The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-18

nifty, he VIII eaten Hlat EZeElel IN my text
styles ''the sounding again Of the noun
tains."
Yea, take a step further in this subject,
and say that our own eternity will be a
TeverberatiOn 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 and soul will 60 right on without
the hesitaucy Of a moment and without any
change except enlargement aud intensified
ton. There will be no more difference than
between a lion behind the iron bars and
lion escaped into 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 eter-
nifty. Eternity is only an enlarged time. In
this life our sonl is in dry dock. The
moment we leave this life we are launched
for our great voyage, and we sail
on for centuries quintilian, but the ship
does not change ltssfundamental struct-
ure after 1t gets out Of the dry dock, it
does not pass from brig to schooner, OF from
schooner to man-of-war. What we are
when launched from this world, we will be
in the world 10 come. o. God by thy
converting and sanctifying spirit make us
right here and now, that we may be right
forever
swell, says some one, ''this idea Of moral,
spiritual and eternal Echo is new to me. Is
there not some way Of stopping this Echo"
My answer is: "God can and he only" If
it is a cheerful Echo we do not want it
stopped. TIE hardest thing in this world is
to stop an Echo. Many sn Grafton has
been spoiled and many an orator COMPOUNDED
by an Echo. Costly churches, cathed-
rails, theaters and music halls have been
ruined by an Echo. Architects have
strung wires across auditoriums TO
arrest the Echo and hung uphol-
stery against the walls, hoping to entrsp it,
and hundred OF thousands Of dollars have
been expended in public buildings Of this
country to keep the air from answering
when it ought 10 be quiet. Aristotle and
Pythagoras and Isaac Newton and Place
and our own Joseph Henry tried to hunt
down the Echo, but still the unexplored
realms Of acoustics are larger than the ex-
plored. When our first brooklyn taber-
nacle was being constructed, we we're told
by architects that IL was of such a shape
that the human voice could not be heard
in it, or, if heard, it would be tangled into
Echoes In a state OF worriment
/ went 20 Joseph Henry, the presi-
dent Of the Smithonian Institution at
Washington, and told him of his evil proph-
coy, aud he replied: IL have probably ex-
perimented more with the laws OF sound
than any other man, and l have got
as far as this; two buildings may seem to
be exactly alike and yet in one the acoustics
may be good aud in the other bad. Go on
with your church building and trust that
all will be well.n And all was well. o,
this mighty law Of sound o. this subtle
echo There is only one being in the uni
verse who thoroughly understands 1.-THE
sounding again OF the mountains"
And If itsis so hard to destroy a natural
Echo, how much harder to destroy moral
Echo. spiritual Echo, an immortal Echo
You know that the Echoes are affected by
the surfaces and the shape OF rocks, and the
depth OF ravines and the relative position Of
buildingsS And, once in heaven, God will
SO arrange the relative position of mansions
and temples and thrones, that one of the
everlasting charms OF heaven will be the
rolling, bursting, ascending, descending,
chanting Echoes. All the songs we ever
sang devouty, all the prayers we have over
uttered earnestly, all the Christian deeds
we have ever done, will be waiting to
spring upon us in Echo. The scientists tell
us that in this world the roar of artil-
lery and the boom of the thunder are 30
loud, because they are q combination of
Echoes-Rll the hillsides, and the caverns
and the walls furnishing a share of the re-
sonance And never viii we understand
the full power and music Of an Echo until
with supernatural faculties, able to endure
them we hear all the conjoined sounds of
heavenly Echoes-harps and trumpets,
orchestras and oratories, hosannahs and
hallelujahs, east side OF heaven answering
to the west side, north side to south side.
and all the Immensities, and all the eter-
tiles joining in Echo upon Echo, Echo in
the wake of Echo. In the future state =,
whether of rapture or ruin we will listen for
reverberation Of earthly things and doings
Voltaire standing amid the shadows
will HGfnu ha
whose godlessness and iberetinism and
debauchery were a consequ ence of his
brilliant blasphemies will come back a
weeping, wailing, despairing, agonizing,
millton-voiced Echo. Paul will, while stand
Ing in the light listen, and from all the
circles OF the ransomed, and from all the
many mansions whom he helped to people,
and from all the thrones he helped to oc-
cupants, and from all the gates he helped
throng with arrivals, and from all the
temples he helped fill with worshipers,
there shall come back to him glorious,
ever~accumulating, transporting and
triumphant Echo O., what will the
tyrants and q oppressors of the earth do
with the Echoes. Those who are RESPONSE
BILE for the wars Of the world will have
come back to them all the groans, the
shrieks. the cannonades. the bursting shells,
the crackle of burning cities, aud the crash
amanca, Wagram and Sedan, Marathon
and Thermopyla, Bunker Hin and Lexing-
ton, South Mountain and Gettysburg Sem
nacherib listen Semiramis listen! Marc
Antony listenl Artaxerxes listen! Darius
listen Julius Caesar listenl Alexander and
Napoleon LISTEN But to the righteous will
come back the blissful Echoes. Composers
OF gospel hymns and singers will listen for
the return of Antioch and Brattle Street,
Ariel and Dundee, Harwell and Woodstock
Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Homeward
Bound and Shining Shore, and all the melo-
dies they ever started, Bishop Heber, and
Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts, and
Thomas Hastings, and Bradbury, and
Horatius Bonar, and Frances Havergal,
listenl
But you know as well as do that there
are some places where the reverberations
seem to meet. and standing there they rush
upon you, they rain upon you, all at once
they capture your ear. And at the point
where all heavenly reverberations meet
Christ will stand, and listen for the resound
of all his signs, and groans and sacrifices,
and they shall come back in an echo in which
shall mingle the acclaim Of a redeemed
world, and the "Jubilate Dec" Of full
heaven. Echo sanity, cherubic, archan-
gelic Echo of thrones Echo of palaces !
Echo of temples! Omnipotent Echo! Ever
lasting Echol AmenI