Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-20

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Tho bapg Of heavy fists against the
palace gates followed by the crashing in of
tho doors. A thousand cleaning daggcrs
strike through thousand quivoring bearts.
And now doath is the king aud his throne
a heap of corpscs An unseen balance had
been uct up in the fcstal hall. God swung
it.. Nebuchadnczzar's opportunities on ono
side of tho balance and his sins on tho
o.her. Down went his sins; up went
his opportunities. Weighed, aud found
wanting.
There has bcon great deal of cheating
lu this country by falso Weights and meas
urcs. The Government appointed commits.
sioners to stamp the weights aud measures.
Much Of tho wrong has been rightcd. [
speak of another kind of scales. We all
have been in the habit of making mistakes
10 our weighing OF men and things There
Is, indeed, only ono pair of balances abso-.
lutey perfect, and that is suspended from
tho throne Of God Almighty. Other bal
anccs get out of order. The chain breaks or
the metal is clipped or tho cquipoiso in
somo other way is broken, aud pound
does not always mean pound, and you
pay for ono thing aud get another. but
the balances of God never lose their adjust
mcnt With them pound is q pound, the
right is right and wrong is wrong, and o
soul is soul, aud eternity is eternity
God has bushol measure, peck measure
and gallon measure. Whenever mcr-
chant measures bushcl Of wheat, or salt
or corn, God weighs it immediately after
him. The merchants measure may be
wrong, but Gods measure is just right. IF
merchant measure gallon of oil and
does not give the proper quantity, God
measures it for him aud says: $50 many
drops too fow. Recording angel, write it
down" If farmer comes to town with
apples for sale aud he does not give full
measure, the apples arc Immediately put
into Gods peck, and record is made Of
twenty apples too few. We may cheat
ourselves and we may cheat our ncghbor,
but in the last day VIC shall find that what
we learned OF sohool in our boyhood is true,
that twelve ounces mako o pound and
1000 weight make ton and 1873 solid
feet make one cord of wood-no more, no
less.
But [ am not now to speak of the
weighing OF cofIecs and sugars, but of the
weighing of principles, of individuals, of
churches aud of worlds Many suppose
that sin is impondcrablc; but it is heavy
enough to crush world. Yes, our earth
itself is to be put on scales, with oil its
mountains und valleys and seas. You
would think that tho Alps and pyrenccs
and llimalayas and Mount Washingtons
and all the cities on one ride Of the scale
WOULD CRUSH IT.
No! God will at last SEQ what opportunities
the world had, and what opportunities are
neglected; and ho will sit down on the
white throne to sec the old world weighed,
and will SEQ it rise in the balance lighter
than feather; and ho will cry out to his
messengers who carry tho torch: "Burn
that world. Weighed and found wanting."
God is every day estimating churches.
lie puts great church into the scales. He
puts the ministry and tho choir, and the
grand structure, that costs hundreds of
thouaands of dollars, on tho same side. On
the other side of tho scales he puts the idea
of spiritual ifo that the church ought to
possess, or brotherly lovo, or faith, or sym-
pathy for the poor Up goes tho grand
meeting house with its minister and choir.
God says that church is of much worth
only as it saves aouls; and if, with all your
magnificent machinery, you save but a
handful of men when you might cave q
multitude lie will spew you out his mouth.
Weighed and found wanting
God is also estimating nations. Ho put
the Spanish monarchy in the scales and
found it insufficient to cast it aside He
put the French monarch, with bis Empire,
in the scales. Napoleon cried out: "Sce
what l have done to enlarge the Boule-
Yards; kindlcd up the glorics of the
Champs Eysces; enlarged the TuIcrics;
built the guided Opera House." Then
God put on one side of the scales the EN-
peror, and the Boulevards, and the Champs
Eysces, and tho Tuilerics, and the guided
Opera House, but TN the other side of the
scales he put the mans abominatons and
the outragcs he had committed against tho
French nation. Down went the sins; up
went the Emperor with all his surroundings.
"Weighcd in the balance and found want.
ing"
But want to become more personal.
have heard persons say that ministers ought
to deal with persons in tho abstract, and
not be personal What success would a
hunter have if ho went out to shoot q deer
in the abstract? lie puts tho butt of the
gun to his breast; lays his eyes along the
barrel; takes sure aim; draws tho trigger,
and crash go tho antlers on tho rocks!
What if physician called into your house
should treat your ailments in tho abstract?
How long before tho inflammation would
heal or tho pain be assuaged? What folly
to talk about Gin in tho abstract when YOU
and | havc in our souls malady that must
BIO cured, or it will kill us misnrnhlu nna