Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-01-18

MAKE YOUR RECORD FOR JUDGMENT
DAY.
So, also, the judgment day will be
an Echo OF all our other DAYS. The
universe needs such a day for there
are SO many things in the world that
need to be fixed up and explained. If
God had not appointed such a day all
the nations would cry out, ''Oh, God,
give us a Judgment day" But we are
apt to think Of it and speak about it
as a day away off in the future,
having no special connection with
this day or any other day The fact
is that we are now making up it's
voices, it's trumpets will only sound
back again to us what we now say
and do.
That is the meaning Of all that
Scripture which says that Christ will
on that day address the soul, saying,
Il was naked and ye clothed me; I
was sick and in prison and We visited
me-" All the footsteps in that prison
corridor as the Christian Reformer
walks to the wicket of the incarcerat-
ed, yea ali the whispers Of condo
lence in the ear of that poor soul dy
| ing in that garnet, yea all the kind
nesses are being caught up and rolled
on until they dash against the judg
ment throne, and then they will be
struck back into the ears Of these
sons and daughters of mercy
| Louder than the crash of Mount
Washington falling on it's face in the
worldwide catastrophe, and the boil
! ing of the sea over the furnaces of
universal confagration will be the
Echo and Re-echO Of the good deeds
done and the sympathetic words ut
tered and the mighty benefactions
wrought On that day all the chart
ties, all the self sacrifices, all the
philanthroples, all the benificent last
wills and testaments. all the Chris
tan work of all the ages, will be piled
up into mountains, and those who
have served God and served the stf-
fering human race will hear what
my text styles The sounding of the
mountains
My subject advances to tell you
that eternity itself is only an echo of
time. Mind you, the analogy war
rants my saying this The Echo is
not always exactly in kind like the
sound originally projected. Lord
Raleigh says that wOmans voice
sounding from grove was returned
an octave higher. A scientist play
ing flute in Fairfax county, Va,
found that all the notes were re-
turned. although some of them came
in raised pitch. A trumpet sounded
ten times near Glasgow, Scotland,
and the ten notes were all repeated,
but third lower And the spiritual
law corresponds with the natural
world
What we do of good or bad may
not come back to us in just the pro-
portion we expect it, but come back
it will; it may be from Il higher glad
ness than we thought or from a
deeper woe, from a mightier con-
queror or from a worse captive, from
a higher throne or deeper dungeon.
Our prayer or our blasphemy, our
kindness or our cruelty, our faith or
our unbelief, our holy life or our dis
sOlute behavior will come back some
how.
Suppose the boss Of a factory or
the head Of a commercial firm some
day comes out among his clerks or
employees and putting his thumbs in
the arnholes of his vest says, with
an air of swagger and jocosity:
We'll. don't believe in the Bible or
the church. The one is an imposition
and the other is full Of hypocrites. |
declare would not trust one of those
very pio,ls people farther than could
see him" That is all he says. but he
has said enough. The young men go
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 in half jest the Echo
shall come back to him in five ruined
lifeti1nes and five destroyed eterni-
ties You see the Echoes are an oc-
tave lower than he anticipated On
the other hand, some rainy day,
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 a good many ups and downs in
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