The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-30
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
S6hau We Have Another Chance
In tho Next World9'

IN tho Next WOel0Y
The Doctrine That ..As the Tree Fails q
Il Most Lis'' Practically and Forsi-
bly, Presented - Another
Chance Improbable.
BRooKLYH, N. Y, October 1a-Prof
Henry Eyre Brown opened the services Il
the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning
with the organ solo Sonata in c Minor, By
Rhineberger. Dr.. Talmags read and ex
pounded the 31st chapter of the First Bool
Of Samuel, showing that the old grudg'
between the Philistines and the Israelite
was kept good, and that people generally
die rs they live. The hymn sung was:
When Thou. my righteous Judge, shalt come
To take Thy ransomed people home,
Shall among them stand?
Shall such worthless worm ~ I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at Thy right hand?
We Have Another Chance In the Mex
World!' The text was:
II the tree fall toward the south or toward
the north, in the place where the tree falleth
there It shall be.-Ecclesiastes. H.. :.
There is lowering hope in the minds Of
vast multitude that there will be an op
portunity in the next world to correct the
mistakes OF this; that, IL we do make
complete shipwreck Of our earthly life, il
will be on q shore up which we may wall
to a palace; that, a. a defendan. may lose
his case in the Circuit Court and carry II
up to The Supreme Court or Court Of Chan
Gerry, and get . revers oil OF judgment In
his behalf. and the costs being thrown
over on the other party, SO if we fail in the
earthly trial, we may in the higher juris
diction Of eternity have the judgment OF
tine lower court court set aside, all the
costs RENTED, and We be victorious de-
PENDANTS forever.
My object in this sermon is to show
that common.sense, IS we'll as my text,
declares that such an expectation is
chimerical. You say that the impenitent
seeing the disaster, will, as result Of
that disaster, turn, the pain the cause
of his reformation. But you can find
ten thousand 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 disipations.
"You must stop drinking" said the doc
tor, land quit the fast life you are lead
ing or it will destroy you" The patient
suffers paroxysm after paroxysm, but
under skillful medical treatment he be.
gins to sit up, begins to walk about the
room, bsgins to 60 to business. And LOT
he goes back to the same grog.shops for
his morntn. dram, and his evening dram,
and the drains between. Fiat d own again.
Same doctor. Same physical anguish.
Same medical warning. Now the illness
IS more protracted, the liver is more
the stomach more irritable and
the digestive organs are more rebsllious.
Bus after while he is out again, goes
back to the same dram.shops. and goes
the same round Of sacrilege against his
health. He sees that his down.
ward course is running his household,
that his life is a perpetual perjury against
bis marriage vow, that the broken.hearted
is so unlike the roseate young wife
that he married, and her old schoolmates
do not recognise her; that his sons are to
be tainted for lifetime by her fathers
that the daughters are to
pass into life under the scariication of
ancestor. He is drinking up
their happiness, their prospects for this
life and perhap, for the life to come.
Sometimes an appreciation OF what he is
doing comes upon him. His nervous sys-
tenn is all jangle. From crown of head
TO sole of foot is one aching. rasping, cruci-
tying, damning torture. Where is he? In
hell OF earth. Does it reform him? After
whole jungle OF Kissing reptiles let out on
MS pillow, and his screams horrify the
neighbors as ne dashes out of his he'd cry
ng: stake these things of of msW AS
ne sits pale and convalescent thu doctor
says: snow I wan to have plain talk
With you, my dear fellow. The next a.
ack Of this kind you have YOU will be
beyond all medical skill. and you will
lie." He gets better and goes forth into
he same round again. This time medi.
..ne takes no effect. Consultation of ply
'icians agree in saying there is no hope.
Death ends the scene.
That process of inebriation, warning
Ind dissolution is going on within a
,.one's throw of this church, going on in
Ill the neighborhoods OF Christendom.
Pain does not correct Suffering does not
,eform. What is true in one sense is true
n all senses, and will forever b. SO. and
in hn or1A
rejuvenstion. Take up the
printed reports of the prisons ofthe United
States and you will find that the vast ma
ority of the incarcerated have been there
before. some of them four, five, six times.
With a million illustrations all working
he other way in this world, people are
that distress in the next state
will BE- salvable. You can not imagine
my worse torture in any other world than
which some men have suffered here, and
without any saiutary consequence.
Furthermore: The prospect of Q reforms
ion in the mex world is more improbable
han . reforma ion here. In this world
he line started with innocence of infancy.
IN the case supposed the other life will
pen With all the accumulated bad habits
II many years upon him. Surely it is
asier to build strong ship out Of new
timber than out of an old hulk that has
,een ground up in the breakers. II with
innocence to art with in this life. man
loes not become godly, what prospect is
here that in the next world, starting
vita sin, Q seraph should be evolved?
surely the sculptor has more prospect OF
making flne statue out OF block Of pure
.hite Parian marble than out Of an old
black rock scanned and cracked with the
rorms OF half century. Surely upon .
lean white shees Of paper il Is easier to
write deed or a will than upon . sheet OF
,sner all scrib5,el and blotted and torn
rom top to bottom. Yet men seem to