The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-14

sublimation. glorification." But you
must remember that the righteous. al
their sins forgiven. pass right up into
a beatific state. and then having passed
up into the beatiic 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 salvable
influences to come from? Can il
be expected that DIR. Duff, who spent
his whole life in pointing the Hindoos
to Heaven, and DR.. Abeel. who spent
his life in evangelizing China, and that
Judson, who spent his life in preach
ing the gospel to Burmah-can it be
expected that they will be sent down
from some celestial missionary soc ETY.
to educate and to save those who
wasted Their earthly existence? No.
We are told distinctly that all mission
airy and evangelistic influences will be
ended forever, and the good, having
passed. up to their beatific state, all the
morally bankrupt will be together,
and where are the salvable in
huences TO come from? Will q
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? VIII those who have
miserably failed in the business of this
life be able TO pay the debts of other
spiritual insolvents? Will q million
wrongs make one right? Poneropolis
was the city where King Rufus. or
Thracia, put all bad people of his king
dom, and whenever there were iniqui-
tous people found in any part Of the
land they were all sent to PoneropoliS
1t was the great capital of wickedness.
Suppose man or woman had opened
a primary school in Poneropolis, would
the parents of other cities have sent
their children there TO be educated and
reformed?
Ifa man in this world was surrounded
with temptation, in the next world, all
the righteous having passed up into
the beati6c state, the association will
be more deteriorating, depreciating
and down. You would not send to a
cholera or yellow fever hospital man
for his health, and the great lazaretto
of the future, in which are gathered
the diseased 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 the wind howled and specters
were said to haunt the place. The
mother and the sisters almost died of
fright. and the son afterwards gives
his account. and he says: That gave
me nerves of steel, and gave me cour-
age that has never faltered."
Again. l wish you further to notice
that another chance in another world
means the ruin of this Now, suppose
a wicked man is assured that after a
lifetime of wickedness, he can fix it all
right up in the future. That would be
the decentralization of society, that
would lie 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 unforgiven
here it will not be we'll with us IN the
next existence, is the chief influence
that keeps civilization from rushing
back into semi-Garbarism- and keeps
semi barbarism from rushing back into
midnight sava gerry, and keeps midnight
savagery from rushing back into ex-
tinciion. Now, the man is kept on the
limits of sin. But this idea coming in
to his soul, this idea of another chance,
he says, TO to, now; I'll get out of
this world all there is in il. Come glut-
tony and revenge and uncleauness and |
all sensualities, an wait upon M. 1t |
may abOreviate my earthly lie by d $ |
soluteness. bat that win only gve me |
heavenly indulgence on a larger scale |
in a shorter length of tme. will |
overtake the righteous before long. ! |
will only come in Heaven a little late,
and / viii be little more fortunate
than those who have behavei them-
selves on earth aud then went s.rai. 1T
to the bosom of Col, because will e
more and have wider excursion. aud l
will come into Heaven via Gehenaa.
via sh, o. Hearers. Renders! An
other chance in the next world means |
free Ii ense and tue demolition OF
this. Suppose you hal a case IN
court, aud all the jud res AID al
The attorneys agreed IN telling You
.he first trial of tit would be tired
vic the first trial would not be of
Tery much importance, but the seconi
rial woulI decide everything On
which trial woul. you pat the most en-
'enditure? On VIII ch tria: won d you
.mploy the ablest counsel? On which
rial would you be most anxious 10
ave the attendance of ali the wit
Ie>ses? On" you would say, If
here are 10 be two trials. AMI the first
rial does not amount to much, the sec
md trial being ever. thin, everything |
spending upon tn. t, must have the
lOst eloquent attorney, and l must
ave all my witnesses present. and
I'LL expend my money on that" II
hese men who are impenitent and
rho are wicked felt there were two
rails, and the first was of no very ;
reat importance, and the second trial
-as the one of vast and infinite impUr-
ance, all the preparat Ons for eternity
'Culd be post norton, post fuperal, ,
ost sepulchral, and this world would ,
e jerked of into impenitency and god .
.ssness- Another chance in another