St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-31
TALMAGE's SERMON.
"shan We Have Another Chance
In the Next World?'
Tbe Doctrine THAT GAS the Tree Falls So
1t Mast Lie" Practically and forct-
bly, Presented = Another
Chance Improbable.

Aba BROOKLYN Tabernacle TINS morning.
nth the organ solo Sonata in Minors by
Thineberger. DR.. Talmags read and ex-
rennded the 31st chapter of the First Book
of Samuel, showing that the old grudge
Fatween the Philistines and the Israelttes
was kept good, and that people generally
die as they live. The hymn sung was:
when Thou, nnyrighteous Judge, shalt come
TO take Thy ransomed people home,
Shall / among them stand?
Shall such q worthless worm az !,
who sometimes am afraid to die.
Be found at Thy right hand2
The subject o. the sermon was: "Snau
We Have Another Chance in the Next
World?" The text was:
If the tree fall toward the south or toward
the north, in the place where the tree falIeth'
there it shall be.-EccIesiastes, XII, 8.
There is lowering hope in the minds OF
vast multitude that there will be an op
nortunity in the next world to correct the
mistakes OF this; that, if We do make
complete shipwreck of our earthly LIE, 1t
viii be on a shore up which we may Walk
TO a palace; that, as defendant may lose
mis- case in the Circuit Court and carry 1t
mn to the Supreme Court or Court OF Cban'
cerv. and get a reversal of Judgment IN
his behaIf. and the costs being thrown
over on the other party, so it we fail IN the
earthly trial, we may in the higher 1ufls.
diction of eternity have the Judgment OF
the lower court court set aside, all the
costs RENTED, and we be victorious dc"
PENDANTS forever.
NV object in this sermon is to show
that common-sense, as we'll as my texs'
declares thas such an expectation IS
chimerical You say that the impanitent
man having got into the next world ana
seeing the disaster, will, as result OF
that disaster, turn, the pain the cause
of his reformation. But you can find
fen thousand instances in this world OF
men who have done wrong and distress
overlook them suddenly. Did the distress
heal them? No; they went right on.
That man was Aung Of dispositions.
ssYou must stop drinking" said the doc.
tor, ''and quit the fast life you are lead
ing or 1t will destroy you" The patient
suffers paroxysm after paroxysms but
under skillful medical treatment he be-
gins to sit up, begins to walk about Sne
room, begins to go to business. And lol
he goes back to the same grog-shops for
his morning dram, and his evening dram.
and the drains between. Flat d own again.
Same doctor. Same physical anguish
Same medical warning. Now the illness
ss more protracsed, the liver is more
stubborn, the stomach more irritable ana
the digestive organs are more rebellious.
But after a while he is out again. goes
s,ack to the same ram.shops, and goes
she same round Of sacrilege against his
Dhvsical health. He sees that his down
ward course is running his household,
shat his life is perpetual perjury against
his marriage vow, that the broken'heaTtec
woman u so unlike the roseate young wife
shat he married, and her old schoolmates
do not recognise her; that his sons are z
be tainted for lifetime by her father
drunkenness; that the daughters are T.
pass into life under the scarifcation OF
disreputable ancestor. He is drinking vi
Gheir happiness, their prospects for thu
aife and perhaps for the life to come
Sometimes an appreciation Of what he Il
doing comes upon him. His nervous sys
tenn is all a 1angle. From crown OF heat
60 sole of footis one aching, rasping, cruel
tying, damning torture. Where is hea y
hell on earth. Does it reform him? Ate
q while he has delirium tremens, with
whole jungle of kissing reptiles let out O.
his pillow, and his screams horrify th
neighbors as he dsshes out of his bed cry
sDg: s'Take these things of Of mel A
he sits pale and convalescent the docto
saws: snow want TO have plain tai
with you, my dear fellow. The next 81
H4n0 SyTyi1l
beyond all medical skill, and you wi
die.n He gets better and goes forth int
the same round again. This time med
cine takes no effect. Consultation OF ply
sicians agree in saying there is no hop'
Death ends the scene.
That process OF inebriation, warnin
and dissolution is going on within
stones throw Of this church, going on
all the neighborhoods of Christendon
Pain does not correct, Suffering does N
reform What ID true in one sense is tr1
in all senses, and win forever be so. an
vet men are expecting in the next " orr
purgatorial regeneration. Take up u
printed reports Of the prisons OF the Unite
States and yon will find that the vast m
jority of the incarcerated have been the
before. some Of them four, Ave, six time
with million illustrations all workir
che other way in this world, people a
expecting that distress in the next sta
viii be salvable. You can not imagil
any worse torture in any other world th'
which some men have suffered heres al
without any salutary consequence.
Furthermore: The prospect Of reform
zion ii the next world Is more improbat
than a reformation here. In this wor
the line started with innocence OF infanc
In the case supposed the other life W
open with all the accumulated bad habi
q many years upon him. Surely it
easier to build strong ship out OF NJ
-. Ahar. ont of an old hulk that q