The Penn's Grove record., 1892-01-22

wife was not able to I'VE Win nitn any nouB
er, and his children were taken by relatives,
and he died of delirium tremens on Black
wells IslaJd. His other son forged the name
Of his employer and fed TO Canada.
Zone Of the daughters Of the Old foiKs
married an inebriate with the idea OF REFORM
ing him, aud you know how that always
ends-in the ruin of both the experiments
and the one experimental with. The other
daughter disappeared mysteriously and has
not been heard of. There was a young
woman picked out of the East River and put
In the morgue, and some thought 1t was her,
but | cannot say" 'Is 1t possibleF' you cry
out. eyes, it Is possible. The family is 2
complete wreck" My hearers, Una. Is Yuse
what might nave been expected. All TINS Is
only the Echo, the dismal Echo, the awful
Echo, the dreadful Echo OF parental obliquity
and unfaithfuiness. The old folks heaped up
a mountain of wrong influences, and this s
only what my text calls "The sounding OF
the mountains"
indeed our entire behavior in this world
will have a resound. While opportunities
fly in a straight line and just touch US once
and are gone never to return, the wrongs
we practice upon others fly in a circle, and
they come back to the place from whlch
they started. Doctor Guillotine Thought IL
smart to introduce the instrument OF death
named after him, but did not like It SO
well when his own bead was chopped on
WITT the guillotine.s
SO also the Judgment Day will be an Echo
of all our other days. The universe needs
such a day. for there are to many tnings IN
the world that need to be fixed up and ex-
planned. II God had not appointed such a
day all the nations would cry out. .on,
God, gee us Il Judgment Day" but we are
apt to think of it and speak about 1t as a
day away off in the future. having no spe-
cial connection with this day or any other
day. The fact is that we are now making
up its voices; its trumpets will only SOUND
back again to US what we now say and do.
That is tine meaning OF ali ina5 Scripture
which says that Christ will on that day ad-
dress the soul, saying, II was naked and Ye
clothed ME; l was sick and in prison and fe
visited me-"
All the footsteps in that prison corridor as
the Christian reformer walks too the wicket
of the incarcerated, yea all the whispers OF
coincidence in the ear OF tina poor soul dying
in that garnet, yea all the kindnesSes are be
ing caught up and rolled on until they dash
against the Judgment throne and then they
will be struck back into the ears OF these
sons and daughters OF mercy. Louder n
the crash of Mount Washington falling on
its face in the world wide catastrophe, and
the boiling Of the sea over the furnaces OF
universal c1nfiagration will be the Echo and
re-echo of the good deeds done and the SYM
pathetic words uttered and the mighty bene-
factions wrought.
On that day all the charities, all the self
sacrifices, all the philanthropies, all the
beneficent last wills and testsments, all the
Christian work of all the ages, will be piled
up into mountains, and those who have
served God and served the suffering human
race will hear what my text styles 'lne
sounding of the mountains"
NV subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself is only an echo OF time. Mind
you, the analogy warrants my saying TINS.
The echo is not always exactly In kind like
the sound originally projected, Lord IA
leigh saws that a woman's voice sounding
from a grove was returned an octave higher.
A scientist playing a flute in Fairfax County,
Va, found that all the notes were returned,
| although some Of them in a raised pitch.
A trumpet sounded ten times near Glas-
Cow. Scotland, and the ten notes were all
repeated, but a third lower. And the spir.
itual law corresponds with the natural
| world. What we do Of good or bad may
not CONT bac; to US in just the proportion
we expect it, but come back it will; it may
be from a higher gladness than We thought
| Or from a deeper woe, from a mightier con-
| aueror 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 dissolute behavior, will come
back somehow.
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 armholes OF his vest says.
| with an air of swsgger and jocosity: well,
| don't believe in the Bible or the church.
The one is an imposition and the other is
| full of hypocrites. l declare l would not
trust one Of those very pious people further
| than | could see him." That is all he says,
but he has said enough. The young men go
| back to their counters or their shuttles and
say within themselves, "WelI, he is a sue
| cessful man and has probably studied up the
| whole subject and is probably right"
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 lfetimes
| and five destroyed eternities. You see the
Echoes are an octave lower h he antici-
pated. On the other hand, some rainy day,
when there are hardly any customers, the
Christian merchant comes but from his
| counting room and stands among the young
men who have nothing to do. and says:
"Well, boys, this is a dull day, but 1t will
clear off after awhile. There are a good
many ups and downs In business but there
is an everything Providence.
Years ago | made up my mind to trust
God and He has always seen me through. i
remember when l was your age, l hal just
come to town and the temptations of city
life gathered around me, but / resisted.
The fact is there were two old folks out on
the old farm praying for me and l knew it,
and somehow | could not do as some of the
clerks did or go where some of the clerks
went. tell you, boys, 1t is best always to
do right, and there is nothing to keep one
right like the old fashioned religion OF Jesus
Christ. John, where did you 60 to church
last Sunday Henry, how is the Young
Mems Christian association prosperlngy
About noon the rain ceases and the sun
oon,., d,f and tina elarks M 70 THAR ntapal
and they say within themselves: swell, he
is a successful merchant and l guess he
knows what he Is talking about, and the
Christian religion must be a good thing.
God knows 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
deathbeds and five heavens From all tine
| mountains OF rapture and all the mountains
of glory AMI all the mountains of eternity,
| he will catch what Ezekiel in my text styles
The sounding again of the mountains"
Yea, | take a step further in this subject
| and say that our own eternity will be a re-
yerberation OF our own earthly lifetime.
What we are here we will be there, only
on a larger scale. Dissolution will tear down
the body and embank it, but our faculties OF
| mind aud soul will go right on without the
| pGHllhlS1 VI "a ACeAb 80 hAD @'I
| Change except enlargement and intensidcs-
| ton, There will be no more difference than
between a lion behind the iron bars and a
lion escaped iuto the field. between an eagle
| in a cage and an eagle in the sky. Good
here, good there, bad here, bad there. Time
is only a bedwarfed eternity. Etsnity 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 cen
turies quintillion, but the ship does not
change its fundamental structure after it
( gets out of the dry dock, it does not pass
from brig 10 schooner or from Schooner to
! man-of-war. What we are when launched
from this world We will be in the world t.
come. Oh, Godi by Thy converting and
sa~nctifying spirit make US right here ant
now that we may be right foreveri
SWELL" says some one, ''thisidsa of moral,
I spiritual and etsrnal Echo Is new to me- Ii
there not some way Of stopping this Echoy'
NV answer ia God can and He only" II II
is a cheerful Fcho we do not want It stopped;
IL a baleful Echo We would like 10 have II
stopped. The hardest thing In the world to
I do Is to stop IA Echo Many an Grafton ha.
been spoiled iimany an orator COMPOUNDED