Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-01-24
THE DAY or JUDGMENT,
EXTRACT FROM SERMON By THE LATE
REV. W. r. MUNsEY. 1cs

Inc DOCKS shall De opened: ms Is
figure. A book of lava book of
accounts, AS everything is recorded in
a book it is impossible that God should
forget anything which ever occurred.
From the laws of the intellect :and the
phenomena of intellectual action under
certain circumstances, we conclude that
the intellect Of man possesses the power
of reproducing to the consciousness ov-
erything upon which the attention was
once fixed. The books oflite and death
will also be opened Thus is figure.
The book OF death will be opened.
Those whose names are written in its
long catalogue, will, with the announce
meut of their names, take their places
upon the lett hand OF the Judge Tho
book of life will be opened. Its pages
will gleam in the light OF the Judgment.
The names of the redeemed written in
the blood of Jesus will be announced.
AS each name is heard face brightens,
till when the lis, is complete, the book
closed, and all the elect are posted on
the night hand of the throne, the aggra-
waited light of countcnances whose num-
bers lrample upon all enumeration, will
form sea OF waving light. IL will
seem as if Aurora had forgotten her
Elysium bowers and flown away 20 the
Judgment upon wings of coruscant sill
yer, and flung out her aaunting banners
OF dawning light, wide streaming, drop
ping from every told CT their sweeping
circumference the mellow glcries OF
Paradise
A line is drawn separating angels
from devils, separating husband aud
wiie, parents and chlldren--a line drawn
through nearly all the families of earth,
an Abel on this side,a Cain on that side.
Here and there few families together
both on the right aud left They are
separated forever. A temporary separa.
tion from them we love is painful. But
this will be a separation ioreyer-tor-
ever. Save your children.
Let us walk along both lines Upon
the left are all unb.lievers, idolators.
murderers. druukards, robbers, adulter-
ers, blasphemers, liars, SANDERS, misers,
wordly-minded, hypocrltes, lukewarm
professors, apostates, aud ministers re-
creant 10 their trust-ministers who
worked too little, neglected 10 feed the
sheep, preached themselves. Let US
walk along this line again. Here are
kings, heroes, statesmen, and scholars
parents and their children. Here aro
women. The scraps of our households
who entwiDe the sweet tibres OF their
love around our hearts, torn away, each
fibre swapping and cast among the vile.
Every heart in this throng massed
ard crowded upon each other is break
ing with sorrow, every face is coursed
by tears, every countenance ia palo
with horror-the die is east and cast
forever. They gazed upon each other
the ruined mother upon her ruined
son, the wretched daughter gazing upon
the affrightcd face aud qniverng lip Of
a father doubly wreIched because his
daughter is so-gazng they shudder
with anguish aud terror. They cast
desparug look at the other side. la
unaiIerable misery they groan-alto-
gelher groan from front to rear, from
center 10 circumference, ill the terri.
fed stars weep over their heads, aud
! hell growls beneath them, the thunder
of their woes pcaling amid oil 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 or
pbans escaped from their widowbood
AID orphauage, for God is their bus-
band aud father; prosecuted maidens
wearing in their hair flowers plncked
by an angle from the garden Of God;
the Lords poor now rich in treasures
imperishabie; ministers with stars in
their crown; old men and matrons no
longer gray; patriarchs anh prophets;
martyrs aud reformcrs--all Christians.
Jesus has well Kept bis promise, "Who-
/ ever has confessed me before men, him
will | confess before my Father which
is in Heaven"
The work is done The Judge ari-
ses. His throne becomes another Sinai.
The fires Of His wrath, aud the tighten
ings of His power, blend 10 fearful gran
deur. Tbd batteries of Divine Justice
rock and below while their emptied
tbunders tears through the shivering
throng and burst in awful ruin. His
sword is nnsheataed--the stars stand
back beyond its sweep, its edge glim.
mering fre-"Depart ye cursed into
the Hell You have usurped, prepared for
the Devil and his angels" The Men,
eses of the Divine wrath will lift their
burning scourges, aud before their i'm
petus charge both devils aud men will
fly bowling from the Judgement seat
Farewell God--and the tempest Oi Gods
retribution overiaking them IN their
fright they fallIiaIlllfalIIl!--ihs dna-
geons of woe are bolted--and the eteIn-
ity of their night sets 10.
His sword is shrathed. The tempests
float from his throne. The brigttn,s,
of an approving smile now rests UPON
his brow;aDgels reflect it;saiDts reflect IL;
the relaxing Prov OF Justice reflects IL:
the sweet faces of Mercy refec,s IL; Il Q
new earth rolling 10 sight reflects it,
'.Come ye blessed" throne OF the
Judge wheels into the front--ils mot.
teriDg tbunders now playing the sweet.
est music-"Come, and angels and
archangels, and families, and friends II
into grand procession, and the insgnif
cent pageant sweeps into the Hrsvens,
rises above the stars, aud The coral iban-
ders OF the coronation anthem Of Christ
ring against the arches Of the universs