AS THE T]ISTo Matter in "WliatH

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WASHINGTON', Jan. 2.-Dr. Tal-

mage to-day discusses a question that

everybody sometime discusses, it is

cue of tremendous import. Shall we

have another chance? The text isEcclesiastes ii, 3, "If the tree fallstoward the south or toward the north,in the place where the tree falleththere it shall be."There is a hovering h~pe in the

minds of a vast multitude of peoplethat there will be an opportunity inthe next world of correcting the mis¬takes of this; that however completea shipwreck we may make of our earth¬ly life it will be on a beach up whichwe may walk to a palace; that as thedefendant may lose his case in a cir¬cuit court and appeal it and have it go

up to thc supreme court or court of

chancery aud all the costs thrownover on the other party, so a man

may lose his case in this world, butinthe higher jurisdiction of eternityhave thc decision of the earthly case

set aside, all the costs remitted andthe defendant be triumphant forever.

The object of my sermon is to show

you that common sense declares withthe text that such an expectation ischimerical. "If the tree fall towardthe south or toward the north there it

shall bc.'' There are those who say

that if the impenitent and unforgivenman enters the next world and sees

the disaster, as á result of that disas¬

ter he will tarn,vthc distress the cause

of his reformation, but we have 10,-000 instances all around about us of

peeple who have done wrong and dis¬aster suddenly came upon them. Sidthe disaster heal them? No; they

* went Ott.There is a man flung of dissipations.

The doctor says to him, "Now, my

friend, if you don't stop drinking anddon't stop this fast life you are livingyou will die." The patient thanks

' the physician for his warning and

gets better. He begins to sit up, be¬

gins to walk, around the room, beginsto go to business, and takes the same

round of grog shops where he got his

morning dram and his evening dram,and the drams between. Down again.Same doctor. Same physi«al anguish.Same medical warning. But now thesickness is more protracted, the liver

more obstinate, the stomach more ir¬

ritable, the digestive organs more re¬

bellious. But still, under medicalskill, he gets better, goes forth, com¬

mits the same sacrilege against his

physical health. Sometimes he wakesup to see what he is doing, and he re¬

alizes he is destroying his family, andthat his life is a perpetual perjuryagainst his marriage vows, and thatthat broken-hearted weman is so dif¬ferent from the roseate wife he mar¬

ried that her old schoolmates do not

recognize her on the street, and thathis sons are going out in life UDderthe taunt of a father's drunkenness,and that his daughters are going out

in life under the scarification of a dis¬

reputable ancestry. His nerves are

all a-jangle. From crown of head to

sole of foot he is one aching, rasping,crucifying, damning torture. Whereis he?He is in hell on earth. Docs it

stop him? Ah, no! After awhile de¬

lirium tremens pours out upou his

pillow a whole jungle of hissing rep¬tiles. His screams horrify the neigh¬bors as he dashes out of bed crying,"Take these thing off me!" 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, I am going to have

a plain talk with you. If you ever

have an attack of this kind again youwill die. I can't save you, and allthe doctors in creation can't save

you."The patient gets up, starts out,

goes thc same round of dissipationand is down again, but this time med¬icines do not touch his case. Consul¬tations of physicians say there is no

hope. Death ends the scene. That

process of inebriation and physicalsuffering and medical warning and dis¬solution is taking place within a

stone's throw of where you sit and in

every neighborhood of Christendom.Pain dots not referm. Suffering docsnot cure. What is true in regard to

one sin is true in regard to all sins,

and yet men arc expecting in the next

life there will bc opportunity for pur¬

gatorial regeneration. Take up thc

printed reports rd' the prisons of the

United States and lind that the vast

majority «d' thc criminals were there

before, some for two times, three

times, four time.-, six simes: pun¬ished again and again, but thc}'goright on. Millions of incidents andinstances working the other way. and

yet men think that in the next world

punishment will work out fur themsalvable effeets. Why. you and 1cannot imagine any worse tortur«

from another world than we have seen

men in this world, and without any

sal utary con set | uences.

