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Special 20 the Gazette
BROOKLYN, n. v, oct, ls.---prof Henry
Eyre Brown opened the services in the
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning, with
the organ solo Sonata I'm C minor, by
Rhenbergcr. DR. Talmage read and OK
pounded the thirty-nrst chapter OF the
first book of Samuel, showing that the old
grudge between the Philistines and the
Israelites was kept good, and that people
generally die as they live. The hymn
sung was;
Whcn thou, my righteous Judge, shalt come
To take Thy rausomed people home,
shall among them stRndy
shall such worthless worm As !,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
BE found at Thy right handy
The subject OF the sermon was; "Shall
we have another chance In the next
world?" The text was from Ecclesias-
! ties, XII 81 "If the tree fall toward the
south or toward the north, In the place
where the tree falleth there It shall be-
! Following is the sermon in full
There is IA lowering hope in the minds
of vast multitude that there will be an
| opportunity in the next world to correct
the mistakes OF this; that, II We do
make complete Shipwreck of our earthly
! life, II will be on a shore up which we
may walk TO a palace, thatas u defendant
may lose his case in the circuit court and
carry 1t up to the supreme court or court
of chancery, and get a reversal
! of Judgment In his behalf,
all the costs being thrown
over on the other party, so If we fail in
/ the earthly trial we may in the higher
/ jurisdiction of eternity have the Judgment
of the lower court set aside, all The costs
rcmitted, and we be
VICTORIOUS DEFENDANTS FOREVER.
My object in this sermon Is to show
that common sense, as wei as my text
declares that such nm expectation Is Chi
merical. You say that the impenitent
man having got into the next world and
seeing the disaster, will, as result of
that disaster, turn, the pain, the cause Of
( his reformation. But you can Ind ten
thousand instances in this world OF men
who have done wrong and distress over
took them suddenly. Did the distress
heal them? No; they went right on.
That man was fond OF designations.
"You must stop drinking" said the doc
tor, land quit the fast life you are lead
ing or II viii destroy You" The patient
suffers paroXysm after paroXysm. but
under skilful medical treat
mcnt he begins 10 sit up,
go to business. And 10. he goes back to
the same grog shops for his morning
dram, and his evening dram, aud the
drains between. Fiat down again Same
doctor Same physical anguish Same
medical warning. Now the Illness is
more protracted, the liver is more stub
born, the stomach more irritable and the
digestive organs more rcbellious. But
after awhile he is out agaimtegoes back
to the same dramshops, and goes the
same round OF saCrilcgc against his phys.
ical health, He sees that his downward
course Is running his household, that his
life is perpetual
PERJURY AGAINST nus MARRIAGE vow,
that that broken-hearted woman is so un.
like the roseutc young wife that he mar
red that her old school-matcs
do not recognize her; that
his sons are 10 be tainted foi
a lifetime by the fathers drunkenness,
that the daughters are to pass into life
under the scariilcation of a dlsrcputablc
ancestor. He is drinking up their happi.
ness, their prospects for this life aud per-
h0ps for the life to come. Sometimes an
appreciation of what he is doing comes
upon him. His nervous system Is all Il
iangle. From crown of head TO sole OF
damning torture. Where Is he? In he'll
on earth. Does 1t reform him2 After Il
While he has delirium tremcns, with a
whole Jungle OF Kissing reptiles let ont
on his pillow, and his screams horrify the
neighhOrs rs he dashes ont of his bed
crying; "Take these things off Of me ~
AS nc sits, pale and conyalcscent, the
doctor says "Now | want 10 have a
plain talk with you, my dear fellow. The
next attack OF this kind you viii have,
you will be beyond all medical
skill, and you will die" lie
gets better and goes forth into the same
round again. This time medicine takes
no effect. Consultation of physicians
agree in saying there is no hope.
DEATH ENDS THE SCENE.
/ That process OF inebriation, warning
and dissolution is going on within
stones throw Of this church, going OH In
all the neighborhoods of ChrIstcndom.
Pain does not correct. Suffering does
not reform. What Is true IN one sense
is true in all senses, and will forever be
so, and yet men are expecting in the
next world purgatorlal regeneration.
Take up the printed reports Of the
prisons Of the United States, and
you viii find that the vast majority OF
incarcerated have been there before,
some Of them four, five, six times. with
II million Illustrations all working the
other way in this world, people are OK
pecting that distress In the next state
will be salyable. You cannot imagine
any worse torture in any other world
than which some men have suffered here
and
WITHOUT ANY sALUTARY CONSEQUENCE.
Furthermore, the prospect Of a refor-
nation in the next world is more improb-
able than reformation here. In this
world the lie started with Innocence 81
infancy In the case supposed, the
Z other life viii open with all the accumu-
lated bad habits Of many years upon him.
I Surely il Is casior to build a strong shin