Nevada County picayune., 1889-10-09

C,odlinc.s is profitable for all things having the promise of the life that ls, and of that which l. to eome.-tl Tim. iv, \.
 True philosophy may fitly be characterized as wisdom teaching by example. That course of conduct which is best adapted to this present world, and which also prepares one best for the world to come, is surely the one which commends itself most to every rehecting mind. No one will deny that temperance, fortitude, patience, modesty, charity and faith qualify men for the successful prose- cution of the business of life; that, in the mixed state of good and evil, of joy and sorrow, of alternating success and failure, which make up the environment of this world, they constitute an admirable equipment to make the most and the best out of the situation.
 All men by nature have the same kind of animal life, in varying de- grees of intensity and strength; but the promise of higher life, one that shall dominate and control the lower or animal life, is made to all who comply with the conditions of this higher life. These conditions em- brace trust in God, and the subjec- ton of the carnal man to the control of the spirit of God. The animal life. or the life of those who SOW to the flesh, is at best but lower order of life; it derives its enjoyment from sensual qualifications, and IS analo- gous to the condition of the brute creation. The wicked are therefore debarred from all the finer pleasures and virtuous enjoyments which spring from the spiritual life; whereas, the righteous have the promise not only of the present life, but also Of that which is to come in the eternal world.
 Life is not worth the living that does not fit it's environment and such life has no promise of per manency, but is destined to brief duration. and at last will go out in darkness and oblivion. The only life worth living is the life of the righteous; it commences its exist i tence at the death of sin, and after triumphing over all Its enemies in this world. it ascends to the plane of angelic glory, and luXurates in the i fruition of unalloyed happiness in a home mot made with hands, eternal in the heavens. The true Christian, therefore, is the true philosopher :; and religion is the true philos- ophy of life, making the most of this world, and inheriting all the blessings of the world that IS | to come.
 There is one view of this subject that has been generally overlooked, about which we desire to venture some comments: It is said that god liness not only has the promise of this life, but also of that which is to come. If this be true, then the wicked have no promise of life in tbA world to come; but death, everlast- ing destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power, will cut them off and con sign them to the shades of everlasting oblivion and forgetfulness. It Is true, that on the morning of the gen. eral resurrection, they will rise from the dead after the righteous, in order to take part in the great judgment, and to be punished according to the deeds of the body; but immediately after the scenes of the judgment their doom will be pronounced and put in- to execution, so that none but the righteous will inherit everlast- ing life.
 As the present life is so short, and eternity is so near at hand, 1t be- 1 hooves all to make the most of this world, and to secure title to that life which lies beyond. Every consideration of expediency, of wisdom and happiness, proclaims the phil osophy of religionin its adaptation to the condition of this world, as well as the world to come, while all observation and eX- perience, as well as all history, con- 1 firm the sad truth that "the way of the transgressor is hard,' and that his final end is death and destruction.