Milford chronicle., 1892-01-22

lre @e@e sAA1 HsIAAO WI come DhF IN flVn llf
times of virtue and usefulness and fl,
he christian deRthbeds and five heaven
sir From all the mountains Of rapture and a
BE the mOuntaiAs of glory and ali the moul
or tains Of eternity, he will catch what Ez
er kiel in my text styles "The sounding azssi
er Of the mountains"
he TINES DOINGs ECHOED IN ETERNITY.
Id Yea, l take step further in this subjeC
n. and say that our own eternity will be
le reYorberatiOn OF our own earthly lifetime
ye What we are here we will be there, onl
Y on larger scale. Dissolution will tea
W down the body and embank it, but ou
faculties Of mind and soul will 20 right ol
e without the hositancy of moment an,
% without any change except enlargement
e and tntensifcation. There will be no NOR
r difference than between lion behind thi
?. iron bars and lion escaped into the field
p between an eagle in cage and an eagle Ii
i the sky. Good here, good there; bad here
7 bad there. Time is only bedwarfed eter
y nifty. Eternity is only an enlarged time.
I In this life our soul is in dry dock. The
I moment we leave this life we are launched
/ for our great voyage and we sail on for
centuries quintillion, but the ship does not
2 change its fundamental structure after it
, gets out of the dry dock, it does rot
pass from brig to schooner or from schooI-
er to man-Of-war. What we are when
p launched from this world we will be in
the world to come. Oh, Godl by thy con
verting and sanctifying spirit make us
right here and now that we may be right
foreverl
We'll" says some one, this idea Of
moral, spiritual and eternal Echo is new
to me. Is there not some way Of stopping
this EchoW My answer is, God can and
he only" II it is cheerful Echo we do
not want it stopped; if baleful Echo we
would like to have it stopped. The hard
est thing In this world to do Is to stop an
Echo. Many an OratiOn has been spoiled
and many an orator confOunded by an
Echo. Costly churches, cathedrals thea.
/ ters and music halls have been ruined by
! an Echo. Architects have strung wires
across auditOriums to arrest the Echo, ami
| hung upholstery against the walls hoping
] to entrap it, and hundreds of thousands of
! dollars have been expended in public /
buildings Of this country to keep the air
from answering when it ought to be quiet |
Aristotle and Pythagoras and Isaac New /
ton and La Place and our own JoseDh Hen |
~ tried to hunt down the Echo, but still /
the unexplored realms Of acoustics are
larger than the explored. When our first
Brooklyn Tabernacle was being construct
ed, we were told by architects that it was
Of such shape that the human voice
could not be heard in it, or, il heard, it
would be ia lgled into Echoes.
In state Of worriment went to Joseph
Henry, the president of the Smithsonian
institution at Washington, and told him Of
this evil prophecy, and he replied: IT have
probably experimental more with the laws
Of sound than any other man, and / have
got as far as this, Two buildings may
seem to be exactly alike and yet in one the
acoustics may be good and in the other
bad. Go on with your chQrc ding
and trust that all will be well' I'D. ALL
was cell, Oh, this Inigbty law Of sound!
Oh, this Rdbtle Echol There is only one
being in the universe who thoroughly un-
derstands 1.-THE sounding again of the
mountains"
ETERNAL MORAL CONSEQUENCES.
And if it is so hard to destroy natural
Echo, how much harder to stop a moral
Echo, a 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-
tiOn of buildings? And once in heaven (
God will so arrange the relative position
lf mansions and temples and thrones that
lne Of the everlasting charms of heaven !
will be the rolling, bursting, ascending, !
chanting Eehoes All the
longs we ever sang deYoutly, all the pray
rs ne 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 Fl
he roar Of artillery and the boom OF the h
hunder are SO loud, because they are a &
OmbinatiOn Of EchOes-all the hillsides, d
nd the caverns and the walls furnishings IL
hare OF the resonance. And never will we n
the full power and music of IN q
.chQ until with supernatural faculties ia
bic to endure them we hear all the con st
1ined sounds of heavenly Echoes-harps nj
nd trumpets, Orchestras and OratOrios, q
0sanuahs and hallelujahs, east side of b'
eaven answering to the west side, north
de to south side, and all the heights, and th
I the depths and all the immensities A
nd all the eternities joining in Echo upon ~
chO, Echo in the wake OF Epbo, 70
IN the future stAte, whether Of rapture 90
Fnin we will listen for peverherations FU
earthly things and doings Votare tW
anding aml the shadows Will listen, and
ON the millions whose gOdlessness and
leFttnisnl and debauchery were eOnse
Ience Of his brilliant blasphemies will col
me back weeping, wsiling, despairing SO
uuAAlAAEss AAllAAOil-NDlIGu ECLQ kAul WILL
nile standing in tho light, listen, and ms,
'nl ~ tAe circles OF Ehe rtnsomed' and are
am all the many mansions whom lie act
lped to people, and from all the thrones brt
helped to occupants, and from all the de,
tes he helnsd thfpng with arrivals, and Zee
M all the temples he helped ill with fbr
rshipers there shall come back to him a lac
'rious, ever accumulating, transporting sDo
4 triumphant Echo I'b,
lh, what will the tYrHnts and OppressOrs has
the earth do with the Echoes? Those fuu
o are responsible for the wars of the 81
rid will have come back to them all the he
lans the Ehrleks, the canRonades, the
sting SHELF, the Ci;lcklc Of burn;hs
es and the crash Of Ii nations homes n
henlinden and Salamanca, Wagram and her
an, Marathon and Thermopyle, Bun in
Hill and Lexington, South Mountain taol
Gettysburg. Sennacherib listen Sc BELT
amis listenl Marc Antany listen! Arta- bv ,
sxes listen! Darius listen julius forr
iaF listen Alexander and Napoleon lis del
But to the righteous will come back sbol
blissful Echoes. Not
of Gospel Hymns and singers hy {
listen for the retUru Of Antioch and mus
tile Street. Ariel and Dundee, Harwell fng
Woodstock, Mount Pisgah and Corona
, HOmeWard Bound and Shining Shore
all the melodies they ever started, w
W ttset anu ClloIleS wesley anu latel
q : Weyte htl4 tlp'ilas llasIingS ana tbeii
lDur{ anu; alIu tioF'iVius 'ooltr ana RANGES that
3 - go go, ',av So. lutte
some places wherg the reverberations dian gs5
! to meet, and standing there they rush VriiI
] you, they rain upon you, all at once Na,y
capture your ear. And ut the point
re all heavenly reverberations meet m,
st will stand and listen for the re- ~
d Of all his sighs and groans and sac ~ M'
ss and they shall come back in an echo ples'
hich shall mingle the acclaim of a re- Leg'l
ned world, and the "Jubilatc Dec" of Isoos "
anoajicr Fcbo ~ tbr,,,ss, oloi E,oho ~ ment
raj Fcbo ~ temniesJ 0n,ninot.Dt ting
Everlasting echOl Amen