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y i r .iy II II ".1 o 3. fv- Pi . m n iv' f- -1 1 'A ;y is TV r ' ATTIIKTAHERNACIilS. on, TALMAQC LESSONS FINDS IN THE IMPRESSIVE ECHO. Thr Hrlim nf n Miiml KmiiiU In One Pnnllly mihI mi Kaniiiiilv uf Miirnl In- MltVreuw In AiMttlirr Kturiilly lit Krhn j Ihn Ottilia of Time. Hiiihiki.VN, .Inn, IT. Dr. Tnlnmtfo unveil mw llliitiiiiloii In IiN hitiiioii HiIm morn Iuk of IiN iiwtrry of tluwirt of dniwiiiK spirit mil Ickhihw Blll'IIUIIU'llll Hln from COIIIIIIUII llllttirill t Milijnt wnn "IMiihn" hIhI lilt lxl. Kxi'klr-I It. 7, "Tin- noiinilliiu Miilniirilii'iiiiiiintiiliK'1 At lust I liuvi- foil nil It. Tim Hllili- linn In It n rvcomiltlnil of nil plnumn of the imlnriil world from tin minim of the nildiilulit bcnvrun to tin iilinnnhurvncrmv of the tumlilliiK'K. lint tin' well known hoiiiiiI I thiit weenlMlie I'.eho I foimil not until n few thiyn uwn I ilhcuvered ll In my text, "Tin. uniliiilliiir iiimIii nf fln iniiiiiitiiliiH O Tlml In t lit Kohu, K.eklel of the lextheanl ' Itimaln ami nunlti, Mom Minolta iiiiiiintiiliin, ami In hln Jour, ncy loillitmit exile, hi1 Imd punntil mnonic mountain, ami It was natural that all throih IiIm wrltliiK- there nIioiiIiI loom up the mountain, Ainonu them hi' hail heniil the wmiiiiI of eataraitH anil of tempeHtH In wrvnlh' with oak ami eiilar, ami the voice of the wild Ih'iixIh, lint n man of mi hm'Iu u nnturv an Kri'ktrl could not allow another omul, vlx.t the Helm, to In' dlnriwirdi'd, Mill mi lie glviN 111 In our text "Thu nound I uk anuln of the nmiintalim.'1 (ini'k mythology h-preNi-nt nl the Echo m n nymph, the ilannhter of Karth ami Air. following NuicIhuh throiiKh forentii ninl Into kiiIIniiiiiI every whither, ami no traiiKeanil welnl anil utartlhiK U the Kvho 1 1I0 not womler that the tieriltlotis linvi Ilfleil ll Into the Niipernatiiral. You ninl I In Imyhooil or Klrlhnotl experimented with HiIk rcHpoiwIvenenM of hoiiiiiI, Stand Iuk half way Ihtwii'ii the limine ami liarn, we Khoiited many n lime to hear the tvver bmtloiiH, or out amuiin the inoiuitaliiH bnokof ouriiome, oiiHotne Ioiik tramp, we MoniMil and miule exclamation with full luuifM Junt to hear what Kxeklel calln "The aouudiiiKHKalu nf the tiinuutaltiN.'' The Kcho ha frlMhleiieil many a child Mud nmny a innii. It In no tame tlihiK after jrou hnve nMikeii to hear the Hiime wordn reiK-aleil liy the luvWlhle. All the nlleiitcn rr fllltil with vnliTN ready to aunwer. Yet It would not lie ho ntarlllnu If they Mid Hoinethlim ele. hut why do thine lip of the air nay Jiit what you nayr Do they mrau to mock or mean toplm-? Who are you and where are you, thou woudroun Rohof BometlnieM It renpoune In a reltera tlou. The nliot of a mum, thecliinilnjof the linudn, the Iniillnu of a drum, the voice of a violin are comet linen iviieated many tlnioH hy the hcuo Near l.'ohlentx-lliat which Innald han i ...4l.u... L'..l.,uu, 1.. Itl.t .. . ..!,. . seventeen r.cniK'n. in nw, a writer nayn tbat uiMir Milan, Italy, there were wventy Wioli rellectlonn of Hound toone nuap of a plntol. I'lay a hiiKle near a lake of Klllar aey ami the tune N playiil Iwiek to you a dlntlnctly an when you played ll, There U well two hundred and ten feet deep nt Cnrlnhrooke cant I e, lu the Inleof Wluht. Droj a pin Into that well ami the noiiud f Itn fall tiinien to the top of the well (tktlnctly, A hlant of an Alpine horn oniiieNlwck from the rocknnt .liuiufraii In HMrKDHftr MiiKeof relieved hoiiiiiI, until It HremnKM If every inak had llftinl and Mown nn Alpine horn Hut have you noticed and thin In the rwmoH for the prenent illHcoumr-tliat thin Kcho lu the natural world han Its analogy In the moral and rellKloun world f Have 1 you noticed the Iremendoun fact that what we nay noil do eonien hack In nsiilleil Klail BfHM or dlnanlerr Alwut thin rvnuuauce I prencli thlnnermoti. KAHHKACIIINO MIIIIAI. KSAMI'I.K8, ' Klmt lHrutil leaching ami example have their Kcho In