Connecticut western news., 1892-01-21

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 < II. s,y .. .".. 'I',, 'aen U. il.V.sl. Sts....ial .a.a ,',,a.ia. ..yau 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 n baleful Echo We would like to have it stopped The hardest thing ill this world to do is to stop an Echo Many an oration has been spoiled and many an oru,r con. foun6ci by an Echo. Costly churches, cathedrals. theaters and music halls have heen ruined by an Echo. Archi. tects have strung wires across audi toriums to arrest the Echo and hung upholstery against the walls, hoping to entrap it. and hundreds of thou. sands of dollars have been expended in public buildings of this country to keep the air from answering when it ought to be quiet.
 Aristotle and Pythagoras and Isaac Newton and La Place and our own Joseph Henry tried to hunt down the Ecko, but still the unexplored realms of acoustics are larger than the ex- plored. When our first Brooklyn Tabernacle was being constructed we were told by architects that it was of such shape that the human voice could not be heard i'll it, or. if heard, it would be tangled in Echoes.
 In state of worriment l went to Joseph Henry, the president of the Smithsonian institution at Washing ton. and told him of this evil proph- ecy. and he replied: "I have proba- bly, eXperimented more with the laws of sound than any other man, and l got as far as this, Two buildings may seem to be exactly alike and yet in one the acoustics may be good and in the other bad. Go on with your church building and trust that all will be we'll" And all was well Oh. this mighty law of sound! Oh, this subtle Echol There is only one Being in the universe who thorough. ly understands it. The sounding again of the mountains"
 AWFUL NATURE OF THE IMMORTAL
 And it is so hard to destroy nat ural Echo, how much harder to stop a moral Echo. a spiritual Echo, m immortal Echo. You know that tue Echoes are effected by the surfaces, and the shape of rocks, and the depth of ravines. and the relative position of buildings; And once i'll heaven, God will so arrange the relative DO sition of mansions and temples and thrones that one of the everlasting charms of heaven will be the roll, ing. bursting, ascending, descending, 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 ure so loud, be cause they are combination of Echoes-all the hillsides, aud the caverns. and the walls furnishing n share Of the resonance. And never will w understand the full power and IF tlsic of an Echo until with su pernarural faculties, able to endure them, we hear all the conjoined sounds of heavenly Echoes-harps and tIumpets. orchestras and ora torios, 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 joining in Echo upon Echo. Echo in the wake of Echo.
 In the future state. whether of rap ture or ruin. we will listen for rever- berations of earthly things and do ings. Voltaire, standing amid the shadows. will listen, and from the millions whose godlessness and lib- ertinism and debauchery were n con sequence of his brilliant blasphemics will come back a weeping. wailing, despailing. agonizing, million voiced Echo. Paul will, while standing in the light, listen, and from all the cir. cfes of the ransomed, 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 to throng with arrivals, and from all the temples he helped fill with worshipers, there shall come back to him a glorious, ever accommodating, transporting and triumphant Echo.
 Oh. what will the tyrants and op- pressors of the earth do with the Echoesl 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 shells. the crackle of burn. ing cities and the crash of a nation r homes; Hohenlinden and Salamanc1 Wagram and Sedan. Marathon ar't Thermopyle, Bunker Hill and Lex ington. South Mountain and Gettys. burg. Sennacherib. listenl Semira. mis, listen! Marc Antony. listen ArtaxerXes. listen! Darius, listen Julius Cesar, listen! Alexander and Napoleon, listen But to the right. eous 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, Harwell and Woodstock, Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Home ward Bound and Shining Shore, and all the melodies they ever started. Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts and Thomas Hast inps and Rrndhury md Horntins Ro.