Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-28
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR. TALMAeE FINDS IMPRESSIVE
LEssoNs IN The ECHO.

The Echoes of Moral Example In One
Family and an Example Of Moral In
difference ia Enthusiastically To Eeho
the DoinEr of Time.
BRoOKLYN, Jan. l1.-Dr. Talmage gave n
new illustration in his sermon this morn.
ing OF his mastery Of the art Of drawing
spiritual lessons from common natural
phenomena His subject was Echoes"
ahtl his text. Ezekiel vii. :. THE sounding
again OF the mountains
At Iast have found il. The Bible has in
Il recognition Of all phases Of the natural
world from the aurora Of the midnight
heavens 10 the phoSphorescence of the
tumbing sea. But the well known sound
that we call the Echo | found not until a
few days ago discovered it in my text,
"T'he sounding again OF the mountains"
That is the Echo Ezekiel Of the text heard
IL again and again.
Born among mountains. and in his Jour.
Dey TO distant exile. he had passed among
mountains, and it was natural that all
through his writings there should loom up
the mountains. Among them he had heard
the sound Of c;ltaracts and OF tempests in
wrestIe with oak and cedar, and the voices
OF the wild beasts, but man of so poetic
mature as Ezekiel could not allow another
sound, viz, the Echo, to be dsregaried,
and so he gives us in our text The sound
ing again of the mountains"
Greek mythology represented the Echo
as a nymph, the daughter Of Earth and
Air. following Narcissus through forests
and into grottoes and every whittier, and so
strange and weird and startling is the Echo
u do not wonder that the superStitious
have lifted it into the supernatural You
and ] in boyhood or girlhood experimental
with this responsiveness OF sound. Stand
ing half way between the house and barn,
we shouted many n time TO hear the rever
berations, or out among the mountains
back of our home, on some long tramp, we
stopped and made exclamation with full
lungs just 10 hear what Ezekiel calls 1.-The
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 filed with voices ready to answer
Yet il would not he 40 startling If they
sGtid something else, hut why do thoSe lips
OF the air sly Just what you Sayl DO they
mean TO mock or mean to pleaseg Who
are you and where are you, thou wondrous
Echo? Sometimes its response is "a reitera
tion. The shot Of gun, the clapping OF
the hands, the heating OF Il drum, the voice
of u violin are sometimes repeated many
times by the Echo
Near CoblentZ-that which is said has
seventeen Echoes. In 1865, writer says
that near Milan, Italy. there were seventy
such reflections Of sound TO one snap of a
pistol. Play bugle near lake of Killar
siey and the tune is played back to you ~
distinctly ~ when you played it. There il
~ well two hundred and ten feet deep AT
Earlshrooke castle, in the Isle OF Wight
drop pin into that well and the sound
of it's fall comes to the top of the well
distinctly. A blast of an Alpine horn
comes buck from the rocks OF Jungfrau in
txIrge after surge of reflected sound, until
ht seems H. il every peak had lifted and
blown an Alpine horn.
But have You noticed-and this is the
reason for the present tiiscouFse-that this
Echo in the natural world has it's analogy
6n the moral and religious worlds Have
Wou noticed the tremendous fact thas what
we say and do comes back in recoiled glad
mess or tlisust-r? About this resonance
preach this rermon.
) FARREACHlNG MORAL EXAMPLES.
st-parentar teaching and example
have their Echo in the character of de
'scendants. Exceptions? oh, yes So in
abe natural world there may be no Echo
or distorted Echo, by reason of peculiar
proxiniitiex bus the general rule is that
the character of the children is the Echo
iof the character OF parents. The general
Eule in that good parents have good chi
<fren and bld parents have bad children
az the old man is II crank, his son is apt tc
Rle n crank and the grandchild crank
THE tendency is so mighty in that direc
1ion that it will get worse and worse un
hess some hero or heroine in that line shall
rise and say: "Herel BY the help of God,
\ will stand this no longer. Against this
hereditary tendency 10 queerness | pro
test" And he or she will set up an altar
e4nd u magnificent life that will reverse
ahings, and there will be no more eranks
,amOng that kindred.
In another family the father and mother
are collsecrated people. What they do is
Eight. What they teach is right The
boys may for some time be wild and the
daughters worldly, but watch. Years pass
son, perhaps ten yeslrs, twenty years, and
gou 20 back TO the church where the fa
Rher and mother used 10 be consistent
.lnembers.
4 You have heard nothing about the fam
6ly for twenty years. and at the door OF the
church you see the sexton and you ask
MIN. Where is old MIR. Webster?' "Oh.
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