The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-02-04
Or. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SOME IMPRESSIVE LESSONS
ARE FOUND IN THE ECHO.
the Echoes OF q Moral Example in One
Family and an Example Of Moral IndiH-
euce in Alphabetically to Echo the
Ooings of Time.
At the Tabernacle.

DR.. TaImage's subject was Echoes. :"
and his text, Ezekiel vii, 2, THE sound
ng again of the mountains"
At last I have found it. The Bible has
n it a recognition of all phases of the
natural world from the aurora of the
midnight Heavens to the phosphOrescence
II the tumbling sea. But the well known
sound that we call the Echo found not
lntil few days ago / discovered it in
ny text 1.-THE sounding again OF the
Mountains" That is the Echo. Ezekiel
IT the text heard it again and again.
Born among mountains, and in his
Journey to distant exile, he had passed
among mountains, and it was natural
that ali through his writings there should
Dom up the mountains. Among them he
had heard the sound Of Cataracts and Of
Jempests in wrestle with oak and cedar,
and the voices of the wild beasts, but a
nan OF SO poetic a nature as Ezekiel
,Ould not allow another sound, viz, the
Echo, to be disregarded, and so he gives
Is In our text THE sounding again Of
The mountains"
Greek mythology represented the Echo
IS nymph, the daughter of Earth and
Air, following Narcissus through forests
and into grOttOeS and every whittier, and
20 strange and weird and startling is the
Echo l do not wonder that the Superstf-
iiOus have lifted it into the supernatural.
You and / in boyhOod or girlhOOd expert
nented with this responsiveness OF sound.
Standing half way between the house
Ind barn, we shouted many time to
near the reverberations, or out among
the mountains back of our home. on some
iOng tramp, we stopped and made ex-
.lamation with full lungs Just to hear
what Ezekiel calls 'sThe sounding again
Of the mountains"
The Echo has frightened many Child
and many man. 1t is no tame thing
after you have spoken to hear the same
words repeated by the invisible. All the
silences are filled with voices ready to
answer Yet it would not be- SO startling
If they said something else, but why do
those lips of the air say just what you
say? Do they mean to mock or mean to
please? Who are you and where are
you, thou wondrous Echo? Sometimes
Its response is a reiteration. The shot
If gun, the clappine of the hands, the
beating of drum, the voice of a violin
are sometimes repeated many times by
The Echo.
Near Coblentz-that which is said has
seventeen Echos. In 1766, writer says
that near Milan, Italy, there were
seventy such reflections of sound to one
snap of pistol. Play a bugle near a
lake of Killarney and the tune is played
back to you as distinctly as when you
played it. There is a well 21o feet deep
1t CarlSbrooke Castle, in the Isle OF
Wight. Drop PIN into that well and
The sound of its fall comes to the top of
the well distinctly. A blast of an Alpine
horn comes back from the rocks of
Jungfrau in surge after surge of reflected
sound, until it seems as if every peak had
lifted and blown an Alpine horn.
But have you noticed-and this is the
reason for the present diScourSe-that
this ECHO in the natural world has its
analogy in the moral and religious world?
Have you noticed the tremendous fact
that what we say and do comes back in
recoiled gladneSS or disaster? About
this resonance preach this sermon.
First-Parental teaching and example
have their Echo in the character of de-
scendants. Exceptions? Oh, yes. So
In the natural world there may be no
Echo, or a distorted Echo, by reason of
peculiar proXimiIieS, but the general
rule is that the character of the children
is the Echo of the character of parents.
The general rule is that good parents
have good children and bad parents have
bad children. If the old man is crank,
his son is apt to be crank and the
grandchild crank. The tendency is SO
mighty in that direction that it will get
worse and worse until some hero or hero
inc in that line shall rise and say:
Here! BY the help of God, l will stand
this no longer. Against this hereditary
tendency to queerness l protest" And
he or she will set Up an altar and a mag
niicent life that will reverse things, and
there will be no more cranks among that
kindred.
In another family the father and
mother are conSecrated people. What
they do is right. What they teach is
right The boys may for some time be
wild and the daughters worldly, but
watch! Years pass on, perhaps ten years.
twenty years, and you go back to the
church where the father and mother
used to be consistent members.
You have heard nothing about the
family for twenty years, and at the door
of the church you see the sexton and you
ask him, ''Where is old Mr.. Webster?"
.Oh. he has been dead many years."
.sWhere is Mrs. Webster?" ''Oh, she
died fifteen years ago. 81 suppose their
son Joe went to the dogS?" ''Oh, no."
says the sexton, ''he is up there in the
elders seat He is one Of our best and
most important members. You ought to
hear him pray and sing. He Is not Joe
any longer, he is Elder Webster" ''Well,
where is the daughter, Mary? I sup
pose she is the same thoughtless butter
liy she used to be?" "Oh. no." says the
sexton, ''she is the President of our mis-
sionsry society and the directreSs in the
orphan asylum, and when she goes down
the street all the ragamuffins take hold
Of her dress and cry. Auntie. when are
you going to bring US some more books
and shoes and things?' And when
in times of revival, there is some
hard ease back in church pew that no
one else can touch. she goes where he is, |
and Ia one minute she has him a-crying,
and the first thing xe know she is fetch
ing the hardened man up to the front to |
be prayed for. and says, Here is a |