The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-08-19

OUL HS SOt "ptSe <1HNt N'SkSSr tIic pihLil
descending, until al IS years Of age he
was the suicide If 500 years OF life
time could not cure the antediluvians
of their iuiquity, undertake to say
that all the ages of eternity would
be only prolongation Of depravity.
But" says some one, 'in the next
life the evil Surroundings will be with
drawn and good influences will be
substituted, and hence expurgation,
subhmation glorigcation.' Bat
YOU must remember that the
righteous, all their sins for
given, pass right up into beatltic
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 from2 Can it be expected
that DR.. Duff, who spent his whole
life in pointing the Hindoos to heaven,
and DR.. Abeel, who spent his life IN
evaneeGzing China, and that Judsou,
who spent his life in preaching the
gospel to Burma-can it be expected
that they will be sent down from ce!es-
tai missionary society to educate and
save those who wasted their earthly
exis:ence9 No. We are told distinctly
that all missionary and evangelistic
influences will be ended forever, and
the good, having passed up to their
beatifc state, ali the morally bankrupt
will be together, sn6 where are the
salvable influences to come rom
Will specked or bad apple put in a
barrel OF diseased apples make the
other apples gooda win one who
is down be able to lift others up?
Will those who have miserably failed
in the business Of this life be able to
paw the debts OF other spirit aal insol-
vents? VIII million wrongs make
one right9 Poneropolis was the city
where King Rufus Of Thracia put all
bad people Of his kingdom, and when
ever there were iniouiticas people
found in any part OF the land they
were all sent to Poneropolis. It was
the great capital of wickedness. Sup
pose man or a woman had opened a
primary school in Poneropolis; would
the parents of other cities have sent
their children thereto be educated and
reformed2
Ifa man in this world was surround
ed with temptation, in the next world,
all the righteous having passed up IN o
the beatifc state, :hhe association will
be mere deterioriating, 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 recov-
ery. The Count of Chateaubriand, IN
order to make his child courageous,
made him sleep in the turrets OF the
castle. where the winds 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 cour-
age that has never faltered." But, my
friends, do not think the turrets OF
darkness or the spectral world swep!
BY sirocco and euroclydon will ever
prepare a soul for the eternal land OF
sunshine. wonder what is the cur
riculum in the College Inferno. where
man, having been prepared by
enough sin, enters and goes up from
freshman of iniquity to sophomore OF
aboulination, 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 the fact that the can
didate has been a sufficient time un-
der their drill and then enters heaven:
Pandemonium, a preparatory school
for celestial admission! An, my
friends, while satan and his cohorts
have fitted avast multitude for ruin,
thew never fitted one soul for happl-
ness-never.
Again, ! 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 q
lifetime of wickedneSs he can Tx 1t all
right up in the future. That would
be the Generalization of society, that
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 thatif we are bad and unfor-
given here it will not be well with US
in the next existence is the chiefinHu-
ence that keeps civilization from rush.
ing back into seemibarbarism, and
keeps semibarbarism from rushing
back into midnight savagery, and
keeps midnightsavagery 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: 60 to-,
now I'll get out OF this world all there
is in it. Come gluttony and revenge
and uncieaneSs and all senSualitleS,
and wait upon me. Itmay abbreviate
my earthly !:fe by dissoluteness, but
that will only give me heavenly IN
diligence on a larger scale IL shorter
length of time. l Will overtake the
SLSnLSOGS oSlOIS lO11S- ntt 49,
come in heaven a little late, and | will
be little more fortunate Gnan those
who have behaved themselves on
earth aud then went straight to the
bosom of God, because I will see more
and have wider excursion, and l will
come into heaven via gehenna, via
sheol!" Hearers! 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 attorneys
agreed in telling you the first trial OF
tit would be tried twice-the first
trial would not be of very much i'm.
portance, but the second trial would
decide everything. On which trial
would you put the most expenditure?
On which trial would you employ the
ablest counsel2 On which trial would
YOU be most anxious to have the atten.
tendance of all the witnesses? 'Oh,