The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-01-21

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now that we may be right foreveri
"Well," says some one, this idea OF moral,
spiritual and eternal Echo Is new TO me- IL
there not some way OF stopping this Echoy'
My answer Is 'God can and He only" IL
Is a cheerful Echo we do not want IL stopped;
II baleful Echo we would like TO have IL
| stopped. The hardest thing in the world TO
do Is TO stop an Echo. Many an oraticn has
been spoiled and many an orator confounded
by an Echo Costly churches, cathedrais,
theatres and music halls have been ruined by
| an Echo. Architects have strung wires
across auditoriums to arrest the Echo. and
hung upholstery against the walls hoping 10
| entrap It. and hundreds OF thousands Of
dollars have been expended in puolic build
ings OF this country 10 keep the air from
answering when IL ought TO be quiet
Aristotle and Pythagoras ana Isaac New
ton and La Place and our own Joseph Henry
tried to hunt down the Echo. but still the
unexplored realms OF acoustics are larger
than the explored. When our first Brook.
| lyn Tabernacle was being constructed. we
were told by architects that Il was OF such a
shape that the human voice could not be
heard in II, or, II heard, IL would be tangled
into Echoes
In state OF worriment went 10 Joseph
Henry, the president Of Smithsonian Insti-
tuition at Washington, and told him OF this
evil prophecy, and he replied III have probo-
bly, experimented NOR, with the laws OF
| sound than any other man, and have got as
far as this Two buildings may seem to be
exactly alike and yet in one the acoustics
WITH With W your pVn eharch puds OsnSr sG tFs Pa 9 o
| will be we'll" Oh. this mighty law OF sound
oh, this subtle Echo There is only one be-
ing in the universe that thoroughly under
stands it-"fhe sounding again OF the
| mountains"
- And II 1t isso hard 10 destroy natural
Echo, how much harder to stop n moral
Echo, spiritual Echo an immortal Echo.
| You know that the Echoes are affected by
tue surfaces, and the shape of rocks, and
| the depth OF ravines, and the relative posi.
ton OF buildingsS Aud once in heaven
God viii so arrange the relative position OF
mansions aud 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 prayers we have ever
uttered earnestly, all the Christian deeds we
have ever done VIII be waiting TO spring
upon us in Echo.
The scientists tell us that in this world tho
roar of artillery and the boom OF the thunder
are 40 loud, because they are a combination
OF Echoes-all the hilsides, and the cnverns
ana the walls furnishing a share of the ro-
sonance. And never will we understand
the full power and music of an Echo until
! with supernatural faculties able To endure
them we hear all the conjoined sounds OF
heavenly Echoes-hnrps and trumpets,
orchestras and oratorios hosannahs and
! halleluiahs east side of heaven answering to
the west side, north side TO sodth side, and
all the heights. aud 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 AMI doiugs. NOltairc stand
ing amid the shadows will listen, and from
| the millions whose godlessneSs and hbertin-
ism and debauchery were n consequence OF
! his brilliant blasphemies will come back a
weeping, wailing, desparing agonizing,
million-voced Echo. Paul wil while
standing in the light, listen. and from all
the circles OF the ransomed, and from all the
many mansions whom he helped TO people
and from all the thrones he helped 20 occu.
| pants, and from all the gates he helped
| throng with arrivals, and from all the tom.
Piles ho helpel I'LL with worshipers there
shall come back 10 him n glorious ever ac-
cumuating transporting and triumphant
Echo.
oh, what will the t,rants and oppressors
of the earth do with the Echoesp Those who
are responsible for the wars of tho world will
| have come back 10 them all the groans the
shrieks, the canuonades, the bursting shells
the crackle OF burning cities and the doe
| Of nations homes -Hohenlinden andrIA...
manca, Wagram and Sedan, Marathon and
| Thermopylm, Bunker Hill and Lexington,
| South Mountains and Gettysburg. Senna-
| acherib listen ! Scmiramis listen Marc
| Antony lstenl ArtaxcreSes listen! Darius
! listen! Julius Caesar listen Alexander and
Napoleon listen! But to tho righteous will
| come back the bliSstul Echoes.
Composers of Gospel hymns and singers
| will listen for the return of Antioch AMI
Bratte Street, Ariel and Dundee Harwel
and Woo Istock. Mount Pisgah and Corona.
tion, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore,
and all the melodies they ever started
| Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley AMI Isaac
| Watts and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury
and Horatius Bonar and Frances Haversal
| listenl
But you know as we'll 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 stanl aud listen for the resound
Of all His sighs aud groans and sacrifices and
! they shall come back In an Echo IN which
mingle the acclaim of n redeemed world, and
the "Jublnts Deo' of full heaven. Echo
sanity, cherublc archangeicl Echo OF
thrones! Echo OF palacesl Echo of tenn.
pies! Omnipotent Echo! Everlasting Ech,'
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