The Penn's Grove record., 1894-06-22

tlfti MO1lu SNFIl ny SlIOEtb anu tufOFlNIOn
will ever fit one for the land OF %eternll sum
shine. | wonder what is the curriculum of
that college of inferno, where, after proper
preparation by the sins Of this life, the can
tidate enters, passing on from freshman
,lass Of depravity to sophomore OF abandon
ment, and from sophomore to junior, and
from junior to senior, and day OF gradua-
lion comes, and with diploma signed by
satan, the president, and other PROFESSIONAL
| ~lemoniacs, attesting that the candidate has
Oean long enou gh under their drill, he
passes up 10 enter heaven! plnlemonium
l preparative course for heavenly admis-
sion! All, my friends, satan and his coherts
nave fitted uncounted millions for ruin, but
lever>1ttel one soul for happiness!
Furthermore, 1t would not be safe for this
world if men had another chance in the
lext. II it had been announced that, how
ever wickedly O man might act in this world,
10 could fix it up all right in the next.
| society would be terribly demoraliZed, and
he human race demolished in a few years.
rhe fear that II we are bad and unforgiyen
lere it will not be well for us in the next ex-
stence is the chief influence that keeps civil
| cation from rushing back to semibarbar-
sn. and standardization from rushing into
mighty savagery, and midnight savagery
| rom extinction. for it is the astringent i'm
preston OF all nations. Christian and
| leathen, that there is no future chance for
| hose who have wasted this.
Multitudes of men who are kept within
| pounds would say eco to, now Let mo
| get all out of this life there is in it. Come.
yluttony and inebriation and uncleanness
md revenge and all sensualities, n wait
lpon me! My life may be somewhat short
,ned in this world by dissoluteness, but that
will only make heavenly indulgence on a
Hrger scale the sooner possible. | will over
AXE the saints at last and will enter the
heavenly temple only Il little later han
hose who behaved themselves here. | will
IN my way to heaven take a little wider ex-
,ursion than those who were on earth pious.
and l shall go TO heaven via gehenna and
Tia sheol." Another chance in the next
world means free license and wild abandon
nent in this.
Suppose you were a party in an important
Ease at law, and you knew from consultation
With judges and attorneys that it would be
ried 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
he ablest attorneys, for which be most aux-
Gus about the attendance Of witnesses? You
would put all the stress upon the second
rial, all the anxiety. all the expenditure,
saying, trhe first is nothing, the last Is
everything Give the race an assurance OF
| second and more important trial in the
subsequent life, and all the preparation for
eternity would tie ''post mortem.n post fu-
%leral, post sepulchral. and the world with
,ne jerk be pitched off into impiety and god
eSsness.
Furthermore, let me ask why a chance
Ihould be given in the next world if we have
'efus3d inuumerabie chances in this2 Sup
bose you give q banquet, and you invite a
1ast number OF friends, but one man de-
lines to come or treats your invitation with
Indifference. You in the course of twenty
FEARS give twenty banquets, and the same
nan is invited 10 them all and treats them all
II the same obnoxious way. After a while
rou remove to another house, larger and bet
er, and you again invite your friends, but
iend no invitation to the man who declined
Or neglected the other invitations.
Are you to blame? Has he a right
o expect TO be invited after all
he i~ndignities he has done you? God in
his world has invited us all to the banquet
" His grace. He invited us by His provi.
ience and His spirit $50 days of every year
ince We knew our right hand from our left.
II We declined it every time or treated tn.
invitation with indifference and gave twent
IL forty or fifty years OF indignity on on.
part toward the ~banqueter, and at last II
IIpreads the banquet in a more luxurious am
lingly place, amid the heavenly gardens,
lave we IA right to expect Him to invite II,
lStiut Hllu nlNGM Nc u Gul " bihlilt Illul a
lie does not invite US?
Ii twelve gates OF salvation stool open
wenty years or fifty years for our aimis.
ZION, and at the end of that time they are
closed. can we complain of 1t and say
These gates ought TO be open again. Give
Is another chance?" 1.-THE steamer is to sal
or Hamburg, and we want TO get to Ger
many by that line, AMI We read in every
,vening an every morning newspaper thai
J 4 will uaf1 IN q pprtoip tay. for I yr1 Nraa1Fs
We have that advertisement before our eyes
md then we go down 10 the docks flfteeI
minutes after it has showed OF into tht
stream and say ''Come back! Give IN,
mother chance! 1t is not fair to treat mt
n this way! Swing up to the dock again
md throw out planks and let me come OF
)oardr' Such behavior would invite arres
IS n mailman.
And If, after the gospel ship has lain n
lnchor before our eyes for years and years
md all the benign voices of earth an
heaven nave urged US to get on board, al
The might sail away at any moment, an
liter awhile she sails without US, is j
common sense to expect her to come back
lou might as well go out on the highland
It Navesink and call to the Majestic afteI
ihe has been three days out and expact he.
% return as to call back an opportunity foI
~leaven when it once has sped away. A
heaven offered us as a gratuity. and for
lifetime we refuse to take it, and ther
'ush on the bosses of JehoYahs bucsler de
handing another chance. There ought L
le, there can be, there will be. NO sucl
hing as posthumous opportunity. Ihu'
/. sur common sense agrees with my text, Il
ne tree fall toward the south or toward TN
North, in the place where the tree falleti
here it shall be"
You see this idea lifts this world up from
|, IN ~unimportant way station to n platform o
aupsndous issues and makes all eternlt!
yhirl around this hour, But one trial 10
, which all the preparation must be made II
: his world or never made at all. That Pile
Up all the emphases and all the climaxes am
III the destinies into life here. NO othe
l,hancei Oh, how that augments the yalu
md Importance of this chance!
Alexander with his army used to surroup'
!, | city and then would lift a great light II
!, oxen to the people that If they s~urrendere.
before that light went out all would be well
cut II once the light went out then the bat
i, ;ering rams would swing against tho wall
, md demolition and disaster would follow
, Well, all we need do for our present an
everlasting safety is to make surrender u
I, Christ, the King and Conqueror-surrende
If our hearts, surrender OF our lives, sur
a lender of everything. And He keeps a Srea
light burning, light OF gospel invitation, lIsn
zindled with the wood of the cross a1
tanning up against the dark nlSht OF our 81
+ and sorrow. Surrender while that grea
light continues to burn, for after it goes on
! here will be no other opportunity OF maxim
! peace with God through our Lord Jesu
/ Christ. Talk OF another chance. Why, til
b. is a supernal chance!
In the time OF Edward VI, at the battle G
|. Musselburg, a private soldier, seeing tina
The Earl OF Huntley had lost his helmet, too
! of his own helmet and put it upon tue hea
|, Of the earl, and the head OF the private 80
, der, uncovered, he was soon slain, whiI
: his commander rode safely out OF the BATH
: But in our case, instead OF a private soldi'
, Offering helmet to an earl, ii Is ! King pu
\ ling His crown upon an unworthy sn"lec
! 'ne KING dying that we might live. Tell it
> all points OF the compass. Tell it to mig
a and day. Tell 1t to all earth and heave
Tell ii to all centuries, all ages, all millenl
D ums, that we have such a magnificent chan
! in this world that we need no other h
i in the next.
q 1 am in the FURNISHED judgment hall Of I
t last day. A great white throne is LITE
I but the judge has not yet taken it. VIII
Y we are waiting for his arrival | hear imme
: tal spirits in conversation. what are y
A waiting hera for?' says a soul that went
from Madagascar TO a soul that ascend
= from America. The latter says, II car
y from Amariaa Ubpre forty years / heard n