The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-12
Psrson Talmage Illustrates. Text I'm
Daniel.
New York World.l


Before the opening prayer at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle yesterday, between the opening
prayer and the first hymn, and then before
the sermon, Professor Ali blew his cornet
briskly. Then Mr. Talmage made a notice
of his pupil Hsrrison's revival work, which,
he said, would "give thousands of Brooklyn
people admission TO the kindgom of glory
and reserve seats about the throne of God"
The text of the day was from Daniel ", 81;
"Thou art weighed in the balance and found
wanting" Mr.. Talmage drew a ground
plan of Babylon, embelished it with statistics,
and said: ooh, what a ethyl and / tell you
tonight that city is to be destroyed. The
King and his people were having drunken
carousal, and the King sat staring, as drunken
men will, at the wall, and the lights went
out, and out of the sleeve of the darkness
came the finger that wrote the awful words
of our text. See them therel therel therel
land the preacher pointed to the wall of the
Tabernacle so poinsedly that the audience
turned around and stared at it, We have
no balance that is accurate except Gods
measure. God has a perfect bushel and
perfect peck and perfect gallon. If a mer-
chant pours out short measure, God notes it
and the recording angel puts
it down. A farmer sells apples.
and every apple short is put down in that big,
big book. But l am to talk of balances that
weigh principle. The time will come when
God will sit down on the white throne and
weigh the world; on one side the worlds OPP
portunities and the other side the worlds
sins. Then down go the sins and up the
chances, and then the torches are applied,
| and God says, Burn that worldP A church
| is weighed, and if church saves few souls
when it ought to save a lot, he spews it out
of his mouth. God has weighed the Spanish
| dynasty many times and always found it
| wanting. The French Empire was also put
| in the balance. There came up a cry of
| weighed and found wanting from Sedan.
The pomp and glory of France were weighed
as nothing against the duplicity and libertin-
| ism of that man who went down at Sedan.
/ want to be personal. don't believe in
saving souls in the abstract. A hunter don't
| go to the Adirondacks to shoot deer in the
| abstract. (Bang at hypothetical deer in
the gallery Does a physician treat sickness
in the abstract? You and have malady,
and we go to the ALL Wise Physician with
the cry, Where is the balm for my soul2
This is no abstraction, but, as we will find on
the day of judgment, a sober piece of reality.
Here is moralist. Let us weigh this NOR
alists. weighing something, very likely
8 moralist.) He passes for an up
! right man, the most exemplary in
Brooklyn. Come in, moralist; step on the
scales But stop; what is that bundle you
are carrying? Your reputation-ah, lay it
down. We wish to weigh you and you only.
Have you paid your debts and been kind to
the poor? Yes; well, so far so good. But, on
the other side, have you always been right in
your thoughts? Put down. a mark. Have
you lost no opportunity of doing good? All,
how many2 Get big book and put down a
thousand marks for the 10000 times that
you have failed to do your full duty. And
then the verdict will be and the result of
the balancing, by the deeds of the law shall
no flesh living De justified
l. "Here we have a formulist Catching One).
Let us weigh him and see how heavy or how
light he may be- What is that in your
pocket? A Westminster Cstechism. And
in that other pocket A Heidelberg cate
chism. And that book under your arm? A
chnrch record. And what in that bundle7
Colvin's Institutes. o, man, we are not
weighing books; we are weighing you. Your
religion and your orthodoxy won't save you
unless you have Christ on your side. Men
have gone down to perdition with the cate
chism in their pockets. You have sat at the
table of communion. That won't save you
i You have been a professor for forty years
That won't save you. You may have every.
thing of your conventionality and on the
other side III put the text, Having the form
of godliness but denying the power thereof
from such turn away You'll go sky high
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