The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-29

| themselves: "Well, he is a successful
merchant, and guess he knows what
he is talking about, and the Christian
religion must be a good thing. God
knows want some he p in the battle
with temptation and SIM"
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 and usefulness, and five Christ
ian death beds and five heavens From
all the mountains of rapture and all
the mountains of glory and all the
mountains of eternity, he will catch
what Ezekiel in my text STYLES the
sounding again of the mountains"
Yea, | take step further in this sub
! ject, and say that our own eternity
will be a reverberation of our own
earthly lifetime. WHAT we are here
we will be there only on larger scale.
Dissolution will tear down the body
and embank 1t, but our faculties of
mind and soul will go right on without
the hesitancy of a moment and without
anv change except enlargement and
intensification. Good here, good there;
bad here, bad there. Tims is only
bedwarfed eternity. Eternity j. only
an enlarged time. In this life our soul
is in dry dock. The moment we leave
this life we are launched for our great
voyage, and we sail on for centuries
quintillian, but the ship does not change
its fundamental structure after it gets
out of the dry dock; it does not pass
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to man-of-war What we are launched
from this world we will be in the world
to come.
"WcIl," says some one, 'this idea or
moral, spiritual and eternal echo is
new to me. Is there not some way OF
stopping this echo?" My answer is:
God can, and He only" If it is a
cheerful echo we do not want it
stopped; if baleful echo, we would
like to have it stopped. The hardest
thing in this world to do is to stop an
echo. Many an Grafton has been
spoiled and many an orator confound-
ed by an echo. Costly chur> hes. ca
thedrals, theaters and music halls have
been ruined by an echo. Architects
have strung wires across auditoriums
to arrest the echo and hung upholstery
against the walls, hoping to entrap it,
and hundreds Of thousands of dollars
have been expended in public build
ings of this country to keep the air
from answering when it ought to be
quiet
Aud if It is so hard to destroy nat
ural echo how much harder to stop a
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mortal echo. You know that the echoes
are affected 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 thr mes that one OF
the everlasting charms of Heaven will
be the rolling bursting, ascending, de-
scending, chanting echoes. All the
songs we ever sang devoutly, 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, be-
cause they are a combination of echoes
all the hillsides and the caverns and
, the walls furnishing n share of the
resonance. And never will we under
stand the full power and music of an
echo until with supernatural facilities,
able to endure them we hear all the
conioined sounds of heavenly echoes
harps and trumpets, orchestras and
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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 eter-
mites Joined in echo upon echo. echo in
wake of echo. In the future state,
whether of rapture or ruin, we will
listen for reverberations of earthly
things and doings.
, Voltaire. standing amid the
shadows, will listen and from the
millions whose godlessness and liber-
| tin SIN and debauchery were conse-
: quence of his brilliant blasphemies,
: will come back weeping. wailing, de-
spairing, agonizing, million voiced
| echo Paul will, while standing in the
{ light, listen and from all the circle OF
: the ransomed and from all the many
, mansions which he helped to people,
> and from all the.thrones he helped to oc.
: cupants. and from all the gates he
5 helped throng with arrivals, and from
all the temples he helped TO I'LL with
{ worshipers there shall come back tC
him a glorious, ever accumulating,
? transporting and triumphant echo. O.
S what will the tyrants and oppressor:
: of the earth do with the echoes. Those
a who are responsible for the wars of the
e | world will have come back to them al
\ the proans, the shrieks, the cannonades
< the bursting shells, the crackle of burn
e ing cities, and the crash of a nation:
{ home. Hohenlinden and Salsmanc;
t Wagram and Sedan, Marathon and
: Thermopylse, Bunker Hill and Lexing
: ton, South Mountain and Gettysburg.
: Sennacherib, listen! Semiramis, listen
l Marc Antony. listen! Artaxerxes, listen
= Darius, listen! Julius Cesar, listen! Alex
: ander and Napoleon, listen! But to th'
/; righteous will come back to the bliss
n full echoes. Composers of gospel hymn
n and singers will listen for the return
= of Antioch and Brattie street. Ariel ant
r Dundee, Harwell and Woodstock
Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Home
r ward Bound and Shining Shore and al
y the melodies they ever started. Bisho
: Heber and Charles Wesley, and Isaa
d Watts, and Thomas Ha,tings aud Brad
Y bury, and Horatins Bonar, and France
e Havergal. listen!
It But you know as we'll as do tina
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