The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-10

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can it be expected that tleF VIII he sent
Gown from some celestial missionary So
Nlr,F 20 educate ana 20 save those AnO
wasted their earthly existence No. We
are told distinctly thlr all missionary and
cFaugelistic influences win bc ended for
ever and the good having passed Up 20
t-lrif t-dtlHc state. az the morally nAfh-
rlpt VIII Dee together. and whore are the
sa.vaole lnfiueuces 20 come from2 VIII
spec zed or bad apple put in barrel Of
diseased apples make the other apples
5000 VIII one who s. down be able 70 llft
others upt VIII those who have mlsera-
b.y failed in the business OF this life be
able 10 pay the debts Of other spiritual IN
ro.Feutst I'D million wrongs make one
rlehtt Poner0polis 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
4and they Were an sent 10 PonerOUOlis. It
was the great capital OF wickedncss. Sup
pose man or woman had opened pri-
mary school in POnerOpolis. would the pa
rents OF other cities have sent their chill
cren there 70 be educated and ref0rmed2
II a man in this world was surrounded
with temptation. in the next world. all
the righteous having passed up into the
beatihC state the association will be more
deteriorating. depreciating and down. You
would not send 10 a cholera or yellow
fever hospital a man for his health. and
The great lazarettO Of the future, iu which
are gathered the diseased and the plague
struck, Will be a poor place for moral
order 10 make his child courageous, made
him sleep I'm the turrets Of the castle,
where the winds howled and specters were
SAID TO haunt the place. The mother and
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, 1 do not think the tur-
rets OF darkness or the spectral world
swept by sirOccO and eurOclydOn, viii
ever prepare a soul for the eternal land
a.H D. A.
ulum IN the College Inferno. where a man
having been prepared by enough sin. en-
tiers and goes up from freshman OF In
iquity TO sophomore OF abOmination, and
on up. from sophomore to Junior. and
from junior to senior. and day Of grad
uation comes, and the diploma Is signed
by satan, the president, and all the pro-
fessiOnal demOniacs attest the fact that
the candidate 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 fitted
a vast multitude for ruin, they never mt
ted one soul for happiness-never.
Again, I wish you further to notice that
the ruin of this. Now, suppose wicked
man is assured that after a lifetime Of
wckedness, he can fix II all right up In
the future. That would be the demoral-
ization OF society, that would be the dem
clifton OF the human race. There are
men who are now kept on the limits Of
sin by their fear. The fear that II We are
bad and unfOrgiven here IL 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 semi barbarism 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
say, Go TO, now; I'll get out of this world
all there is in It. Come gluttony and re-
venge and uncleanness and all sensuali-
ties, and wait upon me. 1t may abbre-
viate my earthly life by dissoluteness,
but that will only give me heavenly in
diligence on a larger scale in shorter
length Of time. / will overtake the right
eous before long, ] will only come in
| heaven a little late, and l Will be
| little more fortunate than those who
have behaved themselves on earth and
/ then went straight to the bosom of
God, because L VIII see more and have
| wider excursion, and / win come into hea-
ven via Gehenna. via sheolF Hearers!
Readersi Another chance In the next
world means free license and the demoli-
| ton Of this Suppose you had case IN
| court, and al the judges and all the at
| tOrneys agreed in telling you the first
| trial Of it-it would be tried tWice-the
first trial would not be Of very much i'm
| pOrtance. but the second trial would de-
| eide everything. On which trial would you
put the most expenditures on which trial
would you employ the ableSt counSelE on
which trial would you be most ANXIOUS 10
have the attendance Of all the witnesses?
| oh you would say, IF there are to be
two trials, and the first trial does not
amount to much, the second trial being
everything, everything depending upon
that, / must have the most eloquent at
torney, and / must have all my witnesses
present, and / will eXpend my money on
that" If these men who are impenitent
and who are wicked felt there We're two
trials, and the first was of no very great
| Importance, and the second trial was the
| one of vast and infinite importance, all the
| preparations for eternity would be post
/ mortem, post-funeral, post-sepulchral, and
| this world would be terked off into impen-
| itency and godle ssness. Another chance in
another world means the demolition of this
| world.
Furthermore, my friends-for am
preaching to myself as well as to you; We
are on the same level, and though the
| platform be little higher than the pew,
| it is only for convenience, and that We
may the better speak to the people; we
are all on the same platform, and / am
| talking to my soul while l talk to yours
my friends, why another chance in an
| other world when we have declined so
| many chances in this? Suppose you
| spread banquet and you invite a vast
number of friends, and among others you
send an invitation to man who disre-
! CARDS it. or treats 1t in an obnoxious way.
! During twenty years you give twenty bah
/ quets, a banquet a year; and you invite
your friends and every time you invite
! this man, who disregards your invita-
| ton or sends back some indignity. After
i awhile you move into a larger house, and
1 amid more luXuriant surroundings, and
| you invite your friends, but you do nor
/ invite that man to whom twenty times
| you sent an invitation to the smaller
| house Are you to blame? You woul1
/ only make yourself absurd before
| God and man to send that
/ man another invitation. For TWEEN,
| ty years he has been declining your
! offers and sending insult for your kind
ness and courtesy, and can he blame you?
! Can he come up to your house on the night
! of the banquet? Looking up and seeing
/ 1t is finer house, will he have any right
/ to say: Let me in. I declined all those
/ other offers, but this is a larger house, a
/ brighter house, more luXuriant abode
| Let me in. Give me another chance2' God
| has spread a banquet of his grace before
| US. For three hundred and sxty-five days
| of every year, since we knew the differ
| ence between our right hand and our left
| he has invited us by his Providence and
/ by his Spirit. Suppose We decline all these
! offers and all this kindness. Now the ban
quet is spread in a larger place, in the
heavenly palace. Invitations are sent out
| but no invitation is sent to us. Why? Be
! cause we declined all those other banQuets
| VIII God be to blame? Win we have any