the character of do ceiMlantH. Kxceptloun)1 Oh, yen. So lu the natural world there may he no Kcho, or M illntorted Kcho, hy reason of peculiar proximltleM, nut the Keneral rule In that the character of the children In the ICcho ' of the charncterof parents. Theueneral i rule In that uooil pnreiitn have uoinl chl dreii and ImiI pari'iitn have IniiI children. if the old. man In a crank, hln nou In apt to be a crunk and the Knuidcfilld a crank. Th Kmlency In no inlnhty In that dine tlou that It will p't worne and wome un lnn nome hero or heroine In t hat line shall tine ami nay "Here) Hy the liclpof (iod, I will ntani) thin no louner. AKnlunt thin ftrmUtMry tendency to tiueeriienn I pro tt." And he or nhe will net tilt nil altar mhiI n maKiiltlivnt life that will n-veme t hlims, and there will lie no more cranks muoiiKihnl kiuditsl, In nuotliei lamily Hie father and mother are consecrated Miiile. Whal they do In rhiht. What they teach Is rluhl. The toyn tuny for Home time Ik wild and the Miihtem worldly, Imt watch! Yearn pans ' , irrhapn leu yearn, twenty yearn, and yen go hack to Hie church when-the fa tner and mother usil lo he consistent iilviuhem. 1 You have lieanl nothing admit the fain 'lly for twenty yearn, ami at I he door of the Hihiirvh you nee the sexton ami you ask ftlm, "Wherein old Mr. WelMerr" "Oh. ihv hnn ln"eii dend ninny years)' "When Is MM Welmterr" "Oil, nhe dltsl llfteeu yearn agol" "I nupiHise their son .loe went to thedogsr" "Oh, no.'" nayn the nextou, "he in up there lu the elders' seat. He is one of our la-nt and most Important mem lien. You ought to hear htm pruy and nlng. He In not .loe any longer: he In Kldcr Welwler." "Well. heroin thi'dailghtei', Maryr I suppiw she is the sJune thought lenn Imtterlly she usisl to her" "Oh, no," nays iheneMoii, "she Isthe lin-slilent of our niissloimry -octet y ami ttiedii'et:iivKsn tin orphan n turn, mid when she gin-ndowu thesini-t all the nigamiillliis take hold of Jierdress and cry. 'Auntie, when are you going to lrlng un some nunc Imokn and hIkk's mid thiiignr' And when, In times ul revival, llieiv Is some hanl cae luick H n church 'W that no one else can touch, nhe goes when he is, ami tu one minute nhe linn lilni H-cryhiK. and the tlrst .Ihtug we know nhe in fetching the hunt eneil iiihii up to the front lo Ik- prayed for, MMlnnyn, 'Here in a hnither who wnutn to Hh4 the way into the kingdom of (iod.' And if nobody neemn ready lo pniy.nhe hwwiln Aowh lu the aisle liesldu him ami Mfa,'0 Iconic with Mtat lion ami n power M m triumpb that nee in lusuntly te mmtilpntr the hunleneil ulnner. Ob, no! jfm( HtHnt Hot cull her a thoughtless but terfly in or preneiicr. You nee we would , Mt atMul It," The fact In that the non and MMbtcr C tknt family did not promine 'JMHW t the "nUrt, but they are now mh Mi gtoriWN Kcho, a proloiiged tick A MwiBfl teaching ami example. 1 "' ' J .THK'MOTHKH't KKQUMT. 4 Twium HMHher, mm her boy wnn about a lite oh tHe sea. nniili "f-U- I have Hever neru the ocean, Imt I I the great trmutatloii Inninnig FnNHtnr' ih itmi will never touch Many yenfn after that, telllntf of IhU - a to atari ': m. 1 1 mmmmumim VHBBe ' I- ff. immN' to inotlu'r, ninl Imvu twit uround tlu world, ninl nt ('nlciitlM, tin- HirU nl Hie .MiilltciTiiiu'HM, Hun h'riiiKiluii, Um tiMlund IIiim-mikI niirlli ninl wmili hiih, mid iii'mthjiwiikIi"0"' lliinor In nil linen' )iir Hull my iiiihIiit'n form did nut ut iNtir lirforv nits mill I ito nut know liovr iliiimrliMi'e. I iit'Vi-i have liotnl It mid 'H Ini-iiim of Hit' iniinU' I iiuulc to my llitilhi'r.' Thin wiinlht' rtult ol tlmt cnimirnulhxi nl tliu K'"' of I In- Vt-riiintil farmliniimi, Tlii Htiitmiry of ThorwuliNfii wit win fnnii Italy to (lermmiy, mnl tin xtriivv In which the hIiUIIcm Intil turn pucked Will thrown npuii the wound, 'I'lif iw.xt uprliiK lMjiullffil lliillmi llnti'i.rM uiiriiML 1111 iilu.n l,U nlt-im- IhhI Ih-.hi i-hmI. fur III ll I1111I Ixvii nillllt' Of