The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-01-28
a Social Element With the Lost.

Much is spoken and written about the
social element with the saved in heaven.
No doubt this will be one Of The joys ex'
perienced. But the fact that there will
be social element with the lost, end
that this will add to their punishment
and misery, is not often thought of.
Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ said
of those whom He shall place on His
left hand in that great day: "And
these shall go away into everlasting
punishment" Just what the nature of
that punishment will be, We may not
now fully know. But we do know that
it will be severe and without end. And
we know, too, that one clement in the
misery of the los! will be their associa-
ton with devils, and those that will be
like them in character. All the dwell
ers in that wretched abode will be III.
holy. They have no love to God, nor
to another. There will be no benevo-
lent feelings in any heart. All will be
"hateful and hating one another"
Malice will reign in every heart. There
will be no sympathy, no kindness, no
good will. All will be derelict in their
nature and in all their conduct. There
will be gathered all tho ofscouring of
the earth, all the vile and the vicious,
all that INDUCED in ell sorts of wicked
ness. The wretched dens of infamy
and Of iniquity will pour their inmates
into that prison of despair, where they
will be mutual tormenters, and use their
power to augment each others wretch
edness forever and ever.
Were there no other source of misery
this would be enough. This would
cause every cup$4o overflow. This
would be helFindeed-a punish
ment greater than could be borne. Pres
ident Dwight, in his sermon on the Fal-
len Angels, says:
perhaps there is not more affecting,
more overwhelming consideration to
serious mind than this (: that evil men
will hereafter be confined in the same
habitation with these hateful beings
who are possessed of disposition to do
everything which is injurious to God
and their fellow creatures, and to perpe-
trate all the crimes dictated by malice,
cruelty, deceit and revenge. To be i'm
prisoned in this world with a collection
ofabsndoned villains to ba hated and
despised, deceived and betrayed. op
pressed and insulted, wounded to the
soul with unceasing cruelty and treach-
cry, and broken down with scorn and
insolence, even for our present and mo-
mentary life, would, 1 think, be lot
sufficiently dreadful to lacreate the soul
with agony. What then must be the
nature and misery of confinement with
these powerful, active, sagacious beings,
whose minds ore all malices, fraud and
cruelty, and whose endless being is only
succession of rage, revenge and de-
spair W
We wonder not that it should be the
earnest prayer of the Psslmist: "Gather
not my soul with sinners, nor my life
with bloody men,"
If we would avoid that misery We
must here cast in our lot with the peo-
pie of God. 1t must be the language
of our hearts: "your people shall be my
people, and your God shall be my God"
We ourselves must be the people of God.
In the separation at the great day,
each and every one will be put with his
own class, and his everlasting abode will
be in his own proper place-the right
eous with the righteous, and the unholy
with the unholy; the friends of God
with His friends, and His enemies with
His enemies.-Pres6yterian Banner.