Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-28


not know how much good he was doing.
but the Echo will come back In five life Z
times Of virtue and usefulness and five 4
Christian deathbeis and five heavens.
From all the mountains OF rapture and all /
the mountains Of glory and all the noun !
tains OF eternity. he will catch what Eze- /
kiel in my text styles The sounding again I
OF the mountains"
TINES DotSGs EcHoED ~ ETERNITY.
Yea, take n step further In this subject /
and say that our own eternity will be
reverberation Of our own earthly lifetime. |
What we are here we will be there, only /
on u larger scale. Dissolution will tear |
down the body and embank it. but our
faculties Of mind and soul will 20 right on I
without the heSitancy OF moment and /
without any change except enlargement |
and intensiiication. There will I've no more /
difference than between lion behind the 4
iron bars and u lion escaped into the field, !
between an eagle in a cage and an eagle In /
the sky Cool here, good there; bad here, /
bud there. Time il only IA bedwarfed eter |
nifty. Eternity is only an enlarged time.
In this life our soul is in dry dock. The |
moment we leave this life we are launched |
for our great voyage, and we sail on for |
centuries quintiliion, hut the ship does nos |
change its fundamental structure after it |
gets out Of the dry dock, il does not |
pass from brig to schooner or from schoon- |
er to man-of-war What we are when
launched from this world we will be in !
the world to come Oh. God! by thy con |
verting and sanctifying spirit make us
right here and now that we may be right |
foreyerl
w ell, SAWS some one. this Idea OF
moral. spiritual and eternal Echo is new
to me: Is there not some way OF stopping
thiS Echo!" MY answer Is, God can anu
he only II u ls eneerlul Eeho we 40
not want IL stopped; II baleful Echo we
wouIu nke 10 nave u stopped Inc nara
est thlhg IN TINS worid 10 10 IS 10 stop an
Ecno' MANY ah or'tion mas oeen spoiled
ana many an orator confounded oy an
hcho' CoSely churches' cacheorais' inca
ters anu music mans nave oeeh ruined Dy
an ECHO Archloec1s nave soruhg wires
across a',uieorlutns TO arrest the reno anu
hu"s uP"o'"Ue'y asaiiiS0 Vne W'liS' nOP'H5
W vIu'"p ~ anu huii're''s VI GhousaliuS oi
t'oiiirS nave peeh eNpehueu IN puDnc
Dullulhss OF uniS country 10 keep tne ar
ironl answering wnen IL 1o'snC 70 NC quiet
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''ieu w i"iU uown 'iie i-o"o' ou' SUN
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nIooNiyn i"nerii',cle "'ss peiiis eons.rucO
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proD"piy GAperillehC,N' more Win tne laws
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wa WaS .en' On, U'IIS n,'srsy my law Vi Souhu!
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1elns ~ one "mIr reise Wno uiotousnis uif
ueiHU''ii'iH i" hno Souno'hS "s"'n VI 'ne
mountains. -
stEnNah MoHAL CoHsEVoENCAs.
Anu 10 10 "V i'S'f" w ueSU'oy naUurai
Ischo' "a no" iiucn narucr 70 sVop Lnotai
Eciio, " Sp'ri'uai Hclo' "n ihiihorCai Ecno'
iou NM" Oi"U 'ie i1'not'e arg AiieSCe" w
the surfaces and the shape OF rocks, and
the depth of ravines, and the relative posi-
ton 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, chanting Echoes. All the
songs we ever sang devoutly, all the pray
ers 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 80 loud, because they are