Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-19
CHANCES OF SALVATION.
HOPES OF ENTERING HEAVEN
FULL OF SIN FALSE.

BROOKLYN, oct. 1S.-Prof. Henry Eyre
Brown opened the services in the Brook
lyn Taberna nacle this morning with the Or
gan solo, "Sonata" in G minor, by Rhein-
berger. Or. Talmage read and expound-
ed the thirty-frst chapter OF the First
Book of Samuel. showing that the old
grudge between the Philistines and the
lsraelites was kept good, and that people
generally die as they live. The hymn sung
was:
When Thou, my righteous Judge, shall come
To take Thy ransomed people home,
Shall l among them standY
Shall such worthless worm as l,
Who sometimes am afraid 10 die,
BE found at Thy right handg
The subject Of the sermon was: "Shall
we have another chance in the next
world" The text was from Ecclesiasties
XII, 3: "If the tree fall toward the south
or toward the north. in the place where
the tree falleth, there It shall be-" Fol-
lowing is the sermon in full:
There is a 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 shipwreok of our earthly life, it
Will be on a shore up which we may walk
to palace; that, as q 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 judg-
ment in his behalf, all the costs being
thrown over on the other party, so il 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 remtted, and we be victorious
defendants forever.
Ny object in this sermon is TO show that
common sense, as we'll as my text, de-
clares that such an expectation is Chi
merical. You say that the impenitent
man having got into the next world and
seeing the disaster, will, as a result OF
that disaster, turn, the pain the cause Of
his reformation. But you can find 10000
instances in this world Of men who have
done wrong and distress overlook them
suddenly. Did the distress heal them?
No; they went right on.
That man was flung Of designations.
"You must stop drink ing" said the doc
tor, "and quit the fast life you are leading
or It will destroy YOU" The patient suf-
fers parOxysm after parOxysm, but under
skilltul medical treatmenth be begins to sit
up, begins to walk about the room. begins
TO 90 to business. And lO he goes back
to the same gr0g shops for his morning
dram, and his evening dram, and the
drains between. Flat down again. Same
4 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 are more rebelliOus. But
after awhile he is out again, goes
| back to the same dram shops, and
/ goes the same round of sacrilege against
! his physical health. He sees that his
| downward course is running his house
/ hold, that his life is perpetual perjury
against his marriage vow, that that
! brOken-hearted woman is so unlike the
roseate young wife that he married that
1 her old schoolmates do not recognize her,
that his sons are TO be taunted for life
| time by the fathers drunkenness, that
the daughters are to pass into life under
the scariticatiOn of disreputable ances-
| tor. He is drinking up their happiness,
their prospects for thfs life and perhaps
for the life to come. Sometimes an ap-
| probation OF what he is doing
comes upOn him. His nervous system
is all a jangle. From crown Of
head to sole OF foot be IS one aching, rasp-
ing, crucifying, damning torture. Where
is he? lD hell on earth. Does 10 reform
himl After awhile he has delirium trem-
ems with "a whole jungle of kissing reptiles
let out on his pillow, and his screams nor
| ritying the neighbors as he dasnee out OF
his bed, crying: "Take these things of Of
mep AS he sits, pale aud coDyalescent,
the doctor says 'NOW l want to have q
plain talk with you, my dear fellow. The
next attack Of this kind you will have.
you will De beyond all medical skill, and
YOU will die" he gets better and goes
forth INTO the same round again. This
time medicine takes no effect. COnsulta-
tiOn 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 on in all the
! neighborhOOds of ChristendOm. 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 pur-
gatorial reiuvenatiOn. Take up the
printed reports Of the prisons OF the u nited
States, and you will find that the vast ma
i0rty Of the incarcerated have been there
before, some Of them four, five, six times.
With a million illustrations All working
TIE other way in this world, people are
expecting that distress IN the next state
will be salvable. You cannot imagine any
worse torture In any other world than
which some men have suffered here and
without any saiutary consequence.
Furthermore, the prospect OF refOr-
nation in the next world Is more i'm
probable than @ reformation here. Ia this
world the life started with innocence Of
infancy. Ia the case supposed the other
/ life will open with all the accumulated
bad habits of many years upon him.
/ Surely, 10 is easier 10 build strong sh p
out OF new timber than out Of an old hulk
/ that has been ground up IN the breakers.
/ III with innocence 10 start With in this
/ life, a man does not become gOdly, what
prospect Is there that In the next world,
I starting with sin, seraph should be evO-
luted. Surely, the sculptor has more pros
! peet OF making fine statue out Of block
/ OF pure white Parlan marble, than out n
/ an old black rock scanned and cracked
with the storms Of halt century.
/ Surely. upon a clean white sheet Of paper
1t is easier 10 write a deed or will than
upon a sheet OF paper all scrubbed and
blotted, and torn from top 20 bottom. Yet
men seem TO think that, though the life
that began here comparatively perfect
/ turned out badly, the next lie VIII sue
ceed though Il starts with dead failure.
"But," says some one, 81 think we
/ ouRht 10 have n chance IN the next life
/ because this life Is so short II allows only
small opportunity. Wo hardly have time
70 turn around between cradle and tomb.
the wood Of the one almost touching the
marble Of the other" But do you know
what made the ancient deiugo a necessity :
/ II was the longevity OF the antediluyians.
/ They were worse In the sec
/ ord century Of their lifetime
l than IN the first hundred
years. and afill worse In the third century.