The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-07

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man as be groWB older 10 aa an ASCENDING
eetiea.n Ehsy s'hac9gne eet In their wsys.d
What reason have we to beliese that they
will ever change?
ID 1cj.SbSlll men have new motives; strong.
er Influences In the regiona of sEs damned
D TO Win them to the right .lgay. than thew
. tase here? Hero thFy N4Sa she Bible,
!, lnyitations of Christ, wooiugs of tho Holy
Spirit, influence of Churchsah6 q good men.
What new motives.will be used 10 incline
n them to repentance in he'll? HIf they
u hear not Moses and the Proaheta, neither
: viii they DO persuaded, though one rose
from the d."--.Luke 6.3i.
sd) ,.rhere is prC srb Of this kind: SIT
10 never too latsl TO amend.y This, like
many otEt. proverbs, Is tFae and false.
1t ID }alts,io ;ts application 10 the condi-
4 tion of tts lost. Il is false ~ scientific
declaration. Canon Farrax's words were
an elaboration of this sayitd -sshss:t he
man who had some desire for salvation,
who was soIaewhat awakened to tho
knowledge of his sins, and yet died un-
repentant, might die in hope Of q proba-
zion beyond the grave, and in hell lift up
\ his essa in bope Of final salvation. In the
\ material world this proverb Is false, as
I will proceed to chow.
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Wis: .Phyeical, Organic and Moral
:! III Take as a. illustration, gravitation
A in physical law. "A chip caTeens from
right so left, but Sregains her position.
iThis may. answer good purpose. Il
4 makes sailors bold and siSilIfiil; but that
ship, carseuipg more and mora capsizes
and gdea To the bottom, and If IL be made
4 OF iron, it aoiN remain in that coadition
forever. VIII ages of sufferings under
that penalty help 70 hiring It back 20 its
! proper position9 When the ship is sunk
it is too late to mendi HAY it not be so
as regards the indulgence in long con-
tinued sin, and the formation Of perma-
| nent character in the siuner?- May it
not be 30? Gods Word says it is so.
;(2) Take pm illustration from organic
The Caoatchouc, or India Rubber, tree
may be gashed at o certain point and
made to throw forth its gums by Judi
cious incisions the tree may become
stronger than before, aud made TO yield
q greater amount of gum. But cut be-
yond & certaia limit, gashed through the
heart, 1t falls, and PROSTATE it viii forever
lic! q thousand years of pspalty. yy;ll
do nothing toward reNedying the evil.
It iB too late TO mend. illustrations clay
be taken from man. When he has abused
himself and wasted ais constitution, and
brought suffering on him elf, although he
suffer much and long, the sufferings are
not remedial. Il is too late to mend.
There IS penalty in naturll law that Is not
remedict. Bishop Butler aud Sir Isaac
! Newton cali analogy the supreme rule
in science. We are arguing from analo-
BY. Suppose you discover In some geo.
logical deposit @ strange animal petrified.
| One foot yon extricate, and find it pos
9essea ten tees, all ending in claws, all
tending downward toward the foot; you
| get the other foot out, it has nine toes,
ell ending in claws, ali bending down.
ward toward the foot. There is a tenth
toe imbedded in the strata you see n
little of it; yoa see the place on the foot
where it was Joined; you can't get it out,
however. Now. is it moi Likely that that
toe terminates in claw, as did the nine
teen2 Would you suppose that it bent
downward or upwardf Would yon be-
lieve that it terminated in o horn or
hoof? No. Why? You argue from the
ten toes on the first foot that you got out
they all had claws and bent downward;
you argue from tbs nine toes Oh the foot
from which; this last one has been broken
off; you say: Nineteen of them have
such and such form and shape and ter
minai parts; surely, the other one has
these formations and parts." That is
arguing from analogy-a strong argu-
-ient.
Let us go back, then. We saw in na-
tural physical law, that the capsized ship
would remain capsized forever. It was
too late to mend. In organic natural
law We saw that the wasted constitution
of the inehriate, though suffering in
tensely, produced for itself no remedy.
We saw that the tree gashed beyond
certain point would not recover itself
the spfferings we're not remedial. II Das
too late to mend. 90
We are'in the domain Of science.
There 10 moral law in nature, too
Arguing from analogy, may not q time
come to man when his moral nature, so
badly warped, and damaged, and wasted,
cannot recover itself7 When he has
gashed himseE Through the hart toiih si,a
and fallen from, Go,Ps favor and gone to
perdtion, what reason iB there to hope
for reformation? We cannot trace all
the course of moral law, but what we
see Of It points in this direction, and we
SEQ 8 good deal. Lot US pause and pom
der before we IhhGt olir, eyes to our own
safety. AL this is scientific argument,
80 .AASoo nOiOhtihS suOu. VIC nave tuc
Bible, whose uttterances, aa ! have
shown, are as tho brightness of the me-
yidian g, I, 20 outcshine all tho ig1scs .fntui
of science.
v. Twantt notices some objectiopa to the
doctrine of the endless nature of future
punishment.
~ It is said:s The language of Scrip
ture that teaches this doctrine is Jf9nra-
fius. Yes, figurative; but the reality is
NOT opposed 20 the figure. When We say
Peace spreads her balmy, wings DER the
land" we do not mean tho. Peace liter
ally has wings, nor do we mean that war
and carnage, and devastation run riot.
That would he contrary to all interpreta-
ton, You may call the descriptive terms
applied to perdition drapery if you choose,
but the central truth is there. 1t stauds
out 20 all beholders. That central truth
is the dog. of uugodly men iTreversibl,
pTcRo,tneed; ic.;;ixing toreucr OF character;
condition of intensest misery. It is the
bringing together Of all the unholy and
unDei;eylng men and women and devils
of all names and ages, the shutting of
these up to the companionship OF one
another, beyond The restraints of moral
Influences, outside the circle of good ex-
amples and holy connsels-away from
light, from Heaven, from. Godi In this
wretched state of existence memory still
lives. Conscience, like whip of scor-
pione, lacera 9 the soul. Memory and
conscience Great God, what unweicorne
companioIsi But it is so. "Son, re-