The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-08-20

got 800 years old, and worse at 400,
and worse at 500, and worse at 600,
and worse at SEQ; 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
cid Time with his scythe to cut; but I
never saw any picture of Time with
chest OF medicines to heal. Seneca
said that il. the first few years of his
public life Nero was set up as an ex-
ample of clemency and kindness; but
he got worse and worse, the path de-
scendng, until at siXty-eight years of
age he was the suicide If 800 years
of lifetime could not cue the antedilu-
VANS of their iniquity, undertake to
say that all the ages ct eternity would
be only prolongation of depravity
'But," says some one, Gin the next life
the evil surroundings will be with
drawn and good influences will be Sub
stltuted, and hence, eXpurgation, SUBJ
limation, glorification." But you must
remember that the righteous, all their
sins forgiven, pass right up into a bea-
tific state, and tEen, having passed up
Tito the beatific state, not needing any
other chance, they 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 HindCos to heaven, and
Dr.. Abeel, who spent his life in evan
gelizing China, and that Judson, who
spent his life in prea ching the gospel
to Burmall-can it be expected that
they will be sent down from some &C.
lestial missionary society to educate
and to save those who wasted their
earthly existence? No. We are told
distinctly that all missionary and evan
gelical influences will be ended forev-
er, and the good, having passed up to
their beatitic state, all the morally
bankrupt will be together, and where
are the salvable influences to come
from. Will 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 million wrongs make one right?
Poneropolis was the city where King
Rufus Of Thracia. put all bad PEOPLE of
Ubiquitous people found IN any part OF
the land they We're all sent to Ponerop-
oils. Suppose a man or woman had
opened primary school in Poneropo-
lis, would the parents of other cities
have sent theD. children there to be ed
ucated and reformed?
II man in this world was surround
ed with temptation. in the next world,
all the righteous having passed into
the beatific state, the association will
be more deteriorating depreciating
and down. You would not send to a
cholera OF yellow fever hospital man
for his health, and the great lazaretto
Of the future, in which are gathered
the diseased aid the pla gue-struck Will
be a 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 wind hoWled and specters
were said to haunt the place. The
mother and the sisters almost died of
fright, but the son afterwards gives
his account, and he says: '"That gave
me nerves of steel, and gave me cour-
age that has never faltered.'' But
my friends, I do not think that the
turrets Of dark ess or the spectral
world swept by sirocco and euroclydon,
VIII ever prepare a soul for the eternal
land of sunshine. I wonder what is
the curriculum in the College Inferno,
where man, having been prepared by
enough sin, enters and goes up from
freshman Of iniqrity to sophomore of
abOminatiOn, and on up. from sopho-
more to junior, al from, junior to SEN
ior, and day of sradua ton comes, and
the diploma is signed by Satan, the
president, and all the professional de-
moniacs attest the fact that the can
didate has been a sufficient time under
their drill. and then enters heaven.
Pandem Onium, a preparatory school
for celestial admission! All. nv
friends, While Satan and his cohorts
have fitted a vast multitude for ruin.
they never fitted one soul for happiness
never.
Again, I wish you further to notice
that another chance in another world
means the ruin Of this. Now, suppose
wicked man is assured that after
lifetime of Wickedness, he can fix it all
right up in the future. That would be
the decentralization Of society, that
would be the demolition of the human
race. There are men who are now kept
on the limits of sin by their fear. The
fear that if we are bad and unfor-
given here it will not be we'll with us
in the next existence, is the chief inf1u-
ence that keeps civilization from rush
ing back into emi-barbarism, and
keeps standardization from rushing
back into midnight savagery, and
keeps midnight savagery from rushing
back into extinction. Now, the man is
kept on the limits OF sin. But this idea
coming into his soul, this idea of an
other chance, he says 'Go to, now; I'll
get out of this world all there is in it.
Come guttony and revenge and I'M
cleanness and all sensualities, and wait
upon me. 1t may abbreviate my
earthly life by dissoluteness, but that
| will only give me heavenly indulgence
on larger scale in shorter length of
time. I will only come i'll heaven a lit
tie late, and 1 will be a little more
i fortunate than those who have be-
haved themselves on earth and then
! went straight to the bosom Of God, be-
cause I will see more and have wider
excursion, and I will come into heaven
via Gehenna, via Sheol! Hearers!
Readers! Another chance in the next
| world means froo 1ioorea an1 tho