The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-06-22
badly, the next life will succeed, though
it starts with q dead failure.

OuSnC I'd nave o CnanCe IN the next lie,
because this life is so short it allows
only small opportunity. We hardly have
time to turn around between cradle and
tomb, the wood of the one almost touch
ing the marble Of the other" But do
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, 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 it could be made
fit for decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitency.
All the pictures of Time represent him
with scythe to cut, but never saw
any picture of Time with case of med
icines 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 de-
scended until at So A. D. he became a
suicide If 800 years did not make ante
diluvians any better, but only made them
worse, the ages of eternity could have no
effect except prolongation of depravity.
Many Wrongs Do Not Make a Right.
But" says some one, lin the future
state evil surroundings will be with
drawn and elevated influences substi-
tuted, and hence expurgation and subli-
nation and Qualification. :" But the
righteous, all their sins forgiven, have
passed on into beatific state, and con-
sequently the unsaved will be left alone.
1t cannot be expected that DR.. Duff,
who exhausted himself in teaching Hin
docs the way to heaven, and DR.. Abel,
who gave his life in the evangelization
Of China, and Adoniram Judson, who
toiled for the redemption of Borneo,
should be sent down by some celestial
missionary society to educate those who
wasted all their earthly existence.
Evangelistic and missionary efforts are
ended. The entire kingdom of the moral
ly bankrupt by themselves, where are
the salvatory influences to come from?
Can one speckled and bad apple in a
barrel of diseased apples turn the other
apples good? Can those who are them
selves down help others up? Can those
who have themselves failed in the bust
ness of the soul pay the debts of their
spiritual 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
a man to cholera or yellow fever hos
pital for his health, and the great laz-
arctic of the next world, containing the
diseased and plague struck, will be
poor place for moral recovery. If the
surroundings in this world were crowd
ed Of temptation, the surroundings of
the next world, after the righteous have
passed up and on, will be thousand
per cent more crowded Of temptation.
From Freshman to Senior.
The Count of Chateaubriand made
his little son sleep at night at the top
of castle turret, where the winds
howled, and where specters were said
to haunt the place, and while the moth
er and sisters almost died with fright
the son tells us that the process gave
him nerves that could not tremble and
q 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 in
ferno where, after proper preparation
by the sins of this life, the candidate
enters, passing on from freshman class
Of depravity to sophomore of abandon
ment, and from sophomore to junior,
and from junior to senior, and day of
graduation comes, and with diploma
signed by satan, the president, and 9TH
er PROFESSIONAL demoniacs, attesting that
the candidate has been long enough I'M
der their drill, he passes up to enter
1eaveni Pandemonium preparative
course for heavenly admission All, my
friends, satan and his cohorts have fitted
amounted millions for ruin, but never
tilted one soul for happinessl
Furthermore, it would not be safe for ;
his world if men had another chance
n the next. If it had been announced .
hat, however wickedly man might
,ct in this world, he could fix it up all
light in the next, society would be ter
IDLY demoralized, and the human race
demolished in a few years The fear
hat If we are bad and unforgiven here
t will not be we'll for US in the next !
existence is the chief influence that
leeps civilization from rushing back to {
enlibarbarism, and semibarbarism from
'ushing into midnight savagery, and
midnight savagery from extinction, for
{ is the astringent impression of all ma
ions, Christian and heather, that there I
s no future chance for those who have /
wasted this. G
Multitudes of men who are kept with I
n bounds would say: go to, nowl Let {
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