Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-01-21

Inc moment we leave this life 'ty
launched for our great yovaa .e WEI
sail on for centuries quiptilfNes, and
ship does not change its f"a, ouI
structure after it gets out O ot .
dock, it does not pass fro VI tha
schooner or from schooner e -, orl
war. What we are when Iapu w MAJ
this world we will be in the DV ne
come. Oh, God! by Thy convene, mofl
sanctifying spirit make rs , .;I
and now that we may be right t ft
''Well," says some one, ..tb i 'oteVl
moral, spiritual and eternal Fohd lae|
to me. Is there not some wav 10 Is
ping this Echo?" NY answer u
can and He only" If it is . ~
Echo we do not want it stonno Sael
balefnl Echo we would like ~ hp'a'
stopped. The hardest thinc Ia9
world to do is to stop an Echo III
Aristotle and Pythagoras ona
Newton and La Place and our on.
eph Henry tried to hunt down t T"4 ]
but still the uneXplored realms ns Y
tics are larger than the explored u "
our first Brooklyn Tabernacln n.,
constructed, we were told bv er @S
that it was of such a shape thai a
man voice could not be heard in = 'u'I
heard, it would be tangled into y nj
In state of worriment went 70 TlI
Henry, the President of the Sm,tb,
Institute at Washington, and tol t !!
this evil prophecy, and he renho4
have probably experimental mnsa
the laws Of sound than any otbns
and l have got as far as tbiS i
buildings may seem to be eyartlr
and yet in one the acoustics may h
and in the other bad. Go on wih
church building and trust that an
be we'll" And all was well On
mighty law of sound. Oh! this II
Echo! There is only one bein, ~
universe who thoroughly understanl
-''The sounding again of the nj
tains." Y
And if it is SO hard to destroy i
raj Echo, how much harder to "a
moral Echo, a spiritual Echo, an 4
mortal Echo You know that
Echoes are affected by the surfaces
the shape of rocks, and the dentb|
ravines, and the relative posinol
buildings? And once in Heaven
will so arrange the relative position
mansions and temples and thrones
one of the everlasting charms of Hol
will be the rolling, bursting, ascend
decending, chanting Echoes. All
songs we ever sang devoutly. anil
prayers we have ever uttered earned
all the Christian deeds we have
done will be waiting to spring upon
Echo.
In the future state, whether Of
ture or ruin, we will listen for reverb
tions of earthly things and doings.
taire standing amid the shadows will
ten, and from the millions whose
lessness and libertinism and debapcI
were a consequence Of his brill
blasphemies will come back weed
waiting. despairing. agonizing, mill
voiced Echo. Paul will, while stand
in the light, listen, and from all the|
Giles of the ransomed. and from all
many mansions whom he helped to
pie, and from all the thrones he bel
to occupants, and from all the Il
he helped tbrong with arrivals,
from all the temples he helped fill
worshipers there will come back to
a glorious, ever accommodating, trI
porting and triumphant Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and opp1
ors of the earth do with the Echj
Those who are responsible for the \
Of the world will have come bach
them all the groans, the shrieks
cannonades, the bursting Shells
crackle of burning cities and the CT
of a nations homes-Hohenlinden
Salamanca, Wagram and Sedan, NJ
thon and Thermopyla, Bunker Hill
Lexington, South Mountain and Get
burg Sennacherlb listen! Semiral
listen! Marc Antony listen. Al
xerexes listen! Darius listen. Ju|
Caesar listen! Alexander and NspOl
listen! But to the righteous will q
back the blissful Echoes.
Composers of Gospel Hymns and i
ers will listen for the return OF ANTI
and BrattFe Street, Ariel and Dunn
Harwell and Woodstock, Mount Plsl
and Coronation, Homeward Bound
Shining Shore, and all the melodies 1
ever started. Bishop Heber and Chs|
Wesley and Isaac Watts and IlOl
Hastings and Bradbury and HoFa|
Bonar and Frances Havergal listen
But you know as well as DO I
there are some places where the I'll
seem to meet, ana StaH1
there they rush upon you, they ram Il
you, all at once they capture your
And at the point where all hea'1
reverberatioDs meet Christ Will II
Ind listen for tho resound OF all
signs and groans and sacrlliceS anu
shall come back in an echo ID wi
shall mingle the acclaim OF a reoee1
world, and the "Jubilata Dec Oh
Heaven. Echo sanity, cherd0lc' "
Echo of thrones. Echo"
aces! Echo of temples. Omnl"i
echo! Everlasting echo. Amen