The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-21
NOT ANOTHER CHANCE,
rev. DR.. Talmnge Discourses Upon
a Well-Worn Topic.
r.. shows the FalIacy of the Hope that
Another Chance WIN be Afforded
Mankind to Get Themselves
Right with God.

was uellVcrcu Ny Ac'. i. lie WIN Ia
mage before his congregation a
Washington. 1t was based on tn
text:
II the tree fall toward the south, or towar
the north, in the place where the tree falletl
there it shall be.-Eccl.., XII, 8.
There is lowering hope in tn,
minds of vast multitude of peopl
That there will be an opportunity i,
the next world Of correcting the mis-
takes of this; that, however complet,
shipwreck we may make of earthl,
| life, it will be on a beach up which w,
may walk to palace; that as the de
fendant may lose his case in a Circuit
court and appeal it and have it go u,
to the supreme court or court of chan
Gerry and all the costs thrown over or
the other party, so man may lose his
case in this world, but in the highe,
jurisdiction of eternity have the decis
ion of the earthly case set aside, all
the costs RENTED and the defendant
be triumphant forever.
The object of my sermon is to show
YOU that common sense declares with
the text that such an expectation is
chimerical. Il the tree fall toward
the south, or toward the north, in the
place where the tree falleth, there it
shall be-" There are those who saw
thai if the impenitent and unforgiven
man enters the next world and sees
the disaster, as a result of that dis
aster he will turn, the distress the
cause of his reformation; but we have
10000 instances all around about us
Lot people who have done wrong,
and disaster suddenly came upon
them-did the disaster heal
them? No, they went on. There is
man flung of designations The doc
tor says to him: Now, my friend, if
you don't stop drinking and don't stop
this fast life you are living, you will
die. The patient thanks the physi-
clan for his warning and gets better;
he begins to sit up, begins to walk
around the room, begins to go to bust
ness and takes the same round of grop
shops where he got his morning dram
and evening dram and the drains be-
tween. Down again. Same doctor.
Same physical anguish. Same medi-
cal warning.
But now the sickness is more pro-
tracted, the liver more obstinate, the |
stomach more irritable, the digestive
organs more rebellious. But still, un-
der medical skill, he gets better, goes
forth, commits the same sacrilepe
against his physical health. Some
lines he wakes up to see what he is
long, and he realizes he is destroying
us family, and that his life is per-
'etual perjury against his marriage
oWs and that that broken-hearted
Foman is SO different fom the roseate
vie he married that her old school
nates do not recognize her on the
treet, and that his sons are going out
life under the faint of a fathers
and that his daughters
re going out in life under the sacrifi- .
atlon of disreputable ancestry. +,
rs nerves are all a jangle. From
own OF head to sole of foot he is one
'hlng' rasping, crucitying, damning
rture. Where is he? He is IN
III on earth. Does it stop S
m? All! no. After awhile de- a
'lum tremens pours out upon c
pillow whole Jungle of Kissing a
ptl'es. His screams horrify the a
ign bors as he dashes out of bed cry
g: Take these things off mel" He Q
drinking down the comfort of his q
miiy, the education of his children, n
cir prospects for this life and per- f
pS thelr prospects for the life to
ne. Pale and convalescent he sits o
! PHYSICIAN says to him: ..Now, W
good fellow, am going to have q D
Nm talk with you. Ii YOU ever have P
attack OF this kind again you will o
l can't save you, and all the doc W
> ~ creation can't save you" The P
''ent gets up, starts out, goes the Ct
le round of dissipation andsis down b
'ln' but this time medicines do not
cn MS case. Consultations of phyai- ee
Us say there is no hope. Death al
= tne scene. That process of in in
!, ,aeion and physical suffering and W
iicai warning and dissolution is in
Jug place within a stones throw of to
~, ! you sit and in every neighbor- m
y Oh Christendom. Pain does not re
'rm- Suffering does not cure. er
q. is true in regard to one sin is st
IN regard to all sins, and vet men re
expecting in the next life there will in
opportunity for purgatorial regen- mi
'on' Take up the printed reports ca
NC prisons of the United States and SD
mat the vast majority of the TT
anals were there before, some for di
umes' three times, four times, six ri
= punished again and again, but ga
80 righton. Millions of incidents, co
instances working the other way, m,
:, YET men think that In the next of
- punishment viii work out for sy
! salvable effects. Why, you and ev
= not imagine any worse torture laI