THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON, Subjeot: “Echoes.” TEXT: “The sounding again of the mount. ains.” —KEgokiel vil. 7. At last I have it. The a recognition of all phrases of the natural world from the aurora of the midnight heavens to the phosphorescence of the tum- bling sea. But the well known sound that we call the Echo I found not until a few days ago I discoverad it in my text, sounding again of the mountains n the Echo. Ezekiel of the text again and again Born among mountains, and in his jour. ney to distant exile, he had passad among mountains, and it was natural that all through his writings there shoul {loom up the mountains. Among them he had heard the sound of cataracts and of tempests in wrestle with oak and cedar, and the voices of wild beast, but a man of so poetica na ture as Ezekiel could not allow another sound, viz, the Echo, to be disregar led, and so he gives us in our text “The soun 1 ing again of the mountains : Greek mythology represented tha Echo as a nymph, the daughter of Earth and Air, following Narcissus through forests and into grottoes and every whither, an 1 so strange and weird and startling is the Echo I do not wonder that the superstitious have lifted it jnto the supernatural. You and I in boy- hood or girlhood experimented with this re sponsiveness of sound. Standing half way between the house and barn, we shouted many times to hear the reverberations, or out among the mountains back of our ho on some long tramp, we stopped and ma exclamation with full lungs just to hear what Ezekiel calls “The sounding again of the mountains.” The Echo has frightened many a child and many a man. It is no tame thing after you have spoken to hear the same rds repeated by the invisible. All the silences are filled with voices ready to answer. Yet it would not be so startling if said something else, but why de of the air say J what you say? ean mean to please? iH are you, thou wondrous its response is a rel gun, the clapping of the hands, the beating of a drum. the voice of a violin are some- times repeated many times b \ ear tz—that een Echoes Bible has hat i» heard it Ww to moc and w Soma fs said writer were sever 2 Coblen Ww has pover In 17 ays that near Milan, Italy, ther reflections of sound to Play a bugle near pey and the tune is play distinctly as when vou play ell two hundred and ten such n vist NSO’, ¥ Its Lali ox wd-and thi t ais that orld has its an moral and religious world? Have ) the tremendous fact that what do comes back in recoiled gladness aster? About this resonance sermon, First — Parental ching have ants. Except natural world distorted Echo, by reason of § fmities, but the ge ] is that the ch acter of the children is the E 3 r acter of the parents, The general rule is that good parents have g wi children and bad parents have bad chi If the oid man is a crank, his son is apt to bea crank and the grandchild a crank. The tendency js so mighty in that direction that it will get worse and worse unless some hero or heroine in that line shall rise and say: “Here! By the help of God, 1 will this no longer Against this hereditary tendency to queer- ness I protest.” nd | e will set up an altar and a mag e that will revers things, and thers more cranks mong that kindred in another family the father and mother are consecrated poopl they right, What they teach isright. The may for « wild and the ter worldly, but watch! Years pass haps ten years, twenty years back to the church where t mother used to be consistent You have heard nothing about the family for twenty years, and at the door of church you see the sexton and you ask him, “Where is old Mr. Webster?” *‘Oh, he has been deal many years™ “Where Mrs Webster” “Ob, she died fifteen years ago “1 suppose their son Joe went to the dogs “Oh, no,” says the sexton, “he is up there in the elders’ seat. He is one of our best and most important members. You ought to hear him pray and sing He is not Joe any longer, he is Elder Webster.” “Wall whero is the daughter Mary? I suppose she is the same thoughtless butterfly used be? “Oh, no,” SAVE sex tot *she is the president of our missionary society and the directress in the orphan asylum, and when she goss down the street all the ragamuffins take hold of her dress and cry, ‘Auntie, when are you going to bring us some more books and shoes and things?” And when, in times of revival, there is some hard case back in a church ew that no one else can touch, she goes where E is. and in one minute she has him s-crying, and the first thing we know she is fetching the hardened man up to the front to be prayed for, and says, ‘Here isa brother who wants to find the way into the kingdom of God! And if nobody seems ready to pray, she kneels wn in the aisle beside him and ) Lord? with apathos and a power and a triumph that seem instantly to emancipate the hardened sinner. Oh, mn you must not call ber a tho aghtless butte: fly in our presence You see we would not stand it.” The fact is that the son and daughter of that family did not promise much at the start, but they are now an Echo, a glorious Echo, a prolonged Echo of parental teaching and exampie. A Vermont mother, as her boy was about tostart for a life on the sea, said: “Ed ward. | have never seen the ocean, but I un- derstand the great temptation is