Furthermore, the prospect of refor¬mation in another world is more im-

KEE FALLS.>irection, There it Shallâe.

probable than here. Do you not real-ize the fact that a man starts in thisworld with the innocence of infancy?In the other case, starting in theother world, he starts with the accu-

undated bad habits of a lifetime. Isit not to be expected that you couldbuild a better ship out of new timberthan out of an old hulk that has beenground up in the breakers? If start¬

ing with comparative innoeency theman does not become godly, is it pos¬sible that starting with sin a seraphcan be evoluted? Is there not more

\ prospect that a sculptor will make a

finer statue out of a block of pure,white Parian marble than out of a

black rock that has been cracked andtwisted and split and scarred with thestorms of half a century? Could younot write a last will and testament, or

write a deed, or write an importantdocument ou a pure white sheet of pa¬

per easier than >you could write it up¬on a sheet scribbled all over with in¬famy and blotted and torn from top to

bottom? And yet there are thosewho arc so uncommon sensical as tobelieve that though a mau starts inthis world with infancy and its inno¬cence and turns out badly, in the next

world he can start with a dead failureand turn out well.

"But,'" say some people. ;:we oughtto have another chance in the nextworld because our life herc is so verybrief. We scarcely have room to turu

around between thc cradle and thegrave, the wood of the one almoststriking against the marble of theother. We ought to have anotherchance because of the brevity of thislife." My friends, do you know whatmade the ancient deluge a necessity?It was the longevity of the antedi¬luvians. They were worse in thesecond eentury than in the first, andworse when they got 300 years old,and worse at 400, and worse at 500,and worse at 600, and worse at 800,until the world had to be washed andscoured and scrubbed and soaked andsmnk and anchored a whole month un¬

der water before it was fit for decentpeople to live in. I haue seen manypictures of old Time with his scytheto cut, hut I never saw any picturesof Tjme with a chest of medicines to

heal. Seneca said that in the firstfew years of his public life Ntro was

set up as an example of cleanlinessand kindness, but he got worse andworse, the path descending, until at

68 years of age he wa» a suicide. If800 years of lifetime could not cure

the antediluvians of their iniquity, Iundertake to say that all the ages ofeternity would be only prolongationof depravity."But," says some one. i:in-the next

life the evil surroundings will bewithdrawn and good influences will besubstituted, and hence expurgation,sublimation, glorification." But youmust remember that the righteous, alltheir sins forgiven, pass right up intoa beatific state, and then having pass¬ed up into the beatific state, not need¬ing any other chance, that will leaveall those who have never been for¬given, and who wereimpenitcnt. alone-alone-and where are the salvableinfluences to come from? Can it beexpected that Dr. Duff, who spent hiswhole life in pointing the Hindoos to

heaven, and Dr. Abcel. who spent hislife in evangelizing China, and thatJudson, who spent his life in preach¬ing the Gospel to Burma-eau it bcexpected that they will bc sent downfrom some celestial missionary socie¬ty to educate and save those whowasted their earthly existence? No.We arc told distinctly that all mis¬sionary and evangelistic influenceswill be ended forever, and thc good,having psascd up to their beatificstate, all the morally bankrupt will bctogether, and where are the salvableinfluences to come from? Will a

specked or bad apple put in a barrelof diseased apples make thc other ap¬

ples good? Will one who is down beable to lift others up? AV ill thosewho have miserably failed in the busi¬ness of this life be able tu pay thedebts of other spiritual insolvents?Will a million wrongs make one right?I'oneropolis was the city where KingRufus ofTkracia put all bad people ofhis kingdom, and whenever therewere iniquitous people found in anypart of thc land they were all sent to

I'oneropolis. lt was the great capitalof wickedness. Suppose a man or a

woman had opened a primary schoolin Poneropolis; would the parents ofother cities have sent their childrenthere to be educated and reformed?

If a man in this world was surround¬ed with temptation, in the nextworld, all the righteous having passeduj» into thc beatific state, the associa¬tion will be more dctcrieratirig. dcpredating and down. Von would not

send to a cholera or yellow lever hos¬pital a mau for his health, and thegreat lazaretto of the future, inwhich are gathered the diseased andthe plagio- struck, will he a poor-placefor niora! recovery. The Count ofChateaubriand, in order to make hischild courageous, made him sh ep inthe turrets of the castle, whore the

winds howled and specters were sa

to haunt the place. The mother »

the sister almost died of fright, bthc son afterward gives his accoui

and he says: "That gave me nerves

steel and gave me courage that hnever faltered." But, my friends,do not think the turrets of darkneor the spectral world swept by sirocand euroclydon will ever preparea soul for the eternal land of sunshinI wonder what is the curriculumthe College Inferno, where a ma

having been prepared by enough sienters and goes up from freshmaniniquity to sophomore of abominatioand on up from sophomore to junioand 'i'rom junior to senior, and daygraduation comes and the diplomasigned by Satan, the president, at

all the professional demoniacs atte:the fact that the candidate has beensufficient time under their drill ac

then enters heaven. Pandemoniuna preparatory school for celestial a<

mission! Ah. my friends, while Sitan and his cohorts have fitted a va:

multitude for ruin, they never fittcone soul for happiness-never.

