The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-21

/ SOuHuu1S IFOin u grove WAS Fpfurne
an octave higher. 4 scientist pla,
ing a flute in Fairfax county, Va
found that all the notes were n
turned, although some of them cam
in raised pitch. A trumpet sounde
ten times near Glasgow. Scotland
and the ten notes were all repeated
but third lower And the sniritna
law corresponds with the natura
world.
What we do of good or bad ma,
not come back to Us in just the PFC
portion we expect it, but come bal
it will; it may be from a higher glad
ness than we thought or from
deeper woe, from a mightier con
queror or from worse captive, from
a higher throne or deeper dungeon
Our prayer or our blasDhemy. oul
kindness or our cruelty, our faith O,
our unbeief, our holy life or our dis
solute behavior will come back some
how.
Suppose the boss of a factory OF
| the head of commercial firm some
day comes out among his clerks OF
employees and putting his thumbs II
the arnholes of his vest says, with
an air of swagger and jocosity
We'll, don't believe in the Bible OF
the church. The one is an imposition
and the other is full Of hypocrites.
declare would not trust one Of those
very pious people farther than could
see him" That is all he says, but he
has said enough. The young men 20
back to their counters or their shut
ties and say within themselves,
well, he is a successful man and
has probably studied up the whole
subject and is probably right"
ECHO OF LYING UTTERANCEs.
That one lying utterance against
Bibles and churches has put five
young men on the wrong track, and
though the influential man had
spoken only il half jest the Echo
shall come back to him in five ruined
ifetimes and five destroyed eterni-
ties. You see the Echoes are an Oc-
tave lower than he anticipated. On
the other hand, some rainy dav.
when there are hardly any custom
ers, 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
it will clear off after awhile. There
are good many ups and downs in
business, but there is an overriding
Providence. Years ago ! made up
my mind to trust GCd and he has al
ways seen me through. I remember
when was your age l had just come
to town and the temptations Of city
life gathered around me, but l re-
sisted. The fact is there were two
old folks out on the old farm praying
for me, and knew it, and somehow
l could not do IS some of the clerks
did or go where some of the clerks
went. l tell you, boys, it is best al
ways to do right, and there is moth
ing 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
About noon the rain ceases and the |
sun comes out, and the clerks 20 to
their places, and they say within
themselves: well, he is a success
full merchant, and I guess he knows
what he is talking about, and the
Christian religion must be a good
thing. God knows I want some help
IN this battle with temptation and |
sin"
The successful merchant who ut
tered the kind words cid not know
how much good he was doing, but
The Echo will come back in five life
times of virtue and usefulness and
i've Christian deathbeds and five
From all the mountains of
'apture and all the mountains of
glory and all the mountains of eter
llty he will catch what Ezekiel in
ny text styles The sounding again
u the mountains.
Yea, take a step further in this
subject and say that our own eternity
VIII be q reverberatiOn of our own
earthly lifetime. What we are here
We Will be there, only on a larger
Gale. Dissolution will tear down the
'ody and embank it, but our faculties
Il mind and soul will go right on
the hesitancy Of g moment
Id without any change except en-
argement and intensifcation. There
VII be no more difference than be-
Ween lion behind the iron bars and
hon escaped into the field, between
n eagle IN the cage and an eagle in
ne SIX y. Good here, good there; bad ;
ere, bad there. Time is only a be- =
varied eternity. Eternity is only !
n enlarged time. In this life orr -.
oul is in dry dock.
Inc moment we leave this life we ,
re launched for our great VOYAGE =
nd we sail on for centuries u1lintil- =
on, out the ship does not change its :
structure after it GETS
Ut o. the dry dock; it does not mass !;
ON brig to schooner or from 9
'hooner to man-of-war. What we .
re When launched from this world .
e VIII be II the world to come. Oh, .
OIL by thy converting and sancti, :
ing spirit make us right here and =
oW, that we may be right forever, -
well, says some one, this idea =
moral, spiritual and eternal Echo :,
new to me. Is there not some wav :,
stopping this Echo2" My answer Il Il
God can, and he only" If it is Z
cheerful Echo we do not want It :.
opped; if a baleful Echo we world =
1e to have it stopped The hardest s. 3
ing in this world to do is to ston e e
Echo. Many an grafton has been L
oiled and many an orator con L
u u byan Echo Costly churches u
theaters and music halls q
I'VE been ruined by an Echo. Arch. -
Gus nave strung wiros oo7,oec ,-5. r