strong drink, Promiss me you will never touch it.” Many years after that, telling of this in a meeting, Edward said: “I gave that promise to mother, and have been around the world, and at Calcutta, the ports of the Mediterranean, San Francisco, Cape of Good Hope and north and south poles, and never saw a glass of liquor in all those ears that my mother’s form did not appear wiore me, and 1 do not know how liquor tastes. | never have tasted it and all be cause of the promise I made to my mother.” This was the result of that conversation at the gate of the Vermont farmhouse, The statuary of Thorwaldsen was sent from Italy to Germany, and the straw in which the statues had upon the ground. The next sprin ful Italian flowers sprang up where straw had been cast, for in it had been some of the seeds of Italian flowers, and, whether ire in the natural 14 dis i or I preach th and example racter of descend Bo in the y Echo, or a CU ar pr Xx Ar. dren pie. V hat members, is she the Says, beauti- fn it} ‘The | packed was thrown | and say you say. “Can you tell me anvthin the Petersons who used to live here? “Yeu” says the old inhabitant; “I remember them very well. The father and mother have boen dead for years” “Well, how about the children® What has become of them?’ The old inhabitant replies: “They turned out badly. You know the old man was | about half an infidel and the boys were all infidels. The oldest son married, but got into drinking habits, and in a few years his wife was not able to live with him any long- | er, and his children were taken by relatives, { and he died of delirium tremens on Binck- | well's Island, His other son forged the name | of his employer and fled to Canada, “Ope of the daughters of the old folks | married an inebriate with the idea of reform ing him, and you know how that always ends —in the ruin of both the experimenter and the one experimented with The other laughter disappeared mysteriously and has not been hoard of. There was a young woman picked out of the East River and put in the morgue, and some thought it was her, but I cannot say.” “ls it possible?’ you ery out “Yes it is possible, The family is a complete wreck,” My hearers, that Just what might have been expected. All this is only the Echo, the dismal Fcho, the awful Echo, the dreadful Echo of parental obliquity and unfaithfulness, The old folks heaped « mountain of wrong influences, and this is t calls “The sounding of 1% up only what my tex the mountains Indeed our entire behavior will have a resound, While fly in a straight line and just and are never to return, we practice upon others fly ina cir they come back to the place rom they started Doctor Guillotine thought it smart to introducs the instrument of death named after him, but did not like it well when his own head was chopped « guillotine the Judgment Day will be an Ecl sther days, The univ nes y, for there are tom things I d that need to be fixed and ex If God had not appointed such pations would cry out rive us a Judge Day But wa to think of it and wut it away off in the future, having n with to day or in this world opportunitie touch us the wrongs sie, and wh.ca ones gous ny up no sp nny that [hat is the 1 which says th pas the will “1 was nake «1 me: 1 was sick and in prisot i me the I tsteps in that pris y charities, ¢ philanthrog Is and testzmmen work of all the ages, © mountains, and thos wl and served the sufferin hear what my text sty f the mountains.’ ivan y an echo of © es to riginally pro wat a woman's y a grove was returned an octave cientist playing a flute in Fairfax Cs and that all t otes were retur: ugh { thom in a raised pitch A trum times near Glas gow, Scotian i, and the ten notes were repeated, but a third lower jtual law corresponds with worl What we yok « y us 1} just SOTTID pet sounded ten 1t come back it will r gladness than we woe, from a mig ry or thes h firm lay comes on employes, aad pi { his vost Ler and Joos ty ve in the Bible or the one is an imposition and the full of hypocrites. I declare I wou trust ons of those very plous people further than I coul *" That is all he says but he has said enough, The young men go back to their countara or their shuttles and my within themselves, “Well, he ita su esxful man and has probably studied up the t and is pro mbly right utterance agains inl Ome rs of rmames { soo him whole subj t Bibles on the man Jy in half jest, the echo shal m in five ruined life and five destroyed eternities, Y Echoes are an octave lower than be pated. On the other han {, some rainy day when hardly any customers, the Christian merchant comes out from his minting room and stands among the young men who have nothing to do and says “Well, boys, this is a dall day. but it will clear off after awhile There are a good many ups and downs in business, but there is an overruling Providence “Years ago | made up my mind to trust God and He has always sean me through I remember when [ was yo had just y and the temptations of city sround me, but 1 resisted ro were two old folks rm praying for me and I ko and somehow I could not do as som clerks did or go where some of the [ tell you. boys, it is best always to Ja right, an { there is nothing to keep one right like the old fashione { religion of Jesus Christ. John, where did you go to church last