till" W'llNllf Itllllllll IhlWITM, mnl, whether (-(hm'Ioiih of It or not, wt'iiiv nil Hie time planting lor niirw-lvi-n anil (limit Iiik for nl hero iiiNfM or llioriw, Von tlioiiKlit It only Hlntw, yet iiiiiouk It were itiiemoncM. lint here Is a Mllnnhod Ikiiiiu. Tin imiviiIm iiiv ii Kixllrnn pulr. They let their clilldrvu ilii no they plenmi. No e.xmiiple lit to follow No h-iwonn of nionillty or M'lliilllll MiimiIiiv tin lu'lli'f tliiui mil' nllinr ilay, The lllhle no lietter than any other hook, The hoiiKii a wirt of Inn wheru tin.' older and jonner people of the hotixuhold atop for awhile. The theory acted on, though (mtIiiiiii not minoiini'ed, Ii; "The thlhlreii will have to do a I did and take their ulmnt-es. Life Is a lottery anyhow, and Home draw prize and hoiiiu draw lilankN, and we will triixt to luck." Skin twenty yearn mid uoine hack to the ueluhliorhooil where that family lined to live. Von meet on the nt reel or on the road an old liihaliltaut of that neluhlior IiimhI, and you nay, "Can you tell me any IhliiKahout I he IVlemoiiK whoilHeil to live heivf" "Yen," nay the old Itihahllaiit: "I remeinlier them very wull, The father and mother have I teen dead for yearn," "Well, how alHiut thu iihlhlreur NVIiat Iihh Utiime of thenif" The old liihaliltaut it'iilieMi "They turiuil out hadly. You know the old man wan alioiit half an In lldel and the I toy were all IuIIiIvIm. The olilcMt nou uiarrliHl, hut Kot lutodrlukliiK huhltn, mid In a few yearn hln wife wan nut ahlelo live with him any loiiKeranil hln children wen' taken hy relative, and lir iliixl of ilellrliim treiueiin on HlackweHM Inland, Hln other nou forced thu name of hln employer mid lied to Canada. "One of the daiiKhtcntof the old folkn 11 1 aril 11 1 an luehrlate with the Idea of re formluK hltu, and you know how that alwaynendn-lu the mill of hoth the ex iH'rliueiiterand tlieoiieexHrlinentiil with. I'he other daiiKhler dlnapieared mynterl Dimly and han not Ineii lieanl of, There wnn a youiiK woman picked out of the Mint river ami put In thu inorituu. ami nome thoiiuht It wan her, hut I cannot nay " "In It piwnlliler" you cry out. "Yen.lt In inwnllile. I he family In a complete wreck '" .My heanm, that In Junt what iiiIkIiI have U-eii expecttil All thin In only the Kcho, the dlmual Kelio. the awful Kcho. the dreadful Kcho of parental ohllipilty and ...,r..li l.ft.l... IM... ..1,1 All... I I iiufalthfiiluenn The old folkn heaped mm mountain of wroiiK lulliieiicen, anil this is only what my tuxt calln "Tim hoiiiiiIIiik if the moutilnliiH." Imleiil our entire In-huvlnr lu this world will have a renouud, While oppur lunltlen lly In a nlrahjht Hue mid Jiil touch us once and aiVKoiie never to return, thewroiiKHwe practice upon othem lly lu a circle, and they come hack to the place from which they nturtcd Doctor tiulllo tine thoiiuht U nmarl tnlutroiluce the lu Htrumeut of death named after him, lint did not like It no well when his own head wnn chopped olf with the Kulllotliie. THK ll.W UK ALU PAYS. Ho also the .luilgment Day will lie an Kcho of all our other dayn. Thu universe uissln Mich h day, for then are ho many thltiKslii the world that need to he llxisl up and explained. If (Soil had not mi polntiil mich a day all the nations would cry out, "Oh, Cod, give in ii.luilKinunt Day" Hut we are apt to think of It mid HHak nlioul ll as a day away olT In the fu tu re. havliiK no nH-clal connection with thin day or any ot her day. The fact In t hat we are now inakltiK up Itn voices; Its truiiin'tn will only noiiihI luick aualu to un what we iiowhu) and do. That Is theuieatiliiKofall that Scripture which nays that Christ wl.l on thai day Killings tliewail.Haylnij, "I wan uakisl and ye clot lied met I wan Hick ami in prison and ye visited inc.' All the foouteps In that prison corridor as the Christian n'former walks m the wicket of the incarceratisl, yea all the whiieraof condolence lu the ear of thai tMMirnoul dying