The southern argus., 1892-01-21
emancipate the hardened sinner.

no, you must not call her thoughtles.
butterfly in our presence. You see w,
would not stand it" The fact is tina
the son and daughter of that family die
not promise much at the start but they
, are now an echo, glorious echo, q
prolonged echo of parental teaching
and example.
A Vermont mother, as her boy was
about to start for life on the sea, said
Edward, have never seen the ocean
but ! understand the great temptation
is strong drink. Promise me you will
never touch it" Many years after that
telling of this in a meeting, Edward
said: Il have been around the world
and at Calcutta, the ports of the Med.
iterrane an, San Francisco, Cape OF
Good Hope and the north and south
poles and Fever saw glass of liquor
IN all those years that my mothers
form did not appear before me, and /
do not know how liquor tastes. l have
never tasted it and all because of the
promise made to my mother" This
was the result of that conversation at
the gate of the Vermont farm house.
But here is slipshod home The
L
their children do as they please No
example fit to follow. No lessons of
morality or religion. Sunday no better
than any other day The Bible no
better than any other book. The house
| is a sort of inn where the older and
younger people of the household stop
for awhile. The theory acted on,
though perhaps not announced, is:
The children will have to do as did,
| and take their chances. Life is lot
terry anyhow, and some draw prizes and
some draw blanks, and we will trust to
luck" Skip twenty years and come
back to the neighborhood where that
family used to live. You meet on the
street or on the road an old inhabitant
of that neighborhood, and you say:
"Can you tell me anything about the
Petersons who used to live here?"
eyes" says the old inhabitant II re-
member them very we'll. The father
and mother have been dead for years.
"Well, how about the children?
What has become of them?"
The old inhabitant replies: They
turned out badly. You know the
old man was about half an infdel and
the boys were all infidels. The oldest
son married, but got into drinking
habits, and in a few years his wife was
not able to live with him any longer
and his children were taken by rela-
tives, and he died of delirium tremens
on Blackwell's island. His other son |
forged the name of his employer and |
fed to Canada. One of the daughters |
of the old folks married an inebriate |
with the idea of reforming him, and |
you know how that always ends-in |
the ruin of both the experimenter and |
the one experimental with. The other |
daughter disappeared mysteriously and |
has not been heard of. There was a
woman picked out of the East river
and put in the morgue, and some
thought it was her. but l cannot say:
SIS it possible?" You cry out: "Yes,
it is possible. The family is COM
plete wreck
My hearers that is just what might
have been expected. All this is only
the echo, the dismal echo, the awful
echo, the dreadful echo of parental OBJ
liquity and unfaithfulness. The old
folks heaped up a mountain of wrong
influences, and this is only what nv
text calls ''the sounding of the mount
aims" Indeed our entire behavior in
this world will have a resound. While
fly in straight line and
just touch us once and are gone never
to return, the wrongs we practice up
on others fly i'll a circle, and they come
back to the place from which they
started.
So also the Judgment day will be an
echo of all our other days. The uni
verse needs such a day, for there are
so many things in the world that need
to be fixed up and explained. If God
had not appointed such day all the
nations would cry out: 60 God, give
US judgment day" Bat we are apt
to think of it and speak about it as a
day away off in the future, having no
special 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. {
Louder than the crash of Mount
Washington falling on its face in the ,
NOTIu-WluG catastrophe, ana the DOLL
ng of the sea over the furnaces of uni
7ersal confagration will be the echo of {
the good deeds done and the sympa- {
hectic words uttered and the mighty I
wrought On that day all
he charities, all the self-sacrtfces all '
he philanthropies, all the benifcent !
asst wills and testaments, all the Chris I
ian work of all ages, will be piled up
nto mountains, and those who have
served God and served the suffering HUI I
nan race will hear what my text styles t
'the sounding of the mountains" {
My subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself is only an echo Of time $
Mind you, the analogy warrants my c
saying this The echo is not ALWAYS |
exactly in kind like the sound original t
y projected. Lord Raleigh says tina. I
voice sounding from a grove q
vas repeated an octave higher A c
playing a flute in Fairfax l
county, Virginia, found that all the q
notes were returned although some of '
hem came in raised pitch. A trumpet /
ten times near Glasgow. Scot t
and, and the ten notes were all repeat '
ID, but third lower. And the spirit c
lal law corresponds with the natural '
world. What we do of good or bad NAV Y