Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-05-10

soul, points concluslvely 10 coihiuS
Judgment. A faithful record of every
mental operation is preserved on the
tablets of the soul as If written with
pen of diamond upon steel. There is
not an act done, not word escapes the
lip. not an idea conceived in the mind,
that is rot written by memory in char
acters as enduring as adamant, treasured
in the inmost recesses of the soul. Why
this faithful record Why these char
acters as endurable as eternityi Why
this power of recalling acts long since
committed with the freshness OF yester-
day7 Why this iDdestructabilliy OF
thought? Why this "Book" Of memo
ry? If there be no account 10 give here
after, why are the materials for Judge
ment day so carefully preserved by mem
ory? Why does conscience assure that
there is All account to give? The an
swer 10 these questions must be: There
will be a day of judgment.
This judgment day may be a day of
twenty-f -four hours, or it may be an In
definite period. The length OF that day
has never been revealed. 1t may be the
government ofimmortals by the appoint
ed King of Zion. Whatever may be the
character of that day, it is still in the
future, and will surely come. The idea
presented in the Word OF God,s court
of Justice by which every soul is to be
tried. ale hath appointed a day IN the
which he will judge the world. 1t is
not revealed to men, it is not known TO
angels. That day will not dawn until
this world, in its present form, shall
have accomplished the object oi its ex-
istence, or fitted up for some grander
purpose. The angel will first stand with
one foot on sea and one on land, and
swear by Him that liveth forever, that
time was, that time is, but time shall be
no longer. The dead bodies of the small
and great will be quickened by the arch
angels trump and rise from their slum-
bering beds of clay. Whether it is to-
morrow, or at the end of six thousand
years, or any stated period in the indef-
! mite future, no mortal man can tell. 1t
is worse than folly, it is being wise
above what is written,for any man, since
prophesy and inspiration has ceased
VIXEN the Scriptures were completed and
the Christian Church established, TO
point out the exact hour, or day, or
year, or even century, when the Lord
Jesus will come to judge the world.
Who will be the Judge? This is
Christ's appropriate work. "He hath
committed all Judgment unto the Son.
lie was a prophet when he revealed
the will of his Father, priest when he
ascended Calvary, judge when the
great day of trial shall have come:
Who else in the universe so qualified
as the Goldman? He is the Omniscient
God. and knows the secrets of the hu-
man soul. He is our Elder Brother
and can sympathizc with suffering hh-
manity. In the flesh he passed through
the fires of persecution, experienced the
power Of temptation, endured the suffer
ings odious TO human nature, and felt
the privations OF life devoted to God.
He knows the sinfulness OF sin, the re-
quirement of the law, the commands OF
Jehovah. Thus, in every sense, he will
be competent judge in that great day
when all his people shall anxiously wait
his just, righteous, and final decision.