in that garret, yen all the klmlneKHi's an Mug caught up ami rolled on until they i lash against the Judgment Throne and then they will U' struck hack Into the earn of these sons and daughters of mercy. louderthanthecrashof Mount Washington falling on Itn face lu the world wide catastrophe, and the iNilliugnf the si-n oyer the furnaces of universal ion Hagraliou will In the Kelio ami Itc echo of the gomt dissln done and the nympnthetic wonls uiienil and the mighty Urne faction wrought. On that day all the charities, all the self Hacrltlcen, all the philanthropies, all the hviicllcent last wllln mid testaments, nil the Christian work of all the ages, will lie piled up Into mountains, ami llioe who have nervisl tiisl and servisl thesiilTerlng liiiman race will hear what my text styles "'the sounding of the mountain,'' My subject advances to tell you that eternity Itself In only nil echo of time. Mind you, the analogy warrants my Haying tills The echo in not always exactly In kind like the sound originally projected I .on I Italelgh says that a woman's voice sounding from a grove wan n'tiirued an octave higher. A scientist playing. Hutc in Fairfax county, Va.. found that .ill the miles were returned, although nome of them cjyiiiJu raised pitch, A trt!iiietvouiiilel leu times near Gins gow, J,')?uUtiilvani the ten notes wen' all nifiild. nllt a third lower And the .plrltl'al iHyrcorrespomls with the natural world. What we do of good or bad may not come back to lis In just the propoitiou we expect it, but conic back It will; It may Is- from a higher gladness than we thought or from a deeper woe, from a mightier couipieror or from a worse captive, from a higher throne or deeper dungeon. Our pniyerorour hlaspheiny. our kindness oi our cruelty, our faith or our unlsllef. our holy life or our dissolute liehuvior, will come back somehow. Suppose the I miss of a factory or the head of a commercial linn nome day come out among" blHclcrkn or employees, mid putting hln thunilw In the arinholes of his vent nayn, with an air of swagger nnd jocosity "Well, I don't Mleve lu the Hihle or Un church. The one in an imposition nnd the other In full of hypocrites. I declare I would not trust one of those very pious pen pie further than I could nee him ' That Is II he nayn, Imt he han niIiI enough. The young men k lKk to their couuiernoi thelr Hhultlen nnd sn within theuisclM' "Well, he In a successful man and Ii mmhnhly ntudieil up the whole midfeet 'ii. I probnhly right.' That one lying uiteraiice against Itlliiw awl churches han put live vimiiiuiihii ii the wroug track, ami though the hull CAPITAL CITY COURIER, rcho shall i nine back In lilm lu live ruined 'Ifillmis mid live uislroyiil eleruitlcw. ton nee I he Kclimvi me un octave lower tiiati lie until lviiiil, On the other hand, nome rnlnyihij when tlietvuru Imnlly iuiyeim toinem, the t'lirlstlaii merchant comes out from hi counting room and stands among the young men who have nothing to do, mid naym "Well, Imyn, thin in a dull day, but ll will clear olT after awhile. There arc a good iiimiy up nnd down lu bum liens, but there I mi overruling I'niv linn c. "Yeam ago I miule up my mlml to tnii-i Gml and he han always seen me through I rememlier when I wnn your age, I hud Jml come to town and the temptallniisi f city life gathered aioiiud me, but I lesited The fact I theie weie tuoold folks out on the old farm pra lug for me mid I l.ueiv ll, mid somehow I roiilil not duns souii'tif the clerks did or go when noine of the clerkn went. I tell ,ou, Isiys, It s Imv al ways to do right, ami there Is not Mug to keep one right like the old fashioned re llglou of .testis Chl 1st. .tolin, when illil you go to cliurch last Sunday r Henry, hoiv In the Young Men's Christian unsocial Ion prospering?" AIniiiI noon the rain ceases ami thesiiu conies out ami the clerkn go to their nlacen, and they nay within tlieniselven: "Well, lie I a successful merchant and I