The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-08-14

on pufe ~n1te Sneet Oh paper edsieI
than YOU could write il upon sheet
scrubbed all over with infamy and blot
ted and torn from top to bottom! And
vet there are those W 70 are so uncCm-
mon sensical as to believe that, though
man starts in this world with infancy
ana it's innocence and turns out badly,
in the next world he can start with a
dead failure and turn out well.
"But," say some people, 1--WE ought
to have another chance i'll the next
world becau e calr life here is so very
brief. We scarcely have room to turn
around between the cradle and the
grave, the wood OF the one almost strlk-
ing against the u!arhle CT &c other. We
ought to have ¬ her chance because OF
the hrevity CT tlis life. - My friends,
do you know what maze the ancient
deluge a necessity? 1t was the longevity
of the anteG4 iuvians They were worse
in the second century than in the first,
and worse when they got 800 years old,
and worse at 400, and worse at 500, and
worse at 900, and worse at 800, until
the world had to be washed and secured
and scrubbed and soaked and sunk and
anchored a whole month under water
before it was fit 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 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 Glenn
ency and Kindness but he got worse
and worse, the path descending, until
at 68 years of age he was the suicide.
If 800 years of lifetime could not cure
the antediluvians of their iniqulty, l
undertake to say that all the ages of
eternity would be only prolongation OF
depravity.
But" says some one, in the next
liz the evil surroundings will be with
drawn and good influences will be sub
stituted, and hence expurgation, subll-
nation, glorifcation. But you must
remember that the righteous, all their
sins forgiven, pass right up into a be-
attic 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 DIR. Abeel,
who spent his life in evangelizing
China, and that Judson, who spent his
life in preaching the gospel to Burma
can it be expected that they will be sent
down from some celestial missionary
society to educate and to save those who
wasted their earthly existence! No.
We are told distinctly that all mission
airy and evangelistic influences will be
ended forever, and the good, having
passed up to their beatific state, all the
morally bankrupt will be together. and
where are the salvable Influences to
come from? Will a specked or bad apple
put in barrel of diseased apples make
the other apples good? Will one who is
down be able to lift others up? Will
those who have miserably failed in the
business of this life be able to pay the
debts of other spiritual insolvents? Will
a million wrongs make one right? Po-
neropolis vas the city where King Ru-
fus Of Thracia put all bad p ,ople of his
kingdom, ard whenever there were in
iquitous people found in any part of the
land they were all sent to POneropolls.
1t was the great capital of wickedness.
Suppose a man or a woman had opened
primary school in Poneropolis; would
the parents of other cities have sent
their children there to be educated and
reformed?
If man in this world was surrounded
with temptation, in the next world, all
the righteous having passed up into the
beatific state, the association will be
more deteriorating, depreciating and
down. You would not send to cholera
or yellow fever hospital man for his
health, and the great laZarettO of the
future, in which are gathered the dis
eased and the plague struck. will be
poor place for moral recovery. The
Count of Chateaubriand, in order to
make his child courageous, made him
sleep in the turrets of the castle, where
the winds howled and specters were
said to haunt the place. The mother
and the sisters almost died of fright,
but the son afterward gives his account,
and he says. THAT gave me nerves OF
steel, and gave me courage that has
never faltered.
But, my friends, l do not think the
turrets of darkness or the spectral
world swept by sirocco and euroclydon
will ever prepare soul for the eternal
land of sunshine. / wonder what is the
curriculum in the College Inferno,
where a man, having been prepared by
enough sin, enters and goes up from
freshman of iniquity to sophomore of
and ON up, from sophie
more to junior, and from Junior to SEN
ior, and day of graduation comes, and
the diploma is signed by satan, the
president, and all the professional de-
attest the fact that the candi-
date has been a sufficient time under
their drill, and then enters heaven.
Pandemonium, a preparatory school for
celestial admission! All, my friends,
while satan and his cohorts have fitted
avast multitude for ruin, they never
fitted one soul for happiness-never!