The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-11
REV. DIR. TALMAGE
TIE NOTED DivINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects "shali We Have Another
Chance2n

TEHr' III Tie tree Gam toward tho south
ol toward the norihi lu The nl1ea where the
There g lowering hone 10 tho minds OF n
NA.t muHituqeoi people thar there viii be- ON
opportunity in the next world % correcting
The mistakes OF this, thar however complete
Q shlpwreck We may make 90 our earthlyIfr.
t VIII DO on beach Up which we may walk
70 palaces that Hs n defendant may lose hls
case % a Circuit Court aud appeal II ana
nave it 90 up 90 the Supreme Court or Court
OF Chaucery and all tho costs thrown over on
the other party, a0 a mau may lose bis caso
ln ths world. but Ia the higher jurisdiction
OF eternity have the decision OF tho earthly
case set aside, an the costs remlttod and the
defendant be triumphant forever.
Tho object OF my sermon Is 10 show you
that common sense declares with tho text
thm such an expectation is chlmericaL "If
tue tree iall toward the south, or toward the
/ norm. va The place where the tree falleth,
there Y shalt DO. B." There are those who say
that II The lmpenltont and unfortunate man
enters the next world aud sees the disaster,
as a result Of that disaster he viii turn. the
/ distress the cause Of his reformation; bat we
have ten thousand instances all around
/ about ns Of people who have done wrong
I
did the disaster beat them2 No.
/ they went on. There is a man hung
/ OF designations. The doctor says 10 hlm
/ Now, my friend, 90 you don't stop drinking
ana don't stop this fast lite you are living,
/ you will die" The patient thanks
the physician for his warning and gets bet
/ ter be begins 20 So up. begins 10 walk around
/ tue room, begins to 80 70 business and takes
tne same round OF grog shops whore be got
ms morning dram aud his evening dram and
the drains between. Down again. Same
doctor. Same physical anguish. Same med
leal warning. But nOT the sickness
vs. more protracted, the liver more
Obstinate, the stomach more irrl-
table, the digestive organs more rebellloua
But stil under medical skill, be gets better.
goes forth. commits the same sacrllege
against his physical health. Sometimes he
wakes up to see what he Is doing. and he
realizes he Is destroying his family and that
his life Is perpetual perjury against his
marriage VOWS. and that that broken-hearted
woman Is so different from tho r0seate wife
he married that her old schooimates do not
recognize her on the street, and that his sons
are going out In life under the taunt OF q
lathors drunkenness, and that his daughters
are going out In life under the scarlh-
cation OF dEreputable ancestry. HIS
nerves are oil O jangle. From crown Of
head to sole Of loot he Is one aching, rasp-
Ing, crucifying, damning torture. Where Is
heS he Is In hell on earth. Does It stop
him2 All! no. After awhile dellrum ire
mems pours out upon his pillow a whole
Jungle OF Kissing reptiles. His screams hor-
riiy the neighbors as he dashes out OF bed
crying, Take these things on Of mel" He
Is drinking down the comfort Of his family
the education Of bis children their pros
poets Tor this life and perhaps 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 q plain talk with
you. II you ever have an attack Of this
kind again you will die. l can't save you,
and all the doctors in creation can't
save YOU The patient gets up, starts out,
goes the same round Of dissipation and Is
down again; but this time medicines do not
touch his case. Consultations of physicians
say there is no hope. Death ends the scene.
That process Of inebriatiOn and physicalsuf-
iering and medical warning and dissolution
Is taking place within a stones throw Of
where you sit and in every neighborhood Of
Christendom. Pain does not reform. Suf-
feriug does not cure What is true in re-
gard 10 one sin is true in regard to
all sins, and yet men are expecting
In the next lifethere will be opportunity for
purgatorial regeneration.
Again, ! wish you to further notice that
another chance in another world means the
ruin OF this. Now. suppose a wicked man
is assured that after a lifetime of wicked
ness he can fix it all right in the future?
That would be the decentralization Of socl.
, ETY., that would DO the demolition OF the hui
man race. There are now men who are kept
on the limits Of sin by their fear. The fear
that IL we are bad and unforgiven here i
will not be we'll for US in the next existence,
IS the chief influence that keeps civilization
from rushing back into semi-barbarism, ard
keeps standardization from rushing bach
into midnight savagery. and keeps midnigh
savagery from rushing back into extinction
Another chance in another world means the
demolition of this world.
Furthermore, my friends-for am preach
ing to myself as we'll rs to you've ARE oil
the same level, and though the platform L
a little higher than the pew, it is only TO
: convenience, AMI that we may the bette
speak to the people; we are all on the sam
platform, and am talking to my soul Will
l talk to yours-my friends why anothe
chance in another world when we have de
cllned so many chances in thls2 Sup
7 pose you spread q banquet and you in
yite vast number of friends, and anon
others you send an invitation to a man VIII
= disregards it, or treats it in an obnoxiou
banqueis, a banquet year, and you invit
r your friends, and every time you invite thi
man, VINO dlsregards your invitation or send
e back some indlgnity. After a while 20
? move into a larger house and amid NOR
luxurious surroundings, and you invit
t your friends, but you do not invite tina
man to whom twenty times you sen
an invitation to the smaller house. AT
{ you TO blame2 You would only max
yourself absurd before God and man to sen
y that man another invitation. For twent
{ years he has been declining your offers an
sending insult for your kindness and coul
. tesy, and can he blame you? Can he com
9 up to your house on the night Of the bar
quel2 Looking up and seeing it is fine
-, house will he have any right to say: "Let n
+. in. have declined all those other offer
hut this is a larger house. more luxuriaI
abode Let me in. give me anoth,
Il. chance"
" God has spread a banquet Of His grace b
d fore US. For three hundred and sixty-h'
days Of every year, since we knew the dlffe
ence between our right hand and our lei
9 He has invited us by His Providence and
His Spirit, Suppose we decline all these 0