Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-13
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Once the Soul Reaches Eternity, All
Chance of Reform is Lost.
There wiz he No Opportunity to Turn
Hack FINAL Judgment Taken Upon
Earthly Action-A Question That
Oitrn Arises to PuEz'c
Christians.

Hack FINAL Judgment Taken Upon
Earthly Action-A Question That
Oitrn Arises to ruEz'c
Christians.
DIR. Tnlmage's text Sunday was: Feel
ii, :: IF the tree fall toward the south,
n toward the north, in the place where
the tree fallrth. there it shall he.
There is "a lowering hope in the minds
IF vast multitude oi people that there
viii hc an opportunity in the next
world Of correcting the mistakes of
thiN; that however complete ships
wrccltwc may make of our earthly lie.
| IL Will he on a beach up which
we may walk toa palace; that as the
defendant may lose his ease in cir
cult court and appeal it and have 1t ="
up To the supreme court or court OF
chanccry and all the costs thrown over
on the other party 50 n man may lose
his case IN this world, hut in the high
or iuriS LECTION of eternity have the de-
ri>ion of the earthly case set side, all
the costs rcmittcd and the defendant
he triumphant forever.
The object of my sermon is tn show
You that common sense declares with
the text that such an expectation Is
chimrrical. III the tree fall toward
the south, or toward the north, in the
place where the tree fallcth, there it
shall he"
There are those who say thnt II the
imprnitcnt and unforgivcn man en-
tiers the next world and sees the
disaster, a. result of that dis
astcr he viii turn, the distress
the cause of his reformation, but we
have 10000 instances all around about
~ Of people who have done wrong and
disaster suddenly came upon them
did the disaster heal them? No, they
went wrong. There is "A man flung of
designations. The doctor says to him:
Nov, 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 physician
for his warning and gets better;
he begins Ia sit up; begins to walk
around the room, begins to go To bust
ness AMI takes in the same round of
groE shops. where he got his morning
dram and his evening dram and the
drains between.
Down again. Same doctor. Same
physical anguish. Same medical warn
ing. But now the sickness is more pro-
tractcd, the liver more obstinate, the
stomach more irritable, the digestive
organs more rebellious. But still, I'M
der medical skill, he gets better,
goes forth, commits the same sac
rilcge against his physical health.
Sometimes he wakes up TO see
what he is doing, and he real
lies he is destroying his family, and
that his life is perpetual perjury
against ms marriage vows, and that
that brokcn-hearted woman is so diff
fcrcnt from the roSeate wife he mar
r:cd that her old schoolmatcs 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 sCariiication of q
disrcputable ancestry. lis Nerves
are all jangle. From CROWN of
head to sole of foot Nc is one acliing,
rasping, crucifying damning tor ture.
Does it stop him? All, no. After awhile
dclirium tremens pours out upon his
pillow whole jungle of kissing rep
tiles. Ills screams horrifying the hcigh-
| bors as he dashes out of bed Ching:
Take these things off me- lie is
drinking down the~:)mfort of his fam
ilv. the education OF his children, their
prospects for this life and Fer
haps their prospects ter the
life to come. Pale and con-
valcsccnt he sits up. Physician says to
him: Now, my good fellow,I am GO
ing to have a plain talk with you. If
you ever have an attack of this kind
again YOU will die. can not save you,
and all the doctors in creation can't
save you" The patient gets up, goes
the same round of dissipation and is
down again; but this time medicines do
not touch his ease. Consultations of
physicians say there is no hope. Death
ends the scene.
That process of inebriation and ply
steal suffering and medical warning
and dissolution is taking place within
stones throw of where you sit and in
every ncighborhoOd of ChriStendom.
Pain does not reform. Suffering does
not cure. What is true in regard to
one sin is true in regard to all
sins, and yet men are expecting
i'm the next life there will be
opportunity for purgatorial rcgen-
Grafton. Take up the principal reports
Of the prisons of the United States
and find that the vast majority of the
criminals were there before, some for
two times. three times, four times, six
times. Punished again and again, but
they go right on. Millions of incidents
and instances working the other way,
and vet men think that in he next world
Punishment will work out for them salv-
able effects. Why you and | can not
imag Inc any worse torture from another
world than we have seen men in in this
world, and without any salutary influ-
cncc. Furthermore, the prospect of
reformation in another world is more
improbable than here. Do you not re-
| alize the fact that man starts in this
world with the innocence of infancy?
| In the other case, starting in the other
world, he starts with the accumulated
bad habits of lifetime. Is it not
to be expected that you could build
better ship out of new timbers than
out of an old hulk that has been ground
up in the breakers? If starting with
comparative innocency the man does
not become gcdly, is it possible that
starting with sin a seraph can be evo-
lutcd? Is their not more prospect that
a sculptor will make finer statue out
of block of pure white Parian marble
| than out of a black rock that has been
cracked and twisted and split and
Scared with the storms of a half CEN
| fury?
Could YOU not write last will and
| testament. or write a deed, or write an
| important document on a pure white
sheet of paper easier than you could
write il upon sheet scrubbed all over
with infamy and blotted and torn
from top TO bottom? And yet there
are those who are so uncommon-sen-
steal as 20 believe that, though man
starts in this world with infancy and
innocence and turns ont badly, in the
next world he can start with dead
| failure and turn out we'll.
But" say some people, "we ought
| to have another chance in the next
world because our life here is SO very
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