The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
REV. DIR. TALMAGF
The Noted Divine's Sunday sermon.
Subject: sShall We Have Another
Chance?'s

vast multitude of people that there will be an
opportunity In the next world OF correcting
the mistakes of this; that however complete
a shipwreck we may make OF our earthly life,
1t will be on a beach up which we may walk
to palace; that as defendant may lose his
case in Circuit Court and appeal 1t and
have it go up to the Supreme Court or Court
OF Chancery and all the costs thrown over on
the other party, so man may lose his ease
In this VOL Id, but in the higher jurisdiction
OF eternity have the decision Of the earthly
case set aside, all the costs RENTED and the
defendant be triumphant forever.
The object of NY sermon Is to show you
that common sense declares with the text
that such an expectation is chimericaL eff
the tree fall toward the south, or toward the
north, in the place where the tree falleth,
there il shall be-" There are those who say
that IL the impenitent and unfortunate man
enters the next world and sees the disaster,
as result OF that disaster he will turn, the
distress the cause of his reformation; bat we
have ten thousand instances all around
about us OF people who have done wrong
and disaster suddenly came upon them
did the disaster heal them? No,
they went on. There is a man flung
OF designations. The 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 bet
ter; be begins to sit up. begins TO walk around
the roor, 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 med
jcai warning. But now the sickness
is more proiracted. the liver more
obstinate, the stomach more irri-
table, the digestive organs more rebellious.
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goes forth. commits the same sacrilege
against his physical health. Sometimes he
wakes up 10 see what he Is doing, and he
realizes he is destroying his family and that
his life is perpetual perjury against his
marriage vows and that that broken-hearted
woman is SO different from the roseate wife
he married that her old schooimates do not
recognize 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 scarih-
cation of disreputable ancestry. His
nerves are all jangle. From crown OF
| head to sole of foot he is one aching, rasp-
| ing. crucifying, damning torture. Where is
| he? he is in hell on EARTH Does it stop
him? All! no. After awhile delirium tre-
mems pours out upon his pillow whole
| jungle OF Kissing reptiles. His screams hor-
rify the neighbors as he dashes out OF bed
crying, "Take these things of Of mel" he
is drinking down the comfort OF his family,
| the education of his children, their pros
| poets for this life and perhaps their
prospects for thu life to come. Pale
and convalescent he sits up. Physician
says to him, snow, my good fellow,
1 am going TO have plain talk with
you. II you ever have an attack OF this
kind again you will die. l 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
touch his case. Consultations OF physicians
say there is no hope. Death ends the scene
That process of inebriation and physical sui
fering and medical warning and dissolution
IL taxing place within a stones throw o
where you sit and In every neighborhood o
Christendom. Pain does not reform. SUI
fering does not cure. What Is true In re
gard to one sin is true in regard Il
all sins, and yet men are expecting
in the next life there will be opportunity fol
purgatorial regeneration.
Again, wish you to further notice tina
another chance in another world means thu
ruin OF this. Now. suppose wicked mai
is assured that after a lifetime OF wicked.
ness he can fix 1t all right in the future
. That would be the Generalization OF socl
ETY.. that would be the demolition OF the hui
man race There are now men who are KEEP
on the limits of sin by their fear. The fea
that II we are bad and unforgiven here
will not be we'll for us in the next existence
, Is the chief influence that keeps CIVILIZATION
from rushing back into semi-barbarism, ar
| keeps standardization from rushing bac
!, into midnight savagery. and keeps midnigt
savagery from rushing back into extinction
Another chance in another world means tn
I demolition of this world.
: Furthermore, my friends-for am preacf
ing to myself as well rs toyou-we iare
the same level, and though the platform
a little higher than the pew, it is only fc
I convenience, and that we may the bette
, speak to the people; we are all on the sam
: platform, and am talking to my soul viii
talk to yours-my friends. why anothe
chance in another world when we have d.
: clined so many chances in this3 SUI
= pose you spread banquet and you il
vite vast number OF friends, and anon
D others you send an invitation to man VII
: disregards it, or treats it in an obnoxiot
i way. During twenty years you gave tweni
banquets, a banquet year, and you fnvi
your friends, and every time you invite tn
e man, who disregards your invitation or sent
Y back some indignity. After while yo
4 move into a larger house and amid mol
luxurious surroundings, and you invit
. your friends, but you DO not invite Thu
r man to whom twenty times you gel
q | an lQNltdttOu 10 tuc sludilCI AOuoCs a
you to blame? You would only NAL
yourself absurd before God and man to ser
$ thai man another invitation. For tweni
a years he has been declining your offers az
: sending insult for your kindness and cou
I, tesy, and can he blame you? Can he con
u up to your house on the night Of the ba
$ quet? Looking up and seeing it is fin
J, house will he have any right to say: "Let 4
. in. have declined all those other Offer
: but this is larger house. more luxuria
y abode. Let me in. Give me anoth
o chance"
i God has spread banquet OF His grace /
:, fore us. For three hundred and sixty-f
u days of every year, since we knew the diff
u ence between our right hand and our lie
n He has invited us by His Providence and
% His Spirit. Suppose we decline all these I
fers of kindness. Now the banquet Is spre
II in large place, in the heavenly palace.
4 vitations are sent out. but no invitation
sent to US. Why2 Because We declin
all those other banquets. Will G
Is be to blame? Will We have a
III right to rap on the door Of heaven and 81
n 81 ought not to be shut out Of this pla
re give me another CHANGER" Twelve gates
A. salvation standing wide for free admissi
all our life and then when the twelve ga
r close we rush on the bosses of Jehova
I'd buckler, saying: "Give me another chanc
A ship is to sail for Hamburg. You want
- 60 to Germany by that line. You see
advertisement OF the steamers sailing. Y
see 1t for two weeks. You see it in
morning papers and you see it in the event
papers; you see it placarded on the wa
Circulars are thrown into your of
.. telling you all about that steamer. {
). dav you come down on the wharf 6
the steamer has swung out into the strea
10 You say: "Oh, that isn't fair. Come ba