The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-31

or pIactlclng any SLY game IN business
that will not stand divine scrutiny, to
that man preach righteousness and
Judgment to come. God will appear on
Montague street, and Wall street, and
Schermerhorn street, and Fulton street,
and Broadway and Chestnut street, and
Third street and the Bourse, and if men
have not repented of their business
transgressions before the day comes the
thunder of the last hour will drive them
down to bottomless destruction. Pass on
o ye great procession of cheats and de-
frauders. pass on Gates of darkness,
open to receive them. Pass on, pass
down, forever, forever! But | remark
further on that day all the outragers OF
public law and order will come up for
judgment. They took the steamer to
get out of the country, and the police
could not catch them. The deed was
one Of darkness, and no one suspected
the author. The slain body was hidden
and all traces of the crime eradicated;
the whole thing was a mystery, and
year after year the question went from
lip to lip, "Who did II" They skunk
into the saloon. or on swift horse put
many miles between them and the scene
of their crime, or it was hushed up. But
on the dav of which speak all these
things will come out. What general
Jail delivery What long procession
of all the outragers of public law!
Every thing then will be explained.
Crimes that have been forgotten hun
dred years, outrages in Thebes and Tyre
and Babylon, will come up and join the
gang that comes out of our modern
cities blasted and peeled and scalded
with iniquity, still reeking with their un-
forgotten crimes, their eyes still gleam>
ing with revenge, their mouths sti utter
ing blasphemies, their hearts raving with
murder. And they will look up toward
the Throne and on all the splendors OF
the scene. Before yet it be announced
they will read their eternal condemna-
ton. Pass out, pass down, forever, for
everl
l remark further-and here | may
come into the hearts of many who are
before NEON that day all those who
have depended upon their morality wi |
come up for judgment. No one ever
doubted their integrity. II they owed a
dollar, they paid it. No SANDER on their
tongue, no malice in their heart. They
were good friends, kind neighbors, use
full citizens, but have refused their heart
to Christ, and they have come up to this
judgment on their own resources. AL
though they may have escaped a great
many other sins, they have committed
the greatest of all sins in the rejection of
the Son of God. Now they see that the
Bible was right when it said that the
heart was deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked. They find they
made an infnie mistake when they de
pended upon their morality but it is too
late to correct the mistake. The day of
grace is past. The doom is being an
nounced; Because | called and we re
fused, and stretched out My hand and
no man regarded, therefore | will laugh
at your calamity, and mock when your
fear cometh.' They will look back to
the earth, but its lakes are burning and
its oceans are consuming They will look
up to heaven, but that is only for Christ's
disciples. Neglect of Jesus in the past,
darkness for the future, remorse for the
present, They will fall on their faces,
and writhe in the agony of remembered
neglects. "How have | hated instruc>
ton, and my heart despised reproof! The
harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and l am not yet saved" And then
they will come to the foot of the cliffs
and try to shake down the stones on
their heads, crying. "Rocks and mount.
aims, fall on us; hide us from the face of
Him that sitteth upon the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb, for the
great day of His wrath is come, and who
shall be able to stand?" Pass on, pass
down, forever, forever "But," you say,
that man did a great many noble
things" know he did. But by the
deeds of the law shall no flesh living be
justified, and except man be born
again-that is, all made over-he can
not see the kingdom of God.
| remark again that all people, OF
whatever character and of whatever an
who have refused the Gospel
will, on that day, come up for trial.
They heard the Gospel and they reject.
ed it. | do not care where they heard
it. These heard it in Kings Chapel,
those in Sailors Bethel; these in gor-
geous Cathedral, and those in log cab
in Westinghouse. They heard it and
they rejected it. Now they think of the
table to which they were in
vited, but upon which they turned their
backs, Now they think Of the calls from
the pulpit which they despised. They
dashed down the cup of life from their
lips. They despised the grace that
would set their feet on the high road to
Heaven. They are at the judgment
with all their untorgiven sins clamoring
for their destruction, How will they
feel? What will they do? What will
they say? Who will they have to blame?
All the unimproved Sabbaths pleading
against them, the B Bile they did not
read or only carelessly perused pleading
against them, the warning providence
that ought to have thundered them into
the kingdom of God pleading against
them. 1t will not be so much the falling
of the mountains or the consuming Of
the earth, but it will be the memory of
their unimproved opportunities, that will
come around the soul, and push it to the
brink, and mock its agony. hear
soul on that last judgment day solilo>
quizing. 1t says; "This is the judgment
seat, and am unprepared for it. had
Jesus called. The Spirit
pleaded with me. Christians advised,
the Bible warned me. But am an un-
done sinner, and this is the judgment
seat. 1t is all over now. 1t is too late;
the door of mercy has gone shut; my
doom is sealed; am ,undone forever,
and this is the judgment seat. Destroy
ed without remedy. If there were any
door ajar, would go through it. If
there were any invitation of mercy,
would accept it! If there were any
chance to pray, would make an earn