Again. I wish you further to noticthat another chance in another worlmeans the ruin of this. Now. su|pose a wicked man is assured that alter a lifetime of wickedness he «an iiit all right up in the future. Tin-would bc the demoralization of soci(ty, that would be the demolition c

the human race. There are men whare now kept on tho limits of sin b;their fear. The fear that if we ar

bad and unforgiven here it will not bwell with us in the next existence ithe chief influence that keeps civilization from rushing back into seriii-baibarism. and keeps scmi-barbarisrfrom rushing back into midnight sav

agery, and keeps midnight savager,from rushing back into extinctionNow, thc man is kept on the limits o

sin. But this idea coming into hisoul, this idea of [another chance, lusays: "Go to, now. I'll get out o

this world all there is in it. Comegluttony, revenge and unclcannes:and all sensualities, and wait upotme. It may abbreviate my earthlylife by dissoluteness, but that will on

ly give me heavenly indulgence on :

larger scale in a shorter length oitime. I will overtake the righteousbefore long. I will only come irheaven a little late, and I will be ;

little more fortunate than those whehave behaved themselves on earth and.then went straight to the bosom olGod, because I will see more and havewider excursion, and I will come inteheaven via gehenna, via sheol!"Hearers! Readers! Another chancein the next world means free licenseand thc demolition of this. Supposeyou had a «ase in court, and all thejudges and all the attorneys agreed intelling you the first trial of it-itwould be tried twice-the first trialwould not be of very much importance,but the second trial would decideeverything. On which trial wouldyou put thc most expenditure? Onwhich trial would you employ theablest counsel? On which trial wouldyou be most anxious to have the at¬tendance of all thc witnesses? "Oh,"you would say, if there arc to bc two

trials, and the first trial does not

amount to much, thc second trial be¬ing everything, everything dependingupon that, I must have the most elo¬quent attorney, and I must have allmy witnesses present, and I will ex¬

pend my mouey on that." If thesemen who are impenitent and who arc

wicked felt there were two trials, andthe first was of no very great impor¬tance, and the second trial was theone of vast and infinite importance, allthe preparations for eternity would bc

post mortem, post funeral, post sepul¬chral, and this world would be jerkedoff into irapenitency and godlessness.Another chance in another worldmeans the demolition of this world.

Furthermore, my friends-for I ampreaching to myself as well as

to you. wc are on the same level, andthough the platform be a little higherthan the pew, it is only for conven¬

ience, and 'jat wc may the betterspeak to thc people; we are

all on thc platform, and 1 am talk¬ing to my soul while i talk to yours-

my friends, why another chance inanother world when wc have declinedsn many chances in this? Supposeyou spread a banquet and you invitea number of friends, and among othersyou send an invitation to a man who

disregards it or treats it in an obnox¬ious way. During 20 years you givelil i banquets, and every time you in¬vite this man. who disregards your in-vitatiou or semis back some indignity.After awhile you move into a largerloone and amid, more luxuriant sur-

foundings, and you invite your friendsbut you do not invite that man to

whom 20 times you sent an invitationto the smaller house. Are you to

blame.'' Von would only make your¬self absurd before God and man to

scud that man another invitation.For 20 years bc has Kern decliningyour offers and sending insult foryour kindness and courtesy, and can

he blame you'/ Can lie come up to

you I" house on- thc nigh! ol' the ban-qiict? Looking up and seeing il is a

liner house, will he have any right to

Say: "Let mein. 1 declined all thoseother .lifers, but this i> a larger house,a brighter house, a more luxuriant

abode. Let mc in. Give mean'

chance." God has spread a baiof his grace before us. For 3G5of every year since we knew the ddace between our right hand am

left he has invited us

his providence and by his S|Suppose wc decline all I

offers of all this kindiess. Nowbanquet is spread in a larger placthe heavenly palace. Invitationsent out, but no invitation is se

us. "Why? Because we declinethose other banquets. Will Gcto blame? Will we hare any rig]rap on the door of heaven and sayought not to be shut out of this pgive me another chance?'' Twgates of salvation standing widefree admission all our life andwhen the 12 gates close we ruslthc bosses of Jehovah's buckler,ing, "Give me another chance!"A ship is to sail for Hamb

