The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21

oe expected that YOU could hp;ld
petter ship out OF new tim Der tina,
= OUT OF an old hulk that has bee,
ground up in the breakers? If sta 4
ing with comparative innccencv m,
t man does not become cody, is 1t hos
slble that starting with sin 4 sernpl
can be evoluted? Is there not NOR,
prospect that sculptor will make ;
inner statue out of block Of pnre
: whlte Parian marble than out Of ,
. pIack rock that has been cracked AM
twisted and split and SCARED With m.
t storms OF half century? Could W,
> not write last will and testament. q,
write a deed, or write an imnortan1
uocument on pure white sheet OF
, paper easier than you could write Il
upon a sheet of paper scrubbed all
over with lnfamy and blotted and torn
from topAo bottom? And yet there are
those who are SO uncommon sensical as
20 Deneve that though man starts in
inns world with infancy and it's inno-
cehce ana turns out badly, in the next
world he can start with dead failure
and turn out we'll. "But," saw some
people, I'VE ought to have another
cnance In the next world because our
LIE here is SO very brief; we scarcely
nave room to turn around between the
cradle and the grave, the wood of the
one almost striking against the marble
OF the other. We ought to have an
other chance because Of the brevity of
this life''
My friends, do you know what made
the ancient deluge necessity? It
was tne longevity OF the antediluvians.
They were worse in the second CEN
Jury than in the first and worse when
| they got 300 years old, and worse at
400, and worse at 500, and worse at 600,
and worse at 500; the, world had to
be washed and secured and scrubbed
and soaked and sunk and anchored
whole month under water before it
was tit for decent people to live in.
have seen many pictures of old Time
with his scythe to cut, but | never
saw any picture of Time with a
chest of medicines to heal Seneca
said that in the first few years of
his public life Nero was set up as an
example of clemency and kindness,
but he got worse and worse, the path
descending, until at So years of age he |
was the suicide. If 500 years of life
time could not cure the antediluvians |
OF their iniquity, undertake to say
that all the ages of eternity would be
only prolongation of depravity. But
says some one, ''in the next life the
evil surroundings will be withdrawn
and good influences will be substituted,
and hence, expurgation, sublimation,
gloritication. But you must remem-
Der that the righteous, all their sins
forgiven, pass right up into beatific
state, and then having passed up into
the beatific state, not needing any
other chance, that will leave all those
who have never been forgiven, and
who were impenitent, alone-alone!
and where are the salvable influences
TO come from? Can it be expected that
DR.. Duff, who spent his whole life in
pointing the Hindoos to Heaven, and
DR.. Abeel, who spent his life in evan
gelizing China, and that Judson, who
pent his life in preaching the Gospel
% Burmah-can it be expected that
hey will be sent down from some
CELESTIAL missionary society to educate
nd to save those who wasted their l
arthly existence? No. We are told
distinctly that all missionary and +
influences will be ended .
orever, and the good. having r
assed up to their beatifc state, 8
II the morally bankrupt will .
s1xyba |
alvable influences to come from? Will a
specked or bad apple put in barrel !
diseased apples make the other +
pples good? viii one who is down be f
BILE to lift others up? Will those who h
ave miserab bly, failed in the business a
f this life be able to pay the debts of |,
Their spiritual insolyents? VIII a q
lillion wrongs make one right? |,
was the city where King a
ufus of Thracia put all bad people le
his kingdom, and whenever there "
ere Ubiquitous people found In any a,
lrt of the land they were all sent to NJ
metropolis. 1t was the great capital a,
wickedness. Suppose a man or e
oman had opened a primary school in N
metropolis, would the parents of other a,
ties have sent their children there to 4,
, educated and reformed? m
If a man in this world was surround or
with temptation, in the next world, n,
the righteous having passed up Il
to the beatific state, the association II,
Ill be more deteriorating, depreciat- tn
q and down. You would not send on
a cholera or yellow fever hospital a til
an for his health, and the great laza- to
ito of the future, in which are gath OF
ed the diseased and the plague 81
'uck, will be poor place for moral it.
,overy. The count of Chateaubriand, an
order to make his child courageous, ar