guess he known what he is talking uliout, ami Hie Christian religion must be a good tiling, God known I want some help in this battle wit Ii temptation ami sin." Tim successful merchant who uttered the klmt wonls till not know how much good he was dolnji;, hut the Kcho will tome hack In live llfo tltiicn of virtue ami usefulness and live Christian deathbeds ami II vu heaveua. From all the mountain of rupture and all the mountains of glory mid all the moun tains of eternity, he will catch what Ke klcl lu my text styles "Thu Hounding again of the mountains." TIMK'H PIIIMIH KCIIOKII IN KTI'.IINITV. Yea, I taken step further lu this subject and nay that our own eternity will lie u ruvurlH-ratlon of our own earthly lifetime. What we an- here we will be there, only on a larger scale. Dissolution will tear down the Insly and embank It, hut our faculties of mlml ami soul, will go right on without the henltaucy or a moment ami without any change except enlargement ami Intenslllciitlou, There will Is- no more d I ITcrencc than between a Hon behind the Iron bam and a linn escaped Into the Held, between an eagle lu a cage and an eaglu tu the sky Hood here, good there: had here. InuI there. Time in only a hcihvnrred eter nlty. Ktcrulty Is only mi enlarged lime. In thin life our soul Is In dry dock. The moment we leave thb llfu we an- launched for our gival voyage, and wo nail on for centuries ipiliitilllou, but the ship dm- not change Itn fumtaineiital structure after it getn out of the dry dock, It does not pass fnmi brig to schooner or from sclioon er to iiiiiii of war What we are w hen launched from this world wc will In- lu the world to come Oh, (iod I hy thy ton veiling mm sauciiiyiug spirit make us right hum and now that we may be right foivverl "Well," says nome one, "thin Idea nl moral, spiritual and eternal Kcho Is new tome. Is thero not some way of stopping this Kchor" .My answer I, "(iod can ami he only," If It Is 11 cheerful Kcho we do not want It stopped; If a baleful Kehowe would like to have It stopped. The liar. I est thing In this world in do In to stop mi Kcho. Many un oration has Iktii spoiled and many an orator confounded by an Kcho. Costly churches, cathedrals, then tern and music halls have Is-en nil mil by an Kcho. Archil eels have strung wire across auditoriums to arrest the Kcho. and hung upholstery against Hie walls. Imping to entrap it, and hnmliiil of thousands of dollars have Ucn expended lu public buildings of thin country to keep the air from answering when It ought to lie unlet Aristotle anil I'ythagorasaud Ikiiiiu New ton and I .a I'laceand our own Joseph Hen ry trki I to hunt down the Kcho, but stilt tlie unexplored n-alms of acoustics me larger than Hieexplonsl. When our Hist Uronklyu Tals'inacle wan Mug construct ed. we were told by architects that It ws of such a shape that the human voice could not Is- heard lu It, or. If lieanl it would ln jaugled'ilito Kchoen, In state of worrimeut I went to ,loepli Henry, the president of tin Smlthotit.;ti Institution at Washington, and told him nl this evil prophecy, and he replied- "I haw probably exH-rlmenled more with the lau of sound than any other man, ami I h.ive got an far an this, Two buildings ma. wein to U' exactly alike anil )cl in one ihe acoustics may lie ginsl ami lu Ihe o;..ti bud. Go 011 with your church hiiililiu.i and trust that all will I ie well." Ami all was ell, Oh, tills mighty law of sound' Oh, Ibis subtle Kcho! There in only in. being In the universe who thuroiighly uu dei-Ktanils It "The sounding again of the mountains." ' KTKItSAI. MIIIIAI. CONSKyllKNCKS. And If it Is no haul to destroy a iiaturi'.l Kcho. how much harder to stop a moral Kcho, u spiritual Kcho, an Immortal Kcho. You know that the KcIiih-h are affected by the surfaces, anil the shape of nicks, ami the depth of ravines, and the relative 1 tlou of buildings Ami once lu heaven Godwin ho arrange t lie relative kisIHoii of