The Forrest City times., 1892-01-22
vbere did vou eo to church last sund.y'

tian association prosperingY About
 noon the rain ceases and the sun comes
 out and the clerks go to their places,
 and they say within themselves;
 "Well, he ris successful merchant,
 and guess he knows what he is talk
 ing about, and the Christian religion
 must be good thing. God
 knows I want some help in this
 battle with temptation and sin" 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 lifetimes of virtue and usefulness, and five Christian death
 beds, and five heavens From all the mountains of rapture and all the noun tains of glory and all the mountains of eternity, he will catch what Ezekiel in my text styles "the sounding again of the mountains"
 And if it is SO hard to destroy nat ural echo, how much harder to stop . moral echo, spiritual echo. an immor- tai 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 arrange the relative position of mansions and temples and thrones that one of the everlasting charms of heaven will be the rolling, bursting, ascending, descending, chant ing echoes. All the songs we ever sang devoutly, all the prayers we have ever uttered earnestly, all the Chris tian 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, because they are a combination of echoes all the hillsides. and the caverns and the walls furnishing share of the
 resonance. And never will we under stand the full power and music of an
 Echo until with supernatural faculties,
 able to endure them we hear all the combined sounds of heavenly Echoes harps and trumpets, orchestras and or atorios, hosannahs and hallelujahs, 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. Voltaire standing amid the shadows will listen, and from the millions whose goddess ness and hbertinism and de- bauchery were a consequence of his brilliant blasphemies will come back weeping, wailing, despairing, agoniz- ing million-voiced Echo. Paul will, while standing in the light listen. and and from all the many mansions whom
 he helped to people, and from all the thrones he helped to occupants, and
 from all the gates he helped throng
 with arrivals, and from all the temples he helped fill with wor- shippers, there shall come back to him a glorious ever-accumulating trans porting and triumphant Echo. Oh,
 what will the tyrants and op- pressors of the earth do with the
 Echoes. Those who are responsible
 for the wars of the world will have come back to them all the groans, the shrieks, the cannonades, the
 bursting shell, the crackle of
 burning cities, and the crash l of nations homes.
 But you know as well as I do
 that there are some places where the
 reverberations seem to meet, and stand
 ing there they rush upon you, they
 rain upon you, all at once they capture your ear. And at the point
 where all heavenly reverberations
 meet, Christ will stand and listen for the resound of all his sighs, and groans, and sacrifices, and they shall come back in an echo in which shall minge the acclaim of redeemed world and the 'Jubilate Dec" of full heav.
 en. Echo saintly, cherubic. srchan- gelic! Echo of thrones. Echo of pal-
 aces! Echo of temples! Omnipotent echo! Everlasting echoi Amenl