Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1892-01-23

wrought. On that day all the chari-
ties. all the self sacrifices, all the
philanthropies. all the benilicent last
wills and testaments. all the Chris
tian work of all the ages, will he piled
up into mountains, and those who
have served God and served the suf-
ferlng 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 woman's voice
sounding from Il grove was returned
an octave higher. \ scientist play
ing flute i'll Fairfax county. Va,
found that all the notes were re
turned. although some of them came
in Il raised pitch. y 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 higher glad
ness than we thought or from a
deeper woe, from mightier con
queror or from Il worse captive, from
higher throne or deeper dungeon.
Our prayer or our blasphemy, our
kindness on our cruelty. our faith or
our unbelief, our holy life or our dis
solute behavior will come back some
how
Suppose the boss of Il factory or
the head of commercial firm some
day comes out among his clerks or
employees and putting his thumbs in
the armholes 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 hypocritcs. /
declare would not trust one of those
very pious 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.
We'll. he is Il 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
lifetimes and five ,,es Rvrd ctclni-
ties. You see the Echoes are IN 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:
We'll, boys, this is dull day. but
it will clear off after awhile. There
are good many ups and downs III
business, but there is an over1TIling
Providence. Years ago | made up
my mind to trust God and he has al
ways seen me through remember
when ! was your age had just come
to town and the temptations of city
life gathered around me. but | re
sisted The fact is there were two
old folks out on the old farm praying
for me. and knew it. and somehow
could not do as some of the clerks
did or go where some of the clerks
went tell you. boys it is best al
ways To do right. and there is moth
ing to keep one right like the old
fashioned religion of Jesus Christ.
John. where did you 20 to church
last Sunday! Henry, how is the
Young Mems Christian association
prospeiing!
About noon the rain ceases III Il the
sun comes out. and the clerks 80 to
their places, and they say within
themselves: We'll. he is Il success
full merchant, and ! guess he knows
what he is talking about, and the
Christian religion must be good
thing. God knows want some help
in this battle with temptation and
sin
The successful merchant who ut
tered the kind words did not know
how much good he was doing. but
the Echo will come back in five life
times of virtue and usefulness and
five Christian deathbeds and five
heavens From all the mountains of
rapture and all the mountains of
glory and all the mountains of eter-
nifty he will catch what Ezekiel i'll
my text styles The sounding again
of the mountains
Yea. take step further in this
subject and say that our own eternity
will be II reverberation of our own
earthly lifetime What we are here
we will he there, only on larger
scale Dissolution will tear down the
A'f'a anu NlilJttAAh H. Afttl OAAi isthNlAlNo
of mind and soul Will go right ON
without the hcSitancy of moment
and without any change except en-
largemcnt and intensification. There
will be no more difference than he
tween lion behind the iron bars and
lion escaped into the field, between
an eagle in the cage and an eagle III
the sky. Good here. good there bad
here, bad there. Time is only be
dwarfed eternity. Eternity is only
an enlarged time In this life our
soul is in dry dock
The moment we leave this life we
are launched for our great voyage,
and we sail on for centuries quintil
lion, but the ship does not change its
fundamental structure after it gets
out of the dry dock; it does not pass
from brig To schooner or from