Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-01-21

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 an
nounced, is: s'The children will have to
do as did and take their chances. Lille
is lottery anyhow. and some ara"
prizes and some draw blanks, ana we
will trust to luck"
Skip twenty years and come BACK /, 10
the neighborhood where that family
nsed 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 hereof ''Yes," says
the old inhabitant; II remember them
very we'll The father and mother nave
been dead for years" swell, 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 infidel and
the bows were all infidels. The Oldest
son married, but got into drinking
habits, and in few years his wife was
not able to live with him any longer ana
his!children were taken by relatives, and
he died of delirium tremens on Black
wells Island. His other son forged the
name of his employer and fled to Canada
zone of the daughters of the old folks
married an inebriate with the idea OF re-
forming him, and you know how that al
WAYS ends-in the ruin of both the eX-
perimenter and the Que experimental
with The other daughter disappeared
mysteriously and has not been heard OF.
There was young woman picked out OF
the East River and put in the morgue,
~ hnp hy1t 1
not say SIS it possible?'' you cry out.
eyes, it is possible" The family is a
complete 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 obliquity and unfaithfulness.
The old folks heaped up a mountain OF
| wrong influences, and this is only what
| my text calls ''The sounding of the
| mountains. +"
| Indeed our entire behavior in this
world will have resound. While Oppor-
| tunities fly in straight line and just
| touch us once and are gone never to re-
| turn, the wrongs we practice upon others
| fly in a circle, and they come back to the
place from which they started. Dr.
Guillotine thought it smart to introduce
| the instrument of death named after
| him, but did not like it so well when his
own head was chopped off with the
| guillotine.
So also the Judgment Day will be an
Echo of all other DAYS. The universe
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 APP
pointed such day all the nations would
cry out, ooh, God, give us Judgment
" Inf rot tn nh nf RI
speak about it as 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 it's voices;
its trumpets will only sound back again
to us what we now say and do. This is
the meaning of all that Scripture which
says that Christ will on that day address
the soul, Il was naked and We clothed
me; l was sick and in prison and We
visited me-
On that day all the charities. all the
self-sacrifices, all the philanthropies, all
the benefcent last wills and testaments,
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 '"The sounding of the
mountains
Suppose the boss of factory or the
head of a commercial firm some day
comes out among his clerks or en-
ployes, and putting his thumbs in the
armholes OF his vest says, with an air of
swagger and jocosity: swell, l don't
believe in the Bible or the church. The
one is an imposition and the other is full
of hypocrites. / declare would not trust
one of those very pious people further
hon ~ l..
says, but he has said enough, The young
men go back to their counters or their
shuttles and say within themselves,
''Well, he is successful man and has
probably studied up the whole subject
and is probably right
That one lying ntterance against Ri.
bles and churches has put five yonng
men on the wrong track, and though the
influential man had spoken only in half
jest, the echo shall come back to hirn in
tive ruined lifetimeS and five DESTROYED
eternities. You see the Echoes are an
octave lower than he anticipated. On
the other hand, Some rainy day, when
there are hardly any customers, the
CHRISTIAN merchant comes out from his
co@nting room and stands among the
young men who have nothing to do, and
says, well, boys. this is a dull dav. but
1t VIII clear Off after awhile. There are
good many ups and downs in business.
but there is all overriding Providence
Years ago | made up my mind to
trusa God and He has ALWAYS seen rae
through l remember when was vot,r
age, had just come to town and the
temptations of city life gathered around
me, bat / resisted. The fact is there
were two old folks Out on the old farm
praying for me and knew it, and some-
how could not do as some of the clerks
dld or go where some of the clerks went