Connecticut western news., 1894-06-21
Many Wrongs Do Not Make Right.

state eV1l surroundings Will be With drawn and elevated influences substi- tuted, and hence expurgation and subli- nation and glorifcation. But the righteous, all their sins forgiven, have passed on into beatific state, and con- sequently the unsaved will be left alone. It cannot be expected that Dr. Duff, who exhausted himself in teaching Hip- doos 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 moral ly bankrupt by themselves, where are the salvatory influences to come from? Gan one speckled and bad apple in barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good? Can those who are them selves down help others up? Can those who have themselves failed in the busi- ness of the soul pay the debts of their spiritual insolvents? Can a million wrongs make one right?
 Poneropolis was a city where King Philip of Thracia put all the bad people of his kingdom. If any man had opened primary school at Poneropolis, 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 hos pital for his health, and the great laz- aretto of the next world, containing the diseased and plague struck, will be poor place for moral recovery. If the surroundings in this world were crowd ed of temptation, the surroundings of the next world, after the righteous have passed up and on, will be a thousand per cent more crowded of temptation.
 From Freshman to Senior.
 The Count of Chateaubriand made his little son sleep at night at the top of castle turret, where the winds howled, and where specters were said to haunt the place, and while the moth CT 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 l don't think that towers of darkness and euroclydon will ever fit one for the land of eternal sunshine. wonder what is the curriculum of that college of in- ferno where, after proper preparation by the sins of this life, the candidate enters, passing on from freshman 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 oth- CT professorial demoniacs, attesting that the candidate has been long enough un- der their drill, he passes up to enter heaven! Pandemonium preparative course for heavenly admissionl An, my friends, satan and his coherts have fitted uncounted millions 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 man might
 
 right in the next, society would be ter ribly demoralized, and the human race demolished in few years. The fear that if we are bad and unforgiven here it will not be we'll for us in the next existence is the chief influence that keeps civilization from rushing back to semibarbarism, and semi bar barism from rushing into midnight savagery, and midnight savagery from extinction, for it is the astringent impression of all na- tions, Christian and heathen, that there is no future chancs for those who have wasted this. .
 Multitudes of men who are kept with in bounds would say: "Go to, nowl Let me get all out of this life there is in 1t. Come, gluttony and inebriation and unoleanness and revenge and all sensu- alities, and wait upon mel 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 overtake the saints at last and will enter the heaven ly temple only little later than those who behaved themselves here Twill on my way to heaven take a little wider excursion than those who were on earth pious, and I shall go to heaven via ge- henna and via sheol D Another chance in the next world means free license and wild abandonment In this.
 The Post Mo-tem.
 Suppose you were 8 party in an i'm portant case at law, and you knew from consultation 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 'tpost mortem, ' post funeral, post sepulchral, and the world with one jerk be pitched off into impiety and gOdlesSness.
 Furthermore, let me ask why chance should be given in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this? Suppose you give banquet and you invite a vast number of friends, but one man declines to come or treats your invitation with indifference. You in the course of 20 years give 90 ban quets, and the same man is invited to them all and treats them all in the same obnoxious way. After awhile you re- move to another house, larger and bet ter, and you again invite your friends, but send no invitation to the man who declined or neglected the other invita- tions. Are you to blame? Has he a right to expect to be invited after all the indignities he has done you? God in this world has invited us all to the banquet of his grace. He invited us by