uuiusloiinuuil templeaaud tljraiien that one or the everlasting charms of heaven will Ik- the rolling, bursting, ascending, descending, chanting KcIkh-s. All the song we ever wing devout ly, all thu pnty ernte have ever uttered earnestly, all the Christian deeds we have ever done will be waiting to spi ing upon us in Kcho. The scientists tell us that in thin world the roar of artillery and the boom of the thunder are ho loud, liecuuse they are a combination of KcIhm-s all the hillsides, and the caverns and the walls furiilshlngu share of thu resonance. And never will we understand the full power and music of an Kcho until with HUHiruatui-al faculties able to endure them we hear all the con Joined sounds of heavenly Kelmes harp and trumpets, orchestras and oratorios, hominuliH and hallelujahs, ent side of heaven answering to the west side, north side to smith side, and all the height, and all the depth, and nil the immensities, and all the eternities Joining lu Kcho upou Kcho, Kcho in the wake of Kcho, III. the future slate, whether of nipt lire or ruin, we will ll-teii for ivverU'ratlons of earthly things mid doings. Vollalie standing amid tlieshadow will listen, and from the millions whose goillessuens and liUrHntstu and deUtuuhery were a conse queiiee of hln brilliant blasphemies will come hack a weeping, wailing, despairing, ngnnMug, million-voiced Kcho. Paul will, wlille sUintiug In the light, llMen, ami from ul" il - licles of the rwiomcd, and from a I u.' many mansion whom he hell d In m-ople, and fro u nil the llii'iine lie ,el, gates ,, from .1 w 1 , gl'll l. .is mid tut. 10 oi'ciiiuni-, ninl minimi iu ., J ihiinu v. .' arrivals n . , ie 1,1.11, ilrn ' ' ' qixl fill u '1 . 'NUlll "" t.K'k tf ll.nl 1: li.cllil.iil '', trai'-pii.-, ..1 ml l ll" t ill hV '.. "' i.i aUil iiiiprv do lilt 1 J i- " ! Oh 1 I l4 I ni- I Win V,i SATURDAY, JANUARY bursting shells, ihe truckle of burning cities mid thecnish of n natlon'n honien llolienllmleii nnd Salanuiuca, Wagrmumid Sedan, .Marathon mid Thermopyhi', Hun ker Hill ami l.exliigtuii, South .Mountain and Gettysburg. Sennacherib listen) Se iiilraml listen! Mure Antony listen! Attn xerexes listen! D.irlus listen .liilhti Cii'Mir llsleul Alexaiiilerand NiimiIiiiii lis tin! Hut to the righteous will come hack the blissful KcliiH-. t'oniMisem of Gospel Hymns ami singer will listen for thu return of Antloiih and Untitle St net, Ariel ami Dundee, Harwell and Woodstock, Mount I'Wguh ami Corona tlou. Homeward Mound mid Shining Shore, and all the melodies they ever stinted, Hlshop llelier mid t'hnrlen Wesley ami Isaac Wut In mid Thimius Hastings mid llrnilliury ami lloratlu llonar and Kram-es llavergnl llletil Hut you know nn well an I do that t lien are some places where the reverlienilluiis neem to meet, ami standing there they rush upon you, they rain upon you, nil at nine they capture your eur. And at the point where all heavenly reverlicratlous meet Christ will stand and listen for the re sound of nil hi sighs mid groans and sac rifice ami they shall come buck In mi echo In which shall mingle thu acclaim of a iv deemed world, and the '.lubllatu Deo" of a full heaven. Kcho saintly, cherubic, archangellc! KeJio of thrones! Kcho of palaces! Kcho of temple!- Omnipotent echo! Kverlastlug echol Amenl Women nil Miiiium-r or HiikIik-ks. I have always remembered how admira bly u llnstou mcrcluitit of thu lust genera tion discoursed in public on the propriety of explnlnlng business alTalrn to women; but when thin was mentioned yearn after to one of his daughters, shu said, "I only wish he had applied It In hln own family.1' A rich heiress, thu daughter of an eminent llnanclcr, told me that she was herself ul Holntely Ignorant ofall money matters; after her father's death her brothers had man aged her allalrs; then "of course" her bus build; hut nhe herself kuuw absolutely nothing. It reminded me of another heir ess I had known, who wan twlcu married. The