St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-10-03

chest OF me01Cl0e0 10 neal. OeuSCo
said that in the first few years q
his public life Nero was set up n m
example of clemency and kindness,
but he got worse and worse. the path
descending, until at IS years OF age he
was the suicide. II 500 years Of life
tine could not cure the antediluviana
Of their iniquity, undertake to say
that all the ages of eternity would he
only prolongation of depravity. but.
SAYS some one, lin the next life the
evil surroundings will be withdrawn
and good influences will be substituted,
and hence, expurgation, sublimation.
glorifcation." But you must remem-
Der that the righteous. al their sins
forgiven, pass right up into beatific
state, and then having passed up into
the beatific state, not needing any
other chance. that will leave ali those
who have never been forgiven, and
who were impenitent, alone-alone'
and where are the salvablc influences
to come from? Can it be expected that
DIR. Duff, who spent his whole life In
pointing the Hindoos to Heaven, and
DIR. Abeel, who spent his life in evan.
gelizing China, and that Judson, who
spent his life in preaching the Gospel
to Burmah-can it be expected that
they will be sent down from some
celestial missionary society to educate
and to save those who wasted their
earthly existence? No. We are told
distinctly that all missionary and
evangelistic influences will be ended
forever. and the good. having
passed up to their beatific state,
all the morally bankrupt will
be together, and where are the
salvablc influences to come from? Will
a specked or bad apple put in barrel
Of diseased apples make the other
apples good? Will 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 pay the debts Of
other spiritual insolvents? Will Z
million wrongs make one right?
Poneropolis was the city where King
Rufus of Thracia put all bad people
Of his kingdoni, and whenever there
were iniquitous people found m any
part u tho land they were all sent to
Poneropolis- IL Was the great capital
Of wickednes& Suppose . man or
woman had opened = primary school in
Poneropolis, would ~ parents Of other
cities have emit eholr children there ia
be educsted and fU4sGned?
II = nsn II this world was surround
ed with temptat ton, 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 =
man for his health, and the great laza-
retto Of the 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 a soul for the eternal
land Of sunshine. wonder what is
the curriculum in the College Inferno,
where . 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 q sufficient time under
their drill. aad then enters Heaven.
Pandemonium. . preparatory school
for celestial admission! All, my
friends, while Satan and his cohorts
have fitted vast multitude for ruin,
they never fitted one soul for happi-
ness-never. 3-sA
Again, / wish you further to notice
that another chance hAnother world
means the ruin Of this; Now, suppose
q wicked man is assured that after q
lifetime of wickcdnes&i he can fix 1t
all right up in the future. That would
be the Decentralization of society, that
would be the demolition Of the hui
man race. There are men who are
now kept en- the limits of sin
BY their fear. The fear that if we
are bad or unforgiven here it will not
be well with us in the next existence,
is the chief influence that keeps civil.
ization from rushing back into semi
barbarism, and keeps standardization
from rushing back into midnight saw
agery, 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 smother chance, he
says: go to, now; Ill get ont Of this
world all there is in it. Come glut
tony and revenge and uncleanness
and all sensualities, and wait
upon me. 1t may abbreviate
my earthly life by dissoluteness,
but that will only give me Heavenly
indulgence on a larger scale in q
shorter length of time. ! will over
take the righteous before long. l will
only come in Heaven little late. and
/ will be q little more fortunate than
those who have behaved themselves on
earth and then went straight to the
bosom of God, because will see more
and have wider excursion, and will
come into Heaven via Gehenna, via
SheOl.- Hearers! Readers! An
other. chance in the next world
means free license and the demoli-
ton of this. Suppose you had q
case in court, and all the judges and
all the attorneys agreed in telling you
the first trial of tit would be tried
twice-thc first trial would not be Of
very much Importance, but the second
trial would decide everything. Or
which trial would you employ the
ablest counsel? On which trial would
YOU be--saost. anxious to have the at
tendance Of all the witnesses? 'Oh.
you Ndxlik 60here are to be two
trials, and the first trial does not
amount to much, h second trial