St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-31

write deed or will than upon sheet OF /
paper all scrubbed and blotted and torn |
from top to bottom. Yet men seem to |
think that, thoughsthe life that began here
comparatively perfect turned out badly |
the next life will succeed though it starts |
with dead failure.
"But," SAYS some one, s'I think we Dug hit |
to have chance in the next life because
his life is so short it allows only small
opportunity. We hardly have time to
turn around between cradle and tomb, the
wood of the one almost touching the mar.
BILE Of the other" But do you know what
made the ancient deluge necessity! IL
was the longevity of the antedeluvians.
They were worse in the second century OF
their lifetime than in the first hundred
years, and still worse in the third CEN
turv, and still worse all the way on to
seven, eight and nine hundred years. ana
the earth had to be washed and scrubbed
and soaked and anchored clear ont OF sight
for more than a month before it could be
| made fit for decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitence. All
thespictures of Tina represent him with
| 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 antedeluyians any bet"
| ter, but only made them worse, the ages OF
eternity could have no effect except pro-
1 longation Of depravity.
| So .--.- ,a,,.o sn,,o tho f11fOra
| state evil surroundings will be Withdrawn
| and elevated influences substituted, and
| hence expurgation and sublimation and
| Qualification" But the righteous, all
their sins forgiven, have passed on TO the
beatific state and consequently the un'
saved will be left alone. It can not be ex.
pecSed that Dr. Duff. who exhausted him.
self in teaching Hindoos the way to
Heaven, and DIR. Abee1, who gave his life
in the evangelization of China, and Adoni'
ram Judson, who toiied 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.
Furthermore: It would not be safe for
this world il men had another chan ce 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 democrat
= 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 CHIEF influ-
ence that keeps civilization from rushing
4 \ y sfNcSs
ism from rushing into midnight savagerys
and midnight savagery from extinction,
for it is the astringent impression OF. ali
nations, Christian and heather, that
there is no future chance for those who
have wasted this. Muliitudes of men
who are kept within bounds would say:
EGO to nowi Let me get ali out of this
life there is in it. Come gluttony and ne
briation, and uncleanness, and revenge,
and all sensuaIities, and wait upon me-
NV life may be somewhat shortened in
this world by dissoluteness, but that will
only make heavenly indulgence on
larger scale the sooner possible. will
overtake the saints at last, and will enter
} the heavenly temple only little later
] than those who behaved thems elves here
} ! will on my way to heaven take little
) wider excursion than those who were
0 on earth pious, and shall go to heaven
. via Gehenna and via Sheol.n Another
, chance in the next world means free II
$ case and wild abandonment in this
. Suppose you were party in an importan
3 case of law, and you knew from consulta
J. ton with Judges and attorneys that j
j would be tried twice, and the first tria
~ - Sloi hu
n second would decide everything, TO
r which trial would you make the mos
a preparation. for which retain the ables
n attorneys, for which be the most anxiou
Q about the attendance of witnesses? Yo'
: would put all the stress upon the secon'
8 trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure
r | saying: 's1he first is nothing, the last
k | everything Give the race the assuranc
!. of second and more important trial i
,e the subsequent life, and all the prepare
Il ton for eternity would be post-morten
% post.funera1, post-sepulchral. and th
/ world, with one jerk, be pitched Oh mi
?. impiety and godlessness.
9. Furthermore, let me ask. why chanc
in the next world if we have refused il
Ig Vulnerable chances in this? Suppose 20
I give banquet and you invite a vast nun
in Der of friends, but one man declines
0. come, or treats your invitation with II
ot difference. You in the course of twent
le years give twenty banquets, and the san
ID man is invited to them all, and treats thel
Id all in the same obnoxious way. After
ne while you remove to another house, large
ID and better, and you again invite you
q friends, but send no invitation to the ms
re who declined or neglected the other i
$. vitations. Are you to blame? Has
lg right to expect to be invited aft
re all the indignities he has done yo
to God in this world hal invited