Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-08-13

SheH LhHoE . FLOuosine ufedl iODdcC0 lnllCC
and scrubbed and soaked and sunk end
anchored whole month under water bo-
fore It was fit for decent people to live IN
have seen many pictures OF old Time with
his scythe to cut, but never saw any pic
ture of Time with a chest Of medicines to
heal Seneca said that In the first few
years Of his public life Nero was set up as
an example of clemency and kindness, but
he got worse and worse, the path descend
ing, until at 68 years of age he was the
suicide. If 500 years of lifetime could not
cure the antediluvians of their iniquity, I
undertake TO say that all the ages of eter-
nifty would be only prolongation of deprav-
ity.
But" says some one, Gin the next life
the evil surroundings will be withdrawn
and good influences will be substituted,
and hence expurgation, sublimation, glori-
fication." But you must remember that
the righteous, all their sins forgiven, pass
right up into beatific state, and then hav-
ing passed up into the beatif1c state, not
needing any other chance, that will leave
all those who have never been forgiven,
and who were impenitent, alone--alone-
come from2 Can 1t be expected that DR..
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
preaching the gospel to Burma-can 1t
be expected that they will be sent down
from some celestial missionary society to
educate and save those who wasted their
earthly existence2 No. We are told dis
tinctly that all missionary and evangelistic
influences will be ended forever, and the
good, having passed up to their beatiflc
state, all the morally bankrupt will be to-
gether, and where are the s;Slvable In
fuences to come fromf VIII 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 upi Will
those who have miserably failed In the
business of this life be able to pay the debts
Of other spiritual insolventss VIII mil
lion wrongs make one right Poneropolis
was the city where King Rufus of Thracia
put all bad people of his kingdom, and
whenever there were iniquitous people
found In any part of the land they were all
sent to Poneropolis, 1t was the great capt.
tai of wickedness. Suppose 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 reformedY
Words of Warming.
If man In this world was surrounded
with temptation, In the next world, all the
righteous having passed up into the beatiflc
state, the association will be more dete-
rioriating, depreciating and down. You
would not send to a cholera or yellow fever
hospital o man for his health and the
great lazaretto of the future, In which are
gathered the diseased and the plague
struck, will be a poor place for moral re-
coyery The Count of Chateaubrtand, in
order to make his child courageous, made
him sleep In the turretsof the castle, where
the winds howle1 and specters were said to
haunt the place. The mother and the sis
ters almost died of fright, but the son aft
erward 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
siroeco and euroclydon will ever prepare
a soul for the eternal land of sunshine I
wonder what is the curriculum In the Col
lege Inferno, where a man. having been
prepared by enough sin, enters and goes up
from freshman of iniquity to sophomore
of abomination, and on up from sopho-
more to junior, and from junior TO senior,
and day Of graduation comes, and the
diploma Is signed by satan, the president,
and all the professional demoniacs attest
~ Co. AlaI A.
ficient time under their drill and then en-
ters heaven. Pandemonium, preparatory
school for celestial admission! All, my
friends, while satan and his cohorts have
fitted a vast multitude for ruin, they never
fitted one soul for happiness-never.
Again, wish you further to notice that
another chance in another world means the
ruin of this Now, suppose wicked man
Is assured that after lifetime of wicked
ness he can fix It all right up In the fu-
ture That would be the decentralization
of society, chat would be 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 wei are bad and unforgiyen
here it will not be well with us In the next
existence is the chief influence that keeps
civilization from rushing back into semi
barbarism, and keeps semibarbarism from
rushing back into midnight savagery, and
keeps midnight savagery from rushing
back into extinction. Now, the man is
kept on the limits of sin But this idea
coming into his soul, this idea of another
chance, he says: GO to, now. I'll get out
OF this world all there Is In 1t, Come, glut-
tony and revenge and uncleanness and all
sensualities, and wait upon ma It may
abbreviate my earthly life by dissoluteness,
but that will only give me heavenly in
dulgence on a larger scale in a shorter
length of time, will overtake the right |
eous before long. Twill only come in heav.
en- little late, and will be a little more
fortunate than those who have behaved
themselves on earth and then went straight |
to the bosom of God, because will see |
more and have wider excursion, and will |
come into heaven via gehenna, via sheolp' |
Hearersl Readers! Another chance In the |
next world means free license and the |
demolition of this. Suppose you had case |
In court, and all the Judges and all the at |
torneys agreed in telling you the first trtaI
of lit would be tried twice-the first |
trial would not be of very much impor- |
tance, but the second trial would decide ev- |
On which trial would you put |
the most expenditure On which trial |
would you employ the ablest counselp On
which trial would you be most anxious to
have the attendance of all the witnessesp
'Oh, " you would say. "tf there are to be
Two trials, and the first trial does not
amount to much, the second trial being
everything depending upon
chat, must have the most eloquent at
5orney, and must have all my witnesses
present, and will expend my money on
that" If these men who are impenitent
md who are wicked felt there were two
'rials, and the first was of no very great
Importance, and the second trial was the
'ne of vast and infinite Importance, all the
preparations for eternity would be post
nortem, post funeral, post sepulchral, and
his world would be jerked off into i'm
'enitency and godlessness Another chance