Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-19

My friends, do you know what made
.ne ancient deluge necessity? IL was
the longevity of the Antediluyians.
ihey We're worse in the second century
than I'm the first, and worse when they
got 300 years old, and worse at 400.
and worse at 500 and worse at 600, and
worse at 500. until the world had TO be
washed and secured and scrubbed
end soaked ard sunk and an
chored whole month under water
before 1t 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 n
chest of medicines To heal Seneca
said that in the first few years of his
pubic life Nero was set up as an cx-
ample of clemency and kindness. but
he got worse and worse, the path de-
Scending, until at IS years of age he
was the suicide. II 500 years of life
time could not cure the antediluvians
OF their iniquity, | undertake to say
that all the ages of eternity would be
only prolongation of depravitv.
But, says some one. Sin the next
life the evil surroundings will be
withdrawn and good influences will be
substituted, and hence expurgation.
sublimation, Qualification" But YOU
must remember that the righteous, all
their sins forgiven, pass right up into
a beatitic state, and then having passed
up INTO the beatitic 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 salvablc in
fiuences TO come from? Can it be ex-
pected that DIR. 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 Burmah-can it be ex-
pected that they will be sent down from
some celestial missionary society to- ed
ucate and save those who wasted their
earthly existence?
No. We are told distinctly tina. all
missionary and evangelistic Influences
Will oe ended forever, and the good.
having passed up to their beatific state,
all the morally bankrupt will be to-
gether, and where are the salvable in
hucnces to come from? viii "A spe cked
or bad apple put in barrel of diseased
apples make the other apples good?
VIII one who is down be able
TO lift others up? viii those
who have miserably failed in the
business of this life be able TO
pay the debts of other spiritual insolv-
ents? Will million wrongs make one
right? Poneropolis was the city where
king Rufus of Thracia put all bad peo-
pie OF his kingdom, and whenever there
were lnlqultous people found in any
part of the land they were all sent to
foneropolis. 1t was the great capital
OF wlckedness. 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 surround
ed with temptation, in the next world.
all the righteous having passed up into
the beatitic state, the association will
be more deterioriating, depreciatinr
and down. You would not send to n
cholera or yellow fever hospital man
for his health, and the great lazaretto
OF the future. in which are gathered
the disease and plague-struck. will he n
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 howied 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. | do
not think the turrets OF darkness or
the spectral world swept by sirocco and
eurociydon, will ever prepare a soul for
the eternal land of sunshine. | won
der what Is the curriculum in the Col
Iegc Inferno, where a man having been /
prepared by enough sin. enters and
goes up from freshman OF iniuuity tn
sophomore OF abomination. and
on up, from sophomore To- Junior. and
from junior to senior. and day of grad |
uation comes, and the diploma is signed
by satan. the president, and all the |
professional demoniacs attest the fact
that the candidate has been "a sufficient
time under their drill. and then enters
Heaven. Pandemonium, a preparatory
school for celestial admission. An. my
friends while satan and his cohorts
have fitted a vast multitude FOR ruin.
they never fitted one soul for happi-
ne>s-uever Again. / wish Won
further 20 notice that another
chance in another world mean, the /
ruin of this. Vow, suppose wicked
man js assured that aftcra life time OF /
Wich'aucs- ne can fix it up all right i'm /
tine future That would be ;hc democrat /
ration of society. that would be the I.
demolition ~ the human race. There
are men VINO arc now kept on the linn /
its Of sin hy their fear The fear that /.
If wc are bad and unforgiycu here fl |
viii not be well Hitn Us in the next cy- |
isten"e rs tine chief influence that l,eeps /
civilization from rushing back into
standardization. and keeps scmi-bar-
Darism from rushing back into mid |
night savagery, and keeps savapcry
from rushing back into extinction.
Now. the man is kept on the limits |
of sin. But this idea Of coming into |
his soul, this idea Of another chance. he |
says, Go to, now; I'll get ont Of this |
world all there is in 10 Come gluttonv
and revenge and uuclcanncss and all /
sensualities. and wait upon me IL
may abreyiate my earthly life by disso- |
iuteness. but that will only give me |
Heavenly indulgence on larger scale |
in shorter length Of time. will
overtakc the righteous before long. |
/ Will only come in fIeay,r .