The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-01-28
the Young Mems Christian Association
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places, and they say within themselves:
"Well, he Is a successful merchant and
l guess he knows what he is talking
| about, and the Christian religion must
be good thing. God knows L want
some help III this battle with tempta-
| tlon and sln." 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 lifctimcs Of
virtue and usefulness and five Christian
deathbeds aud five heavens. From all
the mountains Of rapture and all the
mountains Of glory and all the mouu-
tains ofetcrnity, he will catch what E3e-
klal IN my text styles, "rhe sounding
again of the mountains"
Yea, l take 4 step further in this sub
ect and say that our own eternity vii!
be reverberatlon Of our own earthly
lifetime. What we are here we VII be
there, only on larger scale. Dssolu-
ton will tear down the body and en-
bank it, but our faculties OF mind and
soui will 90 right on without the hesi-
fancy OF mOmen! and without any
change except enlargement and in cnsl-
ication. There will be no more differ
enCe than between a lion behlad th.. iron
bars and lion escaped into the iiolA,
between all eagle ~ cage and IN naglc
in the sky. Good here, good there; bad
herc, bad there. Timc is only . be-
dwaried eternity. Eternity is only n Oh
larged tioic.
lu this life oug soul is n dry .,urk
| The moment we leave this life We a,1
launched Tor cur crcat voyage, and " 9
sal on for centuries Quirtiliiun, ban. the
ship does not ChNAge rs iundJ a,uIIt3l
structure alter il -.eis out Of tn dry
do:k, it does no. pass from BIZ t.,
| schooner or irUm Schooner TO II ,u-Ci-
war. What We are when launched roml
this world we will be in the NCc!d -
come. Oh, God! by thy convertn-; ard
sanctiiying spirit make us right he; : aod
now that we may be right forever!
"Wcl," says some one. this i ca of
moral, spiritual aul eternal Echo i new
to me. Is there rot some way of stop
! ping This EChs:" Ny answer is God
can and he only" If it is q cheerful
EcEo we do not want il stoppe,i; Il a
bal, full Echo VIC would Ike to have i;
stopped. The hardest thing in thi;
world TO do Is to stop an Echo. Many
an Grafton has been spoiled and rnamy an
orator conioundcd By all Echo. Costly
churches, cathcdrals, theatCrs and mus.
Ic nails have been ruined by an Echo.
Architects have strung wires across aud.
ltorlums to arrest the Echo, and huuu
upholstery againS, the walls, hoping 10
entrap 1T, and hundreds Of thousands O
dollars have been expended in ,.ubli,
buildings OF this country to keep the air
from ans %ering when it ought 90 b,
quiet.
| And If it is 50 hard to destroy a natur,
al Echo, how much harder 10 stop {
moral Echo, a spiritual Echo, an immor.
tal Echo. You know that the EchoeS
are affected by the surfaces, and the
shape OF rocks, and the depth Of rayincs:
and the relative position of buildings.
And once in heaven God will so arrange
the relative position Of mansions auG
temples and thrones that one Of the over.
lasting charms Of heaven will be the
rolling, bursting, ascending, descending,
chanting Echoes. All the songs we
ever sang devoutly, all the prayers we
have ever uttered earnestly, ali the
| Christian deeds we have ever done will
be waiting to spring upou us in Echo.
The. scientists tell us that in tn is
world roar of artillery and the boom of
the thunder are SO loud, because they
are a combination Of EchCes-a!l the
hlllSideS, and the CavernS and the walls
| furnishing share of the resonance.
And never will we understand the full
power and music Of an Echo until with
! supernatural faculties able to endure
them we hear all the conioined sounds
OF heavenly Echoes-harps and trum-
pets, orchcstras and oratorioS, hosan
nahs and hallelujahs, east side of neay.
nc rtFNTe
side to south side, and all the heights
and all the depths, and AL the immensi
| ties. and all the cternitics joining in
Echo upon Echo, Echo III the wake OF
Echo.
In the future state, whether Of ran.
Lure or ruin, we viii listen for rev rbtr.
atlonS OF earthly things and du!ngS
| FOltalre standing amid the shadows
Will listen, and 1rOm the millions who's,
godlessness and libertlnism anG de
Oauchery were Consequence of H., Oril.
liant blasphemlcH VIII come hack q
weeping, WailinG, desralrinG, a"rniH,
ing. milllon-VOiccd Echo. Paul Will
whi!e standing III She light, listeg, and
from all the cirC!"S of the rausomed
ana from all the many mar5iOnS Vhom
he helped TO penpre, anh nom III the
thrones be helped to occupants. ana
| AVN t'A viz SIC''b jit l. lObt,
with arrivals, and t.om al the Temple s
he helped fill with wOrshipers there snail
come back to hlm glorioa8, cvrr ac.
cumlatlng, transporting and triu nph.
ant Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and uppreS
sorS of the earth do with the Ec iOrs
Those who are responsible for the wars
or the world will have come b& tx &c
them all the grOanS, the shrieka, tic
cannonades, the bursting shells, The
crackle of burning cities and the crash
of a nations s-IIohenlindcn and
Salamanca. Wagram and Sedan, Mara
thon and ThermopyiM, Bunker Hill
and Lexington, South mountains and
Gettysburg. Scnnacherib listen Sc
miramis listen! Marc Antony listen!
Artaxerexes listen! Darius listen
Julius Cesar listen! Alexander and
Napoleon listen. But to the righteous
will come the blissful Echoes.
Composers of Gospel Hymns and sing
ers will listen for the return Of Antioch
and Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundcc,
HarWell and Woodstock, Mount Pisgah
and Coronation, IlomewaGd Bounh aud
1 Nh NENAs IL