The Echo of Influence

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1865

The Echo of Influence

In certain localities among the mountains, the traveler's voice is echoed back from a hundred sides at once; out of dark gorges, down the long slopes, from the perpendicular rocks—indeed, from everywhere, as it seems, the reverberation of even lowly-spoken words comes rolling upon the astonished ear. There are certain positions in life, too, where a man's influence, unconscious as well as designed, finds an echo in a multitude of minds—an echo that dies not suddenly away, but is prolonged, often, far into the future; sometimes into eternity.