Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-06

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the Petersons who used to live hare:" eyes
says the old ini.abltant; Il remembaS them
very well. The father AMI mother have
been dead for years" We'll, how about
the children What has become OF then.'
The old inhabitant replies: They turned
out badly. You know the OLD man was
about half an intidel AMI Ire bows were all
intldels. The Oldest son married. but got.
into drinking habits, and III 4 20. years his
wife was no. able TO live with him any long
er, and his children were taken nv relatives,
ani he died Of deliriuu trenlans on Black
weii's Island. Ills other son forged the naLne
q his employer aud aed u Ca.a Ia.
One cf the daughters o. the oil folks
married an inebr.ate with the idea Of reform
ing him. an you know hoy that always
ends-in the run Of both the exp@rfneater
and the enc IporiInenta1 VITA. The other
laughter disappeared mvstariousiy and has
not been heard Of. There was a Young
woman picked ont Of the East River aud put
in the nlorgue, AMI some tho1gdtlt WAS her,
but | cannot say Is it possible, You cry
complete wrecl." Avhearers. that Is Just
what might have been expected. All this is
only the Echo, the dismal Echo, the awful
Echo, the dreadful Echo o. parental obliquity
ana unfaithfulness The old folks heape up
a mountain of wrong inauenccs,s and this is
only wha, my text calls The sounding Of
tie mountains"
Indeed our entire behavior in this world
will have a re5orni. While opportunities
fv in n straight linz and lust to1cn rs onca
and are gone never to return, the wrongs
we practice upon others fly II a circle. AMI
they come back 70 the place from wn en-
they started. Doctor Gujllotine thought it
smart to Introduce the instrument OF death
named after him. but did n1t ike it 50
we'll when his own bead was CHOPPED of
with the guillotine.
So also the judgment Day will be an Ecao
Of all our other days. the universe needs
such q day. for there are to many things III
the world that need to be fixed up AMI ex-
planned. If God had not appointed such a
day all the nations would cry out. tOh,
God. give Us a Judgment Day" But we are
apt to think Of it and speak ABOUT it as a
dav away off i'll the future. having no spe-
cial connection with this day or any other
day. The fact is that We are now making
I'd it's voices. its frnplnets will only sound
back again to US what we now say and do.
That is the meaning Of all that Scripture
which says that Christ will on that dag a i
| dress the soul, saying. Il wasnahe1 AMI Ie
clothed me, l was sict, AMI III prison and Ie
visited me-"
All the footsteps in that prison corridor rs
the Christian reformer walks too the wicket
of the incarcerate1, yea all the whispers Of
coincidence in the ear Of that poor soul dying
in that garrett, yea all the klndnes5es are be-
ing caught up and rolled on until they dash
against the judgment throne and then they
will be struck back into the ears of these
sons and daughters of mercy. Louder than
the crash of Mount Washington falling OIL
its face in the world wide catastrophe, AMI
the boiling Of the sea over the furnaces Of
universal c~Onhagration will be the Echo anl
re-ccho of the good deeds done and the SYM
pathetic words uttered and the mighty bene-
factions wrought.
On that day all the charities, all the self
SACRIFICES, all the philantnropies, all the
beneicent last wills AMI testaIcents, all the
Christian work OF all tho ages, will be piloi
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
My subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself is only an echo Of time. Mind
You, the analogy warrants my saying this.
The echo is not always exactly i'll kind like
the sound originally projected, Lord Ra-
leigh says that . romans voice soundlnG
from a grove was returned an octave higher.
A scientist playing a flute in Fairfax County,
Va, found that all the notes were returned,
although some Of them Ill Il raised pitcn.
A trumpet sounded ten times near Glas-
Cow, Scotland. and the ten notes were all
repeated, but u third lower. And the spir-
itual law corresponds with the natural
world. What we DO OF good or bad may
not come back to Us in just the proportion
we expect it. but come nack it will; it may
be from q higher gladnesS than we thought
OF from a deeper woe, from a mightler con-
queror or from a worse captive, from q
higher throne or deeper dungeon. Our
prayer or our blasphemy, our Kindness or
our cruelty, our faith or our unha!ief, our
holy life or our dissolute behavior, will come
back somehow.
Suppose the toss Of a factory or tia heal
of a commercial firm SON. day comes out
among his CLERKS or employees. ana putting
his thumbs in the arnho!es Of his vest says.
with an air OF swagger and joe costly: well,
| don't believe in the Bible or the church.
The one IS an imposition an the ether IS
full Of hypocrites. i declare |. would not
trust one OF those very pious People further
than | could see him" That is I'll he says.
but he has sal enough. The young nen go
back to their COUNTER or thair ~siluttlas and
say within themselves, wei, he IS sue
cesSfulman and has probably studied uo the
whole subject AMI is probably right
That one lying utteralce against Bibles
and churches has put five young men Oh the
wrong track, and though the Influential man
had spoken only in half jest, the echo shall
come back to him i'll five ruined iifetimes
aud five destroyed eternlties. You see thu
Echoes are an octave lower than he antici-
pated. On the other hand, some rainy lay =,
when there are hardly any customers, the
Christian merchant OH out from his
counting room ana stands among the youn1
men who have nothing = 90, AMI says
"Well, boys, this Is a dali day, but it will
clear Off after awhile. Here are q geo
many ups AMI downs in husin SIS, but there
isan overruiiug Eravi2ance..
Years ago | made no nay mind t. trust
God and H has always seen me through. |
remember when ! vas vonr age, | hal lust
cone to town AMI the temptation of city
life. gathered around M, but | resisted.
The fact Is there were tao oh folks out on
the old farm pTayla- Tor me AMI | knew it,
and somehow | could no. 10 IS some 81 tn
Jerks did o: go whsre sone OF the clerk
Vent. | tell you, boys. It i best always L
r. riyIt. and there Is IfD+N.l~ - t-aaY, on