Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-19

NNN VI HtN tiulNNI AAAh RNt ~ dN NiN
hulk that has been ground up IN the
breakers. II, with innocence TO start
with In this life, man does not become
cody, what prospect Is there that ia the
next world, starting with sin, a soraph
should be cvolutod Surely the sculptor
has more prospect ol making due
statue out OF block OF pure
white rariap marble than out OF
an old black rock scanned
aud cracked with the storms Of half
century. surely upon clean white sheet
OF paper Il Is easier to write u deed or a
viii than a sheet oi paper all scrubbed
and blottcd and torn from top TO bottom.
Vet men seem to think that though the
life that began here comparatively perfect
turned out badly, the next life viii sue
ceed though il starts
WIN DEAD tAiLURr.
"But," says some one, ~ think we
ought 10 have chance in the next life,
hocause this life Is SO short IL allows only
small opportunity. We hardly have time
to turn around between cradle and tomb
the wood of the one almost touching
the marble of the other But do yon
know what made the ancient delugc n
necessity II was the longevity OF the
nntedcluviaus. They were worse In
tho second century of their
lifeline than in The first hundrcd
wears, and still worse IN the third century,
and still worse all the way on 20 seven,
eight and nine hundred years, and the
earth had TO be washed and scrubbed and
soaked and anchored clear out of sight
for more than mouth before Il could be
made lit for decent people TO live in &,
Longevity never cures impentency. All
the pictures of time represent him with
n scythe to cut, but never saw any pic
turc OF time with Il case of medicines to
heal, Seneca says that Nero for the first
live years of his public life was set up for
an example of clemency and kindness, but
his path all the way descended until at
! sigty-cight he became suicide Height
1 hundred years did not make autedluyiunS
any better but only made them worse, the
ages of eternity could have no effect, cN.
cept
Proclamation on DEPRANlTN.
/ "llUt," says some one, "in the future
1 state evil surroundings will be withdrawn
and elevated influences substituted, aud
4 hence eNpurgation and subllmaton and
I gloritcation.n But the righteous, an
/ their sins forgiven, have passed on into o
/ beatitc state, and consequently the un.
.
! pected that Or. Duff, who exhausted him.
/ self in teaching llmdoos the way To
/ heaven, and DIR, Abecl, who gave his life
( in the cvangelization OF China, and
( Adouram Judson, who toilcd for the re.
/ demptOn Of Borpeo, should hc sent down
1 by some celestial missionary society to
( educate those who wasted all their earth
/ IL existence EvangClistic ana mission.
AIRY efforts are ended. The entire king.
/ dom OF the morally bankrupt by them.
/ selves, whore are the salyablc Influences
70 come irom2 Can one speckled and bad
apple IN u barrel Of diseased apples turn
the other apples good? Can
those who are themselves down nell
Others up? Can those who have them
selves failed IN the business Of the sou
pay Tie debts OF their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ri i, million wrongs make one right?
POneropolS was city whore KIM
Philip OF Thracia put all the bad people o
his kingdom II any man had opened
primary school at l'pncropulis ! do no
think the parents from other cities would
have sent their children there. lnstca,
of amendment IN the other world, all Tia,
associations, now that the good ar,
evolved, VIII be dcgenerating aud down
You would not want to send a man to
cholera or yellow fever hospital for hi
health, and the great lazaretto OF the mex
world containing the diseased ana plague
stricken, viii be
room PLACE FOR MORAL RECOVERY
If the surroundings IN this world wor,
crowded OF temptation, the surrounding
in the next world, after the righteous
have passed up and on, win be a thousant
per cent. more crowded Of temptation.
The count of Chatoaubrand made hii
little son sleep at night at the top Of
castle turret where the winds hOwled ant
where spcctres were said to haunt th,
place, and while the mother and sisters
almost died with fright, the son tells u,
= that the process gave him nerves tina
could not trcm0le and courage thai
never faltered. But ! don't think thai
towers of darkness and the spectra
world swept by Sirocco and Euroclydoi
viii ever iit one for the land OF ctcrna
sunshine.
4 | wonder what Is the curriculum o.
that college OF lnternio, where, aitcl
proper preparation by the sins OF thi,
life, the candidate enters, passing OF
from freshman class Of depraylty, t.
sophomore OF abandonment, and from
sophomore to junior, aud from junior tC
senior, and day OF graduation comes, nnC
with diplomas Signed by Satan, ia,
president, and other professional de
moniacs, atteshng that the candldat,
has been long enough under their drill
he passes up 10 enter Heaven. Pande
moniuln Il preparatye course for heay
enly admission All, my friends, Satan
and his cohorts have titted uncouuteo
multitudes for ruin, but never fitted
ONE SOUL ron HAPPINESS.
Furthermore: II would not be safe iol
this world If men bad another chance Il
the next. If II had been announced thai
however wickedly man might act IN this
world, he could fix ii mp ull right IN the
next, society would be terribly democrat.
lied and the human race demolished IN d
few years. The fear that II we are had
and miorgiyen here ii VIII not he well
for as in the next existence, is the chlci
influence that keeps civilization iron
rushing bnck into seIni-barbarism, and
semi-barbarism from rushing into mid
night savagcry, and midnight sayagey
from extinction, for II Is the as.