The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-29

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Of clemency and kindness, but his path
all the way descended until at sixty
eight he became a suicide. IL 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, Sin the future
state evil surroundings win be with
drawn and elevated influences substi-
tuted, and hence expurgation and sub
| limation and Qualification. But tho
righteous, all their sins forgiven, have
passed into beatific state, and conse-
i quently the unsaved will be left alone.
It can not be expected that DIR. Duff,
who exhausted himself In teaching
\ Hindoos the way to heaven, and
DR.. Abeel, who gave his life in the
evangelization 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
GIL DdhhEupL ny bACAlSCINCS.
where are the salvatory infu
ences to come from? Can one speclxlesl
and bad apple in barrel of diseased
apples turn the other apples goods
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
I do not think the parents from other
cities would have sent their children
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 a
man to cholera or yellow
fever hospital for his health; and the
great lazaretto Of the next world, con-
tanning the diseased and plague-struck,
will be poor place for moral recovery.
If the surroundings in this world were
crowded of temptation, the surrounds
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 a 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
nerves that could not tremble and a
courage that never faltered. But don't
think that towers of darkness and
the spectral world swept by sirocco
and euroclydon win 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 to
| 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 been
long enough under their drill, he passes
] up to enter Heaven! Pandemonium a
preparative course for heavenly adj
missioni All, my friends, Satan and
his cohorts have fitted uncounted null
titudes 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 announced
that, however wickedly a man might
act in this world, he could fix it all
right in the next, society would be ter
ribly demoralized, and the human race
demolished in a few years. The fear
that, if we are bad and unforgiven here,
/ il will not be well for us in the next ex-
! istence, is the chief influence that keeps
civilization from rushing back to semi
barbarism, and semi barbarism from
rushing into midnight savagery, and
midnight savagery from extinction; for
it is the astringent impression of all ma
tions, Christian and heather, that there
is no future chance for those who have
wasted this.
Multitudes Of men who are kept with
in bounds would say: $50 to, nowl
Let me get all out of this life there is
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and uncleanness, and revenge, and
sensualities, and wait upon me! My
life may be somewhat shortened in
this world by dissoluteness, but that
will only make Heavenly indulgence ON
a larger scale the sooner possible. / will
overtal1e the saints at last, and will en-
ter the Heavenly Temple only a little
later than those who behaved them
selves here. / will on my way to
heaven take a little wider excursion
than those who were on earth pious,
and / shall go to heaven via Gehenna
and via Sheol" Another chance in the
next world means free license and wild
abandonment in this.
Suppose you were a party in an i'm
portant case at law. and you knew
from consultation with judges and att
torneys that it would be tried twice,
and the first trial would be Of little inn
portance, but that the second would
decide everything; for which trial
would you make the most preparation,
for which retain the ablest attor-
neys, for which be most anxious
about the attendance of wit
nesses? You would put ali the
stress upon the second trial, all the
anxiety, all the expenditure, saying:
The first is nothing, the last is every
thing" Give the race assurance of a
second and more important trial in the
subsequent life, and all the prepare
tion for eternity would be post NOR
tenn post funeral. post sepulchral