The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-20

will ever fit one for the land of eternal
sunshine. 1 wonder what is the curri-
culum of that college of inferno. where.
after proper preparation by the sins of
life, the candidate enters, passing on
from freshman class Of depravity to
sophomore of abandonment. and from
sophomore to junior, and from junior to
senior, the day of graduation comes, and
with diploma signed by satan, the presi-
dent 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 admis-
sion! All, my friends, satan and his CO.
horts have fitted uncounted multitudes
for ruin, but never fitted one soul for
happiness.
What Another Chance Means.
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 terribly de-
mOralized and the human race demol-
ished in a 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 civiliza-
ton from rushing back to semi-barbar-
ism, and semi-barbarsm from rushing
into midnight savagery, and midnight
savagery from extinction. for it Is the
astringent impression of all nations
Christian and heathen-that there is no
future chance for those who have wasted
this.
Mutitudes of men who are kept within
bounds would say: "GO to- now! Let me
get all out of this life there is in it.
Come, gluttony and inebriation and I'M
cleanliness and revenge. and all SEN
! Ns4g -
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 heavenly temple only a little later
] than those who behaved themselves 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 impor-
! tant case at law, and you knew from
consultation with judges and attorneys
| that 1t 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 a second and more
| 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
] Jerk be pitched off into impiety and god
! lessness.
Only One Invitation.
Furthermore, let me ask why chance
should be given in the next world if we
| have refused innumerable chances in
! this? Suppose you give a banquet, and
J you invite a vast number OF friends. but