The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-20
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that woman's voice sounding from Z
grove was returned an octave higher. A.
scientist playing a flute in Fairfax
county, Virginia, found that all the
notes were returned, although some o.
them came in raised pitch. A trumpet
sounded ten times near Glasgow, Scot
land, and the ten notes were all re
peated, but q third lower. And tho
spiritual law corresponds with ths,
natural world. What we do Of good OF
bad may not come back to us in just
the proportion we expect 1t, but CONT
back it will; It may be from a higLei
gladness than we thought or from
deeper woe, from mightier conquerol
or from worse captive, from .
higher throne or deeper dungeon. 0ul
prayer or our blasphemy, our kindness
or our cruelty, our faith or our unbe-
lief, our holy life or our dissolute be-
havior, will come back somehow. Sup
pose the boss of factory or the heat
Of a commercial firm, so me day Gomez
out among his clerks or employees, and
putting his thumbs In the armholes oi
his vest, says, with an air Of swaggei
and jocosity: "Well, I don't believe ir
the Bible or the church. The one is ar
| imposition and the other is full of hyp
ocrites. declare I would not trust one
of those very pious people further than
could see him" That is all he says,
but he has said enough. The young mer
60 back to their counters or their shut
ties, and say within themselves: "Well-
he is successful man and has probably
studied up the whole subject and is prob
ably right" The one lying utterance
against Bibles and churches has put five
young men on the wrong track, ant
though the influential man had spoken
only in half jest the echo shall comt
back to him in Ave ruined lifetimes, and
five destroyed eternities. You see the
echoes are an octave lower than he an
ticipated. On the other hand, some
rainy day, when there are hardly any
customers, the Christian merchant
comes cut from his counting room and
stands among the young men, who have
nothing to do, and says: well, boys
this is a dull day, but it will clear of
after while. 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. remem
Der when was your age, had Just
come to town and the temptations Of
city life gathered around me, but | re
sisted. The fact is there were two old
folks out on the old farm praying foi
me, and / knew it, and somehow
could not do as some of the clerks did
or go where some of the clerks went
tell you, boys, II is best always te
do right, anu there is nothing te
keep one right like the old-fashioned
religion Of Jesus Christ John, where
did you go to church last Sundayi
Henry, how is the Young Mems Chris
tian association prospering?" About
noon the rain ceases and the sun comes
out and the clerks go to their places
and they say within themselves: "Well
he is successful merchant, and guess
he knows what he is talking about, and
the Christian religion must be a goot
thing. God knows want some help In
this battle with temptation and sin.
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 life times of virtue ant
usefulness, and five Christian death
beds, and FIVE heavens From all the
mount"ins OF rapture and all the noun
tains OF glory, anl oil the mountains
Of eternity, he will catch what
Ezekiel in my text styles "the sounding
again OF the mountains"
Yea, take step further in thii
subject, and say that our own eternity
will be reverberation of our owr
earthly lifetime What we are her,
we will be there. only on. larger
scale. Dissolution will tear down the
body and embanls II, but our faculties
OF mind and soul will go right on with
out the b-sitancy OF moment ant
without aay change except enlarge
ment ard ;nten5ihcation. There will
be no more difference than between 4
lion behind the iron bars and q lior
escaped into the field, between an eagle
in cage and an eagle in the sky.
Good here, good there; bad here, baC
there Time is only bedwarfed eter
nifty. Eternity is only an enlarged time
In this life our soul is in dry-doclS. The
moment we leave this life we ar,
launched for our great voyage, and W,
suil on for centuries quintillion, but tho
ship does not change its Fundamental
structure after IL gets out of the dry
dock, It does not pass from brig Il
schooner, or from schooner TO man-of
war. What we are when launched from
this world, we will be inThe world u
come. Obi Godl by Thy converting ant
sanctifying spirit make us right herr
and now, that we may be right forever
; "Well, says someone, this idea o.
moral, spiritual and eternal echo is new
TO me. Is there not some way Of stop
: ping the echo2' My answer Is: Goo
can and lie only" II II is n Cheerful
echo, we do not want II stopped; II I
baleful echo we would like TO have 4
stopped The hardest thing In thi
world to do is to stop an echo. Many
an Grafton has been spoiled and manJ
an orator contounded by an echo
Costly churches, cathedrals theaterl
and music halls have been ruined by al
echo Architects have strung wire
, across auditoriums TO arrest the echo
and hung upholstery against the walls
, hoping TO entrap Il, and hundreds O