Connecticut western news., 1896-08-13


 and worse, the path descending, until at es years of age he was the suicide. If 500 years of lifetime could not cure the antediluvians of tLeir iniquity, I undertake to say that all the ages of 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 stituted, and hence expurgation, subli- nation, glorification. But you must remember that the righteous, all their sins forgiven, pass right up into be- atific 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 salvabie influences to come from? Can it be expected that Dr. Duff, who spent his whole life in pointing the HiIdoos to heaven, and Dr. 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 ary and evangelistic influences will be anded 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 one from? Will specked or bad apple put in barrel of diseased apples make he other apples good? Will one who is town be able to lift others up? Will hose who have miserably failed in the business of this life be able to pay the lebts of other spiritual insolvents? Will million wrongs make one right? Po- ,eropolis was the city where King Ru- us of Thracia put all bad people of his kingdom, and whenever there were in- iquitous people found in any part of the land they were all sent to Poneropolis- 1t as the great capital of wickedness. Suppose a man or a woman had opened primary school in Poneropolis; would 5he 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 ,eatific state, the association will be more deteriorating, depreciating and Town. You would not send to cholera or yellow fever hospital a man for his health, and the great lazaretto of the future, in which are gathered the dis ,ased 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 he 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 cevcr faltered.
 But. my friends, do not think the surrets of darkness or the spectral world swept by sirocco and euroclydon will ever prepare soul for the eternal and of sunshine. wonder what is the curriculum in the College Inferno, where man. having been prepared by though sin, enters and goes up from freshman of iniquity to sophomore of dbomination, and on up, from sopho- more to junior, and from junior to sen- :or, and day of graduation comes, and he diploma is signed by satan, the president, and all the professional de- .noniacs attest the fact that the candi- date has been 8 sufficient time under their drill, and then enters heaven. Pandemonium, preparatory school for celestial admissionl An, my friends, while satan and his cohorts have fitted vast multitude for ruin, they never fitted one soul for happiness-pever!
 The Logic of It.
 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 life time of wickedness he can fix it all rght up in the future. That would be the Generalization of society, that would be the demolition of the human race. There are men who are now kept rn the limits of sin by their fear. The fear that if we are bad and unforgiven aere it will not be well with us in the .ext existence is the chief influence that keeps civilization from rushing lack into semibarbarism, and keeps semibarbarism from rushing back into midnight savagery, and keeps midnight savagery from rushing back into extino- ton. Now, the man is kept on the Him. it's of sin. But this idea coming into his soul, this idea of another chance, he 'ays: "Go to, now. I'll get out of this .,tl .., < ~xl,- and revenge and uncleanness and all sensualities, and wait upon me. It may abbreviate my earthly life by dissolute- ness, but that will only give me heav- enly indulgence on larger scale in a shorter length of time. will overtake the righteous before long, I will only come in heaven little late, and will be little more fortunate than those who have behaved themselves on earth and then went straight to the bosom of God, because I will see more and have wider excursion, and will come into heaven via gehenna, via sheoll" Hear ers Readersl Another chance in the next world means free license and the demolition of this Suppose you had 8 case in court. and all the judges and all the attorneys agreed in telling you the first trial of it-it would be tried twice the first trial would not be of very much importance, but the second trial would decide everything. On which trial would you put the most expendi- ture? On which trial would you employ the ablest counsel? On which trial would you bS most anxious to have the attendance of all the witnesses? "Oh," you would say, If there are to be two trials, and the first trial does not amount to much. the second trial being every thing. everything depending upon that, l must have the most eloquent attorney, and I must have all my witnesses present, and I will expend my money on that" If these men who are inn