Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-08-14


Correcting the Mistakes of This.
I WASHINGTON, Aug. DIR. Talmage to-
day discusses a question that everybody
Eome time discusses. 1t Is one Of tromen-
dous import, Shall we have another
chance? The text is Ecclesiastes ii, 3, If
the tree fall toward the south or toward
the north, in the y lice where the tree fall
eth there it shall be 4"
I There is lowering hope in the minds Of
% vast multitude Of people that there will
7 Lc an opportunity in tho next world Of cor
recting the mistakes of this; that however
complete q shipwrecll VIC may make of our
earthly life it win be on a beech up which
we may walk 10 palace; that as the de-
PENDANT may lose his cGse in Il circuit court
and appeal it and have it 20 up to the SUI
premc court or court Of chancery and all
tho costs thrown over on the other party,
so "A man may lose his case in this world
but in the higher jurisdiction of eternity
have the decision of the earthly case set
aside, all the costs RENTED and the dc
fcndant be triumphant forever.
A BaseIess Hope.
The object of my sermon Is To show you
that common sense declares with the text
that such an expectation is chimcrical elf
the tree fall toward the south or toward
the north, in the place where tine tree fall
eth there it shall be-" There arc those
who say that if the impenitent and unfor-
given man enters tho next world and secs
the disaster as u result of that disaster hc
will turn, the distress the cause of his ref
ormation, but We have 10, 600 instances all
around about as of people who have done
wrong and disaster suddenly came upon
them Did the disaster heal them? No;
they went on.
There is u man flung Of designations
Tho doctor says to him, Now, my friend,
if you don't stop drinking and don't stop
this fast lie 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, be-
gins TO 60 TO business, and takes the same
round of grogshOps 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 protracted, tho liver more Obsti-
nate, the stomach more irritable, the diges-
tive organs more rebelliOus. But still, I'M
der medical skill, he gets better goes
forth, commits the same sacrilege against
his physical health. Sometimes he wakes
up to see what he is doing, and he realizes
he is destroying mis- family, and that his
life is perpetual perjury against his mar
riage VOWS, and that that broken hearted
woman is 50 different from the roseate
wife he married that her old schoolmates
do not recognize her on the street, and
that his SONS are going out in life under
the taunt of fathers drunkenness, and |
that his daughters are going out in life
under the scarilicatiJn Of IA disreputable
ancestry. His nerves are all a-jangle.
From crown Of head to sole OF foot he is
one aching, rasping, crucifying damning !
torture Who're is he?
He is in he'll on earth. Does it stop him? |
All mol Alter awhile delirium tremens |
pours out upon his pillow whole jungle |
of kissing reptiles. His screams horrify |
the neighbors as he dashes out of bed cry |
ing, Take these thing off me!' He is J
down the comfort Of his family,
the education of his children, their pros ,
poets for this life and perhaps their pros
poets for the life to come. Pale and con
yalescont he sits up. Physician says to
him: "Now, my good fellow, 1 am going |
10 have 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 in creation can't save you
The patient gets up, starts out, goes the
same round of dissipation and is down
again, but this time medicines do not
5ouch his case. Consultations of physicians
say there is no hope, Death ends the scene.
That process of inebriation and physical
and medical warning and disso-
ution is taking place within stones
throw of where you sit and in every neigh
lorhood of Christendom Pain docs not
'eform. Suffering does not cure. What
s true in regard to one sin is true in re-
gard to all sins, and yet men are expecting
n the next life there will be opportunity
or purgatorial regeneration. Take up the
printed reports of the prisons of the United
states and find that the vast majority of
he criminals were there before, some for
wo times, three times, four times, six
lines; punished again and again, but
hey 20 right on. Millions of incidents and
working tho other way, and yet
men think that in the next world punish
nent will work out for them salvable Of
ects Why, you and cannot imagine any
worse torture from another world than we
ave seen men in in this world, and with
ut any salutary consequence