The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-14
ANOTHER CHANCE"
DR.. Talmage breaches of the Fall
lacy Of any Hope for It
Graphic Picture of the Day of Judgment
As the Tree Falls to the North or the
South, There 1t Shall Remain.

new. L. Dewitt Ialmage took for his
subject, ''Shall We Have Another
Chance" The text is, Feel. 11:3: iii
the tree fall toward the south, OF
toward the north, in the place where
the tree falleth, there il shall be-"
There is lowering hope in the mind
Of vast multitude of people that
there will be an opportunity in the
next world of correcting the mistakes
of this; that, however complete ship.
wreck we may make of earthly life, il
will be on a beach up which We may
walk to q palace; that as the defendant
may lose his case in circuit court and
appeal it and have it go up to the su.
preme court or court of chaneery and
all the costs thrown over on the other
party, so q man must lose his case in
this world, but in the higher jurisdie-
ton of eternity have the decision of
the earthly case set aside, all the costs
RENTED and the defendant be trium-
plant forever. 4,
The object of my sermon is TO show
you that common sense declares with
the text that such an expectation is
chimericaL IF the tree fall toward
the south, or toward the north, in the
place where the tree falleth, there it
shall be-" There are those who say
that if the impenitent and unforgiven
man enters the next world and sees the
disaster, as a result of that disaster he
will turn. the distress the cause of his
reformation; but we have 10000 in
stances all around about us of people
| who have done wrong, aud disaster
suddenly came upon them-did the dis
aster heal them? No. they went on.
There is man flung of designations
The doctor says to him: Now, my
friend, if you don't stop drinking and
don't stop this fast life you are living,
you will die" The patient thanks the
| physician for his warning and gets
better; he begins to sit up, begins to
walk around the room, begins to go to
business and takes the same round of
grog shops where he got his morning
dram and his evening dram and the
drains between. Down again. Same
doctor. Same physical anguish. Same
medical warning.
But now the sickness is more pro-
tracted, the liver more obstinate. the
stomach more irritable, the digestive
organs more rebelliOus But still, under
medical skill, he gets better, goes forth,
commits the same sacrilege against his
physical strength. Sometimes he wakes
up TO see what he is doing. and he real
lies he is destroying his family and
that his life is a perpetual perjury
against his marriage vows, and that
that broken-hearted woman is so diff
ferent from the roseate wife he married
that her old schoolmates do not recop-
nize her on the street, and that his sons
are going out in life under the taunt
of a fathers drunkenness and that his
daughters are going out in life under
the sterilization of a disreputable an
cestry. His nerves are all jangle.
From crown of head to sole of foot he
is one aching, rasping. crucifying,
damning torture Where is he? He is
in hell on earth Does it stop him? All
no. After awhile delirium tremens
pours out upon his pillow a whole jun
gle of kissing reptiles His screams
horrify the neighbors as he dashes out
of bed crying: Take these things off
mer' He is drinking down the COM
fort of his family, the education of his |
children, their prospects for this life |
and perhaps their prospects for the life |
to come. Pale and convalescent he |
sits up. Physician says to him:
Now, nv good fellow, I am going
to have a plain talk with you. If
you ever have an attack of this kind
again you will die. ! can't save you,
and all the doctors N creation can't
ave you" The patient gets up, starts
out. goes the same round Of dissipat on
ana is down again; but this time med
cInes do Lot touch his case. CoDsulta-
tons of physicians say there is no
hope. Death ends the scene. That
process of inebr.ation and physical suf-
ferinT and medical warning and disco
u;iOn Is taking place within a stones
throw of where you sit and in every
of Christendom. Pain
iots not reform. Suffering does not
cure. What is true in regard to one
in is true in regard to all sins, and vet
nen are expecting in the next life
here will be opportunity for purga.
.orial regeneration. Take up the
printed reports of the prisons of the
United States and find that the vast {
majority of the criminals were there
before, some for two times, three {
lines. four times, six times Punished
gain and again, but they go right on
Millions of incidents and instances
working the other way, and yet men I
hink that in the next world punish '
rent will work out for them saliva BILE I
fleets Why, you and cannot G
imagine any worse torture from an '
ther world than we have seen men in I
his world, and without any saiutary '
r
Ny friends, do you know what made
he ancient deluge q necessity? It i
Tss the longevity of the autediluvians- y
hey were worse in the second century v
han in the first, and worse when they
OF 300 years old, and worse at 400. and 2
rorse at 500, and worse at 600, and y
Torse at 500: until the world had 10 be {
Tashed and secured and scrubbed and {
baked and sunk and anchored a whole a
lonth under water before il was At t
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