Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-18

wrong track, and though the influential
man had spoken only in half jest, the echo
shall come back to him in five ruined life
times, and five destroyed eternities. You
see the echos are an octave lower than he
anticipated.
On the other hand, some rainy day, when
there are hardly any customers, the Christ
tan merchant comes out from his counting
room and stands among the young men, VINO
have nothing to do, and says: well, boys,
this is dull day, but it will clear off after
while. There are good many ups ana
downs in business, but there is an over
ruling Providence. Years ago l made up
my mind to trust God, and he has always
seen me through. remember when
l was your age, nad Just come
20 town and the temptations OF CITY ME ne
gathered around me, but l resisted. The
fact is there were two old folks out on the
old farm praying for me, and l knew 1t, ana
somehow l could not do as some OF the
clerks did or go where some of the clerks
went. / tell you, boys, it is best always to
do right and there is nothing 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: "W ell, he
is a successful merchant, and 1 guess he
knows what he is talking about"
Our Present Life to BE Echoed.
1 take a step further in this subject, and
say that our own eternity will be reverber-
alton of oar own earthly lifetime. What we
are here we will be there, only on q larger
scale. Dissolution will tear down the body
and embank il, but our faculties of mind and
soul will go right on without the hesitancy
of a moment and without any change except
enlargement and intensification.
"Well," says someone, "this idea of moral,
spiritual and eternal echo is new to me. Is
there not some way of stopping this echo?"
NV a ne hn /
it is a cheerful echo, we do not want it
stopped: if a baleful echo we would like to
have if stopped. The hardest thing in this
world to do is to stop an echo.
And if it is so hard 60 destroy a natural
echo, how much harder to stop moral echo,
spiritual echo, an immortal echo. Once in
heaven, God will so arrange the relative
position of mansions and temples and
thrones that one of the everlasting charms
of heaven will he the rolling. bursting, as
ceno1ng, descending, 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 awaiting 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 a share of the
resonance.
Celestial Sounds of the Hereafter.
And never will we understand the full
supernatural faculties, able to endure them
we hear all the conjoined sounds of heaven
ly Echoes-harps and trumpets, orchestras
and oratorios, hosannahs and halIelujahs,
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 I'M
mensities. and all the eternities joining in
Echo upon Echo, Echo in the wake of Echo.
In the future state whether of rapture or
listen tinnS
earthly things and doings.
Nol:aire standing amid the shadows will
listen, aud from the millions whose goddess
ness and libertinism and debaIchery were a
consequence of his brilliant blasphemieS
will come back weeping. wailing, despair.
ing. agonizing, million-voiced Eche.
Paul will, while standing in the light
listen. and from all the circles of the ran
somed, and from all the many mansions
whom he helped to people, and from all the
thrones he helped TO occupants. and from
all the gates he helped throng with arrivals,
and from all the temples he helped fill with
worshipers, there shall come back to him a
Glorious, ever-accumulating transporting
and triumphant Echo.
Noises of Another Kind.
Oh, 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 sh-iells, the cannonades, the bursting
shells, the crackle OF burning cities, and the
crash of a nations homes Composers of
gospel hymns and singers will listen for the
return of Antioch and Brattle Streat Ariel
and Dundee. Harwell and Woodstock, Mount
Pisgsh and Coronation, Homevard Bound
and Shining Shore, and all the melodies they
ever started. Bishop Heber, and Charles
Wesley, and Isaac Watts, and Thomas Hast
ings, and Bradbury, and Horatius Bonar and
Frances Havergal HstenI
But you know as well as / do that there
are some places where the reverbations
seem to meet, and standing there they rush
upon you, they rain upon you, all at once
they capture your ear. And at the point
where all heavenly reverbations meet Christ
will stand, and listen for the resound of all
his sighs and groans, and sacrifices. and
they shall come back in an echo in which
shall minale the acclaim of redeemed
world, and the "Jubilate Deo" of full
Heaven. Echo sanity, cherubic archangelic!
Echo of thrones! Echo of palaces Echo of
temples! Omnipotent echo! Everlasting
echo, Amen!