Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-23

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counting room and stands among the
young men, who have nothing to do,
and says: swell, boys, this is duh
day. but it will clear off after awhile.
There are good many ups and downs
in business, but there is an overruling
Providence. Years ago made up my
mind to trust God and he has always
seen me through. 1 remember when I
was your age, had just come to town
and the temptation of city life gathered
around me, but l resisted. The fact is
there were two old folks out on the old
farm praying for me, and / knew 1t,
and somehow l could not do as some Of
the clerks did or go where
some of the clerks went l tell you,
boys, 1t is best always to do right, and
there is nothing 10 keep one right
like the old fashioned religion of Jesus
Christ
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 life times OF
virtue and usefulness, and five Christ
ian death beds and five heavens. From
all the mountains of rapture and all
the mountains of glory and all the
mountains Of eternity, he will catch
what Ezekiel in my text STYLES ''the
sounding again OF the mountains"
Yea, ! take step further in this sub
ject, and say that our own eternity
will be reverberation of our own
earthly lifetime. What we are here
we will be there only on larger scale.
Dissolution will tear down the body
and embank it, but our faculties of
mind and soul will go right on without
the hesitancy of a moment and without
any change except enlargement and
intensifcation. Good here, good there;
bad here, bad there. Time is only n
bedwarfcd eternity. Eternity is only
an enlarged time.
"Well," says some one, 'this idea or
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; if baleful echo, we would
like to have it stopped. The hardest
thing in this world to do is to stop an
echo. Many an grafton has been
spoiled and many an orator confound-
ed by an echo. Costly churches, ca
thedrals, theaters and music halls have
been ruined by an echo. Architects
have strung wires across auditoriums
to arrest the echo and hung upholstery
against the walls, hoping to entrap it,
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been expended in public build
ings Of this country to keep the air
from answering when it ought to be
quiet.
And if it is so hard to destroy Q nat
ural echo how much harder to stop
moral echo, a spiritual echo, an inn
mortal 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 buildings?
And, once in Heaven, God will so mr.
range the relative position of mansions
and temples and thrones that one OF
the everlasting charms of Heaven will
be the rolling, bursting, ascending, de-
scending, chanting echoes.
The scientists tell us that in this
world the roar of artillery and the
boom of the thunder are so loud, be-
cause they are combination of echoes
all the hillsides and the caverns and
the walls furnishing share of the
resonance. And never will we under
stand the full power and music of an
echo until with supernatural facilities.
able to endure them we hear all the
conjoined sounds of heavenly echoes
harps and trumpets, orchestras and
oratorios, hosaunans and hallelujahs,
east side of Heaven answering to the
west side, north side to south side, and
all the heights, and all the depths, and
all the immensities, and all the eter-
mites joined in echo upon echo, echo in
wake of echo. In the future state,
whether of rapture or ruin, we will
listen for reverberations of earthly
things and doings
Voltaire. standing amid the
shadows, will listen and from the
millions whose godlessness and liber-
tin SIN aud debauchery were conse-
quence of his brilliant blasphemies,
will come back weeping, wailing. de-
spairing. agonizing, million voiced
echo Paul will, while standing in the
light, listen and from all the circle of
the ransomed and from all the many
mansions which he helped to people,
and from all thethrones he helped to oc-
cupants and from all the gates he
helped throng with arrivals, and from
all the temples he helped to I'LL with
worshipers there shall come back to
him q glorious, ever accommodating,
transporting and triumphant echo. o,
what will the tyrants and oppressors
of the earth do with the echoes Those
who are responsible for the wars of the
world will have come back to them all
the groans, the shrieks, the cannonades,