The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-22
UlE sUPERNAL CHANCE
nat SHOULD NOT 90 MISSED,
)sfsrmstios In the nest World inpossi'
! ble-s'In the Place whsre the Tree
rsiisth, Thsro shall ~ Lite"
Taimsse - the Tabernacle.
Yesterdays sermon

IA
sszor Henry Eyre Brown oponod the
ssyicen In the Brooklyn Tabernacle
rs morning with the organ solo, No
(ata In q Minor, by Rheinborser. DR..
Almage road aud expounded tho 3lst
hap,er of tho First Book OF samuel,
howing that the old grudgo between
he Philistines ana the Isrsoliles was
kopt good, and that people generally
lie a. they live. The hymn sung was:
wseh Thou, my righteous Judge, shall
come
10 take Thy ransomed people home,
Snail | amolg them stand.
4hall such q WORTHLESS wor
Who sometimes am afraid To die,
he found at thy right hand?
The pubJeat of tho sermon was:
Shall we have another chance In tho
next worldW The text was from Ec-
blerisstics ri, 3: "It tho tree fall to-
ward tho South, or toward the North,
n the place where tho tree fslloJh,
hero IL shall bs." Following IL
TIN SERMON IN FULL:
where is lowering nope III the
hiSJe of vast multitude that there
viii no an opportunity in the next
World 60 correct the mistakes OF TINS;
hat, III NO do make complete ship
wreck OF our earthly lifo, IL will bs on
shore, mp which wo may walk 10
alace; that, Gs n defendant may loan
Ia caso in the circuit court and carry
up To tho supreme court or
curt OF chaucory, and get q
evorxal OF Judgment In HE
ehslf, all tho costs being thrown
YER ON the other party, 80 IL we fail In
he earthly trial,ws may in the higher
Jurisdiction OF eternity have she judg-
Aent OF tho lower court set aside, all
Lhk Sosts remitted, and we DO victori-
GUS defendants forever.
Ny object Ia this ssrmon Is to show
that commop-sense, as well as my
toxt, declares that such IN expectation
Is chinerical. You ssy that the i'm
penitent man, having got into tho next
| world and seeing the disaster, will, as
q result of that disaster, turn, the pain
! the cause OF his reformation, Bat you
Ian find 10000 instances In this world
OF men VINO have done wrong and dts,
tress overlook them suddenly. Did
the distress heal them? No; they
gent right on.
(Thet man was full OF designations.
You must stop drinking" said the
!du4or, "and quit the fast lie you are
eading, or it will destroy You" Tho
patieut suffers paroxysm after pa
roxysm, bur under skillful medical
treatment he begins to sic no, begins
to walk about the room, begins to 80
to business. And 10! he COOS back 20
the same grog-shops for mis- morning
dram, and his evening dram, aud the
drains between. Flat down again.
Same doctor. Same physical anguish,
Same medical warning. Now the III
ness In moro protracted, the liver 10
more stubborn, the stomach more IT.
A, l\tablo and tho digestive organs more
kebellious. But after while no Is OUT
agekn, goes back TO
THE SAME DRAM-sHoPs,
and goes the same round OF sscrliege
against his physical health. he sees
that his downward course il running
his household, that mis- life is T. pct
\, petual perjury against his marriage
Y VOW, that that broken-hearted woman
n is SO unlike the roseate young wife
n that he married that her old school,
mates do not recognize her, that mis-
sons are to be tainted for
n q lifetime by the fathers drunken
ness, that the daughters are to pass
! into life under the Specification OF
isreputable ancestor. He Is drinking
IS dis life, and perhaps for the life to
vome. Sometimes an appreciation OF
\ What he Is doing comes upon him. bis
taeryous system ID all jangle. From
Eslrown of head TO sole OF foot he Is one
& aching, rasping, crucifying, damning
7, torture. Where is he? In hell on earth.
4 Does it reform him? After awhile he
has delirium tremens, with whole
VI Jungle of Kissing reptiles let OUT on nus
and his screams horriiy tue
Ileighbors as he dashes out OF his bed,
a ", To- h.aan N
AS he sits, pale and convasescent, the
octor saws: 'Now want to have a
hin talk with you, my dear fellow.
The next attack OF this Kind you will
have, you will be beyond all medicsl
skill. and you will die" He gets bet.
ter aud goes forth into the same round
again. This time
MEDICINE TAKES NO EFFHCT.
Consultation OF physicians agree II
saying there Is no hope. Death ends
THAT process of MEDITATION, warning
and dissolution is going on within
kamtOne's throw Of this church, going or
in ali the neighborhoods Of Christen
Sdom, Pain does not correct
5Affering does not reform. VIVA
ID true in one sense II
true in all senses, and will forever bt
SO, and yet mon are expecting In the
next world purgatorial re]uvenaLion
Take up the printed reports OF Int
prisons Of the United States, ana yot
will find that the vast majority or tht
4 incarcerated have been tnere before
M some of them four, five. six times
sAWith million illustrations all work
Wing the other way in this world, people
n ara expecting that distress In the mex
state will be ,salvable. You canno
- imagine any worse torture In. any
nther world than that which some
men have suffered here, and without
a, any salutary consequence. further
IN more: The prospecG ola
I'M ia more improbable than reformation
M here, In this world the life startet
jN with innocence OF infancy. In the css.
~ supposed, the other life will open Will
an ths accumulated bad habits Q
MANY wears upon him. Surely, 1t l
easter TO build q strong ship out 9
nav timber than out of an old hull
that has been ground up in the Dreak
ers, If, with Innocence 10 start Win II
\. this life,a man does not become gouly
gIat prospect Is there tnae IN tne neA
shouI he evoluted? Surely the sculp
for has more prospect of making q i'm
statute out of block OF pure whlt
~ Parian marble than out ct an Ole piacl
rock scanned end cracked with tn
Z atorms of half century. Surely upo
< clean white sheet OF paper 1t ID easie
q write q deed or Will than upon
sheet Of paper all soribbled and blotte
and torn from top to bottom. Yet me
5 seem to think that though the LIE INA
began here comparatively pernet
succeed, though it starts with dea
Ufailure.
aBut," says some one, II think "
oucht to have chance In tue next life
because this life is so short 1t allow
only small opportunity. We, hardl
have time to turn around betwee
Il. cradle and tomb, the wood OF The on
"a almost touching tho marble OF the OIL
Rs sr.'' But do you know what maae %