The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-01-22

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rants my saying this, The Echo is
not always exactly in kind like the
sound originally projected, Lord
Raleigh says that a woman's voice
sounding from a 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 them came
in raised pitch, A trumpet sounded
ten times near Glasgow, Scotland,
and the ten notes were all repeated,
but a 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 it, but come back
it will; it may be from Il higher glad
ness than we thought on from a
deeper woe, from a mightier con-
queror or from a worse captive, from
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 Il 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:
We'll, ! 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 farther than lcould
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 a successful man and
has probably studied up the whole
subject and is probably right"
ECHO OF LYING UTTERANCEs.
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 in 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
ers, 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 a dull day, but
it will clear off after awhile. There
are good many ups and downs in
business, but there is an overriding
Providence. Years ago | made up
my mind to trust God and he has al
ways seen me through. remember
when was your age had just come
to town and the temptations of city
| life gathered around me, but | re-
sisted. The fact is there were two
old folks out on the old farm praying
for me, and | knew it, and somehow
| could not do as some of the clerks
did or go where some of the clerks
went. tell you, boys, it is best al
ways to do right, and there is moth
ing to keep one right like the old
fashioned religion of Jesus Christ.
John, where did you go to church
last Sunday Henry, how is the
Young Mems Christian association
prospering?"
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
full merchant, and guess he knows
what he is talking about, and the
Christian religion must be Il good
thing. God knows | want some help
in this battle with temptation and
sin"
The successful merchant who ut
tered the kind words did not know
how much good he was doing, but
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times of virtue and usefulness and
five Christian deathbeds 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. " a.
Yea, take a step further in this
subject and say that our own eternity
will be reverberation 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 go right or
without the hesitancy of a moment
and without any change except en-
largement and intensification. There
will be no more difference than be
tween a lion behind the iron bars anG
lion escaped into the field, between
an eagle in the cage and an eagle il
the sky Good here, good there; BAG
here, bad there. Time is only a be
dwarfed eternity. Eternity is only
an enlarged pusa. In this life oul
soul is in dry dock.
The moment we leave this life W.
are launched for our great voyage
and we sail on for centuries quintil
lion, but the ship does not change it
fundamental structure after it get
out of the dry dock; it does not pas
from brig to schooner or from
schooner to man ofwar. What W,
are when launched from this worlt
we will be in the world to come. Oh
God by thy converting and sancti
flying spirit make us right here ant
now, that we may be right foreverl
"Well, says some one, this ide;
of moral, spiritual and eternal Ech'
is new to me. Is there not some wa.
of stopping this Echo?" My answe
is, God can, and he only" If it i
cheerful Echo we do not want i
stopped; if a baleful Echo we woul,
like to have it stopped. The hardes
thing in this world to do is to stol