The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-18

Germany. and the straw IN which the
statues had been packed was thrown upon
the ground. The next spring beautiful
italian flowers sprang up where this straw
had been cast, for in it had been some OF
the seeds Of the Italian flowers. and, whether
conscious Of II OF not, we are all the time
planting for ourselves and planting for
others roses or thOrls. You thought IL only
straw, vet among 1t were anemones.
But here Is a shp-sh0i home The par
ents are a goddess pair. They let their
children do as they please. No example fit
70 follow. No lessons of morality or re-
Iigion. 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: The
children will have to do as | did, and take
their chances. Life is a lottery anyhow.
and some draw prizes and some draw
blanks, and we will trust 70 luck" Skip
twenty years and come back to the neigh
borhood where That family used to
live. You meet on the street or
on the road an old inhebitsnt
of that neighborhoOd, and you
say: "Can you tell me anything about the
Petersons who used 10 live here" YES
says the old lnhab tant. Il remember them
very we'll The father and mother have
been dead for years 'Well, how about
the children. What has become Of themm
The old inhabitant replies: They turned
out badly. You know the old man was
about half an intidel and the boys were all
infidels. The eldest 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 bv rela-
tives, and he died Of delirium tremens en-
Blackwell'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 inebriste with the idea of re-
forming him, and you know how that
always ends-in the ruin of both the expert
menter and the one experimental with.
The other daughter disappeared mystic
riously, and has not been heard Of. There
was a young woman picked out Of the
East river and pu- in the inorgue. and
some thought it was her, but / cannot
say.n rs II pOssible" YOU cry out. Yes.
IL is possible. The family is a complete
wreck Ny hearers, that is just what
might have been expected. All this is
only the Echo the dismal Echo the awful
Echo, ths dreadful Echo Of parental
obiquity and uufaithfulness. The old
folks heaped up mountain of wrong IN
funces, ard this is only what my text calls
"the sounding Of the mountains." Indeed,
our entire behavior in this world will have
a resoUnd. While opportunities fly in a
straight line and Just touch us once and are
gone never 70 return, the wrO ngs we prac-
tice upon Others hY in circle. aud they
come back TO the place from which they
started. DR.. Guillotine thought it snhrt
to Introduce the instrument OF death. named
after him, but did not like it so we'll when
his own head was chopped off with the gull
lotine.
SO, also, 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 world that need to be fixed up
and explained. II God had not appointed
such day, all the nations would cry out,
40, God, give us a judgment day" But
we are apt to think Of it and speak about it
as a day away Off III the future, having no
special connection with this day or any
other day. 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 saying, 81 was naked and we clothed
me. 1 was sick and in prison and ye visited
me-" All the footsteps in that prison corI-
dor as the Christian reformer walks to the
wicket Of the incarcerated. yea, all the
whispers of coincidence in the ear of that
poor soul dying in that garnet, yea all the
kindnesses 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. Louder than the crash of
Mount Washington falling on its
face in the worldwide catastrophe,
and the boiling of the sea over the furnaces
of universal confagration will be the Echo
and re- Echo of the good deeds done and the
sympathetic words uttered and the mighty
benefactions wrought. On that day all the
charities, all the elf-sacrifces, all the
philanthropies. all the beneficent last wills
and testaments. all the Christian work of
all the ages. will be piled up into mountains,
and those who have served God and served
the suffering human race will hear what
my text styles 1.-THE sounding of the noun
tains."
My subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself is only All Echo of time. Mind
you, the analogy warrants my say ing this
The Echo Is not always exactly in kind
like the sound originally projected. Lord
Raleigh says that q woman's voice sound
ing from grove was returned an octave
higher. A scientist playing flute in Fair
fax county, Virginia, found that all the
notes were returned, although some of them
came in raised pitch, A trumpet sounded
ten times near Glasgow, Scotland, and the
ten notes were all repeated, but a third
lower. And the spiritual law corresponds
win Vle natural WOrlu. w nat we DO OF
good or bad may not come back
to US in just the proper
ton we expect It, but come back it will;
1t may be from higher gladness than we
thought or from a deeper woe, from a
mightier conqueror or from worse cap
tive, from a higher throne or deeper
dungeon. Our prayer or our blasphemy,
our kindness or our cruelty, our faith or
our unbelief, our holy life or our dissolute
behavior, will come back somehow. Sup
pose the boss OF factory or the head of q
commercial firm some day comes out
among his clerks or employees, and putting
his thuIAbs in the armholes of his vest,
says, with an air Of swagger and jooosity:
or the church. The one is an i'm
position and the other is full OF hypo-
critics. / declare l would not trust one
of those very pious people further than
could see him. That is all he says, but he
has said enough. The young men 90 back
to their counters or their shuttles, and say
within themselves: "Well, he is a success
full man and has probably studied up the
whole subject ana is probably right" That
one lying utterance against Bibles and
churches has put five young men on the
wrong track, and though the influential
man had spoken only in half jest, the Echo
shall come back to him in five ruined life-
times, and five destroyed eterniries You
see the Echoes are an octave lower than he
anticipated. On the other hand, some
rainy day. when there are hardly
any customers, the Christian merchant
ont hfu