The Red Cloud chief., 1894-07-06
badly, the next life will succeed, though
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But" snys some one, ~ think we
ought to have q chance in the next life,
because this life il so short IL allows
only small opportunity. We hardly have
time to turn around between cradle and
tomb, tho wood of the one almost touch.
ing the marble Of tho other" But do
you know what made tho ancient de!uge
a necessity? 1t was the longevity Of the
ant%ediluvians. They were worse III the
second century Of their lifetime than
in the first hundred years, and still
worse in tho third century, and still
worse all tho way OH to 200, 500 and
900 years, and the earth had to be
washed and scrubbed and soaked and
anchored clear out Of sight for more
than q month before IL could DO made
ct for decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitency.
All tho pictures Of Time represent him
with q scythe to cut, but I never saw
any picture of Time with O case Of med.
icines to heal. Seneca says that Nero for
tho first five years Of his public life VA
set mp for ali example Of clemency and
kindness, but his path all the way dc.
scended until at 68 A. ID. he became q
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 d~epravity.
Many Wrongs do Not Make Right.
but" says some one, Sin the future
state evil surroundings will be with
drawn and elevated influences substi.
tuted, and hence expurgation and subli.
nation and Qualification. But tho
righteous, oil their sins forgiven, have
passed on into q beatiic state, and con.
sequently tho tnsaved will be left alone.
1t cannot be expected that DR.. Duff,
who exhausted himself In teaching Hin.
docs the why to heaven, and DR.. Abeel,
who gave his life in the evangelization
Of China, and Adoniram Judson, who
toiled for the redemption Of Borneo,
should DO 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 ore
the ~salvatory influences to come from?
Can one speckled and bad apple in O
barrel Of diseased apples turn the other
apples good? Can those who arc 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 i~nsolvents2 Can O million
wrongs make ono right2
Poneropolis was o city where King
Philip of Thracia put oil the bad people
Of his kingdom. If any man had opened
aprimary school at P~oneropolis, l do not
think tho parents from other cities
would havo c their children there.
Instead OF amendment in the other
world, oil tho associations, now that the
good are evolved, will be degenerating
and down. You would not want to send
. man to q cholera or yellow fever hos.
pital for his health, and the great Lag.
arctic Of the next world, containing the
diseased and plague struck, will be q
poor place for moral recovery. If the
surroundings in, this world were crowd.
ed Of temptation, the surroundings of
tho next world, after tho righteous have
passed up and on. will DO q thousand
por cent more crowded of temptation.
From Freshman to Senior.
The Count OF Chateaubriand made
his little son sleep at night at the top
Of q 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. I 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 Oh from freshman class
of d~epravity 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
or PROFESSIONAL demoniacs, attesting that
the candidate has been long enough UNI
der their drill, he passes up to enter
heavenl Pandemonium q preparative
course for heavenly admissioni All, my
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uncounted millions for ruin, but never
fitted soul for happiness!
Furthermore, 1t would not be safe for
this world II men had another chance
in the next. II it had been announced
that, however wickedly q man might
act IN this world, he could fix it up all
right In the next, society would be ter
ribly demoralized, and the human race
demolished in a few years. The fear
that IL we are bad and unforgiven here
1t will not be well for us in the next
existence Is the chief influence that
keeps civilization from rushing back to
seniibarbarism, and semibarbarism from
rushing into midnight savagery, and
midnight savagery from extinction, for
1t is the a%stringent impression Of all ma
tions, Christian and heather, that there
is no future chance for those who have
wasted this.
Multitudes of men who are kept with
in bounds would say: go to, now! Let
me- get nil ont ~ th;o l;fo %ho.o e., -, a.