The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-06-23

drawn and elevated Influences substi-
Ind hence e~xpurgation and sub
limation and Qualification" But the
all their sins forgiven, have
passed on into a beatific state, and con-
the unsaved will be left
alone. 1t cannot be expected that DIR.
Duff, who exhausted himself in teach
ing Hindoos the way to Heaven, and
DIR. Abeel, who gave his life
in the evangslization 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
morally bankrupt by themselves, where
are the ~salvatory influences to come
fromP a one speckled and bad ap-
pie in a barrel of diseased apples turn
the other apples good? Can those who
are themselves down help others upP
Can those who have themselves failed
In the business Of the soul pay the
debts of their spiritual i~nsolvehts? Can
a million wrongs make one right?
Poneropolis was q city where King
Philip, Of Thracia, put all the bad peo-
pie of his kingdom. If any man had
opened a primary school at Ponerop-
oils, I do not think the parents from
other cities would have sent their chill
dren there. Instead Of amendment in
the other world, all the associations,
nopu that Tho rood - oyo1vad will no
degenerating and down. You would
not want to send q man to q 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. II the surroundings
in this world were crowded Of tempta-
ton, the surroundings of the next
world, after the righteous have passed
up and on, will be a thousand per cent.
more crowded Of temptation.
The count Of Chateaubriand made
his little Vol sleep at night at the top
Of a castle ~turret, where the wind
howled and where the specters were
said to haunt the place; and while the
mother and sisters almost died of fright
the son tells us that the process gave
him nerves that could not tremble and
a courage that never faltered. But I
don't think that towers of darkness
and the spectral world swept by sirocco
and euroclydon will ever fit one foI
the land Of eternal sunshine. I won
der what IL the curriculum
of that college Of Inferno.
where, after proper preparation by
the sins Of this life, the candidate en-
ters, passes on from freshmen 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 diploms
signed by Satan, the president, anG
other professional demoniAcs, attest
ing that the candidate has been Ions
enough under their drill, he passes vi
to enter Heaveni Pandemonium pre-
parative course for heavenly admis
sioni All, my friends Satan and hi
cohorts have fitted amounted multi
tudes for ruin, but W fitted ONT
soul for happiness.
for this world II men had another
chance In the next. II II had been an
nounced that, however wiokedly q maj
might act In this world, he could fx l
up all right In the next, society woult
be terribly d~emoralixed, and the human
race demolished in q few years. TIL,
fear that, II we are bad and unforgivel
here, IL will not be we'll for US In tn
next existence. Is the chief inffuenc,
that keeps civilization from rushini
back to semi-barbarism, and semi-bar
barism from rushing into midnigh
savagery, and midnight ssvagery from
extinction; for 1t Is the astringent i'm
preston Of all nations, Christian an
heather, that there II NO future chanc'
for those who have wasted this.
Multitudes Of men who are KEEP
within bounds would ssy: "Go to
nowl Let me get all out Of this hf
there is in 1t. Come. gluttony, and in
ebristion, and unclesnness, and re
venge, pnd all sensualities, and wal
upon mel My life may be somswha
shortened in this world by dissolute
ness, but that will only make heavenl
indulgence on a larger scale the soone
possible. l will overtake the saints q
last and will enter the Heavenly Tempt
only q little later than those who be
haved themselves here. I will on m
way to Heaven take Q little wider e,
cursion than those who were on cart
pious, and l shall 60 to Heaven via q
heuna and via sheol." Another chanc
In the next world means free liceus
and wild abandonment In this.
Suppose you were q party in IN in
portant case at law, and you knew frol
consultation with judges and attorney
that it would be tried twice, and Ii
first trial would be Of little importance
but that the second would decide ever
thing; for which trial would you maxi
J the most ~prepsration2 for which retail
the ablest attorneys? for which be mo
anxious about the attendance of wi
nesses? You would put all the sire
upon the second trial, all the anxiet,
all the expenditure, saying: THE fr
: is nothing, the last is everything
Give the race assurance of q second al
: more important trial in the subsequel
life, and all the preparation for eterni'
would be post mortem," post tuners
post sepulchral, and the world with or
Jerk be pitched of into impiety al
! godlessness.
Furthermore, let me ask why
chance should be given in the ne
world II we have refused innumerab
l chances In this? Suppose you give
banquet, and you invite q vast numb
. Of friends, but one man declines
E come, or treats your invitation wi
: indifference. You In the course
twenty years give twenty banquet
and the same man Is invited to the
all, and treats them all In the same O
! noxious way. After awhile you I
l move to another house. larger and b
ter, and you again invite your friend
s but send NO invitation to the m,
e who declined OF neglected the 9th
r invitations. Are you to blame? IL
he q right to expect to be invited aft
= all the indignities he has done 20
God in this world has invited US all