The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-03

with your church building aud trust that all
will be WELL" Oh, this mighty law OF soundl
Oh, this, subtle Echol There is only one be-
ing in the universe that thoroughly under
stands 1.-THE sounding again OF the
mountains"
And if it is SO hard to destroy natural
Echo, how much harder to stop a 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 posi-
ton of buildings? 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 VIII be
the rolling. bursting, ascending, decending.
chanting Echoes. All the songs we ever
sang deVoutly, all the prayers we have ever
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 artillery and the boom OF the thunder
are so loud, because they are combination
of Echoes-all the hillsides, and the caverns
and the walls furnishing g share of the re-
sonance. 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 conjoined sounds Of
heavenly Echoes-harps and trumpets,
orchestras and oratorios, hosannahs and
halleluiahs, east side Of heaven answering to
the west side, north side to south side, and
ali the heights, and all the depths, and all
the immensities, and all the eternities join
ing in Echo upon Echo, Echo In the
wake of Echo.
In the future state, whether OF rapture or
ruin, we will listen for reverberations OF
earthly things and doings. VoItaire stand
ing amid the shadows will listen, and from
Hhartin--
ism and debauchery were consequence OF
his brilliant blasphemies will come back
weeping, wailing, desparing, agonizing,
million.Voiced Echo. Paul will, while
standing 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 occu.
pants, and from all the gates he helped
throng with arrivals, and from all the tenn
Piles he helped fill with worshipers Snere
Shall come back to him glorious, ever &C
cumulating, transporting and triumphant
Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and oppressors
of the earth do with the Echoesf Those who
ara responsible for the wars Of the world will
have come back TO them all the groans, the
shrieks, the canuonades, the bursting shells
the crackle Of burning cities and the death
of nations homes-Hohen and Sala.
manca, Wagram and sedan, Maratnon anu
Thermopylae, Bunker Hill and Lexington,
South Mountains and Gettysburg. Senna-
acherib listen Semiramis listen Marc
Antony listenl Artaxerexes listen! Darius
listenI Julius Cesar listen! Alexander and
Napoleon listenl 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. Harwen
and woodstock, Mount Pisgah and Corona
tion, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore,
and all the melodies they ever started.
Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley and Isaac
Watts and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury
and Horatius Bonar and Frances HaVergai
listenl
But you know as well as I do that there
ara some places where the reverberations
seam to meet, and standing there they rusn
upon you, they rain upon you, all az once
thew capture your ear. And at tne pony
where ali heavenly reverberations mees
Christ will stand and listen for the resouna
of au His sigbs and groans and sacr1nces anu
they shall come back in an Echo IN Wnlea
imingle the acclaim Of q redeemed worio, ano
tho sJubilate Deo" of full heaven; Ecne
sanity, cherubic archangelic! Echo OF
,thronesl Echo Of palaces! Echo OF tem,
pIesl Omnipotent Echo! Everlasting Echo'
Amenl