The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-19

pictures OF Time represent him with n !
scythe to cut, but never saw auy
picture OF Time with o case Of medi- |
cine 10 heal. Seneca saws that Nero. |
Tor the nrst five years Of his public life, |
was set up for an example OF clemencv
and Kindness, but his path all the wav
descended, until at Is he bs.
came q suicide. II eight hundred
years did not make Rate teis,uyians |
any better, out only made them worse. |
tue ages OF eternity could have no of. |!
teos except prolongstlon of depravity,
"But," says some one, .iu the future |
state evil surroundings will he with. |
drawn and elevated influences snhsti- |
tuted, aud hence expurgatlon sni |
summation and gioriticalion.n Bal
she righteous, all their sins forgiven,
nave passed on into u bsstiic state
sno consequently the unssved will be
DR.. Dun, who exhausted nimsels in
teaching Hindoos
THE WAY TO HEAvEN,
and DIR. Aoeel, who gave his life in tina
evsngeiization of China, aud Adoni-
ram JudSon, who toiled ior ,ha re-
9emptioa OF Borneo, should 90 sent
uown oy some celestial missionary
society to educate those who wasted
all tns'r earthly existence. Evangel-
lssic aud missionary Efforts ara on lad.
ihe entire kingdom OF the morally.
bankrupt by themselves, whsrc Ara
tho salvablo influences 10 come rrorus
Cau one good apple in n
barrel of diseased apples turn tha
other apples good? Can lhose
who are themselves down help
| o.hera upY Can those who have them.
selves failed in tho business of tho
soul, pay tho debts of thoir spiritual
insolvents? Can u milton wron gs
make one right? Poneropolis was a
city where King Philip OF 'fhrscis pns
all the bad paople Of his kingdom. II
any man had opened primary school
Mt Poneropolls, | do not thtal tho pa,
rents nom othes cities would haya
sent their children there. Instead OF
aheudmsnS IN The other world, all the
associatlohs, now that the good are
evolved. VIII DO dsgeaerating aud
man 10 cholera or yellow feysr hos
pital Tor his health, and tho urenr larn-
retto Of the next world, containing the
diseased aud plagus-siruck, will be a
poor place for moral recovery. Ii tho
surroundings in this world were
crowded OF tomptstion, the surround :
ings IN thAnoxt world, sfter tie risat
eous have passed up ana on, VIII 6a a
tn0nssnd per cent. more Gro Dwded OF
temptation.
| THE COUNT OF CHATEAUBRIAND
made his little son sleep ~ Night Ut III .
top OF castle turret, whers che
winds howled and where spoctrea
were said 10 haunt the place, aud While
the mother and sisters aimost dad
with fright, the son tolls us that the
process gave hun nerves that could
not tremole, aud courage that neyar
fsltered. But don't think that tow.
ers OF darkness and the spectral worll
swept by Sir0oco and Euroclydon will
ever fit ono for the land of eternal sun
shine. L wonder what Is the curricu
lum ofthat college OF Inferno, where
after. proper preparation by the sins OF
this iifo, tho candidate entors, passing q
on from freshman class OF depraylty
TO sophomore Of abandonment, and
from sophomore to junior, and from
Junior to senior, and day OF gradus
tion comes, and with diploma signed
oy Sstsn, tue presldept, aud other pro-
1eselonai donontac5, attostlpg that the
candidato has bosn long enough un-
wv "hoh utAli, uo pASsS5 ~ 10 0nEAr
Heaven. Pandemoniam q prepsrativl
course FOR heavenly admission? All
my fsiend, Satan and his cohorts hay 4
fttod uuoounted multitnd9s Tor ruin
but neyor fitted one soni
for happiness. Furthermore, Ii
Woald not DO sste for .his world II
men aud ano.her chanoe In the next
II ~ had boon announced that nnyays
wicEedly n man might act IN thu
world, he could
FIX 1T UP ALL RIGHT IN THE NRXT
society would be terribly demoralized
and the human raco demolished
III few years. The fesl
that Ii w9 are bad aud uufor
given here 1t win not bs well for us i n
The next oxlstonce,is the chioifnfluencs
that keeps civilization from rushing
back 10 standardization, aud senj
barbarism from rushing into mid.
night savagery. and midnight yav.
agery from extiuction, for IL is thu
astringont impression OF all nations.
Christian aud hoathon, That there Il
no future chance for those who have
wasted this. Multitudes OF men who
aro kept within bounds would say:
"Go to now; lot mo got all ou. of this
llie there is In IL. Come gluttony, and
inebriation, and uncleanness, and ro-
vsnge and all sonsualities, aud wait
upon me. My life may be somewhat
shortenened In this world by ydissoluto.
noss, but that will only mako heaven. :.
ly indulBencs on u larger scale the
sooner possible. | Will ovartake the
saiuts ct last, and will enter tho Heav-
only Temple only o little later than
those who behaved themselves horo.
| | Will N
littlo wider excursion than thusa who
were on earth plous, and / shalt 20 ~
Heaven via Gehenns and via Saeol y
Another chance In tho nexs
world means FREQ llcouss aud
wild abandonment in this.
Suppose You were q purity in an impor
tant csso at law, and yOn knew from
consultat!on with judges and nttor-
neys, tntt ~ would bn tslod twice aud
tho frs trial it would b0 OF little Inn
portsnce, but that the second would
docide everything: For which trial
would you make Tho most preparation,
for which rotain the ablest attorpeys,
for which 90 the most anxious alb 1ut
the attendance OF Witnesses? You
would put oil the stress upon the sec
ond trial, oil the anxiety. all tho OK
penditure, saying, "rhe 1rst Is moth
ing, the last Is everything" Give tho
race assurance of a second and moro
important trial In The subsequost life,
aud all tho preparation fos eternity
would be pOst.morten, post.funoral.
post.sopulchral, aud tho world with
Que jerk bo pltshod OF into impioty
and godlessness.
Furthermore, lot mo ask: Why a
chanc0 IN thu next world, II wo have
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