The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-21

VIII be we'll And al was well
Oh. this mighty law OF sound, Oh
this subtle Echo, There is only on,
Beng IN the universe WHO thorough
| ~ understands it The soundin:
again Of the mountains.
AWFUL NATURE or TIE IMMORTAL.
And it il 50 hard to destroy a nat
ural e. LOW much harder to stor
a moral .-c-4o, a spiritual Echo ar
| immortal Echo. You know that tbs
Echoes are effected by the surfaces
and the shape of rocks. and the depth
OF ravines. and the relative position
| of buildings? And once in heaven,
! God VIII 50 arrange the relative DO
sluon OF mansions and temples and
thrones that one OF the everlasting
charms Of heaven will be the roll.
ing. bursting, ascending, descending.
chanting Echoes. All the songs we
ever sang d"voutly. all the PRAYERS
we have eye-' uttered earnestly, all
the Christian deeds we have ever
done viii be waiting to spring upon
us in Echo.
The scientists tell us that IN this
world the roar of artillery and the
boom of the thunder are SO loud. be-
cause they are a combination of
EcLoes-all the hillsides, and the
c2Verns, and the walls furnishing a
share of the resonance. And never
will we understand the full power
and music of an Echo until with su
pernatural faculties, able to endure
them, we hear all the conioined
sounds of heavenly Echoes-harps
and trumpets, orchestras and ora
torlos, hOsannahs and halleIuiahs,
east side Of heaven answering to the
west side, north side to south side.
and al the heights, and all the
depths, and all the immensities, and
all the eternities joining in Echo upon
Echo, Echo in the wake of Echo.
In the future state, whether of rap
ture or ruin, we will listen for rever-
berations Of earthly things and do
lngS. Voitalre, standing amid the
shadows. Will listen, and from the
whose gOdlessness and lib
and debauchery were a con-
sequence Of his brilliant blasphenies
VII como back a weeping, wailing,
despairlng, agonizing, million voiced
Echo. Paul will, while standing in
the hight, listen, and from all the cir
cle5 Of the ransomed, and from all
the many mansions whom he helped
to people, and. from all the thrones
he helped to occupants, and from all |
the gates he helped to throng with |
arrivals, and from all the temples he
helped fill with worshipers, there
shall come back to him a glorious.
ever accommodating. transporting and
Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and Cd
)ressors of the earth do with the
lchOes2 Those who are responsible
or the wars of the world Will have
come back to them all the groans
he shriells, the cannonades, the
shells, the crackle of burn
ng cities and the crash of a nations
homes; HOhenhnden and Salamanca.
'Fagram and Sedan, Marathon and
Iher1nopylR, Bunker Hill and Lex
ngton, South Mountain and Gettys-
'urg. Sennacherib, listenl Semira-
MS, listen! Marc Antony, listen!
Arta1erXes, listen! Darius, listen!
.ullus Caesar. listen! Alexander and
Napoleon, listen! But to the right
GUS viii come back the blissful
Echoes.
Composers Of Gospel hymns and
lngers will listen for the return Of
Antioch and Brattle Street, Ariel and
dundee, Harwel and Woodstock,
Iount Pisgah and Coronation, Homo
7ard Bound and Shining Shore, and
Il the melodies they ever started.
bishop Heber and Charles Wesley
nd Isaac Watts and Thomas Hast
lgs and Bradbury and Horatius Bo- r
ar and Frances Havergal, listen!
But you know as well as l do that
lere are some places where the
7verberations seem to meet, and
5anding there they rush upon you, =
ley rain upon you, all at once they .
2pture your ear. And at the point
here all heavenly reverberations
leet Christ will stand and listen for I
lie resound Of all his signs and u
roans and sacrifices, and they shall
onle back in an Echo in which shall b
Jingle the acclaim Of a redeemed q
GRID, and the "Jubilate Dec" of a
I'll heaven Echo sanity, cherubic,
Echo Of thrones! Echo =
palacesl Echo of te,nplesl ON 7
potent Echo! Everlasting Echol |
men! u