Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-28
All THE TABERNA,
DR.. TALMAGE FINDS IMPRESSIVE
LESSONS IN THE ECHO.

/ FANNY aht M AsAhtpiC VI ~
difference Ia Another Eternity Co Ech.
the Doings of Time.
| BROOKLYN. Jan. l7.-Dr. Talmage gave
new illustration in his sermon this morn
ing of his mastery of the art of drawing
spiritual lessons from common naturl
phenomena. His subject was Echoes.
and his text. Ezekiel vii. Z. 'The sounding
again of the mountains"
At last have fonnd it, The Bible has il
! il II recognition of all phases Of the natura
world from the aurora of the midnight
heavens TO the phoSphoreScence of tn,
| tumbling sea. But the we'll known SOUND
that we call the Echo found not until
few days ago ! discovered it in my text
"rhe sounding again of the mountains. >
That is the Echo Ezekiel OF the text heard
it again and again.
Born among mountains. ami in his jour
ney to distant exile, he had passed among
mountains, and il was natural that all
through his writings there should loom NJ
the mountains. Among them he had heard
the sound Of cataracts and of tenIpests il
wrestle with oak and cedar, and the voices
Of the wild beasts, but man of so poetic q
nature as Ezekiel could not allow another
sound. viz. the Echo, TO he disregarded
and 30 he gives Us in our text "'fhe sound
ing again Of the mountains"
Greek mythology represented the Echo
as "A nynph, the daughter OF Earth and
Air. following NarcisSls through forests
and into grottoes and every whittier, and SC
strange and weird aud startling is the Echo
| do not wonder that the superstitious
have lifted il into the supernatural You
and ! in boyhood or girlh0od experimental
with this responsiveness of sound. Stand
ing half way between the house and barn
we shouted many Il time to hear the rever
berations, or out among the mountains
back of our home, on some long tramp, W,
stopped and made exclamation with full
lungs just to hear what Ezekiel calls 1.-THE
sounding again of the mountains"
The Echo has frightened many child
and many man. II is no tame thing after
you have spoken To hear the same words
repeated by the invisible. All the siences
are filled with voices ready to answer
Yet it wosih not he so startling il they
said something else but why do those lips
of the air say just what you say DO they
mean to mock or mean TO ple;ises Who
are You and where are you, thou wondrous
Echo? Sometimes its response is reitera
ton. The shot OF a gun the clappngoi
the hands, the heating Of a drum the voice
Of a violin are sometimes repeated many
times by the Echo
Near Coblentz that which is said has
seventeen Echors In lim a writer 1lys
that near Milan. ltaiy there were seventy
such reflections OF sound to one siiap of
pistol. Play n bugle near II take OF killar
ney and the tune is played buck to You ~
distinctly ~ when you played IL. There is
well two hundred and ten feet deep AT
CHrlshrooke castle in the Isle OF Wight
Drop pin into that well and the sound
OF its fall comes 10 the top Of the well
distinctly. A blast OF an Alpine horn
conI,@, back from the rocks of Iungfrln IN
surge after surge OF reflected sound, nntl
il seems as If every peak had lifted and
blown an Alpine horn
But have you nOticetf-and this is the
reason for the present discourse that this
Echo in the natural world has It's analogy
in the moral and religious world? Have
YOU noticed the tremendous fact that what
we say and do comes back in recoiled glad
ness OF dis3isterg A bout this resonance |
preach this sermon
FARliEACHlNG MORAL EXAMPLES.
First Parental teaching aud example
have their Echo in the character OF de
scendauts Exceptionss Oh, yes. SO in
the natural world there may be no Echo,
or distorted Echo, by reason Of peculiar
hut the general rule is that
the character of the children is the Echo
OF the character Of parents. The general
rule is that good parents have good chi
Ilren and bad parents have bad children
II the old man is "A crank, his son is apt to
De a critnk and the grandchild crank
The tendency is "a mighty in that direc
lion that it will get worse and worse un.
less some hero OF heroine in that line shalt
rise and say "Herei BY the help of God
will stand this no longer Against this
hereditary tendency to queeinesS pro
lest And he or she will set up AN altar
and magnificent life that will reverse
.hings and there will be no more cranks
among that kindred.
In another family the father and mother
IRE consecratel people. What they do is
right. What they teach is right The
boys may tor some time be wild and the
daughters worldly. but watch Years pass
IN. perhaps ten years. twenty years and
'ou 20 back TO the church where the IA
her and mother used to be consistent
Members
You have heard nothing about the fam |
ly for twenty years and at the door Of the :
hurch you see the sexton and you ask ,
lim Where is old Mr. Wehsters' "Oh. :
le has been dead many years. "Wherp is
Mrs Webster "Oh. She died fifteen
ears ago" Il suppose their sou Joe went
q he dogsi' 'Oh, no." says the sexton. !
he is up there in the elders seat He is |
me of our best and most important mem.
'ers You ought to hear him pray and !
ing He is not Joe any longer. he is Elder =
Webster. . We'll. where is the daughter, /
iaryy suppose she is the same thought
ass butterfly she used to beg' "Oh. nc" /
ays the sexton. "she is the president of our
Missionary society and the directress ia the
rphan asylum. and when she goes down 5
he street all the ragamufiins take hold Of !
er dress and cry. 'Auntie. when are you y
DING TO bring us some more books and n
hoes aud things? And when, in times !,
revival. there is some hard case hack \
D "A church pew that no one else can q
ouch. she goes where be is. and in one .
minute she has him a-crying, and the first h
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