Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-18

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i a Sssoc.slal fn~feAaSt axaa l guess Is
kao~s ~Azt he h talking sbettt. and the
Christian religion must be good thing
God kas~s wait .ozas help Ia tl4ls battle
~llh tea 26aIioa AID ain The sucoessfs1i
nsrsA&at ~ 10 uttered the kind words did
noS know how much good hs vas doing.
bat tke EcAs vii come back In i've lie
tinass II virtus saa usefulness and ave
Christian deathhe1s and i've heavens
frun ell tbs mountains VI rapture and ell
ths lnotGntains Of glory aud all the noun
t2Sas If slrxnisy, Ls wall catch what Exc
kiel ia Gay text styles The sounding again
/ Of the mountains"
TlszEss Dclscs EcEoEp II ErEKsgTY
Yea. take stop further In thi. subject
and aay that cur own eternity viii be =
reyerlera,ion VI our own earthly lifetime
What ws are here we will te there, only
on Lr.er scale. Dissolution will tear
Iowa the body and csatank ID. hut our
fatalities OF nind and sonl viii go night on
witl.oG: ths hrsitancy Of moment and
| witheat any change except enlargement
aud ia,ensincat.on There viii lie TO more
difference than between a lion behind the
iron bars and lion escaped into the field,
between an eagle in . cage and an eagle IN
The SKY Coed here, good there: bad here,
bad there. Time Is only bedwarfed eter-
nit5. Eternity is only an enlarged time.
| In this life our soul is In dry dock The
moment we leave this life we are launched
for our great voyage, aud we sail on for
centuries quintill!on, but the ship does not
change its fundamental structure after it
| gets ont Of the dry dock. IL does not
IL -
! er 20 man-of-war What We are when
launched from this world we will he in
the world 10 come On. God. by thy con-
verting and sanctifying spirit make us
right here and now that we may Be right
forcver
well" says some one, ''this idea Of
moral, spiritual and eternal Echo Is new
to ne. Is there not some way Of stopping
this Echo" Ny answer is. God can and
he only" II IL is = cheerful Echo we do
not want it stopped; if a baleful Echo we
would like to have it stopped. The hard
est thing in this world to do is to stop an
| Echo. Many an GRAFTON has been spoiled
and many an orator confounded by an
Echo. Costly churches, cathedrals, thea
| tiers and music halls have been ruined by
an Echo. Architects have strung wires
across auditoriums to arrest the Echo, and
hung upholstery against the walls. hoping
to entrap it, and hundreds Of thousands of
dollars have been expended in public
buildings of this country to keep the air
from answering when IL ought to be quiet.
Aristotle and Pythsgoras and Isaac New
ton and La Place and our own Joseph Hen
~ tried to hunt down the Echo, but still
| the upexplorcd realms Of acoustics arc
larger than the explored. When our first
! Brooklyn Tabernacle WAS being construct
ed, we were told by architects that it was
of such u shape that the human voice
could lot be heard in 1t, O.. IL heard, it
would be tangled into Echoes.
| Ii state OF worriment went to Joseph
| Henry, the president Of the Smithsonian
institution at Washington, and told him of
this evil prophecy. and he replied: Il have
probably experimental more with the laws
| of sonad than any other man. and have
! got as tar as this, Two buildings may
seem to be exactly alike and yet in one tho
acoustics may be good and in the other
bad Go on with your church building
and trust that all will be we'll" And all
was y ell. Oh, this mighty law Of sound!
! Oh, this subtle Echol There 10 only one
| Ising in the universe who thoroughly un-
| derstsn3s 1.-THE sounding again Of the
| nountains.D.
| ETERNAL MORAL CONSEQUENCES.
/ And IL 1t is SO hard to destroy a natural
Echo, how much harder to stop = moral
Echo, a spiritual Echo, an immortal Echo.
| You know that the Echoes are affected by
the surfaces. and the shape of rocks, and
the dey.h OF ravines, and the relative posi-
ton OF buildingss And once in heaven
God will % arrange the relative position
of mansions and temples and thrones that
one Of the everlasting charms Of heaven
will be tho rolling, bursting, ascending,
descending, chanting Echoes. All the
songs we ever sang devoutly, all the pray
ers we have ever uttered earnestly, all the
| Christian deeds we have ever done will 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, because they ere a
| combination OF Echoes-all the hillsides,
AID the caverns and the walls furnishing a
/ share of the resonance And never will we
understand the full power and music of an
| Echo until with supernatural faculties
able to endure them we hear all the con-
joined sounds Of heavenly Echoes-hsrps
and trumpets. orchestras and oratorios.
hoeannahs and hallelujehs, cast side Of
heaven answering to the west side. north
side to sosth side, and all the heights. and
all the depths. and all the immensities,
and all the esernit;es joining In Echo upon
| Echo, Echo in the wake Of Echo.
| In the future state. whether OF rapture
or ruin, we will listen for rcverberations
| Of earthly things and doings. Voltaire
standing amid the hsdows will listen, and
| from the millions whose godlossncss and
| libertiuism and debnuchery were q COME
quence of his brilliant blssphemics will
/ come back a weeping wailing, despairing.
1 agouizinx. million voiced Echo. Panl win,
while standing in the light, listen, and
| from all the circles Of the ransomed, and
from all the many mansions whom he
helped - people. and from all the thrones
hs helecd to occupants. and from all the
gates he helped throng with arrivals and
/ from all the temples he helped I'LL with
worshipers there shall come back to him n
Rlorious, ever ACCOMPLISHING. transporting
and triumphant Echo.
| Oh, what will the tyrants and oppressors
/ of the earth do with the Echoes, Those
| who are responsible for the wars Of the
weird wilI have come back to them all the
/ green's, the shrisLs, the cannonadcs. the
/ bunting shells the crackle Of burning
cities and the crssrh o. a nations homes
Hohcnlinden and salamanca wsgram and
Sedan. Marathon and Thefmopylr. Bun
ker Hill and Lexington, South Mountain
and Gettysburg. Sennsehsrib listeni Sc
I nirsms iistenl Marc Antony iisteni Arta-
/ xerexcs iisseni Darius listeni julius
I Caesr iistenl Alexander and Napoleon lis
ten Dat TO the righteous viii come back
the blissful Echoes.
Composer. Of Gospel Hymns and singers
/ win listen for the return ~ Antioch and
/ Bragtie Street. ARIEL and Dundee. Harwell