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

you know what made the ancient deluge
a necessity? 1t was the longevity Of the
antediluvians. They were worse in the
second century of their lifetime than in
the first hundred years, and still worse
in the third century, and still worse all
the way on to 700 500 and 900 years, and
the earth had to be washed and scrubbed
and soaked and anchored clear out of
sight for more than a month before IL
could be made fit for decent people 10
live in.
Longevity never cures impenitency.
All the pictures of Time represent him
with a scythe to cut, but 1 never saw any
picture of Time with case Of medicines
to heal. Seneca says that Nero for the
first five years of his public life was set
up for an example of clemency and kind
ness, but his path all the way descended
until at 6S A. d. he became a suicide.
If 500 years did not make antediluvians
any better, but only made them worse,
the ages of eternity could have no effect
except prolongation of depravity.
Wrongs and Rights.
But" says some one, lin the future
state evil surroundings will be with
drawn and elevated influences substituted,
and hence expurgation and sublimatiOn
and glorificatiOn." But the righteous, all
their sins forgiven, have passed on into
a beatific state, and consequently the un-
saved will be eft alone. 1t cannot be
expected that DR.. Duff, who exhausted
himself in teaching HindoOs the way to
heaven, and DR.. Abeel, who gave his
life in the evangeliZation of China, and
Adoniram Judson, who toiled for the re-
demption of BorneO, should be sent down
by some celestial missionary society to
educate those who wasted all their earth
ly existence. Evangelistic and mission
a off nrfC ora 1nA Lit,
dom of the morally bankrupt by them
selves, 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 themselves down help others up?
Can those who have themselves failed in
the business of the soul pay the debts
of their 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
a primary school at Poneropolis I 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 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 a 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. more crowded OF
temptation.
The count of Chateaubriand 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 a courage that
never faltered. But 1 don't think that
towers Of darkness and the spectral
world swept by sirocco and euroclydon