Sunday? Henry, how is the Young Men's Cristian association prospering? About noon the rain coases and the sun comes out and the clerks go to their places, and they say within themselves “Well, he | is a successful | knows what he is talking about, and the Christian religion must be good thing. God knows | want some help in this battle with temptation and sin.” The successful merchant who uttered the kind words did | not know how much good he was doing, but there are rage, 1 aut on vw it of th clerias went, the soho wiil come back In five lifetimes of | | virtue and usefulness, and five Christian deathbeds and five heavens. From ali the mountains of rapture and all the mountains of glory and all the mountains of eternity, he will catch what Ezekiel in my text styles | “The sounding again of the mountains.” | Yen, I take a step further in this subject that our own eternity will be a re. prt | yerberation of our own earthly lifetime. | Ll What we aro here we will be there, only on a larger seale, Dissolution will tear down the body and embank it, but our ncultios of merchant and I guess he | come, Oh, God! by Tay converting and sanctify ing spirit make us right here and now that we may be right forever! “Well,” says some one, “this idea of moral, spiritual and eternal Echo is new to me. Is ii not some way of stopping this Echo? My answer is “God ean oy He only,” Ifit is a cheerful Echo we do not want it stopped ; if n baleful Boho we would like to have it stopped, The hardest thing in the world to do is to stop an Echo, Many an oration has been spoiled and many nn orator confounded by an Echo, Costly churches, cathedrals, theatres and music halls have been ruined by an Echo Architects have strung wires noross auditoriums to arrest the Echo, and hung upholstery against the walls, hoping to entrap it, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended in public build. ings of tiis country to keep the air from | answering when it ought to be quiet, Aristotle aud Pythagoras and lsanc New- | ton and La Place and our own Joseph Henry tried to hunt down the Eeoho, but still the unexplored realms of acoustics are larger | than the explorel, When our first Brook- | lyn Tabernacle was wonstructed, we were told by architects that it was of such a | shape that the human voice could not be | hoard in it, or, it heard, it would be jangled into Keho In state sriment | Henry, the president of Bmithsonian Insti tution at Washington, and told this | evil prophecy. and he repiiad “1 have proba- bly experimented mos with the laws of sound than any other man, and I have got as far as this, Two buildings sw to bo exactly alike and ye! in one the may be good and in the other bad with vour church building and trust that all will be well.” Ob, this mighty law of sound! Oh, this subtle E There | universe that th “The sounding being « went to Joseph him of mav se only one De roughly under. of the ing in the it tain yd AL AL stands nEain natural moral isso bard $0 dest a n rial KE by affected by and y relative post in hea An imine in wks, lopth of ravines, and building vi will so arra wnsions and t hrones that f heaven will ar of artillery and the t sd be 7 wu ull the hii what will the do wi Ot of the earth are responsible fo have come back Ks, the oar rackle of {a nat it jsath whenlinden and Sala : Marmthon and ] fil nT 1. rg 3 Ww LH or 1] rn | Fs 8 Mo ; : th 5 u Antony listen Julius ¢ n slay do that there reverberations t you kno oil ax | ree places where the som to meet. and standing there they rush upon you, they rain upon you, all at once they capture your oat And at the point where all heavenly reverberations meet Christ will stand and listen for the ros ind of all His sighs and groans and sacrific « and thoy shall come back in an Echo in the acclaim of a redeamed w ibtlate Deo” of a full beay YW ASW , cherubs, vs ug oh 4 . : | } ¥ in es! Omnipotent Ee on! The Drojky. Ti ir meant to hold tw ence was that it held one and a bit and an sight some gallant officer ftly encirclin 18 One-Norse JK y ) Pe sons amusing common K de 1 Onde in the way ony can first.rate, waist of his {air companion ul “His arm gets ‘and of disposing of.” Ihe n able to CONVveyances, "1 gs the exp MDS, L means that he think rses Aare small 1 size, Lut a great deal of hard work, and keep their good looks Nearly all of them are bred in Russia. The driver, is sometimes a mere boy, wears a dark-blue dressing-gown kind of cont, 8 curiously-shaped hat, and high- topped boots, and makes quite a pictur. esque object. His dress seems to be a very hot one for summer, but the aver- age driver is too poor to buy co sler cloth- ing. It is astonishing to see what an amount of heat Russians seem cupable of bearing. Even on the hot days of August a great many of the officers would | wear their thick military cloaks. There are no hxed fares {or the drojky. Every time you hire one a long course of | bargaining ensues between you and the | driver, until at length the latter consents | to take about half what he first asked, Twelve cents will take you a long way, {and on one occasion 1 got a drive for | four oonts. in the absence of an agreed fare the driver charges what he likes, A in spite of it. and are whn stallions, Protection From Rifle Bullets. 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