Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-22
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nation and glorifcation." But the
righteous. all their sins forgiven, have
passed ON into beatific state, and con-
seouently the unsaved will be left alone
1t cannot be expected that Dr. Dun
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 tromf
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 busi-
ness of the soul pay the debts OF their
spiritual insolvents? Car a million
wrongs make one right?
Poneropolis was 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 tho 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 hos
pital for his health, and the great laz-
arctic 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 crowd
ed of temptation, the surroundings OF
the next world, after the righteous have
passed up and on, will be a thousand
Der cent more crowded of temptation
From Freshman to Senior.
The Count Of Chateaubriand made
his little son sleep at night at the top
of a 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
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
bv 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
err PROFESSIONAL demoniacs, attesting that
the candidate has been long enough I'M
der their drill, he passes up to enter
heaven! Pandemonium a preparatiye
course for heavenly admission! All my
friends, satan and his cohorts have fitted
uncounted millions for ruin, but never
fitted one soul for happinessl
Furthermore, it would not DO safe Tor
this world if men had another chance
in the next. If it had been announced
that. however wickedly o man might
act in this world, he could fix 1t up all
right in the next, society would be ter
riblv demoralized, and the human race
demolished in few years. The fear
that if we are bad and unforgiven here
il 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 sayagery, and
midnight sa7agely from extinction, for
it is the astringent impression Of all ma
tions. CHRISTIAN and heather, that there
is no futnre chance for those who have
wasted this.
Mutitudes Of men who are kept with !
in bounds would say: "GO to, now! Let
me get all out Of this life there is in it.
Come gluttony and inebriation and
and revenge and all sensu-
alities, and wait upon mel My life may
be somewhat shortened in this world by
but that will only make
heavenly indulgence on a larger scale
the sooner possible. l will oyertake the
saints at last and will enter the heaven
" temple only little later than those
who behaved themselves here. Twill on
my way to heaven take a little wider
excursion than those who were on earth |
pious, and shall go to heaven via &C.
benna and via sheol. " Another chance |
in the next world means free license and |
wild abandonment in this.
The Post Mortem.
Suppose you were party in an i'm
portant case at law, and you knew from
with judges and attorneys !
that it would be tried twice. and the
first trial would be of little Importance,
but that the second would decide every
thing, for which trial would yoa make |
the most preparation, for which retain |
the ablest attorneys, for which be most |
anxious about the attendance Of wit
nesses? 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 |
Furthermore, let me ask why a chance |
should be given in the next world if we
have refused innumerable chances in
this? Suppose you give banquet, and
you invite vast number Of friends, but
one man declines to como or treats
your invitation with indifference. You |
in the course Of 20 years give 20 BAN
quets, and the same man is invited to
them all and treats them all in the same
obnoxious way. After awhile You re-
move to another house, larger and bet
ter, and you again invite your friends,
but send no invitation to the man who |
declined or neglected the other invita-
lions. Are you to blame? Has he
right to expect to be invited after all
the indignities he has done you? God