Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-18

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giorincation.' But the rlehtoo,,s III ~
s sins forgiven, have passed on info -.
~ s'aIe. and consequently tho ,,n.s-,',
WI pe leit aiono. II cannot he ernoc,,si
.hoe ". Dun, who exhausted hlmsals /,
wochlhg hindoos the way 10 heaven ,nd
". Aoeoi, Who gave his lie Ia the cvan'
kei<utlon Of China, and Adoniram Judsor
VINO toiied Tor the redemption Of lsornoo
snouiu DO sent down by gone celestial
missionary society 10 educate thosa ,vhn
Mas,od al their earthly existence Fynn.
h *, ana missionary efforts arc ended
my shtirc kingdom Of the morally bank-
rup, py themselves, where arc the salyato-
~ innncnces to come froniY Can ono
spcokied ana bad apple In barrel OF dis
Ssseu apples turn the other apples goodi
Ssn thosc who are themselves down helm
VVners upf Can those who have thcnselyea
iailed IN the business OF the soul nav tho
uenls OF their insolyuntsf Can n million
wrongs make one right
foneropolis was city where King Phil.
Up Of Ihracia put all tho bad people OF his
khguom. II any man had opened prl.
mary kchool ~ Poncropolls, do not think
'ne parents from other cities would hive
sent their children there. Instead OF amend.
ment In the other world, all tho associa-
tions, now that tho good are evolved. will
DC 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 merit world. con.
tanning the diseased and plague struck.
VIII be poor place for moral recovery.
III tho surroundings In this world vera
crowded OF temptation, the SURROUNDINGS
OF the next world, after the righteous
have passed up and on, will be l, 600 per
cent moro crowded of temptation.
The Count Of Chnteaubriand made his
little son sleep at night at the top OF a cas-.
tie turret where tho winds howled and
where specters were said to haunt tho
place, and while tho mother and sisters al
most died with fright the son tells us that
tho process gave him nerves that could not
tremble and courage that never faltercd.
But don't think that towers Of darkness
and the spectral world swept BY sirocco
and curoclydon will ever a. one for the
land Of eternal sunshine. wonder what
is the curriculum OF that college OF infer
no, where, after proper preparation by tho
sins of this life, the candidate enters, pass.
ing on from freshman class Of dcprayity to
sophomore Of abandonment and from soph.
omore TO junior, and from Junior TO senior
and day Of graduation comes, and with
diploma signed by satan, the president
and other PROFESSIONAL demonincs, attest.
ing that the candidate has boen long
enough under their drill, he passes up TO
enter heaven Pandemonium u prepare
tive course for heavenly hdmisslonl All,
my friends, satan and his cohorts have ut
ted uncounted multitudes for ruin, but
never fitted one soul for happiness
What Another Chance Means.
Furthermore, II would not be safe for
this world II men had another chance In
the next. II It had hecn announced that,
however wiclIedly man mlgktact in this
world, he could fix II up all right in tho
next society would bo terribly democrat
lied and the human race demolished in q
few years The fear that II We are bad and
unforgiven hero IL will not DO we'll for us
in the next existence is tho chief influence
that keeps civilization from rushing back
to somibarbGrism, and standardization from
rushing into midnight sayagery, and mid
night savaEery from extinction, for II Is
the astrlngenb impression Of all nations
Christian and heathon-that there Is no
future chance fcI those who hayo wasted
this.
Multltudes Of mon who are kept within
bounds would say; Go to, nowl let mo
get all out Of this life there IA in It. Come,
gluttony and inebrlation md uncleanness
and revenge, and all sensualitles, and walt
upon me. My life may DO somewhat short.
end in this world by dissolutencss, but
that will only mako heavenly indulgence
on larger scale the sooner possible, l
will ovcrtake the saints at last and will
enter the heavenly temple only little
Ia la rs14, habnvaA fhartnanI xrn
here will on my way TO heaven take q
little wider excursion than those who
were on earth pious. md shall go to heay-
en- via gehenna and via sheol. Another
chance In the next world means free H.
cense and wild abandonment In this
Suppose you were a party In an impor-
tant case at law, and you knew from CON
sultation with judges and attorneys that
1t would be tried 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 prep
nration, for which retain the ablcst attor-
neys, for which be most anxious about the
attendance of witnessesi You would put
all tho stress upon the second trial, all the
anxiety, all the expenditure, saying, 1.-THE
first Is nothing; the last IS everything"
Give the race assurance Of q second md
more important trial 10 tho subsequent
life, and all the preparation for eternity
would be post norton" post funeral
post sepulchral, and the world with one
Jerk be pitched on into impiety and god
lessness.
Only one Invitation.
Furthermore lot mo ask why chance
should be given in tho next world II we
have refused innumerahls chances In this'
Suppose you give banquet, and yon In
vito vast number OF friends, but one
man declines to como or treats your inyi-
tation with Indifference. You In the course
OF 90 years give 90 banquets, and the snrne
man is invited TO them all and treats
them all in the same obnoxious way. Aft
er awhile you remove to another house,
larger and better, and you again Invite
your friends, but send no invitation TO the
man who declined or neglected the other
Invitations Are you TO hlaniei Has he
right to expect 10 he invited after all the
indiRnitias no has done you'll God In this
world has invited us all to the banquet OF
his grace. He invited us by his proyi-
dence and his spirit 1866 days OF every year
since We knew our right hand from our
left II we declined 1t every time or treat
ed the invitation with indifference, and
give go or 40 or so years OF indignity on
our pnrt toward the banqncier, and at Inst
~ spreads the banquet In moro lunurl-
- '.na ttngiv place amid the heavenly