The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-18

/ the morally bankrupt by themselves,
I where are the salVatOry influences to
/ come from? Can one speckled and bad
/ apple in q barrel Of diseased apples turn
/ the other apples gOodl 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 spiritual insolvents. Can a million
wrongs make one rightz
PoBerOpOlis 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 [ 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 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 RICH teOus have passed up and on, will
be thousand per cent. more crowded of
temptation.
The Count of Chateaubriand made his
little son sleep at night at the top of
castle turret, where the winds howled
and where spectres were said to haunt
the place; and while the mother and sis
tiers almost died from fright, the son tells
us that the process gave him nerves that
could not treIhble and a courage that
never faltered. But l 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 inferno, where, after proper
preparation by the sins of this life, the
candidate enters passing on from fresh
man class of depravity to sophomore of
abandonment, and from sophomore to
junior, and from junior to senior, and
day of graduation comes, and with di-
ploma signed by Satan, the president,
and other PROFESSIONAL demoniacs, attest
ing that the candidate has been long
enough under their drill, he passes up to
enter heaven! Pandemonium prepare
tive course for heavenly admission! All,
my friends, Satan and his cohorts have
fitted uncounted multitudes Tor ruin, but
never fitted one soul for happiness
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, lie could fix it up all right in
the next, society would be terribly de-
mOralized, and the human race demol-
lshed in a few years. The fear that. if
NC dI6 Ddu anu uulOIRlNCu mere. III Will
not be well for US in the next existence is
the chief influence that keeps civilization
from rushing back to semi-barbarism,
and standardization from rushing into
midnight savagery and midnight savage
~ from extinction; for it is the astrin-
gent impression of all nations, Christian
and heather, that there is no future
chance for those who have wasted this.
Multitudes of men who are kept within
hounds yVnnlH Goo n I or
get all out of this life there is in it. Come
gluttony, and inebriation, and unclean-
ness, and revenge, and all sensualities.
and wait upon me! My life may be some
what shortened in this world by dis
soluteness, 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 little later than those who
behaved themselves here. ! will on my
way to heaven take little wider eXcur-
sion than those who were on earth pious,
and | shall 90 to heaven via Gehenna and
via Sheol." Another chance in the next
world means free license and wild aban-
donrnent in this.
Suppose you were party in an impor-
tant case at law, and you knew from CON
sultatiOn 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 everything:
for which trial would you make the most
preparation, for which retain the ablest
attorneys, for which be most anxious
about the attendance of Witnesses 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 godlessness.
Furthermore let me ask why a chance
should be given in the next world if we
have refused innumerable chances in
thisl Suppose you give a banquet and
you invite vast number of friends but
one man declines To come, or treats YOUR
invitation with indifference. You in the
course Of twenty years give twenty ban
quets, and the same man is invited to
them all, and treats them all in the same
obnoxious way. After awhile you remove
to another house. and better. and YOU
again invite your friends, but send no in
vitatlon to the man who declined or neg
lected the other invitations. Are YOU to
blame! Has he a right to expect to be in
Vited after all the indignities he has done
your God in this world has invited us all
] 10 the Ddnq u6J OF MS grace he invited
us by his providence and his Spirit three
hundred and 'sixty-tive days Of every
/ year since we knew outright hand from
/ our left. If we declined il every time, or
| treated the invitation with Indifference,
! and gave twenty or forty or fifty years of
lndignity on our part toward the Ban
! queter, and at last he spreads the ban
/ quet in a more luxurious and kingly place,
amid the heavenly gardens. have we a
right to expect him to invite us again,
! and have we a right to blame him if he
! does not invite usl
! If twelve gates of salvation stood open
| twenty years or fifty years for our adj
mission, and at the end of that time they
] are closed, can we complain of it and say:
/ These gates ought to be open again.
| Give us another chanceln If the steamer
is to sail for Hamburg and we want to
/ get to Germany by that line, and we read
in every evening and morning newspaper
that it will sail on a certain day. for two
weeks we have that advertisement before
our eyes, and then we 60 down to the
docks fifteen minutes after it has showed
of into the stream and say: Come back.
Give me another chance. 1t is not fair to
treat me this way. Swing up to the
dock again, and throw out planks, and let
me come on board" Such behavior
would invite arrest as a mailman.
/ An d it, after the gospel ship has lain at
anchor before our eyes for years and
years, and all the benign voices of earth