Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-21
JUDGMENT.
HOW IT WILL Be RENDERED ON THAT
Last Great Day-A lust Judge will Be
Upon the Bench-tysy Person Will
Be Summonsd-An Impartial
Verdict Will Be Rendered
The Final Scene.
SERMON BY rev. 7. De VIII TAlhAGs
THE JUpaMEHP DAY.


tsd-The Trial.
Special Dispatca TO the REGIsFER. ..
NEw YORE, March 20.
DIR. Talmage preached an exceedingly
fine sermon this morning to a very at
tentive audience. The opening hymn
was:
The Lord shall come, the earth shall quake,
The mountains to their centre shake"
Subject :-"Tne Last Judgment"
Text-II Corinthians v.lO: "For VIC must all
| appear before the judgment seat OF Christ; that
| every one NAV receive the things done IN his
body, according to that he hath done. whether
it 30 good or bad"
The Sermon.
You all believe this Bible 10 be true.
| will not insult you by an elaborate ar
gument to prove that. Your presence
to-day in christian assemblage admits
il and il can prove from this book that
there is a day OF solemn and momentous
interest approaching, you will accept
the fact and as reasonable intelligent
men want all the light upon that subject
possible, take it for granted that you
are not afraid to look facts in the face.
! Ifthere is a business crisis you look at
your books and see how much is your
outgo, how much ia your income, what
is the stock which you have on hand,
and calculate deliberately what are the
possibilities of your getting through.
And il | can show you tins morning
that there is q day coming which will
thoroughly test and try and weigh us.
You want to know it and calculate what
are the prospects OF your going success
fully through that great crisis. Some OF
you are accustomed to serve upon juries.
You have all the evidence on both sides
presented 10 you, YOU hear the counsel
on the part OF the plaintiff and on the
part OF the defendant, the judge gives
the charge and you retire to private
room TO weigh the whole evidence and
then come in and announce your YER
diet. To-day, in the name OF my God,
IImpsnel This Entire Audience
as a Jury, before which | shall submit
certain evidence, expecting that before
this service is closed, yru will render |
YOUR verdict for time and eternity. That |
there is a trial day coming | prove from
Ecclesiastics, 18th chapter and lith |
ye-ss: "For God shall bring every work |
into judgment, with every secret thing. |
whether il be good or whether it be |
evil" Matthew XIV, 81: "And before
Him shall be gathered all nations, and
he shall separate them one from another
fSss SsJAssghs6d figisMah settne sneep on
His right hand, but the goats on nus
left" Acts of the Apostles XVII, 81:
because he hath appointed day IN
which he will Judge the world IN right |
eousness, but that man whom he hatn |
ordained" Revelations Xxx, II: And |
| saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God and the books were opened.
Rnt / think YOU would like to know
something Of the pomp and parapherna'
lla Of that day and so | group shoIher
class of passages: "The sun shall be
tnTped into darkness and the moon in
to blood, before that great ana tertioi1
day OF the Lord comes. The earth shai,
stagyer like a drunkard and be removed
ike a cottage, and all the hosts OF heaV-
on shall be dissolved and the heavens
shall be rolled together Is scroll, anu
ALI the hosts OF them shall fall as the Teal
falleth from the vine and as the iPllhg
flo from the tiy tree. And l will show
xonders i'm heaven above and signs IN
tho earth beneath, blood and fire and
yapor of smoke. The day OF the Lord
eometh ss a thief in the night, IN which
the heavens shall pass away with great
| nO;aa ami the elements shall
Melt with Fervent Heat
and the earth and all the things therein
shall be burned up. And 10, there was
a great earthquake and the sun became
black as sackcloth of hair. l suppose
as have been going on YOU have
noticed the peculiar figures used IN these
verses and lust as you have seen an IN
toxica,ed man staggering along the
stre.t. going from side 10 side and alter
ward falling into the ditch, 30 God saws
that our world in It's last agony Will stag
yer like drunken man. And then you
have taken a piece Of paper and have
r,lled il up-it has not caused you any
,rnuble To do il. And 80 one ot these
nsssayes saws that God viii take the
heavens and roll il up as asrroL Ii
will be- as easy rs that. And then you
have come up TO a tree when the 1rult
WAS ripe and you have laid hold OF the
tree and shaken it and the trult mas
come down in scores and hundreds
| shall show you
Who the Judge Will Be.
who will be gathered before Him and
the sentences that will be announced
and NAV the holy spirit present It to us
not as a picture of something lar away
that we shall never see, but as some
thing in which YOU and ! will be per-
sonaly participants. | remark first IN
regard 10 the Judge ON that day. He will
he an impartial Judge. Ii is almost lm-
possible tn get that kind of a judge IN
this world for the reason that men are
elected 10 the judiciary by the votes OF
the people and it is almost impossible
for Judge on the bench TO forget "that
man voted for me and that man Voted
!. against me-" But the Judge on the last
dsy is elected by no human votes. lie
, reiyned before the world was made and
. he shall continue when it burns up, IN
dependent OF man, angel or aevil Ii Ii
, often almost impossible for poor man
to get Justice in a court room, especially
! II against him on the other side are the
) elegantly spparelei and The highly con,
litionrd. The accomplished rutiian oil
the accomplished offender sits IN eH
broiiered slippers and with Havana o.
: the best brand waiting Tor his trial L
= come, but tin cup and bunk OF straw
y are the on'y things awarded 10 an unsc
n complished offender and you can often
y tell by the swif,ness and recklessness o
the trial that there is no money in the
prisoners x. The law with its hands
-. behind its back walking up and dowr
a IN front OF the most g gintic felonies and
; saying nothing, but woe to the woman
= who steals a paper Of pins, or the mat
who takes LOAF Of bread 10 keep In
children from starving But on the da,
X OF which | speak, the judge will be i'm
lr partial, Tor what to Him are all human
IL L =. a sl