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and soaked and anchored clear out of sight
for more than month before it could be
made fit for decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitence. All
the pictures of Time represent him with a
scythe to cut, but never saw any picture
of Time with a case of medicines to heal
Seneca says that Nero for the first five
years of his public life was set up for an
example of clemency and kindness, but
his path all the way descended until at
sixty-eight he became a suicide. If 800
years did not make antedeluvians any bet.
ter, but only made them worse, the ages Of
eternity could have no effect except pro.
longation of depravity.
"But," says some one, ''in the future
state evil surroundings will be Withdrawn
and elevated influences substituted, and
hence expurgation and sublimation and
gloriication." But the righteous, all
their sins forgiven, have passed on to the
beatific state and conse equently the un-
saved will be left alone. 1t can not be ex.
pected that DR.. Duff. who exhausted him.
self in teaching Hindoos the way to
Heaven, and DIR. Abeel, who gave his life
in the evangelization of China, and Adoni-
ram Judson, who toiled for the redemption
of Borneo, should be sent down by some
celestial missionary society to educate
those who wasted all their earthly exist.
ence. Evangelistic and missionary efforts
are ended. The entire Kingdom of the
morally bankrupt by themselves, where
are the salvabie influences to come from?
Can one speckled and bad apple in a bar
rel of diseased apples turn the other ap
pies good? Can those who are themselves
down help others upr Can those who have
failed in the business of the soul, pay the
debts of their spiritual insolvents? Can
million wrongs make one right? Poner-
opolis was city where King Philip of
Thracia put all the bad people of his king.
dom. If any man had opened primary
school at Poneropolis do not think the
parents from other cities would have sent
their children there. Instead of amend
ment in the other world, all the associa.
tiens, now that the good are evolv-
ed, will be degenerating and downward.
You would not want TO send
a man to a cholera or yellow fever
hospital for his health, and the great laza-
retto of the next world, containing the
diseased and plague-struck, will be a poor
place for moral recovery. IL the surround
ings in this world were crowded OF temp.
tation, the surroundings in the next world,
after the righteous have passed up and on,
will be thousand per cent. more crowded
of temptation. The Count of Chaseaubri-
and made his little son sleep at night at
the top of a castle turret, where the winds
howled and where spectsrs were said to
haunt the place; and while the mother
and sisters almost died with fright the son
tells US that the process gave him nerves
that could not tremble and courage that
never faltered. But / don't think that
towers of darkness and the spectral world
swept by Sirocco and Euroclydon will
ever fit one for the land of eternal sun
shine. wonder what is the curriculum of
that college of Inferno, where, after proper
by the sins of this life, the
candidate enters, passing on from fresh
men class of depravity to sophomore of
and from sophomore to
junior, and from junior to senior, and day
OF graduation comes, and with diploma
signed by Satan, the president and other
professional demoniecs attesting that the
candidate has been long enough under
their drill, he passes up to enter heaven.
Pandemonium rreparative course for
heavenly admissioni All, my friends, Sa.
tan and his cohorts have fitted uncounted
multitudes for ruin, but never fitted one
soul for happiness
Furthermore: It would not be safe for
this world IL men had another chance in
the next. II it had been annou need that
however wickedly man might act in this
world he could fix it up all right in the
next, society would be terribly demoral~
lied and the human race demolished in a
few years. The fear that if we are bad
and unforgiven here it will not be we'll for
US in the next existence is the chies infiu.
ence that keeps civilization from rushing
back to semi. .barbarism, and semi arbar
ism from rushing into midnight savagsry,
and midnight sayagery from extinction,
for 1t ts the astringent impression of all
nations, Christian aud heathen, that
there is no future chance for those who
have wasted this. Multitudes of men
who are kept within bounds would say:
''Go to now! Let me get all out of this
life there is in it, Come gluttony and ne
Driation, and uncleanness, and revenge,
and all sensualities, and wait upon me.
My life may be somewhat shortened in
this world by dissoluteness, but that will
only make heavenly indulgence on
larger scale the sooner possible l will
overtake the saints at last, and will enter
the heavenly temple only little later
than those who behaved themselves here.
will on my way to heaven take little
wider excursion than those who were
ON earth pious, and shall go to heaven
va Gehenna and via Sheol" Another
chance in the next world means free Ii
else aud wild abandonment in this.
Suppose you were a party in an important
case OF law, and you knew from cons ulta-
tion with judges and attorneys that it
would be tried twice, and the first trial
would be of little Importance, but that the
second would decide everything. for
which trial would you make the most
for which retain the ablest
attorneys, for which be the most anxious
about the attendance of witnesse Yon
would put all the stress upon the second
trial, all the anxietg, all the expenditure,
saying: ''1hs first is nothing, the last is
everything" Give the race tie assurance
Of second and mora important trial in