Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
TALMAGE's SERMON.
s,ell W. Have Another Ohanca
In the Next worldq"
noc.rine That Gas the Tree ro,,. 9,
:, Must Lie" Practically and Forol.
bly, Presented - Another
Chance Improbable,

bly, presented AnOthe
Chance improbable,
o,ooKLYN, N. Y, October ls,-prof
."rv Eyre Brown opened the services In
Rrooklyn Tabernacle this mornino
III the organ solo Sonata in c Minor. Nv
s;.eberger. DR.. Talmage read and az.
Lrnded the 31st chapter of the First Rool.
samuel, showing that the old prudo
.ween the Philistines and the Israelites
4, kept good, and t~hat'people generally
; as they live. The hymn sung was:
10, Thou, M yrighteous Judge, shalt come
take Thy ransomed people home,
shall 1 among them stand?
III such a worthless worm az L,
no sometimes am afraid to die,
r. found at Thy right hand?
Tbe subject OF the sermon was: "sball
b Have Another Chance in the Ne~t
Eog,i?' The text was:
h the tree fall toward the south or toward
. north, in the place where the tree falleth.
IRE it shall be.-Ecclesiastes, XII, 9.
There is a lowering hope in the minds If
vast multitude that there will be an on
miunity in the next world to correct the
stakes of this; that, if we do make
mplete shipwreck of our earthly life, it
In be on a shore up which we may walk
a palace; that, as a defendant may lose
S case in the Circuit Court and carry it
/ to The Supreme Court or Court of Chan.
nv, and get a reversal of Judgment in
5 behalf, and the costs being thrown
Eer on the other party, so if we fail in the
rthly tyial, we may in the higher juris.
elton of eternity have the Judgment of
q lower court court set aside, all the
bss RENTED, and we be victorious de.
ndants forever.
Nv object in this sermon is to show
at common.sense, as we'll as my text.
clares that such an expectation is
bimerical. You say that the %impenitent
an having got into the next world and
eing the disaster, will, as a result of
a. disaster, turn, the pain the. cause
his reformation. But you can find
thousand instances in this world of
en who have done wrong and distress
Eertook them suddenly. Did the distress
al them? No; they went right on.
That man was flung of disipations.
Ycu must stop drinking" said the doc.
y, land quit the fast life you are lead.
or it will destroy you" The patient
(fsrs paroxysm after paroxysm, but
pder skillful medical treatment he be.
ms to sit up, begins to walk about the
ON, begins to go to business. And 10!
goes back to the same g%rog.shops for
morning dram, and his evening dram,
ii the drains between. Flat down again.
Eme doctor. Same physical anguish.
hne medical warning. Now the illness
more %protracted, the liver is more
ubborn, the stomach more irritable and
digestive organs are more rebellious.
b. after a while he is out again, goes
eds to the same dram shops. and goes
esame round Of sacrilege against his
Eysical health. He sees that his down.
ard course is running his household,
lat his life is a perpetual perjury against
marriage VOW, that the broken-hearted
oman is so unlike the roseate young wife
bat he married, and her old schoolmates
b not recognise her; that his sons are to
tainted for a lifetime by her fathers
Iunkenness; that the daughters are to
ass into life under the scari6cation of a
%sreputable ancestor. He is drinking up
heir happiness, their prospects for this
lie and perhaps for the life to come.
ometimes an appreciation Of what he is
Ding comes upon him. His nervous sys.
I'm is all a jangle. From crown of head
sole of footis n aching. rasping, cruci-
ling, damning torture. Where is he? In
ELL or earth. Does it reform him? After
while he has delirium tremens, with a
Fhole jungle of kissing reptiles let out on
is pillow, and his scream horribly the
eishbors as he dashes out of his bed cry
be-: "Take these things off of meW AS
ssits pale and convalescent the doctor
avs: Nov I wan to have a plain talk
nth you, my dear fellow. The next az
Aek Of this kind you have you will be
eyond all medical skill, and you will
ie." He gets better and goes forth into
be same round again. This time medi-
line takes no effect. Consultation of ply
t@eians agree in saying there is no hope.
Death ends tile scsne.
That process of inebriation, warning
Phd dissolution is going On within a
%tone's throw of this church, going on in
Pill the neighborhoods OF Christendom.
'ain does not correct. Suffering does not
feform. What is true in one sense is true
h all senses, and will forever ba so, and
Fe: men are expecting in the next world
Purgatorial regeneration. Take up the
printed reports of the prisons of the United
Plates and you will find that the va st ma
folty of the incarcerated have been there
before, some of them four, five, six times.
With a million illustrations all working
1s other way in this world, people are
*Specting that distress in the next state
Viii be salvable. You can not imagine
my worse torture in any other world than
winch some men have suffered here, and
Without any salutary consequence.
furthermore: The prospect of q reforms
aon in the next world is more improbable
nan q reforma ion here. In this world
Ie line started with innocence OF infancy.
IN the case supposed the other life will
Epen with all the accumulated bad habits
VI many years upon him. Surely IT is
sasler to build a strong ship out Of new
1,aAber than OUT of an old hulk tina has
'sen ground up in the breakers. Ii With
innocence to s'art with in this life. a man
woes not become godly, what prospect Is
|ere that in the next world, starting
SNA sin, a .seraph should be evolved!
purely the sculptor has more prospect OF
usSing a fine statue gu of a block of pure