You want to go to Germany byline. You see thc advertisementhe steamer's sailing. You see itwo weeks. You see it in the ming papers and you sec it in the c

ing papers. You sec it placarde»thc walls. Circulars arc thrownyour office telling you all aboutsteamer. One day you come dowithe wharf, ami the steamer has sw

out into the stream. You say:":

that isn't fair. Come back: swimarain to the docks. Throw the plashore that I may come on board,isn't fair. I want to go to Germby that steamer, (¡ive me anoi

chance." Hero is a magnificent t

for heaven. It has been anchiwithin our sight year after year,

year after year, and year after yand all the benign voices of earthheaven have urged us to get on bo:since it may sail at any mom'

Suppose we let that opportunityaway, and then we look out and s

"Send back that opportunity,want to take it. It isn't treatingfairly. <?ive me another chan(Why, my brother, you might as v

go out and stand on the Highland:1Navesink three days after the Ma,tic has gone out and shout: "Captacome back. I want to go to Liver)!on the Majestic. Come back over

sea and through tho Narrows andto the docks, (¡ive nie anot

chance."' You might as well do t

as, after the last opportunity of heen has sped away, try to getback again, dust think of it!came on me yesterday in my s ti

with overwhelming impressiveneJust thin1'of it. All heaven offeius a gratuity for a whole lifetime, a

and yet we wanting to rush agaiiGod, saying: "Give me anotlchance." There ought to be, tinwill be no such thing as posthumeopportunity.You see common sense agrees wi

my text in saying that '"if the ti

fall toward thc south or toward t

north, in the place where the tree facth there it shall be." You sec tlidea lifts this world from an uniportant way station to a platformstupendous issues and makeseternity whirl around this hour. Umy soul, oh, my soul! Only one tri;and all the preparations for that tr

to be made in this world or nev

made at all. Oh, my soul, oh, ii

soul! You see this piles up all t

emphasis and all the climaxes and :

thc destinies into this life. Noothchance. Oh, how that intensifies tlvalue and the importance of thchance. Alexander and his am

u^ed to conn.' around a city, and tinwould kindle a great light, with tl

understanding that as lung as thlight was burning the city might su

render and all would bc well, butthey let that light go out then tl

battering rams would swing :i!.rainthc walls and there would come disater and demolition. Oh, my friendall you and I need to do to prepare fteternal safety is just to surrender 1

the King and Conquerer, Christ. Surender hearts, surrender life, surrei

der everything. Thc great light kecr.burning, light kindled by thc wood (

the cross, light flaming up against thdark night of nur sin and sorrow. Ollet us surrender before the light gooout. and with it nur last opportun itof making our peace with G nd throngour Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, m

brother, talk about another chancethis thc supernal chanco. In thtime of Kdward ll. at the hattie o

Mussclburg, a private soldier saw tbathe Karl of Huntley had lost his hclmet. The private soldier took off hihelmet and went up to the Marl o

Huntley and put thc helmet on hihead. Now. thc head of the privat«soldier uncovered, he was soon slaiiwhile his commander rode in safetythrough and out of the battle. Hut iis di fieront in our case. Instead of:pm ate offering a helmet to an earl. ¡1i- the King of heaven and earth offering a crown to an unworthy subject,the Kin« dying that.wc might live' >h. tull ii to I lie point- of t lie coin

pass, tell ii to day and night, tell il t<

earth and heaven, tell ii to all the cen¬

turies and all thc III i I len i urns that G'odhas given us .such a magnificent chanciin this world t hal wo need no ol lt01<hanee II a II o I her

A dream. am in lie burnishedjudgment hall on thc lasl day. The

great white 1 hr.is lifted, but t hoJudge lias not yet taken it. While we

arc waiting for his arrival I hear thcimmortals in conversation. "Whatare you waiting for?'' says a soul thatwent up from Madagascar to a soulthat went up from America. The lat¬ter responds: "I was in America 40years ago, and I heard the Gospelpreached, and I had plenty of Biblesin my house, and from the time that Iknelt at my mother's knee in prayeruntil my last hour I had great oppor¬tunities, but I did not improve them,and I am here to-day waiting foranother chance." ''Strange, strange."says the soul just come from Mada¬gascar. "Strange. Why, I never

heard the gospel call but once in allmy life, and I accepted it, and I don'twant another chance." "What are

you waiting for?" says one who hadvery feeble intellect to one who hadgreat brain, and whose voice was sil¬very, and who had scepters of power.The latter replies: ' I had great poweron earth, I must admit, and I masteredlanguages, and 1 mastered libraries,and colleges conferred upon mc learn¬ed titles, and my name was a synonymfor eloquence and power, but some¬

how I neglected the matters of mysoul, and I must confess to you I amhere to-day waiting for anotherchance."'Now. the ground trembles with the

advancing chariot. Thc great foldingdoors of thc burnished hall of judg¬ment arc thrown open. '"Standback.' cry thc ushers. and let theJudge of quick and dead pathrough.'"

