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

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ALFALFA, SOUTH CAROLINA, I'll
my reputation for morality and uprghtncss
and integrity" Leave that behind. 1t is
not fair that you carry bundle with you.
Wo just want to measure you. Have you
slandered your neighbors? You suy,
"Never have | slandcred thom," What
outrage havo you committed against soci-
ety. You sny, "Nono" So far, so rood.
Have your thoughts always been right?
You answer, emo" put down ono mark
against you: Have you served God as you
oughtl mo" Another mark against
you. Havo you loved the Lord Jesus Christ
with all your soul2 "No." Another
mark against you. Como now, be frank.
Lave you not, in ten thousand things, como
short of your duty? "Ycs." Thcn ! nut
down ten thousand marks against YOU,
Bring mo large book, in which NAV
make record Of your defects and ucglccts.
DO not jump out of the scales until | have
examined them. You stand on ono side
with all your kindness and charities and
cancellations Of behavior. On tho other
side put just one weight. by the deeds of
tho law shall no flesh diving be justified"
Down goes the weight, up 90 your good
works. "Wcighcd in the balance and found
wanting"
who will como ncxt2 Hero comes
Journalist, who gets on tho scalcs-a man
whose religion is made up of gcnuacctions,
sosturcs aud outward proprietics. Brother,
what is that you have in your pocket? lie
says: "It is a Westminster Assembly Cate
chism" What is it you have in that
other pocket? lie says that is tho Hcidel..
berg Catechism. What is that YOU hayo
UNDER YOUR ARM?
Ho says it is church record. What
arc those books sec scattered around on
your sidc of tho scales? Ho sava thcy arc
Calvin's Institutes. My brother, We did
not como here to weigh books, however good
they may be. We want on this scale
nothing but your soul; your orthodoxy
wont save you Men havo gone to hell
with cutcchism in each pocket. Tho
forms of religion urc only the scairoldug
for putting up tho spiritual house. Alas!
1t you have mistaken the scatfolding for tho
temple itself "But cross myself ever so
many times" you say. That will not save
you. But read chapter every night be-
fore go to bed. That will not save YOU.
"But sit at the communion table" Tint
Will not save you. "But my nnmo is down
on tho church book" That will not save
you. "But have been professor of re-
ligion for thirty years" That will not save
you. place on your side of the balance
all the edicts, oil the religious counscls, all
the communion tables that were ever built,
and on the other side of tho balance | cut
this hundred pound weight: "IIauing the
form Of Goodness, JM dcnying The pov-
er thereof From such turn a,cuv"
weighed in The balance and found want
ing"
Hero comes wordling; you can not
mistake him. His eyes, his hands, his
heart arc full of business, stocks, dividends,
percentages, scrip, "buycr ten days'' buycr.
thirty days" Ills happiness is successful
bargain; his eternity, SO many feet deep
lie wants to 60 to Heaven, because where
there is SO much gold it must be that
"moncy is easy" The most tremendous
question he ever asks himself is, "llow low
can buy these goods, and how high
price can get for them" The day is full
OF push and din, and he sleeps and sweatO
under night mare of dollars. The Sab
bath is vulgar interruption, and he hopes,
on his way to church, to drum up new
customer. Day by day he has been weigh
ing confcctions, weighing fruits, weighing
meat, weighing ice or weighing coal, not
knowing that he all tho time was being
weighed. pile up beside him, on his side
OF the scales, the hogshcads, and tho bar
rels, and the money vaults, and tho store
| house, end the cargocs, but al these give
| to the woraling no additional weight At
| the very moment we were congratnlating
him on the fine store, and the full bloodcd
stock, and the princely income, God and
the angels were looking upon the scale and
announcing tho solemn truth "Wcighcd
III tho balance and found wanting"
But l must 60 on faster and look at the
last scrutiny. We arc passing on, needless
OF the most astounding considerations. In
moment the ground may break through
and let you fall into the grave. The pulses
OF life, now so regularly drumming in the
march, any moment may cry halt! On
a hair-hung bridge VIC walk over tho
bottomless chasms. When we 60 to bed at
night we know not that VIC shall SEQ the
day dawn. When VIC 90 forth from our
homes We. know not that wc shall return
again. Dangers lurk about your path, and
arc ready to break upon you from ambush
In moment the day of eternity may swing
open and invisible ushcrs conduct you in
for reward or for rctributiou. a Grown of
glory is being FURNISHED for your brow, or
bolts arc being
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