The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-02-03

exactly in kind like the sound original
ly projected. Lord Raleigh says that
woman's voice sounding from agrove
was returned an octave higher. A
scientist playing a flute in Fairfax
county, Virginia, found that the notes
were returned although some of them
came in raised pitch. A trumpet
sounded ten times, near Glasgow, Scot
land, and the ten notes were all re-
peated, but third lower, And the
spiritual law corresponds with the
natural world What we do good or
bad may not come back to us in Just
the proportion we expect it, but
come back it will; it may be from
q higher gladness than we thought
or from deeper woe, from mightier
conqueror or from worse captive,
from higher throne or deeper dun
geon. Our prayer or our blasphemy,
our kindness or our cruelty, our faith
or our unbelief, our holy life or our dis
solute behavior, will coiae back some
how. Suppose the boss of factory or
the head of commercial firm some day
comes out among his clerks or en-
ployes, and putting his thumbs in the
armholes of his vest, says with an air
of swagger and jocosity: well, 1
don't believe in the Bible or the church.
The one is an imposition and the
other is full of hypocrites. l declare
| would not trust one of those very
pious people further than l could see
him." That is all he says, but he has
said enough. The young men go back
| to their counters or their shuttles and
say within themselves: swell, he is
successful man, and has probably
studied up the whole subject and is
probably right" That one lying utter
ance 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 eternities,
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 comes out from
his counting room and stands among
the young men, who have nothing to
do, and says: well, boys, this is dull
day, but il will clear off after awhile.
There are good many ups and downs
in business, but there is an overruling
Providence. Years ago made up my
mind to trust God, and He has always
seen me through. ! remember when l
was your age had just come to town,
and the temptations of city life gather
ed around me, but resisted. The fact
is, there were two old folks out on
the old farm praying for me, and I
knew it, and somehow could not do az
some of the clerks did or go where some
of the clerks went. | tell you, boys, 1t
is best always to do right, and there is
nothing to keep one right like the old
fashioned religion of Jesus Christ.
John, where did you go to church last
Sunday? Henry, how is the Young
Mems Christian association prosper
ing?" About noon the rain ceases and
the sun comes out and the clerks go to
their places, and they say within them
selves: "Well, he is successful mer-
chant, and guess he knows what he
is talking about, and the Christian re-
ligion must be a good thing. God knows
want some help in this battle with
temptation and SIM"
The successful merchant who uttered
the kind words did not know how much
good he was doing but the echo will
come back in five lifetimes of virtue
and usefulness, and five Christian death.
beds and five Heavens From all TIE
mountains of rapture and all tie
mountains of glory and all the noun
tains of eternity, we will catch whist
Ezekiel in my text styles "the sound
ing again of the mountains"
Yea, take step further in this sub
ject, and say that our own eternity wiz
be reverberation of our own earthly
lifetime. What we are here we will b;
there. only on larger scale Dissolution
will tear down the body and embanh
it but our faculties of mind and sou,
will go right on without the hesitancy
of moment and without any change
except enlargement and intensifcation
There will be no NOR difference thar
between a lion behind the bars and q
lion escaped into the fields-between
an eagle in cage and an
eagle in the sky. Good here, good
there; bad here, bad there. Time il
only a bedwarfed eternity. Eternity
is only an enlarged time. In this life
our soul is in dry dock. The momen,
we leave this life we are launched fol-
our great voyage, and we shall sail on
for centuries quintillion; but the ship
does not change its fundamental struc-
ture after it gets out of the dry dock, il
does not pass from brig to schooner, OIL
from schooner to man-of-war What
we are when we are launched from this
world, we will be in the world tc
come. O, God! by Thy covering and
sanctifying spirit, make us right here
and now, that we may be right for
ever.
WELL" says some ono, 'this idea o.
moral, spiritual and eternal echo is new
to me. Is there not some way of stop
, ping this echo?" My answer is: GOO
can, and He only" If it is a Cheerful
echo, we do not want it stopped; if q
baleful echo, we would like to have i
| stopped. The hardest thing in this
world to do is to stop an echo. Many
. an grafton has been spoiled and many
, an orator COMPOUNDED by an echo
|. Costly churches, cathedrals theater,
and music halls have been ruined by al
! echo Architects have strung wire!
across auditoriums to arrest the echo
and hung upholstery aaainst the walls