The Globe-republican., 1894-06-22

z and Adoniram Judson. who tOilet
for the redemption of Borneo
should be sent down by some celestia
missionary society to educate thOs'
/ who wasted all their earthly existence
Evangelistic and missionary efforts art
ended. The entire kingdom of the
morally bankrupt by themselves. where
are the salvatOry influences to come
from? Can one speckled and bad ap
pie in a barrel of diseased apples turn
the other apples good? Can those who
are themselves down help others up:
Can those who have themselves failed
in the business of the soul pay the
debts of their spiritual insolvents? Can
million wrongs make one right?
PonerOpOlis was a city where King
Philip. of Thracia. put all the bad peO'
pie of his kingdom. If any man had
opened a primary school at Ponerop-
oils. | do not think the parents from
other cities would have sent their chill
dren there. Instead of amendment in
the other world. all the associations,
now that the good are evolved. will be
degenerating and down. You would
not want to send man to a cholera or
yellow fever hospital for his health:
and the great laZarettO of the next
world. containing the diseased and
plague-struck, will be poor place for
moral recovery. If the surroundings
| in this world were crowded of tempta-
ton, the surroundings of the next
| world. after the righteous have passed
up and on. will be thousand per cent.
| more crowded of temptation.
The count of Chateaubriand made
his little son sleep at night at the top
of castle turret. where the wind
howled and where the specters were
said to haunt the place: and while the
mother and sisters almost died of fright
the son tells us that the process gave
him nerves that could not tremble and
courage that never faltered. But l
don't think that towers of darkness
and the spectral world swept by sirocco
and euroclydon will ever fit one for
the land of eternal sunshine. ! won
der what is the curricIlum
of that college Of Ilferno,
where. after proper preparation by
the sins of this life. the candidate en-
tiers. passes on from freshmen class of
depravity to sophomore of abandon
ment. 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 professional demOniacs, attest
ing that the candidate has been long
enough under their drill, he passes up
to enter Heaven! Pandemonium pre-
parative course for heavenly admis-
sion! All. my friends Satan and his
cohorts have fitted uncounted multi
tudes 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. If it had been an
nOunced that. however wickedly man |
might act in this world. he could fix it |
up all right in the next. society would |
be terribly demoralized. and the human |
race demolished in few years. The |
fear that. if we are bad and unfOrgiven |
here. it will not be well for us in the |
next existence, is the chief influence |
that keeps civilization from rushing |!
back to i-barbarism. and semi-bar- |
barism from rushing into midnight |
savagery. and midnight savagery from
extinction: for it is the astringent i'm
preston of all nations. Christian and
heather. that there is no future chance
for those who have 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 in
ebriation. and uncleanness. and re-
venge. and all sensualities. and wait
upon me! My life may be somewhat
shortened in this world by dissolute-
ness. but that will only make heavenly
on larger scale the sooner
possible. will overtake the saints at
last and will enter the Heavenly Temple
only little later than those who be-
naved themselves here. l will on my
way to Heaven take little wider ex-
.ursion than those who were on earth
pious. and shall go to Heaven via Ge-
henna and via sheol." Another chance
in the next world means free licer Sc
and wild abandonment in this.
Suppose you were party in an i'm
DOrIduU Case dt law. anu you Knew IRON /
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 every
thing; for which trial would you make
The most preparation? for which retain
the ablest attorneys? for which be most
anxious about the attendance of wit
nesses? You would put all the stress
upon the second trial all the anxiety,
all the expenditure, saying: The first
is nothing, the last is everything"
Give the race assurance of second and
more important trial in the subsequent
life. and all the preparation for eternity
would be post mortem." post funeral.
post sepulchral. and the world with one
Jerk be pitched off into impiety and
yodlessness.
Furthermore, let me ask why a
chance should be given in the next
world if we have refused innumerable
chances in tAis? Suppose you give a