The Bossier banner., 1894-08-02

upon clean, WnlUe SneeG OF paper II Is
easier to write deed or a will than
upon sheet of paper all scribbled and
blotted and torn from top to bottom
Yet men seem to think that, though
the life that began here comparatively
perfect turned out badly, the next life
will succeed though it starts with a
dead failure.
But" says some one, 81 think we
ought to have chance in the next life,
because this life is so short it allows
only small opportunity. We hardly
have time to turn around between cradle
and tomb, the wood of the one almost
touching the marble of the other ''
But do you know what made the an
cient deluge necessity? 1t was the
longevity of the antediluvians.
They were worse in the sec
ond century of their lifetime
than in the first hundred years, and
still worse in the third century, and
still worse all the way on to seven,
eight and nine hundred years and the
earth had to be washed and scrubbed
and soaked and anchored clear out of
sight for more than a month before it
could be made fit for decent people to
live in. Longevity never cures
impenitency. All the pictures of
Time represented him with a
scythe to cut, but 1 never saw
any picture of Time with a
case of medicines to heal. Seneca says
that Nero for the first five years of his
public life was set up for an example
of clemency and kindness, but his path
all the way descended until at sixty
eight he became suicide. If eight
hundred years did not make antedilu-
vians any better, but only made them
worse, the ages of eternity could have
no effect except prolongation of de-
pravity.
But says some one, ''in the future
state evil surroundings will be with
| drawn and elevated influences substi-
tuted, and hence ezpurgation and sub
limation and glorifcation. But the
righteous, all their sins forgiven, have
passed into beatific state, and conse-
quently the unsaved will be left alone.
1t can not be expected that DIR. Duff,
| WIZ CAIld uStCbl 1llLiloCll LII GedCulD&
Hindoos the way to heaven, and
Dr. Abee1, who gave his life In the
eyangelization of China, and Adoniram
Judson, who toiled for the redemption
of Borneo, should be sent down by
some celestial missionary society to
educate those who wasted all their
earthly existence. Evangelistic and
missionary efforts are ended. The
entire kingdom of the NOR
| ally bankrupt by themselves,
where are the salvatory influ-
ences to come from? Can one speckled
and bad apple 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 in
solvents? Can a million wrongs make
one right?
Peneropolis was city where King
Philip of Thracia put all the bad peo-
pie of his kingdom. If any man had
opened primary school in Poneropolis
l do not think the parents from other
C1blCo NOul1 nave StIIU Ui1CIE
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 q
man to cholera or yellow
fever hospital for his health; and the
great lazaretto of the next world, con-
tanning the diseased and plague-strucl,
will be a poor place for moral recovery.
If the surroundings in this world were
| crowded of temptation, the surround
| ings 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 wind howled
and where specters were said to haunt
| the place; and while the mother and
! sisters almost died with fright. the son
| tells US that the process gave him
courage that never faltered. But don't
| think that towers of darkness and
the spectral world swept by siroceo
| and euroclydon will ever fit one for the
land of eternal sunshine. | wonder
what is the curriculum of that college
of Inferno, where, after proper prepa-
ration by the sins of this life, the can.
didate enters, passes on from freshman
class of depravity to sophomore Of
abandonment, and from sophomore tc
junior, and from junior to senior, and
day of graduation come, and with di
ploma signed by Satan, the president
and other professional demoniacs, at
| testing that the candidate has beer
long enough under their drill, he passes
up to enter Heaven! Pandemonium {
preparative course for heavenly ad
mission! All, my friends, Satan and
his cohorts have fitted uncounted mul
titudes for ruin, but never fitted one
soul for happiness.
Furthermore, it would not be safe fol
this world if men had another chanct
in the next. If it had been announced
that, however wickedly man nigh
act in this world, he could fix it al
right in the next, society would be ter
ribly demoralized, and the human rae