The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-20

and the other bad. Go on with your
church building and trust that all will
be well" And all was we'll o, this
mighty law of soundl oh, this subtle
echop There is only one Being in the
universe who thoroughly understands
1.-THE sounding again of the noun
tains." 5g I,
And II it is SO hard to destroy s'nat-
ural echo, how much harder TO stop o
moral echo, q spiritual echo, an Inn
mortal echo You know that the echoes
are effected by the surfaces, and the
shape of rocks, and the depth Of ravines,
and the relative position Of buildings?
And, once in Heaven. God will so ar.
range the relative position of mansions
and temples and thrones that ono OF the
everlasting charms of Heaven will be
the rolling. bursting, ascending,
descending, chanting echoes All the
songs we ever sang devontly, all the
prayers 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
are com bination Of echoes-all the
hillsides, and the caverns and the walls
furnishing 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 conjoined sounds
of heavenly echoes-harps and trum.
pets, orchestras and oratorios, hosan.
nahs and hallelujahs, east side Of
Heaven answering to the west side,
north side to south side, and all the
heights and all the depths, and all the
immensities, and all the eternities join.
ing in echo upon echo, in the wake
OF echo. In the future state, whether
Of rapture or ruin, we will listen foi
reveberations Of earthly things and do
ings. Voltaire standing amid the
shadows will listen, and from the mil.
ions whose godlessness and libertinism
and debauchery were consequence OF
his brilliant blasphemies will come
back weeping, wailing, despairing,
agonizing, million-voiced echo. Paul
will, while standing in the light listen,
and from all the circles of the ran.
somed, and from all the many mansions
whom he helped to people, and from al
the thrones he helped to occupants, and
from all the gates he helped throng with
arrivals, and from all the temples he
helped fill with worshipers, there shall
come back to him glorious ever-accu'
mulating, transporting and triumphant
echo. o, what will the tyrants and op
pressors Of the earth do with the echoes
Those who are responsible for the
wars OF the world will have come back
to them all the groans, the shrieks, the
cannonades, the bursting shells, the
craclSle of burning cities, and the crash
Of a nations homes: Hohenlinden and
Salamanca, Wagram and Sedan, Mara
thon and Thermopylae, Bunker Hill
and Lexington, South Mountain anC
Gettysburg, Sennacherib listenl Sc
iniramis listenl Marc Anthony listen
Artaxerxes listenl Darius lstenl Juliui
Cesar listen! Alexander and Napoleon
listen But to the righteous will come bacl
the blissful echoes Composers Of Gospe
hymns and singers will listen for thu
return Of Antioch and Brattle Street
Ariel and Dundee, Harwell and Wood
stock, Mount Pisgah and Coronation
Homeward Bound and Shining Shore
and all the melodies they ever started
Bishop Heber, and Charles Wesley, anC
Isaac Watts, and Thomas Hastings, anS
Bradbury, and Horatius Bonar, ant
Frances Havergel listenl
But you know as well as / do tina
there are some places where the re
verberations seem to meet, and stand
ing there they rush upon you, they ruI
upon you, all at once they capture you
ear And at the point where all heavenl,
reverberations meet Christ will stand
and listen for the resound of all hi
sighs, and groans, and sacrifices, ant
they shall come back in an echo II
which shall mingle the acclaim of Il re
deemed world, and the 'Jubilate Deo
OF full Heaven. Echo sanity, cherubic
archangelicl Echo OF thrones Ech,
Of palaces! Echo OF tomplesl omnipo
tent echo! Everlasting echo! Amen!