Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-27
THE NYMPH
That Chased Narcissus Tt couyh
| Ancient Greece
mad rsrsnts Have mad children. aud Wee
Ner-s Though rhis roi-. like ogh.
ere Has some fN~..,,tlons-
br. rsinag~'s SERMON

pr. rsimaT~'- SERMON
Or Tslmagc's subject last Sunday
was "EchocS" aud his text. Esckici
vii, 4 l''rhc sounding again of the
mountains"
AT last have found H. The Bible
mas In u recognition of all phases OF
she natural world from the aurora of
the midaigh, Heavens To the phosphor-
esceucc OF the tumb,cd sea But the
woll-luow sound that we call the echo.
j found not until n few days ago dis
severed in my text; 1.-THE sounding
Again ~ the mountains" That Is the
echo.
Ezekiel of the text had heard Il again
and again. Born among mountains and
In his Journey To distant exile ne had
passed among mountains. and Il was
natural that all through his writings
there should loom up the mountains.
Among them he had heard the sound of
cataracts and of tempcsts in wrcstle
with oak and cedar. and the voices of
Tho wild beasts. but n man of so poet
nature rs Ezekiel could not allow
another sound. viz. tho echo. TO be
disregardcd. and so he gives us In our
text the sounding again of tho mount.
aims"
Greek mythology represented the
echo rs nymph, the daughter OF earth
and air. following Narcissus through
forests and into grottocs and every
whittier, aud SO strange and weird and
startling Is the echo do not wonder
that the supcrstitous have lifted IL into
the supernatural You aud | In boy.
hood cor girlhood experimental with
this responsiveness OF sound. Stand.
Eng bali way between the house and
barn. we shouted many time 10 hcnr
tho rcvcrbcrations, or ont among the
mountains back OF our homc, on some
long tramp, src stopped and madc cx.
clanation with full lungs To- hnnr
what Ezekiel calls 1.-THE soun1inv
again Of the mountains" The -cho
has frightened many child and
many man. IL Is no tame thinp n ftcr
you have spoken to hear the same
words repeated by the invisible. All
thc silcnccs are filled with voices rendy
10 answer Yet II would not be so
startling IL they did something else;
out why do those lips OF the mir say lust
what YOU say? DO they mean 10 mock
or mean 10 please? Who are you and
where are you. thou wondrous echoP
sometimes It's response Is rciteration
The shot of gun, the clapping OF tho
hands, the beating OF n drum. the voice
OF violin, are sometimes repeated
many times by the voice OF the echo.
Near Coblcntz--that which IL said has
seventeen echoes In 1860 n writer savs
that near Milan. Italy, there were sew
n,r
snap OF pistol. Play buglc near n
lake OF Killarney, and the tune IL
/ played back To you as distinctly ms
when you played IL. There Ia well
piO feet deep near Carishbrools Castle
I'm the Isle of Wight. Drop n pin into
that well and the sound OF its fall
comes TO the top of the well distinctly.
blast OF an Alpine horn comes back
from the rocks OF Jungfrau In surge nj.
ter surge OF reflected sound. until Il
seems as II every peak had lifted and
blown an Alpine horn. But have Won
noticed-and this Is the reason for the
present discourse-that this echo in the
natural world has its analogy In the
moral and religious woridP Have you
noticed the tremendous fact that what
we say aud do comes back In recoiled
| gladness or disaster? About this reso-
nance preach this sermon
j. Parental teaching and example
have their echo in the character OF de-
scendants Exceptions? Oh. yes, 40 in
the natural world there may be no echo.
or distorted echo, by reason OF peculiar
proximities, but the general rule Is that
the character of.the children is the echo
OF the character Of parents The gen.
erai rule IL that good parents have good
children and bad parents have bad chill
dren II the old man is crank his
son Is apt TO be n crank and the
grapdchild "a crank. The tendency IL so
mighty In that direction that IL will get
worse and worse unless some hero or
heroine in that line shall rise and say:
Here by the help OF God. will stand
this no longer Against this hereditary
tendency 20 queerness protest" Aid
he or she will set up an altar and a
magnificent life that will reverse things
and there will be no more cranks
among that kindred In another fam
lily the father and mother are conse.
Grated people. What they do is right;
what they teach Is right The bows
may for some time be wild and the
daughters worldly, but watch Years
pass on. perhaps ten years, twenty
years. and You go back 70 the church
where the father and mother used 20 be
consistent members You have heard
nothing about the family for twenty
years, and az the door OF the church
you see the sexton. and you ask him:
Where in old Mr. Webster"
"Oh! he has been dead many years. a"
where Is Mrs Webster" "Ohl she
died fifteen years ago" II suppose
their son Joe went TO the doQs2" ooh,
no" says the sexton. ''He IL up there
In the elders seat He IL one Of our
best and most important members.
You ought 20 hear him pray and sing
lie Is not Joe any longer; he Is Elder
webster" Well. where Il the daugh-
ter Mary suppose she Is the same
thoughtless butterfly she used 10 be?"
''Ohl no, says the sexton. ''she IL the
president Of our missionary society and
the directress In the orphan asylum.
and when she goes down the street ali
the faRamuhlns take hold Of her dress