The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-01-22

Smithsonian institution at Washing
ton, and told him of this evil proph-
ecy, and he replied' II have proba-
bly, experimental more with the laws
of sound than any o,lIer man, and
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
church building and trust that all
will be Well" And all was we'll
Oh, this mighty law of soundl Oh,
this subtle Echol There is only one
Being in the universe who thorough
ly understands it THE sounding
again of the mountains,
AWFUL NATURE OF THE IMMORTAL,
And it is SO hard to destroy a nat
ural Echo, how much harder to stop
moral Echo, spiritual Echo, an
immortal Echo, You know that the
Echoes are effected by the surfaces,
and the shape of rocks, and the depth
of ravines, and the relative position
of buildingsl And once in heaven,
God will so arrange the relative po-
sition of mansions and temples and
thrones q at one of the everlasting
charms of heaven viii be the roll
ing, bursting, ascending, 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 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, be-
cause they are combination of
Echoes-all the hillsides, and the
taverns, and the walls furnishing a
share of the resonance. And never
will we understand the full power
and music of an Echo until with ST.
pernatural faculties, able to endure
them, we hear all the conjoined
sounds of heavenly Echoes -harps
and trumpets, orchestras and ora
torios, hosannahs and hallelujahs,
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 immensities, and
all the eternities joining in Echo upon
Echo, Echo in the wake of Echo.
In the future state whether of rap
ture or ruin, we will listen for rever-
berations of earthly things and do
ings. Voltaire, standing amid the
shadows, will listen, and from the
millions whose godlessness and lib
ertinism and debauchery were a con-
sequence of his brilliant blasphemies
will come back weeping, wailing,
despairing, agonizing, million voiced
Echo. Paul will, while standing in
the light, listen, and from all the cir
cles of the ransomed, 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 to throng with
arrivals, and from all the temples he
helped fill with worshipers, there
shall come back to him a glorious,
ever accommodating, transporting and
triumphant Echo.
Oh what will the tyrants and OPP
pressors of the earth do with the
Echoes2 Those who are responsible
for the wars of the world will have
come back to them all the groans,
the shrieks, the cannonades, the
bursting shells, the crackle of burn
ing cities and the crash of a nations
homes; Hohenlinden and Salamanca,
Wagram and Sedan, Marathon and
Thermopyla, Bunker Hill and Lex
ington, South Mountain and Gettys-
burg. Sennacherib, listen! Semira-
mis-, listen Mare Antony, listen
Artaxerxes, listen! Darius, listen
Julius Caesar, listen! Alexander and
Napoleon listenl But to the right
eous 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 Harwel and Woodstock,
Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Home
ward 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 Bo-
mar and Frances Havergal, listenl
But you know as well as | do that
there are some places where the
reverberations 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 reverberations
meet Christ will stand and listen fol
the resouni of all his signs and
groans and sacrifices, and they shall
come back in an Echo in which shall
mingle the acclaim of a redeemed
world, and the "JuSilate Dec" Of q
full heaven. Echo sanity, cherubic
archangelic! Echo of thronesl Echo
of palaces! Echo of templesl ON
nipotent Echo! Everlasting Echo
Amen!
An Acceptable Present at Any Time.
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