first husband lint twothlnls of hur proH'rty, the second inailu away witli the rest of It anil she supported herself mid her child for the rest of her life there being nothing left to tempt a thlnl fortune, hun ter by giving public readings. Ono of the minor achievements of uu em inent (luancler under arrest In New York In stated to Ik- that of 'sweeping tu among his vast losses the whole property (tlt.dOO) (if llVfl tllflt,. IV'llll llllll lluuliril.ut In 1,1,1. .urn tain stocks or cei llllcate to In.' transfcrrcil , fcr their benellt. l'erhaps It would hit un just lo call him a swindler, lu thin case, or to call those other men fortune hunters; I they may Imvu expected better results; but I certainly Hie absolute tgunnince, absolute folly of many coiilldlug women present a I comimieii temptation whicli sometime dc j moralles the very elect. T. W. Hlgglnson l.m II ihiii.hIu II. .....u iii wiiimi n iiif.iir l.lrorlre. ! Heavy as I the sale of llcorlco in almost every part of the glolie, very little of the root from which it i obtained in grown ou ; any system. Visitors to thu Holy bind have nil seen the licorice plant growing wild, generally near a lake or river, but ( I cannot call to mind a single-Instance in which I have (ecu it grown under any management at all. A good deal of money in, however, made by digging It up, and 1 travelers frequently secure some of the root from curiosity. It In vury Juicy and soft and takes a long time to dry. When I dried It I shipped to various ports and I quite a quantity in used and prepared. The black licorice sticks so much nought after hy children and also used medic 1 tnally are prepared by mixing a little J starch tostlflcn them, or a llttlo gelatine, when a pliable substance is desired. Ab- I Holntely pure licorice, without starch or gelatine. In very hard to handle, an it wil run at a very low temperature, and ever, when wrapped lu hay leaven, nit in thu In viirlabliicustoui.lt will not stand a long Journey. Interview lu St. Louis Gloln Democrat. Heals of King. The ancient Greeks wore engnivcd gemn In rings of silver, gold and bronzo as early as (Mm H. C. Hy the Homaiis they were adopted an seals, though at llrst their use an such wan ivntrlcted to the vmperom, who assumed the right of giving like ht mission to others. Thu Kpcn followed thin custom in adopting "The Fisherman's King" an Intaglio of a llsh cut In enrne llan a a symhol of authority transmitted from one pope to another. Kmhussiidor. of kingdoms wore gold seal rings an a part of their olllclal regalia, junt an bishops, of thi' Unman and the Anglican church do today. Subsequently senators, chief magistrates and military nflicials acquired the right, which was In time extended to the army ami citizens. Headers of eastern tales will remember what sjwer the seal of Solo mon had to inclose an evil spirit In a hot tie or to accomplish other marvel. A seal ring transmitted from one monarch tc 1 another ha commonly In-eu respected lu 1 the iiml an an emblem of authority. .lew elers' eekly. The Cheeky llimk Agent. An Kast end lady had an interesting ex pcrieiice with a woman who goes fron. iioiiHC to house selling IhmiUs; In othei wonls a liook agent. The peildlcr had in sinuated herself into the parlor, mid in spite of all, yet in a ladylike way, had told of the virtue of the good she had for sale. Hut the mistress of the house wan not in a buying mood Finally the agent gave il up anil her victim huguu to breathe easier The breath wan a nhortoiie, however. The peddler, changing her tone of voice ton less professional pitch, asked, "Would you have any objection to my eating my lunch here before I go out?" Without awaiting a reply she pulled a small paper wraniH-d niu-kairi' from sonii, itii-Mti.t-fiuit. , pocket, and the Kut end lady had nothing 10110 0111 accepi me summon ami allow her parlor to be used for a lunchroom. 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