Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-07-05

Dut 10 you know what made the ALI
cent deluge a necessity? 1t was the
longevity IF the antediluvians They
We're worse in the second century Of
their life. inc than IN the first hundred
years, an 5. II worse in the third cen
fury, and still worse all the way to
seven. eight and nine hundred wears
and the earth had to be washed and
scrubbed and soaked and anchored clear
out of sight for more than month be-
fore II could be made fit for decent peo-
pie to live in. Longevity never cures
impenitents. All the pictures of Time
represent him with a scythe to cut. but
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 exam
pie of clemeney and kindness, but his
path all the way descended until at 6s
he became suicide. If eight hundred
years did not make antediluvians any
better, but only made them worse. the
ages of eternity could have no effect
except prolongation of depravity.
But, says someone, lin the future
state evil surroundings viii be with
drawn and elevated influences substi-
tuted and hence eNpurgation, aud sub
limation, and g.orification. But the
righteous, all their sins forgiven. have
passed on into beatifie state. and con-
sequently the unsaved win be left
alone. II cannot be expected that Doe
tor Duff. who exhausted himself in
teaching Hindoos the way to Heaven.
and Doctor Abeel, who gave his life in
the evangelization of China, and Adon-
Tram Judson, who toiled for the re-
demption Of Borneo, should b. sent
down by some celestial missionary so
eiety to educate those who wasted all
their earthly eXistence Evangelistic and
missionary efforts are ended The en-
tire kingdom of the morally bankrupt
by themselves, where are the salvatory
Influences to come from? Can one
speckled and bad apple I'M barrel Of dis
easeda apples turn the other apples good?
can those who are themselves down
help others up2 Can those who have
themselves failed in the business Of
the soul pay the debts of their spiritual
insolvents? Can million wrongs make
one right?
Ponerepolis was e city where King
Philip Of Thracia. pat all tbs bal pso-
pie Of his kingdom. II any man had
opened primary school ut Ponerepo-
lis, | do not think that the parents
from other cities would have sent their
children there. Instead of amending
in the other world, all the associations,
now that the good are evolved, viii be
degenerating and down You would
not want to send a 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, win be a poor place for
moral recovery. If the surrounding
in this world were crowded of tempta-
ton, the surroundings Of the next
world after the righteous have passed
up and on. win be thousand per cent.
more crowded of temptation.
The Countof 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 mothers and
sisters almost died with fright the soH
tells Us that the process gave him
nerves that could not tremble and
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 | wonder what Is
the curriculum Of that college of Infer
no where, after proper preparation by
the sins of this life, the candidate
enters, passing on from freshman
class of depravity to sophomore Of aban.
donment. and from sophomore to jun
Tor. and from junior To senior, and day
of graduation comes, and with diploma
signed by Satan. the president, and
other professional demoniacs, attesting |
that the candidate has been long |
enough under their drill. he passes up !
TO enter Heaven Pandemonium pre-
parative course for heavenly admission!
All. my friends. Satan and his cohorts |
have fitted uneounted multitudes for |
ruin. but never fitted one soul for hap |
piness.
Furthermore, il would not be safe fol
this world if men had another chance |
in the next lit had been announced |
that. however wiclSedlya man might |
act in this world. he could fix it mp all |
rioht in the next. society would be ter
riblv demoralized. and the human race
in few years. The fear
chat If we are bad and unforgiven here. |
Il viii not be well for rs in the next eN.
istenee. is the chic. influence that
l,eeps civilization from rushing back
~ semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism
from rushing into midnight savagerv,
and midnight savagerv into extinction.
for it is the astringent impression ofall
nations. Christian and heather. that
there * no future chance for those who
have wasted this.
Nult;tudes Of men who are KEEP
within bounds would say. Go e.
no,v, Let me get all ont Of this lie
there is in IT, Cone, glltt71y, ana IN