The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-22

upon . sheet OF paper scribeled n
over with infamy and blotted and tori
from top to bottomf And yet there ars
those who are 90 uncommon sensical 81
to believe that though . man starts In
this world with infancy and its limo
cence and turns out badly, In the next
world he can start with dead failure
and turn out well. "But," say some
people, I'VE ought to have another
chance In the next world because our
life here Il so very brief; we scarcely
have room to turn around between the
cradle and the grave, the wood Of the
one almost striking against the marble
of the other. We ought to have an.
other chance because of tho brevity OF
this life."
My friends, do you know what made
the ancient deluge necessity? II
was the longevity Of the an tediluvians.
They were worse In the second CEN
fury than In the frst, and worse when
they got 300 years old, and worse at
400, and worse at 500, and worse at 600,
and worse at 800; the world had to
be washed and secured and scrubbed
and soaked and sunk and anchored .
whole month under water before 10
was At for decent people to 1.-Two In.
have seen many pictures of old Time
with his scythe to cut. but never
saw any picture of Time with .
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 clemenoy and kindness,
h..A L IA kLA l.
descending, until at 90 years Of ago he
was the suicide. II 500 years of life
tine could not cure the antediluvians
of their iniquity, undertake to say
that all the ages of eternity would DO
only prolongation of depravity. But"
says some one, Tin the next life the
evil surroundings will be withdrawn
and good influences will be substituted,
and hence, expurgation, sublimation,
Qualification" But you must remem-
Der that the righteous, all their sins
forgiven, pass right up into beatifio
state, and then having passed up into
the beatifc state, not needing any
other chance, that will leave all those
who have never been forgiven, and
who were impenitent, alone-alonei
and where are the salvable influences
to come from? Can It be expected that
DIR. Duff. who spent his whole life In
pointing the Hindoos to Heaven, and
DIR. Abecl, who spent his life in evan
gelizing China, and that Judson, who
spent his life In preaching the Gospel
to Burmah-can 1t be expected that
they will be sent down from some
missionary society to educate
and to save those who wasted their
earthly existence? No. We are told
that all missionary and
evangelistic influences will be ended
and the good, having
passed up to their bestido state.
all the morally bankrupt will
be together, and where are the
influences to come from? viii
q specked or bad apple put in barrel
Of diseased apples make the other
apples good? Win one who il down DO
able to LIFE others upp 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 mako ono right7 !
Poneropolis was the city where King |
Rufus OF Thracia put all bad people |
Of his kingdom, and whenever there !
were Ubiquitous people found In any |
part Of the land they were all sent to |
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?
Ii man in this world was surround |
ed with temptation, in the next world,
all the righteous having passed up
into the beatific state, the association
will be more deteriorating, depreciat-
ing and down. You would not send |
to q cholera or yellow fever hospital q
man for his health, and the great laza-
retto OF tho future, in which are gath
cred 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, 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 of the spectral world |
swept by sirocco aud euroclydon, will |
ever prepare soul for the eternal |
land of sunshine. l wonder what Is |
the curriculum In the College Inferno,
where a man having been prepared |
by enough sin, enters and goes up
from freshman Of iniquity to sopho-
more OF abomination, and on up, from
sophomore 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 the fact that the can
didate has been sufficient time under
their drill, and then enters Heaven.
Pandemonium, preparatory school
for celestial admissionl All, my
friends, while Satan and his cohorts
have 2tted a vast multitude for ruin.
they never fitted one soul for happi-
ness-never.