Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
Extract from a Sermon Iy the Late RsU.
". E.. Humseyl

q, HE books shall be opened: This is fig.
- ure. A book of lava book of ac-
counts. AS everything is recorded in book
it is impossible that God should forget any
thing which ever occurred. From the laws
of the intellect and tie phenomena of intol,
lectual action under certain circumstances,
we conclude that the intellect of man pos
sesses the power of reproducing to the con.
sciousness everything upon which the atten :
tion was once fixed. 1.-The Books OF life and
death will also be opened. This is n figure.
The Book of Death will be opened. Those
whose names are written in its long cata.
logue will, with the announcement of their
names. take their places upon the left hand
of the Judge. The Book of Life will be
opened. Its pages will CLEAN in the light of
the Judgment. The names of the redeemed
written in the blood of Jesus will be an-
nouncod. AS each name is heard face
brightens. till when the list is complete, the
book closed, and all the elect posted on
the right hand of the throne, the aggregated
light of countensnce whose numbers trample
upon all enumeration, will form sea of wa.
wing light. 1t will seem as if Aurora had
forgotten her Elysium bowers and flown
away to the Judgment upon wings of corus-
cant silver. and flung out her fsunting ban
ners of dawning light, wide streaming, drop
ping from every fold of their sweeping cir
cumference the mellow glories of Paradise.
A line is drawn separating angels from
devils, separating husband and wife. parents
aud chiidren-d line drawn through nearly
all the families of earth; on Abel on this
side, a GHin sopsthats side. Here and thero a
few families together. both on the right and
left. They are separated forever. A tem>
full. But this will be separation forever
forever. Save your children.
Let US walk along both lines. Upon the
left arc all unbelievers, idolators. murderers,
drunkards. robbers, adulterers, blasphemers,
liars, sIanderers, misers, worldly minded,
bypocrites, lukewarm professors, apostates,
and ministers rccrcant to their trust-minis.
ters who worked too little, neglected to feed
tho sheep, preached themselves. Let us walk
along this line again. Here are kings, he
roes, stvtcsmen and scholars-parents and
their children. Here are women. The ser.
apbs OF our households who entwine the sweet
fbrcs of their love around our hearts, torn
away, each fibre swapping, aud cast among
the dead.
Every heart in this throng massed and
crowded upon each other is breaking with
sorrow, every face is coursed by tears, every
countenance is pale with horror-the die is
cast, and cast forever. They gszed upon each
otker-the ruined mother upon her ruined
SOD, the wretched daughter gazing upon the
affrighted face and quiyering lip of father
doubly wretched because his daughter is so
gazing, they shudder with anguish and
terror. They cast despairing look at the
other side. In unalterable misery they groan
altogether groan from front to rear, from
center to circumference till tho terrified
stars weep over their heads and hell Growls
beneath them, the thunder of their woe
pealing amid all of its empty caves soon to
be crowded with shrieking millions.
But let us walk along the other line. Upon
the right are widows and orphans escaped
from their widowhood and orphanage, for
God is their husband and father; prosecuted
maidens wearing in their tresses flowers
plucked by an angel from the garden Of God;
the Lords poor now are rich in treasures inn
perishable; ministers with stars in their
crown; old men and matrons are no longer
gray; Patriarchs and prophets, martyrs and
reformcrs-ail Christians. Jesus has we'll
me before meu, him will I confess also
before my Father which is in heaven"
The work is done. The Judge arises
L0TOD6 DecOIeS eUOLDeT SI0al. ne uIeB
of His wrath, and the lightnings of His
power, blend in fearful grandeur. The bat
teries of Divine Justice rock and below
while their emptied thunders tear through
the shivering throng and burst in awful
ruin. His sword is unshsathed-the stars
stand back beyond its sweep, its edge glim-
meriOg fFe-''Depart ye cursed into the
He'll you have usurped, prepared for the
Devil and his angels" The Nemeses of the
Divine wrath will lift their burning scourges
and before their impetuous charge both devils
aud men will fly bowling from the Judgment
scat-Farewell God-and the tempest OF
Gods retribution overtsking them in their
fight, they fall! fall! falI!!I The dun
geons of woe are bolted-aud the eternity oi
their night sets in.
His sword is sheathed. The tempests
float from his throne. The brightness of an
approving smile rests now upon his brow.
Angels reflect it; saints reflect 1t; the relax
ing brow of Justice reflects it; the sweet
| face of Mercy refects it; the new earth roll.
ing in sight reflects it-"Come ye blessed J!
the throne of the Judge wheels into the
| front-its mutterirg thunders now playing
the sweetest uusic-"Come," and angels
and archangeIs. snd families and friends. fall
into grand procession. and the magnificent
pageant sweeps into the heavens, rises above
| the stars. and the coral thunders of the coro-
nssion anthem Of Christ ring against the
arches of the uniyerse: