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

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmags delivere,
the following sermon ON the subject
"Shall We Have Another Chance?
before his Washington congregation
taking for his text:
II the tree fall toward the south, or towar,
the north. In the place where the tree falleth
there IL shall be.-Eccl... H..
There Is . lowering hope In the
minds Of vast multitude of people
that there will be an opportunity In
the next world of correcting tho mis-
takes of this; that, however complete
. shipwreck we may make of earthly
life, 1t will be on beach up which we
may walk to palace; that as tho de-
PENDANT may lose his case In circui,
court and appeal 1t and have It 20 up
to the supreme court or court Of chan.
Gerry and all tina costs thrown over on
the other party, so man may lose his
case In this world. but In the higher
Jurisdiction of eternity have the docis-
lon of tho earthly case set aside, all
the costs RENTED and the defendant
be triumphant forever.
W
you that common sense declares with
the text that such nm expectation Is
chimerical. II 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 say
that II the impenitent and unforgiven
man enters the next world and sees
the disaster, as result of that dis
aster he will turn, the distress the
cause of his reformation; but we have
10, 600 instances all around about us
of 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 Tho doc
tor says to him: "Now. my friend, II
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 60 to bust
ness and takes the same round of grog
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-
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 sacrilege
against his physical health. Some
times he wakes up to see what he 10
1oing, and he realizes he is destroying
mis- family, and that his life is per-
petual perjury against his marriage
VOWS. and that that broken hearted
Is SO different fom the roseate
wife he married that her old school
mates do not recognize her on the
street, and that his sons are going out
In life under the faint of fathers
drunkenness, and that his daughters
are going out In life under the sacrifi-
cation Of disreputable ancestry.
His nerves are all jangle. From
crown Of head to sole of foot he is one
aching, rasping, crucifying, damning
torture. Where Is he? He Is In
aim? All! no. After awhile de-
irium tremens pours out upon
MS pillow a whole jungle of kissing
reptiles. His screams horrify the
,eighbors as he dashes out of bed cry
ing: Take these things off mel" He
Is drinking down the comfort Of his
family, the education of his children,
their prospects for this life and per-
haps their prospects for the life to
come. Pale and convalescent he sits
up. Physician says to him: "Now,
my good fellow, am going to have
plain talk with you. II you ever have
In attack Of this kind again you will
lie. can't save you, and all the doc
tors In creation can't save you" The
patient gets up, starts out, goes the
'ame round of dissipation and Is down
again; but this time medicines do not
touch his case. Consultations of physi-
clans say there is no hope. Death
ends the scene. That process Of in
ebriation and physical suffering and
medical warning and dissolution is
taking place within a stones throw of
where you sit and in every neighbor-
hood 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 in the next life there will
be opportunity for purgatorial regen-
GRAFTON. Take up the printed 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 ag gain, but
they go right on. Millions of incidents,
and instances working the other way,
and yet men think that in the next
world punishment will work out for
them salvable effects. Why, you and
can not imagine any worse torture
from another world, and without any
salutary consequence.
Furthermore, the prospect Of reform
alton in another world Is moro i'm
probable than here. Do you not real
lie 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 1t not to