Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-21

on the old farm praying for me, and l
knew it, and somehow could not do as
some of the clerks did or go where
it is best always to do right, and there
is nothing to keep one right like the old
fashioned religion of Jesus Christ. John,
where did you go to church last Sunday?
Henry, how is the Young Mems Chris
tian association prosperlng?" About
noon the rain ceases and the sun comes
out and the clerks go to their places,
and they gay within themselves:
"Well, he is successful merchant,
and guess he knows what he is talk
ing about, and the Christian religion
must be good thing. God
knows / want some help in this
battle with temptation and SIM" The
successful merchant who uttered the
kind words did not know how much
good he was doing, but the Echo will
come back in five lifetimes of virtue
and usefulness, and five Christian death
beds, and five heavens. From all the
mountains of rapture and all the noun
eternity, he will catch what Ezekiel in
my text styles "the sounding again of
the mountains"
And if it is so hard to destroy a nat
ural echo, how much harder to stop a
moral echo, spiritual echo, an immor-
tai echo. You know that the echoes
are affected by the surfaces, and the
shape of rocks, and the depth of
ravines, and the relative position of
buildings? And, once in heaven, God
will so arrange the relative position of
mansions and temples and thrones
that one of the everlasting charms
of heaven will be the rolling,
bursting, ascending, descending, chant
ing echoes. All the songs we ever
sang devoutly, all the prayers we have
ever uttered earnestly, all the Chris
tian 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, because
they are combination of echoes =
all the hillsides, and the caverns
and the walls furnishing share of the
resonance. And never will we under
stand the full power and music of an
Echo until with supernatural faculties,
able to endure them we hear all the
conioined sounds of heavenly Echoes
harps and trumpets, orchestras and or
atorios, 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 join
ing in echo upon echo, echo in the
wake of echo; in the future state,
whether of rapture or ruin, we will
listen for reverberations of earthly
things and doings. Voltaire standing
amid the shadows will listen, and
from the millions whose goddess
ness and libertnism and de-
bauchery were a consequence of his
brilliant blasphemies will come back a
weeping, wailing despairing, agoniz-
ing million-voiced Echo. Paul will,
while standing in The light listen, and
from all the circles of the ransomed,
he helped to people, and from all the
thrones he helped to occupants, and
from all the gates he helped throng
with arrivals, and from all the
temples he helped fill with wor-
shippers, there shall come back to him
glorious ever-accumulating, trans
porting and triumphant Echo. Oh,
what will the tyrants and OPP
pressors of the earth do with the
Echoes. Those who are responsible
for the wars of the world will have
come back to them all the groans,
the shricks, the cannonades, the
bursting shell, the craclxle of
burning cities, and the crash
of nations homes.
But you know as well as l do
that there are some places where the
reverberations seem to meet, and stand
ing there they rush upon you, they
rain upon you, all at once they capture
! your ear. And at the point
where all heavenly reverberations
me.t, Christ will stand and listen
! for the resound of all his signs, and
groans and sacrifices, and they shall
! come back in an echo in which shall
/ rlingle the acclaim of a redeemed world
| and the "Jubilate Dec" of Il full heav-
en-. Echo sanity, cherubic, archan-
/ gelic Echo of thrones! Echo of pal.
aces! Echo of temples! Omnipotent
echo! Everlasting echo! Amen!