Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-21
REV. DIR. TALMAGE,
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE,s sim.
DAY SERMON.
subject: s'Another Chance. ;,

xi., 8. snaii De. Ecclesiastes
Ill, nnere y a hovering hope in tbe minds :,
as' inutltudeth that there will be nm ~, ~
p1;..en.y IN the next world to correct H.
nlnt. ~, " .h,s that II we do make com
pe.o sh'pWreck OF our earthly life n will -,
on snore. up which we NAV wall - W." W ~ pe
ne tnat, rs defendant NAV lose b,a par
~ .ne CIRCUIT court and carry il nm n ~ a.,
IRENE court or court of chancerv and 80 au-
olsdi OF judgment in his behalf oil a."
sos. - peihg thrown over on the other n,rt,,
a., Il we iaii In the earthly trial, we may T.,
nIsner jurisdiction of eternity have tho
me costa VI me lower court SET aside. all
.hs COSTS remitted. and we NAV bo viotar;o ~,
uelendants forever. NV object in th;s aal
mon is 10 show that common sense as I'll
as ny text declares that such an ex nectatio,,
~ numerical. You say that the imnenitont
man, having got into the next world an
seeing the disaster, will, as a result Of that
uisaster. turn, the pain the cause of he
stn ,orlnatlon. But you can find 10. 600 in.
wrnno III LUIS world OF men who have done
davis, Ny nn' aisIress overlook them sud-
uenly' Did the distress heal them9 No
they went right on. NO
.nat man was flung of designations. .you
must stop drinking" said the doctor ssand
IL. .io iast itIe You are leading. or If will
uestroy YOU" The patient suffers naroxr ~,,,
s paroxysm, but under skilrnI medical
.hsa.leht ne begins to sit up, begins to walk
Az ne room, begins to go to business.
anu 10, he goes back to the same orog.sbor
Tor mis- morning dram, and his evenin q ID raUp
una the drains between Flat down aoain3
same doctor Same physical anguish San,a
medical warning Now the Illness is ,,oro
protracted, the liver is mole stubborn, the
stomach more irritable. and the digestive or.
gdns are more rebellious. But after a vbile
ne ~ out again, goes back to the dramshons
MS physical health. VS. "'ii''
he sees that his downward course is min
ing ms household that his life is a pernet.
W uai perjury against his marriage VOW that
snas broken hearted woman is SO unlike the
nopelui young wife whom he married that
yer yer old schoolmates do not recognize her
III his sons are to be tainted for lifetime
~ tne iather's drunkenness that the daugh-
To- "tr ~ pass INTO life under the scarifica-
non q dfsreputable ancestor. He il
eerlnKing up their happiness, their prospects
~ sol WIS NE, and perhaps forthe life to come
sSometimes an appreciation of what be is do
ing comes upon him. His nervous system is
al a,tangle. From crown of head to sole Of
ioot ne IS one aching, rasping, crucifying.
oamning torture. Where is he? In hell on
earth. Does 1t reform him?
Alter awhile he has delirium tremens with
whole jungle OF Kissing reptiles let ont on
ms pillow, and his screams borritv tho
sneighbors as he dashes out of his bed cry
ing. Take these things off mer' As he site
pue ana conyalescent the doctor says
NOW, want to have plain talk with YOU.
my dear fellow. The next attack of this
hInd you nave you will be beyond all medi-
cal skill, and you will die" He gets better
and goes forth into the same 1gRt again
This time medicine takes no effect. Consul.
tation OF physicians agree in saving there is
no nope. Death ends the scene
. Ahat process oil lnebriation warning and
oissoiution is going on within a stones throw
OF you, going on in all the neighborboods of
SnrIstendom. Pain does not correct. Suf.
serihs uoes not reform. What is true in one
sense is true In all senses and will forever be
30, ana yet men are expecting in the next
world purgatorial rejuvenation. Take nm
sne printed reports OF the prisons of the
ohteu states, and you will find that the
vast majority ofthe incarcerated have been
tnere before. some Of them four. five six
lines With 100000 illustrations all work
ing the other way in this world, people are
expecting that distress in the next state will
De salvatory. You cannot imagine any wors.
torture in any other world than that which
some men have suffered here, and without
any salutary consequence.
furthermore, the prospect of q reforma-
ton In the next world is more improbahle
than reformation here In this world the
life started with innocence Of infancy. Tn
the case supposed the other life will open
with all the accumulated bad habits of many
years upon him. Surely it is easier to build
strong ship out of new timber than out of
an old hulk that has been ground up In the
breakers. Ii with innocence to begin with
In this life a man does not become godly
what prospect is there that in the next world
starring with sin. there would be a seraph
evoluted? Surely the sculptor has more
prospect OF making a fine statue out OF a
block OF pure white Parian marble than out
OF an old black rock scanned and cracked
with the storms of a half century. Surely
upon clean white sheet of paper 1t is easier
to write deed or will than upon a sheet
OF paper all scrubbed and slotted and torn
from top to bottom. Yet men seem to think
that. though the life that began here com
paratively perfect turned out badly, the next
NE VIII succeed, though it starts with dead
failure
"But," says some one, 81 think we ought
TO have chance in the. next life, because
this life is so short it allows only small on
portunity. We hardly have time to turn
around between cradle and tomb, the wood
OF the one almost touching the marble of the
other" But do you know what made the an
cient deluge necessity? 1t was the longe-
witty of the antediluvians. They we're worse
In the first hundred years, and still worse in
the third century, and still worse all the way
on to 700, 800 and 900 years, and the earth
had to be washed and scrubbed and soaked
and anchored clear out of sight for more
than month before 1t could be made fit for
decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitency, 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 example
OF clemency and kindness, but his path all
the way descended until at IS A. d. he be-.
came suicide. If 800 years did not make
antediluviansA any better, but only made
them worse, the ages of eternity could have
no erect except prolongation OF depravty.
But. says some one, Sin the future state
evil surroundings will be withdrawn and
elevated influences substituted, and hence
expurgation and sublimation and giorifica-
tion." But the righteous, all their sins for
given, have passed on into beatif1c state.
and consequently the unsaved will be left
alone. 1t cannot be expected that DR.. Duff,
who exhausted himself in teaching Hihdoos
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 earthly existence.
Evapgelistic and missionary efforts are
ended. The entire kingdom OF the morally
hankru bv Themselves WHARF are the