Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-18

his own head WAX ciioplpsl I'll with
the guillotine.
MAKE YOUR RECORD FOR JUDGIEST
DAY.
50. alsp. the Judgment day will be
an Echo of all our other days. The
universe needs such a day for there
are 10 many things in the world that
need tD be lixe1 up and explained II
God had not appointed such a day all
the nations would cry out. "Oh, God.
give us a judgment day" But we are
apt to think Of ii and speak about it
as a day away of in the future.
having no special connection with
this day or any other day. The fact
is that we are now making up its
voices. its tr1lmpets will only sound
back again TO us what we now say
and do.
That is the meaning of all that
Scripture which says that Christ will
on that day address the soul. saying,
II was naked and ye clothed me
was sick and in prison and ye visited
me. b." All the footsteps IN that prison
corridor as the Christian RefOi1ner
walks to the wicket of the incarcerat-
ed, yea all the whispers Of condo
lence in the ear of that poor soul dy
ing in that garTet, yea all the kind
nesses are being caught upand rolled
on until they dash against the judg-
ment throne. and then they will be
struck back into the ears of these
sons and daughters Of mercy.
Louder than the crash Of Mount
Washington falling on its face in the
worldwide catastrophe, and the boil
ing Of the sea over the furnaces of
universal conhagration will DO the
Echo and Re-echo of the good deeds
done and the sympathetic words ut
tered and the mighty benefactions
wrought. On that day all the chari-
ties, all the self sacrifices, all the
philanthropies, all the benificent last
Wills and testaments. all the Chris
tian work of all the ages, will be piled
up into mountains and those VINO
have served God and served the suf-
fe1ing human race will hear what
my text styles THE sounding of the
mountains.
My subject advances to tell you
that eternity itself is only an echo of
time. Mind you. the analogy war
rants my saying this The Echo is
not always exactly in kind like the
sound originally projected. Lord
Raleigh says that wOman's voice
sounding from grove was returned
an octave higher. A scientist play
ing flute in Fairfax county. Va,
found that all the notes were re-
turned, although some of them came
in raised pitch a trumpet sounded
ten times near Glasgow. Scotland,
and the ten notes were all repeated,
but a third lower. And the spiritual
law corresponds with the natural
world.
What we do of good or bad may
not come back TO US in just the pro
portion we expect it, but come back
it will; it may be from higher glad
ness than we thought or from a
deeper woe, from Il mightier con-
queror or from Il worse captive, from
a higher throne or deeper dungeon.
Our prayer or our blasphemy, our
kindness or our cruelty, our faith or
our unbalief, our holy life or our dis
solute behavior will come back some
how.
Suppose the b0ss of factory or
the head of a commercial firm some
day comes out among his clerks or
employees and putting his thumbs in
the armholes of his vest says, with
an air of swagger and jocosity;
''Well, don't believe in the Bible or
the church. The one il an imposition
and the other il full of hypOcrites. /
declare would not trust one of those
very pious people farther than | could
see him" That is all he says, but he
has said enough. The young men go
back 10 their counters or their shut
ties and say within themselves,
"Well, he is successful man and
has probably studied up the whole
subject and il probably right.
ECHO OF LYING UTTERANUEs
That one lying utterance against
Bibles and churches has put five
young mon on the wrong track, and
though the influential man had
spoken only in half jest the Echo
shall come back to him in five ruined
lifetimes and five destroyed eterni-
ties. You sec the Echoes are an oc-
tave lower than he anticipated. On
the other hand, some rainy day,
when there are hardly any custom
ers, the Christian merchant comes
out from his counting room and
stands among the young mon who
have nothing to do and says;
We'll, boys, this Is dali day, but
il will clear off after awhile There
are good many ups and downs in
business, but there il an Overi1lling
Providence, Years ago | made up
my mind to trust (od and he has al.
ways soen me through, remember
whom | was your ago had just come
to town and the telnptaaOns of city
life gathered around me, but | re-
sisted The fact X there We're two
old folks out ON the oll farm praying
for me-, and | knew t. and somehow
could not do rs some Of tho clerks
did or go whore some " tho clerks
went, tell you boys, il is hest al
ways to do right and ,here is moth
ing 10 keep one right like the old
fashioned religion Of Jesus Christ
John, where did you 90 20 church
last Sundayl Henry, how is tho
Young Mems Christian association
urC,;pefin0l"