Connecticut western news., 1892-01-21


 corridor aS the Christian h 'tormer walks to the wicket of the iucalrerat ed yea all the whispers of condo lence in the ear of that poor soul dy ing in that garTet, yea all the kind Cee9cs arc hc;nC cGv2';t ''-o .r'i rNlle , ou UaIii j.~r 'laz'i '.G' ,.3 -".' iuie 3t.saE r.iiiI> pGd fbcI lay ,.Hi b.. struck back into The ear6 v. tnoR,, sons and daughters of mercy.
 Louder than the crash of Mount Washington falling on its face in the worldwidr catastrophe. and the boil ing of the sea over the furnaces of universal contlaSration will be the Echo and Re-echo of the good deeds done and the sympathetic words ut tered and the mighty benefactions wrought. On that day all tho chari- ties, all the self sacrifices, all the philanthropies, all the benificent last wills and testaments. all the Chris tian work of all the ages, will be piled up into mountains, and those who have served God and served the suf- fering 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 thii. Tie Echo is not always exactly in kind like the sound originally projected Lord Raleigh says that a woman's voice sounding from q grove was returned an octave higher. A scientist play ing flute in Fairfax county. Va, found that all the notes were re- turned. although some of thom came in a raised pitch. A 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 1t, but come back it will; it may be from a higher glad ness than we thought or from a deeper woe, from mightier con queror or from 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 dis solute behavior will come back some how.
 Suppose the boss of a 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 Well. l don't believe in the Bible or the church. The one is an imposition and the other is full of hypocrites. l 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, Well, he is successful 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 i'll five ruined lifetimes and five destroyed eterni- ties. You see the Echoes are an oc. tave lower than he anticipated. On the other hand. some rainy day. when there are hardly any custom CTS. the Christian merchant comes out from his counting room and stands among the young men who have nothing to do and says:
 Well, boys, this is dull day, but it will clear off after awhile. There are good many ups and downs in business, but there is an everything Providence. Years ago 1 made up my mind to trust God and he has al ways seen me through. 1 remember when was your age had just come to town and the temptations of city life gathered around me. but I re- sisted. The fact is there were two old folks out on the old farm praying for me, and 1 knew it. and somehow l could not do as some of the clerks did or go where some of the clerks went. tell you. boys, it k best al- ways to do right. and there is noth ing to keep one right like tae old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ. John, where did you go to church last Sunday2 Henry, how is the Young Mems Christian association prosperingi'
 About noon the rain ceases and the sun comes out, and the clerks go to their places. and they say within themselves: Well, he is a success ful merchant, and l guess he knows what he is talking about, and the Christian religion must be a good thing. God knows want some heli, in this battle with temptation and sin"
 The successful merchant who Ut tered the kind words did not know how much gool he was doing, but the Echo will come back in five life times of virtue and usefulness and five Christian leathbeds 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 in my text styles The sounding again of the mountains"
 Yea. take n step further in this subject and say that our own eternity will be reverberation of our own earthly lifetime What we arc here we will be there, only on n larger scale Dissolution will tear down the