The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-19
THE SUPERNAL CHANCE
THAT SHOULD NOT BE MISSED,
Reformation In the Next W orld Impossi-
bic-''In the Place Where the Tree
Falleth, There shall It Lie.'
Talmage 1T the Tabernacle.
Yesterdays Sermon,

Talmage 1t the Tabernacle.
Yesterdays Sermon.
BRooSLYS, Oct. lS.-lSpecia.l-I
foesor Henry Eyre Brown opened the
services in tho Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morGing with the organ solo, Sc
nata in G Minor, by Rheinbergar. DIR.
Talmsge read ana expounded tho Slst
chapter Of the First Book of Samuel,
showing that the old grudge bstween
tho Phiiistines aud tha Isrselises 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,
Snan ! among them stand?
snail such worthless wor N as L,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
BE found at thy right hsnds
Tho subiest of tho sermon was:
"Shali we have another chance in the
mex! world?' The text was from Ec-
cle.isstics xl, 8: ''If the tree fall to.
ward ths South, or toward tho North,
III tho place where ths troo falieth,
there il shall be-" Following il
TIM SERMON IN FULL:
IhsrS is lowering nope in the
mi0ds of vayt maltitude that there
will bs an opportunity in tho next
world TO correct tao mistakes of this:
that, II we do mako complete nhlp-
wreck OF our earthly life, ID will b3 on
8 shore, up which VS. may walk so q
palace; that, as defendant msy lcss
his case In ihs circuit court and carry
II up to the supreme court or
court OF chauoory, and got 4
reversal of Judgment. Ia his
bshaif, ali the costs being thrown
over or the other party, SO ifws fail in
tho earthly trial,w9 may In the higher
Jurisdiction OF eternity have the judg-
mont OF the lower court aet aside, all
ths costs romined, ard wo be yietori-
onS dOfenaants fQrsver.
My object In thia sesinon is 20 show
thst c0mmOn-senss, I'm well as NV
text, declares that such an expectation
is chimerlcal. You agy that tho inn.
penltont man, having got into tho next
world and seeing the disaster, will, as
u result Of that disaster, turn, the pain
tho cause Of his reformation. But Won
can find 10000 INSTANCES In this world
| OF men VINO have done wrong aud dis
tiuss overlook them suddenly. Did
the distress heal them? No; they
went right on.
That man WAS full OF designations.
"9ou must stop drinking" said the
doctor, "apd quit the fast lite you are
Leading, OK II will destroy yon." The
patient suffers parOxyam after pn-
| rcxysm, but under Bknlf1l medical
treatment he begins 20 SIT uD, begins
TO walk Rbout the room, begins t0 20
to business. Aud 10! ha zoos back "a
the Same grog-shops for his morning
dram, and his evening dram, and the
drams between. Flat down again
Same doctor. Same physical anguish
Same medical w2rning. Now tho ill
ness IL moIo protracted, Tho liver il
more stubborn, the stomach more Ir.
riiabla snd tho digestive organs more
reballoas, Bat after IL while he is ous
| again, goes back to
| THE SAME DRAM-suoPs,
ana goes tho same round Of ascrilege
! against his physical health, He secs
jagg his downward course ig running
bis household, That his life is a per.
| p9tuai perjury agGiast ilia mgrrings
/
is 30 uuliko tho roseatp young wifi.
chat no married that her old school
mates do not recognize her, that hi.
sons ara 10 90 taunted foi
a Lifetime by the fsthors drunken
ness, that tho daughters are to pass
into liio under the soarlficetion Of ,
disrepulable ancestor. Ho is drinking
up their happiness, their prospects foI
this life, nnd perhaps for the life to
come, Sometimes en appreciation o
what he is doing comes upon him. Iii.
nervous system il all u jangle. From
crown OF head to sole OF loot he ia one
aching, rasping, crucitying, damning
torture. Whero Is he? In hell on earth
Does it reform him? After awhile bt
has delirium Iremens, with a whole
jungle OF kissing reptiles lot out on his
| pillow, and his screams horrify the
neighbors IA lie dashes out of his he'd
| crying: "rake those things of of mev'
AS he sits, pale and OonValescent. tho
| doctor says: SNOW want to have 4
| plain talk with you, my dear fellow
| Tho next attack of this Kind Won will
have, you will be beyond eli medical
skill. end you will die.n Ho gets bet-
ter and COOS forth into the same round
again. This time
MEDICINE TAKHs NO HPPHCr.
Consultation OF Sphysiclsns agroe In
say ying there 10 no hope. Death ends
| the scene.
That procesa Of finehriatlon, warning
ana dissolution Is going on wlthiil
stones throw OF this church, going on
Ia al the neighborho0ds OF Christen.
dom, Pain does not correoC
suffering does not reform. What
ls true III ono senaO Ia
true ip all senses, and will forever be
80, ana yot mon ara expecting in the
next world purgatorial rejuvonation.
lsho up uhe printed reports of the
prisons VI The United States, and YOU
Mill ma thnt tho vast majority of the
lhcNcer"ted have been tncre before,
so,'o ,,o ol tnehi iovr, I'VE, six times.
Ing the other way In this world. peonlo
are expecting that distress In the next
state. will be sslvable. You cannot
imagine any worse torture In nnv
other world than that which somo
men nave suffered here, mud without
any salni0ry consequence. Further
more: Tho prosper Ola
REFORMATION IN rHE MKT WORLD
IN more tmprobabloth than q reformation
nero la this world the life starsod
Win ihnouencesof infancy. In the case
supposed, the othor lie will opon with
MI tho accumulated bad hRoita OF
many years upon him. Surely, It IL
easier TO build strong saip ont of
rev timber than cut OF an old hulk
that ms been ground mp la the hrosk-
era ~ with Innocence 10 STAR with In
this iiie,a man docs not become gplly,
what prospect Is there that Ia the n oxt
world, starting with tin, A soraph
shoul be ovolulod? Surely the scuip.
tor has moro prospect OF making a iine
statute out ofa block OF purc white
Parian marble than out oi an old black
rock scanned and cracked with tho
storinh OF hali century. Surely upon
y clean white shoct OF paper Il 10 easicr
to write q dood ora will than upon q
sheet OF paper all scrlbblod and bio,tod
aud tcrn from top TO bottom. Yet men
seem to think that though tho life that
began hero comparatively neriost
turned out badly, ihe next life will
succeed, though ~ starts with n dead