Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

$50 "no sGlil worse in tho thi.s 49,
SOW, a.u sun worse all the wav on -
the aa,e. .sne ana nine hundred wears. ana
eafth mad to be washed and a"e
=. soaked and anchored clear ont ~ s;es.
n'oie than a month before "a co,,,a ~
TaNue nt Tor decent people ia IT, ~:
longevity never cures imnen;tanca N' an ~.
scvtha OF lime represent him with a
~ T Sns 70 cus' but I never saw any picture
g. .lme with a case of medicines to heal
sens soa says chat Nero for the arst 6na
sears u DIS public life was set I'M for an
h;snnn Oh ciemency and Kindness. Init
&c pa'n al the way descended mt, A.
s'Aty'elght he became a suicido. IF ON
years ald not make antedeluyians anv hot.
Oei' oue only made them worse. the ZOOS -,
.'erhiey could have no effect excent nro.
longation of depravity.
But" says some one, "in the future
sa.0 evll surroundings will be withdrawn
auu elevated influences substituted. and
1.nce expurgation and sublimation and
glorlhcation." But the riphteo,s 81,
.neir SINS forgiven, have passed ON to tho
oeaSinc state and consequently the nm.
saved will be left alone. It can not ho AZ.
pected that DR.. Duff, who exhausted him.
sen IN teaching Hindoos the way to
.AeaVeh' ana DIR. Abeel, who gave his life
IN tne evangelization of China, and Adoni.
Judson, who toiled for the redemnt;on
OF Borneo, should be sent down bv some
celestial missionary society 70 aancate
nose VINO 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 n speckled and bad apple in a bar.
rel OF diseased apples turn the other an
PIES good! Can those who are themselves
down help others up? Can those who have
iaiied IN the business of the soul, paw the
oepts OF their spiritual i~nsolvents? Can a
million wrongs make one right? Poner.
opolls was q city where King Philip of
inracla put all the bad people of his king.
DOM. 1t any man had opened a primary
school at Poneropolis I 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.
tions, now that the good are eyolv.
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. If the surround.
lngs in this world were crowded of temp.
talon, the surroundings in the next world,
after the righteous have passed up and on.
will be a thousand per cent. more crowded
of temptation. The Count of Chaseaubri.
and made his little son sleep lat night at
the top of q castle turret, where the winds
howled and where specters 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 a courage that
never faltered. But / don't think that
towers of darkness and the spectral world
swept by Sirocco and Euroclydon will
Sver fit one for the land of eternal sun
shine. l wonder what is the curriculum of
that college Of Inferno. where, after proper
preparation by the sins Of this life, the
enters, passing on from fresh
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
candidate has been long enough under
their drill, he passes up to enter heaven.
P~andemonium q preparative scourse for
heavenly admission! 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 if men had another chance in
the next. II it had been need that
world he could fix it up all right in the
next, society would be terribly democrat
ICED and the. human race demolished in a
few years. The fear that if we are bad
and u%nforgiven here it will not be we'll for
us in the next existence is the chiee inlu.
ence that keeps civilization from rushing
back to semi. barbarism, and semi.barbar
ism from rushing into midnight savagery,
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
nave 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 j ne.
briation, and uncleanness, and revenge,
and all sensualities, and wait upon me.
NY life may be somewhat shortened in
this world by dissoluteness, but that will
only make heavenly indulgence on a
larger scale the sooner possible. l will
overtake the saints at last, and will enter
the heavenly temple only a little later
than those who behaved themselves here.
I will on my way to heaven take a little
wider excursion than those who were
on earth pious. and I shall go to heaven
va Gehenna and via Sheol." Another
chance in the next world means free Ii.
CO Use and wild abandonment in this.
Suppose you were a party in an important
case of law, and you knew from consulta:
ton 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
preparation, for which retain the ablest
attorneys, for which be the most anxious
about the attendance of witnesses? o
would put all the stress upon the second
trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure
saving: s'Ths first is nothing. the last IS
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