The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-31
MtsrEllanentts.
REV. I, DEWITT TALMAGE.
THE CHANGE THAT IS TO COME
OVER THE WHOLE EARTH,
when All Shall Be Rewarded According to
Past Deeds And Every Work, With Every
Secret Thing, Shall Come Into Judg-
euBJEcr-"THE LAST JUDGMENT"

CHRIST, tnaJ every Ouo may IoOolNo tho
things done in his body, according to
tnat he hath, whether it be good or bad.
You all believe this Bible to he true. |
will not insult you by an elaborate argu-
ment to prove that your presence to-day
in Christian asssmblage admits it, and
ifI prove from this book that there is
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, l
take it for granted that you are not afraid
to look facts in the face. II there is a
business crisis you look at your books
and you see how much is your outgo, and
how much is your income; what is the
stock which you have on hand, and cal
Culate deliberately what are the Dossi-
bilities of your getting through; and if |
can show you this morning that there is
day coming which will thoroughly test
and weigh and try US, you want to know
it, and calculate what are the prospects
of your going successfully through that
great crisis. Some OF you are acCustom-
ed to serve upon juries. You have all
the evidence upon both sides presented
to you; you hear the counsel on the part
of the plaintiff, and on the part of the
defendant; the Judge gives you the
charge, and you retire to priyale room
to weigh the whole evidence, and then
come in and announce your verdict. To.
day, in the name of my God, l impane
this entire audience as jury, before
which shall submit certain evidence,
expecting that before this service is clo-
sed you will render your verdict for time
and for eternity. That there is trial
day coming prove from Ecclesiastes,
twelfth chapter and fourteenth verse:
"For God shall bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing, whe-
ther it be good or whether it be evil
Matthew 25:32: "And before him shall
be gathered all nations and he shall sep
Rrate the one from another as shep-
herd divideth his sheep from the goats,
and he shall set the sheep on his right
hand and put the goats on his left"
Acts of the Apostles 1871: because he
hath appointed day in which he will
judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom he hath ordained" Revela.
tions 20:12: "And l saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God and the
books were opened" ButI think perhaps
you would like to know something of
the pomp and paraphernalia Of that day,
and so l group another class of passages:
"The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that
great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
The earth shall stagger like drunkard,
and be removed Ike cottage, and all
the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together
as scroll; and all the hosts of them shall
fall as the leaf falleth from the vine, and
the falling fig from the fig tree. And |
will show wonders in heaven above and |
signs in the earth beneath; blood and |
fire and vapor and smoke. The day of |
the Lord Cometh as thief in the night, |
in which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise; and the elements |
shall melt with fervent heat, and the
earth and all things therein shall be
burned up. And 10, there was great |
earthquake, and the sun became black
as saCkCloth of hair" l suppose as l
have been going on you have noticed
the peculiar figures used in these verses.
just as you have seen an intoxicated |
man staggering along the street, going
from side to side, and afterward falling
into the ditch, 80 God says that our world
in it's last agony will stagger like drunk
man. And then you have taken piece
of paper and have rolled it up-it has
not caused you any trouble to do it. And
30 one OF these passages says that Go6
will take the heavens and roll itup as a
scroll. 1t will be as easy as that. And |
then you have come up to tree when
the fruit was ripe and you have laid hold
of the tree and shaken it, and the fruit
has come down in scores and hundreds.
And 30 God says, in the last day he will
lay hold of the tree of the universe and
shake it, and then stars shall fall as fall.
ing hgs FROM a fig tree. Are you not
ready, then, to receive in all it's solem.
nifty and power, the text that have an
nounced: For We must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ, that every
one may receive the things done in his
body according to that he hath, whether
it be good or bad"
shall show you who the Judge will
be; who will be gathered before him and
the sentence that will be announced and
may the Holy Spirit present it to us not
as a picture of something far away that
we shall never see, but as something in
which you and l will be personally par
ticipant. | remark first, in regard to the
Judge on that day. He will be an i'm.
partial Judge. 1t is almost impossible to
get that kind of a Judge in this world,
Tor the reason that men are elected to
the judiciary by the votes of the people,
and 1t is almost impossible for Judge
on the Bench to forget that man voted
Tor me" and that man voted against
me-" But the Judge on the last dsy is
elected by no human votes. He reigned
before the world was made, and he shall
continue when it burns up, independent
of man, angel or devil. 1t is often al.
most impossible for q poor man to get
justice in courtroom, especially if
against him on the other side are the ell.
egantly appareled and the highly con-
ditioned, The accomplished rufian or
the accomplished offender sits in embroi-
dered slippers, and with Havana of
the best brand, waiting for his trial to
comei but tin cup and bunk Of straw
are the only things awarded to poor
onender, and you can often tell by the
sWlitness and recklessness Of the trial,
that there is no money in the prisoners
box. The law, with it's hands behind it's
back, walking up and down in front of
the most gigantic felonies, saying moth.
ing; but woe to the woman who steala