The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-12

izr 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 accu
mulated bad habits of lifetime Is
it not to be expected that you could
build better ship out Of new timber
than out Of an old hulk that has been
ground up in the breakers? If start
ing with comparative innoccncy the
man does not become codly. is it pos
siblc tIat starting with sin scraph
can be cvolutcd? Is there not more
prospect that sculptor will make a
finer statue out Of block Of pure,
white l'ariam marble than out Of a
black-rock THAT has been cracked and
twisted and split and Scared with the
storms Of half Il century? Could you
n,t write il last will and testament. or
writ. :. decd. or write IN important
document on Il lnrc white sheet of pa
Ter easier tLan you could write i up
on 81 shcr: >cribblci all over with in
fanny am, hlotied and torn from top to
BUTTON: .AnI set there are th"sc
who arc - niicpirinDn >rnslra u t"
believe that though Il man starts in
this world with infancy and its i,no-
ccncc and turns out badly. IN the next
world he can start witl. a dead failvrc
and turn out well.
But say some people we ourh,
to have another chance in the next
world because our life here j., 80 vcr,
brief. We scarcely haze room to turn
around between the cradle and the
grave, tine wood Of the one almost
striking against the marble Of the
other We ought to have another
chance because Of the brcvity Of this
life My friends do you know what
made the ancient dclugc necessity?
it was the longevity of the antcdi-
luvians. They were worse in the
second century than in the first, aud
worse when they rot 500 years old,
and worse ut 100, and worse Mt 800,
and worse at 600, and worse ut 500,
Until the world had to be washed and
secured and scrubbed and soaked and
sunk and anchored whole month un-
der water before it was fit for decent
people to live in hauc seen many
pictures of old Time with his scythc
to cut. hut ] never saw any pictures
Of Time with chest Of medicines to
heal. Seneca said that in the first
few years of his public life Nero was
set up assn example of cleanliness
and kindness, but he got worse and
worse, the path descending, until at
Is years of age lie was suicide If
500 years of lifetime could not cure
the antediluvians of their ini1uity,
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
withdrawn and good influences will he
substituted. and hence expurgation,
sublimation. ylorication. But you
must remember that the righteous, all
their sius forgiven, pass right up into
a beatiic state, and then having pass
ed up into the bsatitic state, not need
ing any other chance, that will lcavc
all those who have never been for
given, and who were impcntcnt, alone
-nlonc-and where are the salvahle
influences to come from? Can it be
expected that DR.. buff. who spent his
whole life in pointing the lindoos to
heaven and Dr. Abccl. who spent his
life in cvanyclizing China, and that
,Judson, who spent his life in preach
ing the Gospel to Burma--can it be
expected that they will be sent down
from some celestial missionary sncic
ty to educate and save those who
wasted their earthly existence? No.
We arc told distinctly that all mis-
sionary ~ cvangcliStic influences
will be enc forever, and the good,
having Hsaaed up :c their bc=::::c
state, all the morally bankrupt will be
together, and where are the salvable
influences to come from? Will Il
srccked or bad apple put in a barrel
of diseased apples make the other ap-
pies good? Will one who is down be
able to lift others up? Will those
who have miscrably failed in the bust
ness of this life be able to pay the
debts Of other spiritual insolvcmts?
Will million wrongs make one right?
Poncropolis was the city where King
Rufus Of Thracia put all bad people of
his Kingdom, and whenever there
were iniquitous people found in any