The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-04


900 years, and the earth had to be
washed and scrubbed and soaked and
anchored clear out of sight for more
than month before it could be made
fit for decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitency.
All the pictures Of Time represent him
with scythe to cut, but never saw
any picture of Time with a case of med
icines 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 de-
scended until at 6S A. d. he became a
suicide. If 800 years did not make ante
diluvians any better but only made them
worse, the ages of eternity could haveno
effect except prolongation of depravity
Many Wrongs DO Not Make Right.
But" says some one, sin the future
state evil surroundings will be with
drawn and elevated influences substi-
tuted, and hence expurgation and subli-
nation and glorification But the
righteous, all their sins forgiven, have
passed on into a beatific state, and CON
sequently the unsaved will be left alone.
1t cannot be expected that DR.. Duff,
who exhausted himself in teaching Hin
docs 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?
Can 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 bust
ness of the soul pay the debts of their
spiritual insolvents? Can a million
wrongs make one right?
Poneropolis was city where King
Philip of Thraoia put all the bad people
of his kingdom. If any man had opened
aprimary school at Poneropolis, l 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
Il man to a cholera or yellow fever hos
pital for his health, and the great laz-
arctic of the next world, containing the
/ diseased and plague struck, will be
/ poor place for moral recovery. If the
/ surroundings in this world We're crowd
I 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
er and sisters almost died with fright
/ the son tells us that the process gave
/ him nerves that could not trcmble and
| q courage that never faltered. But
| 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 l 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 9TH
er PROFESSIONAL demoniacs attesting that
tho candidate has been long enough un-
der their drill, he passes up to enter
heaven! Pandemonium a preparative
course for heavenly admissionl All, my
friends, satan and his coherts have fitted
uncounted millions for ruin, but never
fitted one soul for happinessl
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 up all
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 well for us in the next
existence is the chief influence that
keeps civilization from rushing back to
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: go TO, now! Let
me get all out of this life there is in it..
Come, gluttony and inebriation and
uncleanness and revenge and all sensu-
alities, 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 oyertake the
saints at last and will enter the heaven.
ly temple only little later than those
who behaved themselves here. Twill or
my way to heaven take little widel
, excursion than those who were on eartl
pious, and shall go to heaven via ge
henna and via sheol." Another chanc
|, |, in the next world means free license anC
wild abandonment in this.
The Post Mortem.
Suppose you were party i'll an i'm
. portant case at law, and you knew from
consultation with judges and attorney
. that it would be tried twice, and tn,
first trial would be of little Importance
= but that the second would decide every
9 thing, for which trial would you max
the most preparation, for which retain
. the ablest attorneys, for which be mos
y anxious about the attendance Of wit
nesses? You would put all the stres
upon the second trial, all the anxiety
all the expenditure, saying, "The frs
: is nothing; the last is everything.
Give the race assurance of a second ant
more important trial in tho subsequen
\ life, and all the preparation for eternit,
: would be post mortem, post funeral
post sepulchral, and the world wit