Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-19

cures impenltency. All the pictures of
/ time represent him with scythe TO cut,
but never saw any picture OF time with
a case OF medicines To heal. Seneca says
that Nero, for the first five years OF his
public life, was set up for an example of
olemency and kindness, but his path all
| the way descended, until at sixty-eight
he became suicide. II eight hundred
years did not make antedlluvians any bet
ter, but only made them worse, the ages of
eternity could have no effect except pro-
| longation of depravity.
but" says some one, "in the future
state evil surroundings will be with
drawn and elevated Influences substi.
tuted, and hence eXpurgation and sub
limation and gloridcatiOn." But the
righteous, all their sins forgiN en-, have
passed on into a beatlfic state, and con-
sequently the unsayed will be left alone.
IL cannot be expected that DIR. Duff, who
exhausted himself in teaching Hindoos
the way 10 Heaven and DIR. Abeel, who
gave his life in the evangelizatiOn of
China, and AdOniram JudsOn, who tOiled
| for the redemption Of BorneO, should be
| sent down by some celestial missionary
society te educate those who wasted all
their earthly existence. Evangellstic
and missionary efforts are ended. The
entire kingdom off the morally bankrupt
| by themselves, where are the salvable in
nutuGte 10 tOIue from Ghu On6 bpeCkieu
and bad apple in n barrel OF diseased
apples turn the other apples goodl
Can those who are themselves down help
others up? Can those who have them
selves failed In the business Of the soul
pay the debts Oftheir spiritual insOlVents?
Can a million wrongs make one right?
PonerOpolis was city where King Philip,
Of Thracia, put all the bad people Of his
kingdom. IL any man had opened q pri-
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the parents from other cities would have
sent their children there. Instead Of
amendment in the other world, all the as
| sociatiOns, now that the good are involved,
will be degenerating and down. You
| would not want to send a man To a chOl-
era or yellow fever hospital for his health,
| and the greater lazaretto of the next
world, containing the diseased and
plague-struck, will be poor place for
moral recovery. Ii the surroundings In
! this world were crowded Of temptation,
the surroundings In the next world, after
the righteous have passed up ard on, will
| be thousand per cent. more crowded OF
! temptation. The Count OF Chateaubrland
made his little son sleep at night at the
/ top OF a castle turret, where the
winds howled and where spectres we're
said to haunt the place, and while the
mother and sisters almostdied with fright,
the son tell us that the process gave
| him nerves that could not trembie and
/ courage that never faltered. But don't
think that towers OF darkness and the
spectral world swept by SirOcco and Eu-
roclydon will ever fit one for the land OF
eternal sunshine. | wonder what Is the
curriculum of that college OF inferno
where after proper preparations by the
| sins OF this life, the candidate enters,
passing on from freshman class OF depra-
Vitv to sophomore of abandonment. and
from sophomore to junior, and from Junior
10 senior, and day of graduation comes,
and with diploma signed by Satan, the
President, and other professional demon
iacs, ,attesting that the candidate has been
long enough under their drill, he passes
up to enter Heaven. PandemOnium a
preparatiYe course for heavenly admis-
sion. All, my friends, Satan and his CO.
horts have fitted uncounted multitudes
for ruin, but never fitted one soul for
happiness.
Furthermore, It would not be safe for
this world II men had another chance in
| the next. If 10 bad been announced that
however wicBedly man might act in
this world, he could fix 1t up all right In
the next, society would be terribly demor.
| allied and the human race demolished in
few years. The fear that If we are bad
and unfOrgiVen here it viii not be well
for us in the next existence, is the chief
influence that Keeps civilization from
rushing back to sefni-barbarism, and
semi-barbariem from rushing into mid
night savagery, ana midnight savagery
| from extinction, for It is the astrIngent
| impression OF all nations, Christian and
heathen, that there Is no future chance
for those who have wasted this. Multi
tudes Of men Who are kept within bounds
would say: go 10 nowl Let me
get ali out OF this life there is
I
| ebri9tOn, and uncleanness, and revenge,
and all sensualties, and wait upon me.
Ny life may be somewhat shortened in
this world by dissOluteness, but that will
only make heavenly indulgence on a
larger scale the sooner possible. ] will
overtake the saints a I last, and will enter
the heavenly temple only a little later
than those who behaved themselves here
] will on my way 70 heaven take little
wider excursion than those who were on
earth pious, and / shall 20 to heaven via
Gehenna and via sheol." Another chance
in the next world means free license
and wild abandonment in this
Suppose you were party in an lmpOr-
tant case at law, and you knew from con-
sultatiOn with judges and attorneys that
10 would be tried twice and the first trial
II would be Of little importance, but that
the second would decide everything, for
which trial would YOU make the most
preparation. for which retain the ablest
attorneys, for which be most anxious
about the attendance Of witnesses? You
would put all the stress upon the second
trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure,
/ saying, "rhe first ~ nothing, the last Is
everything" Give the race assurance OF
"A second and more important trial in the
subsequent life, and all the preparation
for eternity would be post mOrtem, post
funeral, p0st-sepulchral, and the world
with one jerk be pitched of INTO impiety
and godlessness.
Furthermore. let me ask why a
chance IN the next world II we have re-
fused innumerable chances IN this? Sup
pose you give banquet and you invite
vast number OF friends, but one man de-
clines 10 come or treats your invitation
with Indifference. You In the course Of
twenty years give twenty banquets, and
the same man Is invited 10 them all, and
treats them all in the same obnoxious
I way. After awhile you remove 70 another
house, larger and better, aud you again
invite your friends, but send no Invitation
10 the man who declined or neglected the
other invitations. Are you 30 blameY
Has he right 10 expect 10 be invited
after all the indignities he has done your
God IN this world has invited us all to the
banquet OF His grace. lie invited us by
His Providence and His spirit 800 days
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