The Penn's Grove record., 1892-01-22

were told by architects that it was OF such a
shape that the human voice could not be
heard in it, or, if heard, it would be tangled
into Echoes.
In state of worriment I went to Joseph
Henry, the president of Smithsonian Insti-
tuition at Washington, and told him Of this
evil prophecy, and he replied: II have proba-
bly, experimented more with the laws Of
sound than any other man, II have got as
far as this, Two buildings may seem to be
exactly alike and yet in one the acoustics
may be good AMI in the other bad. Go on
with your church building and trust that all
will be we'll" Oh, this mighty law Of soundt
Oh. this subtle Echo! There is only one be-
ing in the universe that thoroughly UNDER
stands it-"The sounding again of the
mountains"
And IL 1t is so hard to destroy a natural
Echo, how much harder to stop a moral
Echo. q spiritual Echo, an immortal Echo.
You know that the Echoes are affected by
the surfaces, and the shape OF rocks, and
the depth of ~ravines, and the relative posi-
ton Of buildings? And once in heaven
God will so arrange the relative position OF
mansions and temples aud thrones that one
of the everlasting charms of heaven viii be
the rolling. bursting. ascending, defending,
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 10 spring
upon us i'll Echo. 4
The scientists tell us that in this world the
roar of artillery and the boom of the thunder
are SO loud, because they are a combination
of Echoes-all the hillsides, and the caverns
ana the walls furnishing a share of the Fe-
sonance, 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 trumpets,
orchestras and oratorios, hosannahs and
halle ujahs, 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, Echo in the
wake of Echo.
In the future state, whether of rapture or
ruin, we will listen for reverberations of
earthly things and doings. Voitaire stand
ing amid the shadows will listen, and from
the millions whose godlessness and Hbertin-
ism and debauchery were a consequence OF
his brilliant blasphemies will come back a
weeping, wailiDg, desparing, agonizing,
m~illion-voiced Echo. Paul will, while
standing in the light, listen, and from all
the circles of the ransomed, and from all the
many mansions, whom he helped to people,
and from all the thrones he helped to occu-
pauts. and from all the gates he helped
throng with arrivals, and from all the tenn
pies he helped fill with worshipers there
shall come back to him a glorious, ever ac-
cuululatinS, transporting anu tiidhiPhaue
Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and oppressors
Of the earth do with the Echoesi Those who
are responsible for the wars of the world will
have come back to them all the groaus, the
shrieks, the c~annonadeS, the bursting shells,
the crachle Of burning cities and the death
of a nations homes Hohenlinden and Sala-
manca, Wagram and Sedan, Marathon and
T~hermopyl@, Bunker Hill and Lexington,
South Mountains and Gettysburg. SIENNA
acherib listen | Semiramis listen ! Marc
Antony listenl Artaxerexes listenl Darius
listeni Julius Caesar listenl Alexander and
Napoleon listeni But to the righteous will
come back the blissful Echoes.
Composers OF Gospel hymns and singers
will listen for the return of Antioch and
Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundee, Harwel
and Woo Istock, Mount Pisgah and Corona
ton, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore,
and all the melodies they ever started.
Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley and Isaac
Watts and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury
and Horatius Bonar and Frances Havergl
listenl
But you know as well as I do that there
are some places where the reverberations
seem to meet, and standing there they rush
upon you, they rain upon you, all at once
they capture your ear. And at the point
where all heavenly reverberati0ns meet
Christ will stand and listen for the resound
of all His signs and groans and sacrifices and
they shall CONF back in an Echo i'll wSch
mingle the acclaim of a redeemed world, and
the "Jubilate Deo' of a full heaven. Echo
sanity, cherubic, archangelic! Echo of
thronesl Echo of palaces! Echo of tenn
plesl Omnipotent Echo! Everlasting Echoi
AmAni