Ile takes thc throne. He looks offupon the throngs of nations come tothe last judgment, come to the onlyjudgment, and one Hash from thethrone reveals each man's history to

himself, and reveals it to all thcothers. And then the Judge says"Divide!" and thc burnished walliecho it. "Divide!" and the guide.*angelic answer. t:J.)ivide!" and theimmortals are rushing this way andthat, until there is an aisle betweenthem, a great aisle, and then a vacu¬

um, widening and widening and widening. until the Judge looks to one

side of that vacuum and addresses thethrong and says: "Let him thatrighteous be righteous still, and lethim that is holy be holy still." Andthen, turning to the throng on theother side of the vacuum, he says:"Let him that is unjust be unjuststill, and let him that is filthy be fil¬thy still." And then he stretchesout both hands, one towards thethrong on each side the vacuum, andsays: "If the tree fall toward thesouth or toward the north, in theplace where the tree falleth there itshall be!" And then I hear some¬

thing jar with a great sound. It is theclosing of the book of judgment. TheJudge ascends the stairs behind thethrone. Thc hall of the last assize iscleared and shut. The High Court ofeternity adjourned forever.

- No man can tell another's feel¬ings. A stalwart Irish, laborer was

one day begging from a gentleman,who requested a medical man preseutto examine thc said laborer. Thelaborer had enforced his plea with,"Vcr banner, I can't work." "leanfind nothing the matter with you to

prevent your working, my man." saidthe doctor. "Ah, that's thrue foryou,'" replied Pat : "but. then, yourbanner can't tell how lazy I feel."

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The use of the surgeon's knife is be¬coming so general, resulting fatallyin such a large number of cases, as tooccasion general alarm.Mr. William Walpole, of Walshtown,

South Dakota, writes; ''Aboutthree years ago, there came undermy left eye a little blotch about the

size of a small pea.jf*eeB*'^^ Itgrew rapidly,and

êï shooting pains ranWt in every direction.

ßf\;fj¿^f I became alarmedNj"*jflfiif N

and consulted a

/':''^*SSÉ¿M £T0°d doctor, who

£&&N£BSM^^ pronounced it can-

xrijlBgK JjÍB8(Wrifetfrccr-an(i s;i^ that it

V^'^^WWR/ ^his 1 would not\>\ vffv J consent to, havingN^' little faith in the

indiscriminate usc of thc knife. Read¬ing of thc many cures made by S. S.S., I determined to give that medicinea -.rial, and after I had taken it a fewdays, thc cancer became irritated andbegan to discharge. This after awhileceased, leaving a small scab, whichfinally dropped off, and only a healthylittle ..car remained io mark thc place..vherc thedestroyerhad held full sway.

Rea*. iDicod Remedy*Cancer is in ibo blood and ii is folly»expect an operation to cure if. S.S.S.yia?i¡-iií'S£i¿ purely- "vegetable) i.-: a real

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,'Jook mailed f;v. : $0address Swift ¿%\\

NOTICE OF FIXAI. SETTLEMENT.The undersigned, Administrator nt'

iliy ICstate of Amanda Glnsby, deceased,hereby gives notice tl¡: i he will, on the'.'th day .»I February, ISJIS, npnly to theJudge ol" Probate for Anderson Oountj' fora Final Settlement ol said ISstiife, and ..«.

discharge from his ofltce as .\ dmiMistriitor.I .!. M00ltW, Adm r.

.lan A, IS!IS .>.-,

VTOTI.CE Kl NA I. SETT LE.WENTTb- undersigned. Executor of

Hu- Estate of Anron ITtdl, deceased,hereby gives notice til«I he wid. on theMb o.t.- oj February, IMS, apply to CheJudge of Probate for Anderson County for:. Final Settlement ol said Estate, and a

discharge from his other as ExecutorP. c. HALL Ex'r.

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never in mir experience have we ever bad such H large trade as now. We are nor com¬

plaining about h tr.i times We are bovine mir share of the Cotton, and of course we

lire going tn h*ve our slmre of the trade We bardlv ever do sell oui at Cos*, andsometimes we don't, ; therefore, we dou r have M d«"» it now, because we haven! the

slightest bleu of «oint; ou! m business-besides our Goods are going ont fast enough at

i reasonable proti I.When Christmas stops e< ming onco a year, wh« n ive can'I sell more Dearv's Patent

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