The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-04
ONLY ONE JUDGMENT.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DISCUSSES A CHI
MERlcAL EXPECTATION


MERicAL EXPECTATION.
He Says There Is No Reversal of judgment
In the Next world-Thc Verdict Is Based
Upon Our Earthly Lives 49, The Final
Chance.
BROOKLYN, June 17.-Rev. Dr. Tai
maze, who is now on his round the
world journey, has selected as the sub
joct for his sermon through the press to-
day Another Chance" the text being
taken from ECclesiastes xi, 8, IF the
tree fall toward the south or toward the
north, i'll tho place where the tree fall.
eth there it shall be. "
There is n lowering hope in the minds
Of vast multitude that there will be
an opportunity in the next world to cor
rect the mistakes of this; that if we
do, make complete shipwrcck of our
earthly life it will be on shore, up
which we may walk to palace; that,
as a defendant may lose his case in the
circuit court and carry it up to the su-
preme court or court Of chancery and
get a reversal Of Judgment in his be-
half, all the costs being thrown over
on the other party, so, if we fail in the
earthly trial, we may in the higher ju-
risdiction Of eternity have the Judgment
of the lower court set aside, all the costs
remitted, and we may be victorious de
PENDANTS forever. Ny object in this
sermon is to show that common sense
as well as my text declares that such an
expectation is chimerical. You say that
the impcnitent man, having got into the
next world and seeing the disaster, will,
as result of that disaster, turn, the pain
the cause Of his reformation. But you
can find 10, 900 instances in this world
of men who have done wrong, and dis
tress overlook them suddenly. Did the
distress heal them? No; they went
right on.
That man was flung Of dissipations.
''You must stop drinking" said the
doctor, ''and quit the fast life you are
leading, or it will destroy you. The
patient suffers paroXysm after paroxysm,
but under skillful medical treatment he
begins to sit up, begins to walk about
the room, begins to go to business.
And, To- he goes back to the same
grogshop for his morning dram, and
his evening dram, and the drains be-
tween. Flat down againl Same doc
tor! Same physical anguish! Same
medical warningl Now the illness is
more protracted the liver is more stub
born, the stomach more irritable, and
the digestive organs are more rebellious.
But after awhile he is out again, goes
back to the same dramshops and goes
the same round of sacrilege against his
physical health.
Suffering Does Not Always Reform.
He sees that his downward course is
running his household; that his life is a
perpetual perjury against his marriage
vow; that that broken hearted woman is
SO unlike the roseate young wife whom
he married that her old schoolmates do
not recognize her; that his sons are to
be taunted for "A lifetime by the father s
drunkenness; that the daughters are TO
pass into life under the scaritication of
disreputable ancestor. He is drinking
tb;s lifa ord ,o,.hons Gov tha l;fo to
come Sometimes an onnreciotion of
what he is doing comes upon him. His
nervous system is all a-tangle. From
crown of head to sole of foot he is one
aching rosning crncifv;ng domping
tortrro Wboro 10 bop In beI, ~, oartb
Does it reform him?
After awhile he has de,iripm tre.
mems with a whole iunple of kissing
rontiles LEFT ont ON his niIlow and his
screams borrifv tbe neigbbors as he
dashes ont of his bed. CRYING. "Tal,e
tbaso tbincs off mali, As ba sits male
and convalescent the doctor saws.
"Now 7 want to have a nlain talk with
Won INV dear follow Tho next attack
/ of this kind Won have YOU will be be.
yond all madicol stili aud Won will
| die - He gets b.tter and poes forth intC
/ tho sa,na ronnd op,in This tima madi.
cine takes no effect Consultation nj
nhvsicions agree in saving there ia n,
hone Death ends the SCENE
That nrocess of inebriatiop warnine
and dissolution is going ON within ,
| stone's throw Of Won goinp ON in all th,
neighborhoods of Christendom. Pair
does not correct Suffering does not re
form. What is true in one sense is tru,
in all senses and will forever be So anf
vet men are expectinp in the next world
nurpatorial reiuvenation. Take mn tn,
printed reports of the prisons of tn,
United States. and you will find tha
the vast majority of the incarcerate,
have been there before. some of then
four. five. six times. With /, 600. 600 il
lnstrations all working the other way /,
this world. people are expectinp tha
distress in the next state win be saliva
tory Yon cannot imagine onv worse for
ture in anv other world than that whicl
some men have suffered here. and with
ont anv salutarv consequences
prosneot. of Reform.
Eur+hor,,orn tho nrosnao, 90 q rafor
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