Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-28


years that my mothers form did not ap
pear before me, and do not know how
liquor tastes. | never have tasted il and
all because of the promise made TO my
mother"
This was the result of that conversation
at the gate of the Vermont farmhouse
The statuary OF Thorwaltisen was sent
/ from Italy to Germany. and the straw in
which the statues had been packed was
! thrown upon the ground The next spring
beautiful Italian flowers sprlng up where
4 this straw had been east, for in it had
4 been some of the seeds of Italian flowers,
and. whether conscious of it or not, we are
all the time planting for ourselves and
planting for others roses or thorns. You
Thought it only straw. yet among it were
anemones.
But here is slipshod home. The
parents are goddess pair They let their
children do rs they please No example
fit TO follow No lessons of morality or
religion. Sunday no better than any other
day The Bible no better than any other
book The house is sort of inn where the
older and younger people of the household
stop for awhile The theory acted on,
though perhaps not announced, is: 1.-THE
their chances. Life is lottery anyhow
and some draw prizes and some draw
blanks, and we will trust To luck F"
Skip twenty years and come back TO the
neighborhood where that family used TO
live You meet on the street or on the
road an old iuhabitant of that neghbor
hood, and you say, Can you tell me any
thing about the Petersons who used 10 live
sfs n II
remember them very we'll The father
and mother have been dead for years.
well how about the children! What
has become of thenly' The old inhabitant
replies: They turned out badly. You
know the old man was about half an in
tldel and the boys were all infdels. The
oldest son married, but got into drinking
habits and in "A few years his wife was not
able to live with him any longer and his
children were taken by relatives, and he
died of delirium trenens on Blackwel's
island. His other son forged the name Of
his employer and fed 10 Canada.
One of the daughters of the old folks
married an inebriate with the idea of re
forming him, and you know how that
always ends-in the ruin Of both the ex
perimenter and the one experimental with
The other daughter disappeared niysteri
ously and has not been heard of There
WIS young woman picked out OF the
Fast river and put in the morgue. aud
some Thought il WAS her, hut cannot say"
is il pussbleY' you cry out Yes, it is
possible The family sa complete wreck
My hearers, that Is Just what might have i
been expected All this is only the Echo,
the dismal Echo the awful Echo, the
dreadful Echo of parental obliquity and
unfaithfulnts>S The old folks heaped upa
mountain Of wrong influences. and this is
only what my text calls THE sounding Of
the mountains"
Indeed our entire behavior in this
world will have a ressound While oppor
tuntieS fly in Il straight liue and Just 1
touch MS once and are gone never TO return /
the wrongs we practice upon others fly in I
a circle, and they come back to the place
from which they Started. Doctor Guillo |
tine thought il smart TO introduce the in /
strument of death named after him, but /
did not like il so well when his own head /
was chopped of with the guillotine.
TllE DAY OF ALL DAYS
So also the Judgment Day will he an
Echo Of all our other days The universe
needs such day, for there are so many
things in the world thar need TO he fixed |
up and explained. II God had not ap
pointed such day all the nations would
Fry out, "Oh. God, give IL a Judgment
Day But we are apt to think Of II and
speak about il ~ a day away Oft in the fu-
lure, having no special connection with this
lay or any other day The fact Is that we
are now making up It's voices. its trumpets
will only sound back again to us what we
now say and do That is the meaning of all
hat Scripture which says that Christ will
IN that day address thesoul saying. II was
naked and ye clothed me: ! WAS sick and in
prison aud We visited me y
All the footsteps in that prison corridor
Is the Christian reformer walks to the
wicket Of the incarcerated, yea all the
whispers Of coincidence ia the ear of that
,oor soul dying in that garnet. yea all the
lindnesses are being caught mp and rolled
N until they dash against the Judgment
Throne and then they will he struck back
nto the ears Of these sons and daughters
4 mercy. Louderthan the crash of Mount
Washington falling Gu its face in the
world wide catastrophe. and the boiling Of
he sea over the furnaces of universal con.
agration will he the Echo and Re-echo of
he good deeds done and the sympathetic
words uttered aud the mighty henefactions
wrought
On that day all the charities. all the self
acrlices all the philanthropies, all the
last wills and testaments, all the
work of all the ages, will be piled
p into mountains, and those who have
eryed God aud served the suffering human
ace will hear what my text styles "The {
ounding of the mountains
My subject advances to tell you that {
lernity itself is only an echo Of time.
lind you. the analogy warrants my saving
MS. The echo is not always exactly in
ind like the sound originally projected. '
ord Raleigh says that woman's voice
,unding from grove was returned an {
ctave higher. a scientist playing a flute I
! Fairfax county. Va found that all the {
otes were returned although some of a
lem came in raised pitch. )
a trumpet sounded ten times near Glas u
Dw, Scotland, aud the ten notes were all I
'peated, but a third lower And the a
,iritnal law corresponds with the natural j
orld. What we do of good or bad may a
ot come back to us in just the proportion b