabitant
of that neighborhood, and you say:
"Can you tell me anything about the
Petersons who used to live here?"
"Yes," says the old inhabitant, Il re-
member them very we'll. The father
and mother have been dead for years. ="
swell. how about the children?
What has become of them"
The old inhabitant replies: ''They
turned out badly. You know the
old man was about half an inidel and
the boys were all infidels The Oldest
son married, but got into drinking
habits. and in few years his wife was
not able to live with him any longer
and his children were taken by rela-
tives. and he died of delirium tremens
on Blaekwell's island. His other son
forged the name of his employer and
fed to Canada. One of the daughters
of the old folks married an inebriate
with the idea of reforming him, and
you know how that always ends-iu
the ruin of both the experimenter and
the one experimental with The other
daughter disappeared mysteriously and
has not been heard of. There was
woman picked oat of the East river
and put in the morgue, and some
thought it was her. but l cannot say;
sis it possible?' You cry out: Eyes,
it is possible. The family is a com
plete wreck"
Nv hearers that is just what might
have been expected. All this ia only
the echo, the dismal echo, the awful
echo, the dreadful echo of parental OBJ
liauity and unfaithfulness. The ole
folks heaped up a mountain CT wrong
influences, and this is only what my
text calls ''the sounding of the mount.
aims" Indeed our entire behavior II
this world will have res7und. While
opportunities fly in strcight line and
lust touch us once and are gone never
to return, the wrongs we practice up
on others fly in circle, and they come
back to the place from which they
started.
So also the Judgment day will be al
echo of all our other days. The uni
verse needs such a day, for there are
so MANY things in the world that need
to be fixed up and explained. If Goo
had not appointed such day all the
nations would cry out: 80, God, give
us Judgment day." Bot we are APT
to think of it and speak about it as a
day away off in the future, having nc
special connection with this day or any
| other dav. The fact is that we are now
making up its voices; its trumpets will
only sound back 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 address the soul
saving: 81 was naked and We clothed
me. / was sick and in prison and ye
visited me-" All the footsteps in that
prison corridor as the Chris ian re
| former walks to the wicket of the IN
carcerated. yea all the whispers of con
doeuce in the ear of that poor sou
dying in that garret, yea all the kind
nesses are being caught up and rolled
on until they dash against the judg
ment throne and then they will be
struck back into the ears of these sons
and daughters of mercy.
Louder than the crash of Mount
Washington falling on its face in th'
worldwide catastrophe, and the boil
ing of the sea over the furnaces of uni
versal conflagration will be the echo o
the good deeds done and the sympa
thetic words uttered and the might,
benefactions wrought On that day al
the charities, all the self-sacrifices, al
the philanthropies, all the benifcen
last wills and testaments, all the Chris
tan work of all ages, will be piled u
into mountains, and those who hav
served God and served the suffering hu
man race will hear what my text style
"the sounding OF the mountains"
Ny subject advances to tell you tha
eternity itself is only an echo of time
Mind you. the analogy warrants m.
saving this The echo is not alway
exactly in kind like the sound original
ly projected Lord Raleigh says that
woman's voice sounding from a grow
was repeated al octave higher.
scientist, playing flute in Fairfa
county, Virginia, found that all tn
notes were returned, although some o
them came in raised pitch. A trumpe
sounded ten times near Glasgow, Scot
land, and the ten notes were oil repeat
ed. but a third lower. And the spirit
ual law corresponds with the natura
world. What we do of good or bad ma
not come back to US in just the prop i
ton we expect it, but come back it viii
it may be from higher gladness tha
we thought or from deeper woe, fror
a migatier conqueror or worse car
tive, from a higher throne or deepe
dungeon.
The young men go back to the
counters or their shuttles, and sa
within themselves: ''Well, he is a SUI
cessful man and has probably studie
up the whole subject and is probabl
right" That one lying ut;eranC
against Bibles and churches has pi
five young men on the wrong tract
and though the influential man hf
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