Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-06-22

rupt by themselves, where art the sAl'ato-
~ influences 10 come froInf Can ono
speckled and bad apple In barrel Of dis.
eased apples turn the other apples sOod'
Can those who ara themselves down heip
Others upt Can llOse who have themselves
failed in tho business Of the soul pay the
debts Of their insulyentsG Can million
wrongs make one right
ponerupolis was city where King Phil
ip Of Thraoia put all the bad people OF his
Kingdom IL any man had opened pri-
mary school at Poneropolis, do not think
the parunts from other cities would have
sent their children there Instead OF amend
ment IN the other world all the assOcia-
tions, now that the good are evolved, will
bc degenerating and down. You would
not want to send IA man TO . cholera or
yellow fever hospital for his health, and
the great laZarctto of the next world, CON
tanning the diseased and plague struck,
will be poor place for moral recovery.
II the surroundings In this world wers
crowded Of temptation, the surroundings
of the next world after the righteous
have passed up and on, will be 1000 per
cent more crowded of temptation.
The Count OF Chateaubriand made his
little son sleep at night at the top OF Il cas-
tie turret, where the winds hOwled and
where specters were said TO haunt tho
place, and while the mother and sisters al
most died with fright the son tells us that
tine process gave him nerves that could not
tremblc and n courage that never falterCd
But don't think that towers Of darkness
and the spectral world swept by sirocco
and euroclydon will ever lit one for the
% I -l,ut
Is the curriculum of that college Of infer
no, where, after proper preparation ny the
sins OF this life, the candidate enters, pass
ing on from freshman class OF dcprayity to
sophomore of abandonment and from soph-
oInore to junior, and from junior to senior,
and day of graduation comes, and with
diploma signed by satan, the president,
and other PROFESSIONAL demoniacs, attest.
ing that the candidate has been long
enough under their drill, he passes up 10
enter heavenl Pandemonium prepare.
tive course for heavenly admission All,
my friends, satan and his cohorts have fit
ted uncounted multitudes for ruin, but
never fitted one soul for happiness.
What Another Chance Means.
Furthermore, il would not DO safe for
this world II men had another chance In
the next. II 1t had been announced that,
however wickcdly Il man might act In this
world, he could fix ii up ali right in tho
next, society would be terribly democrat,
lied and the human race demolished in a
few years. The fear that II we are bad and
unforgivcn here il will not be well for US
In the next existence Is the chief influence
that keeps civilization from rushing back
to semibarbarism and scnibarbarism from
rushing into midnight savaRery, and mid
night savagery from extinction, for 1t Is
the astringent impression OF all nations
Christian and heathcn--that there Is no
future chance for those who have wasted
this
Multitudes OF men who are kept within
bounds would say: Go to, nowl Let me
get all out Of this life there Is In It. Come,
gluttony and inebriation and uncleanncss
and revenge, and all sensualitcs, and wpit
upon me. My life may be somewhat short
end In this world by dissolutenCss, but
that will only make heavenly indulgence
on "A larger scale the sooner possible, |
will ovCrtako the saints at last and will
ente- the heavenly temple only little
later than those who behaved themselves
i here | will ON my way to heaven take II
little wider excursion than those who
were on earth pious and shall go to heav
en via gChenna and via sheol " Another
chance In the next world means free Ii
cense and wild abandonment In this.
SUPPOSE you werv party i'll an impor
tant case ut law, and you knew from con
sultation with judges and attorneys that
/ 1t would be tried twice, and the first trai
would be OF little Importance, but that tho
second would decide everything For
which trial would you make the most prep
aration, for which rrtain the ablest attor-
neys, for which be must nxious about the
attendance OF Witnesses You would put
| all the stress upon the second trial, all tho
anxiety, all the expenditure, saying, Tho
! first Is nothing; the last Is everything "
/ Give the race assurance OF a second and
moro important trial in the subsequent
| life, and all tho preparation for eternity
would be post mortem, post fsneral,
| post sepulChral, and the world with one
jerk DO pitched off into impiety and god
! les5neSs.
Only One Invitation.
Furthermore let me ask why chance
should be given in the next world II we
have refused innumeralle chances in this
! '"PpcSS soh BlFt u Ohllhclt anu YOU III
| wife vast number Of friends, but one
man declines TO come or trrats your inyi.
tation with Indifference. You In the course
Of 20 years give 70 banquets, and the same
man Is invited to them all and treats
them all In the same obnoxious way. Aft
er awhile you remove TO another house,
larger and better, and you again invite
your friends, but send no invitation to tho
man who declined or neglected the other
| invitations. Are you to blamef Has he a
night to expect TO be invited after all the
indignities he has done your God In this
world has invited us all to the banquet of
his grace. He invited US by his provi.
dence and his spirit S65 days of every year
since VIC knew our right hand from our
left II We declined 1t every time or treat.
ed the Invitation with indifference, and
gave 20 er DO or 10 years OF indignity on
our part toward 40 banqueter, and at last
he spreads the banquet IN a more luxuri.
Gus and kingly place amid the heavenly
'srdens, have we right to expect him to
sSite us again, and have We a right to
lame him II he does not invite ust
II IL gates Of salvation stood open 20
years or 90 years for our admission, and
at the end OF that time they are closed,
can we complain Of 1t and say: These
gntes ought to be open again Give us an
other chanCeH" II the steamer Is to sail for
Hamburg, and we want to get to Germa.
ny by that line, and we read In every
evening and every morning newspaper
that 1t Will sail on a certain day, for two
weeks we haze that advertisement before
our eyes, and then we go down to the
docks ID minutes after IL has showed off