The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-27

the first hundred years, and still worse
II the third century, aud, still worse a.!
the way on to 100, 800 and 900 years
and the earth hadto be washed and scrub
bed aud soaked an& anchored clear Gu
of sight for more than q mSnth before i
could be made fit for decent people tt
live in.
longevity neyer cures impenjtencY
AL the pictures Of Time represent hin
with a scYtbe to cut, hut l never saw
any picture Of Tine with case otmedi.
cines to heal. Seneca says that Nero
for the irst five years Of his public litf
was set up for an example Of clenency
and kindness. but bis path all the way
descended until at 68 4. D. he became
q suicide. If 800 years did not make
an.edilu7ians any better, but only made
them verse, the ages Of eternity coulC
have 20 effect except prolorgatlon o.
depravity.
Bat" says some cne, ''in The future
state evil surroundings will be withdraw
and elevated Influences substituted, snd
hence e1purgation and sublimatiop and
glorifcatiou." But The righteous, al
their sins forgiven, have passed GA into
q beati6s state, and consequently the
unsavei will be lett alone. II cannot
be expected that Dr.. Duff, who exhaust
ed himself in teaching H%ndoos the way
to heaven, and DR.. Abeel. who gave bis
life in the evargelization Of China, and
Adoniram Judaon, who tOiled Tor the
redemption Cf Borneo, should be sent
down by some celestial missionary sccl-
etV to educate those who wasted all
their earthly existence. E7angelistic
and missionary efforts are ended. The
entire kingdom Of the morally bankrupt
by themselves, where are the salVatorY
Influences to come from? Can one
speckled and bad apple in barrel OF
diseased apples turn the ether apples
goodi Can lhose who are themselves
down help others up? Can those who
have themselves failed in the business
of the so7l pay the debts of their insolV-
ents? Can million wrongs make ona
right?
Poneropolis was a city where King
Philip of Thracia put all bad people Of
his kingdom. If any man had opened q
primary school at Poneropolis, do not
think the parents from other cities would
have sent their children there. lastead
of amendment in the other world, ali the
associations, now that the good are
evolved, will be 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
next world, containing the diseased and
plague struck, will be poor place for
moral recovery. If the surroundings IN
this world were crowded OF temptation,
the surroundings Of the next world, after
the righteous have passed up and on
will be 1000 per cent mere crowded OF
temptation.
The Count of Chateau5riand made his
little son sleep at night at the top OF a
castle turret, where the winds hoWled
and where specters were said to haunt
the place, and while the mother and sis'
tiers almost died with fright the son Tells
US that the process gave him nerves
that could not tremble and courage
that never faltered. But I don't think
that towers OF darkness and the spectral
world swept by eirocco and eurOclYdon
will ever fit one for the land OF eternal
sunshine, wonder what is the Curl
culum of that college OF inferno, where
after proper preparation by the sins OF
this world, the candidate enters, passing
op from freshman class of depraVity to
sophomore Of absndonment.' and from
sophomore to junior, and from junior to
senior, and day of graduation come, and
with diploma signed by satan, the pres
ident, and other professional demoniacs
attesting that the candidate has been
long enough under their drill, he passes
up to enter heaven! Pandemonium a
preparative course for heavenly admls-
sion! Ah, my friends, satan and his
cohorts have fitted uncounted multtudes
for ruin, but Dever fitted one soul TOR
happiness.
Furthermore, it would not be safe for
this world lfmer had another chance IL
the next. If had been announced that
however Wickedly man might act IN
this world, he could fix it up all right in
the next, society would be terribly de-
morallzed and the human race demol'
ished in few years. The fear that if we
are bad and unforgiven here it will not
be well forus in the next eXlstencels the
chiee influence that keeps civilization
from rushing rack to semibarbarism and
Standardization from rushing into mid.
night saVagery, and midnight savagery
from extinction, for it ls the astringent
impression of all nations-Christian and
heathen-that there is no future chance
for those who have wasted this.
Multitudes of men who are kept with
in hounds would say: "Go to, nov!
Let me get all out of this life that there
is in it. Come, gluttony and inebris'
ton and uncleanness and revenge, and
all sensualities and walt upon me. My
life maybe somewhat shortend in this
world by dlssolIteness, but that will
oniy make heavenly indulgence on 8
larger scale the sooner possible. l will
oYertake the saints at lasi and will enter
the heavenly temple only little later
than those who behaved themselves
here. l will on my way to heaven take
a little wider excursion than those who
were on earth pious, and I shall go to
heaven via gehenra 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 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, saving, 1.-The first
is nothing; the last is everything"
Give the race assurance Of a second and
important trial in the subsequent life,
and all the preparation for eternity
would be ''post mortem," post funeral,
post sepulchral, and the world with one