The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-30

his path al the way descended until Of
sixty.eight be became . suicide. II 900
years did NO: make sdeluvians any bot
ter. but only made thsm worse. the ages Of
etern''- could have NO effect except pro
longa..on Of deprsvity.
"But," says some one, ''in the future
state evil surroundings will b Withdrawn
and elevated influences substituted, and
hence expiration and subljmation and
gloridcation." But the righteous, al
their sins forgiven, have passed ON to The
bcatific state and consequently the un
saved viii be left alone. It can not be ex
pected that DR.. Dan. who exhausted him
self in teaching Hindoos the way te
Heaven. and DR.. Abeel, who gave his life
in the evangelixation Of China, and Adoni.
ram Judson, who toiled for the redemption
Of Borneo, should b sent down by some
celestial missionary sociesy 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 salvable Influences to come from
Can ono specified and bad apple in bar
rel Of diseased apples turn tho other ap-
pies good! Can those who are themselves
down help others upi Can those who have
failed in the business of the soul, pay the
debts OF their spiritual insolvents? Can q
million wrongs make one rightl Poner.
opolis was . city where King Philip OF
Thrscia put all the bad people of his king.
dom. II any man had opened primary
school 1t Ponsropolis I do not think the
parents from other cities would have sent
their children there. Insteai OF amend.
ment in the other world, all the associa.
tions, now that the good are evolv.
ed, will b. degeneratiny and downward.
You would not want to send
hospital for his health. and the great iaza.
retto Of the next world, containin; the
diseased and plague struck. will be poor
place for moral recovery. II the surround
ings in this world were crowded OF temp.
talon, 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 Cha.eaubri.
and made his little son sleep at night at
the top Of q castle turret, where the winds
howled and where spectsrs were said to
haunt ths 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 q courage that
never fnltered. But l 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 SUM-
shine. wonder what is the curriculum OF
that college ofInferno, where, after proper
preparation by the sins of this life, the
men class Of depravity to sophomore of
abandonment, 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
profess .Onal der1oniacs atsesting that the
candidate has been long enough under
their irill, he passes up to enter heaven.
Pandemonium a preparative course for
heavenly admission! All. my friends, Sa.
tan and his cohorts have fitted uncounted
mu'titudes 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 democrat
lied and the human race demolished in
few years. The lear that if we ara bal
and unforgiven here it will not be we'll for
rs in the nexs existence Is the chic inf1u-
ance that keeps civilizl ion from rushing
back to semi bari arism. and semi barbar
ism from rushin, into midnight savagsry,
and midnight savagery from extinction.
for it is the astringent impression of all
nations, Christian and heather, that
there is no future chance for those who
have wasted this. Mulsitudes OF men
who are kept within bounds would say:
$50 to now! Let me get all out of this
life there is in it. Come gluttony and ne
and uncleanness, an1 revenge,
md all sensualitiss, and wait upon me.
Ny life may be somewha. shortened in
,his world by dissolutensss, but that will
,nly make heavenly Indulgence On a
arger seal, toe sooner possible. will
,vertake the saints at last, AMI will enter
he heavenly temple only a little later
han those who behaved themselves here.
will on my way to heaven take a little
wider excursion than those who were
IN earth pious. and shall go to heaven
via Gehsnna and via Sheol." Another
.llance in the next world means free H.
.enss and wild abandonment in this.
Suppose you were party in an important
.ase of law, and you knew from con, uira.
ion with judges and attorneys that it
would b., tried twice, and tle first trial
second would decide everything, for
which trial would you make the most
for which retain the ablest
attorneys, for which be- the most anxious
lbout the attendance of witnesses: You
would put all the stres. upon the second
rial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure,
aging: ''1hs firss is nothing, the last is
,veryth ng." Give the race the assurance
# second and more important trial in
ne subsequent life, and all the prepara-
ion for etsrn ity would be pos.-mortem,
,ost-iuneral, post sepulcaral. and the |
world, with one jerk, be pitched of int
mpiety and godlessness.
Furthermore, let me ask. why . chance |
n the next world if W. have refused in |
chances in this! Suppose you
i've banquet and you invite a vast num- |
YER OF friends, but one man declines to
.ome, or treats your invitation with in.
Inference. You in the courss OF twenty
'ears give twenty banquets, and the same |
nan is invited to them all, and treats Them
III in the same obnoxo us way. AT Or q |
While you remove to another house, larger
md better, and you again invite your
riends, bu5 send no invita- ion to the man |
rho declined o. neglected the other in |
'itations. A-e you to blame: Has he
light to expect to be invited after
III the ind igniriss he has done you?
sod in this world ha+ invited Us