The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-09-17

and South America, all the nineteenth
century, the eighteenth century, the
twelfth century, the tenth century, the
fourth century-all centuries present.
Not one being that ever drew the breath
of life but will be in that assembly.
Vast multitude! No other audience q
thousaL .sh part as large. No human
eye could look across it. Wing of alba.
tross and falcon and eagle not strong
enough to fly over it. A congregation, I
verify believe, not assembled on any
continent, because no continent would
be large enough to hold it. But as the
Bible intimated, in the air. The law of
gravitation unanchored, the world moved
out of its place. As now sometimes on
earth great tent is spread for some
great convention, so over that great audi
ence of the judgment shall be lifted the
blue tent of the sky, and underneath it
for floor the air made buoyant by the
hand of Almighty God. A suspended
auditorium. An architecture of atmos-
pheric galleries strong enough to hold up
worlds. Surely the two. arms of Gods
almightiness are two pillars strong enough
to hold up worlds. Surely the two arms
of. Gods almightiness are two pillars
strong enough TO hold up any auditorium.
But that audience is not to remain in
session long. Most audiences on earth
after an hour or two adjourn. Sometimes
in court slrooms an, audience will tarry
four or FIVE hours, butlth it adjourns.
So this audience spoken of. in, the text
will adjourn NY text says: 9"He will
separate them one. from another rs q
shepherd divideth the. sheep from the
goats" :
"No," says my friend, "let them all
stay together" But the text says: "He
shall separate them" ."No," says; the
kings of this world, "let men hay their
choice. and if. hey prefer monarchial
institutions let them 60 together, and if
they prefer Republican institutions, let
them go together" "No," says the con.
ventionalities of this world, "let all those
who moved in what is called high circles
90 together, and all those who on earth
moved in low circles 60 together. The
rich together, the poor together; the
wise together, the ignorant together"
All ! no. Do you not notice in that
assembly the king is without his sceptre,
and the soldier without his uniform, and
the bishop without his ponti6cal ring,
and the millionaire without his certificates
of stock. and the convict without his
chain, and the beggar without his rags,
and the illiterate without his bad orthog-
rophy, and all of us without any distinc-
ton of earthly equality2 Itake it from
that, as we'll as from my text, that the
mere accident of position in this world
will do nothing toward deciding the
questions of that very great day.
'He will separate them as shepherd
divideth the sheep from the goats" The
sheep, the clenlinest creatures, here made
symbol of those who have all sins
washed away in the fountain of redeem
Ing mercy. The goat, lone Of the filthiest
of creatures here, a type of those who in
thalast judgment will be found never to
I have had any divine ablution. Division
according to character. Not only char.
acters outside, but, character INSIDE.
Character of heart character bf5HotA
character. !of allegiance, & sschafacteff sof
affection, character inside as we'll as
character outside.
! In many a;case twill be- a complete
and Immediate reversal of all earthly
conditions. Some who in this world
wore patched apparel will take on raj
ment lustrous as Summer noon. Some
who occupied palace will take dun
geon. Division regardless Of all earthly
caste, and some who were down will be
up, and some who were up will be down.
Oh, what shattering of conventional.
ties What an upheayal of all social
rigidities, what a turning of the wheel of
earthly condition, thousand revolutions
in second. Division of all nations, Of
all ages, not by the figure 9, nor by the
figure 8, nor the figure 7, nor the figure
6, nor the figure 5, nor the figure q; but
by the figure 2. Two Two characters,
two destinies, two estates, two dominions,
two eternities, tremendous, an all.com.
prehensiye, all decisive, an everlasting
two! fH
I sometimes think that the figure Of
the book that shall be opened allows us
to forget the thing signifed by the sym.
boil. Where is the book binder that
could make volume large enough to
contain the names of all the people who
have ever lived? Besides that the call.
ing of such roll. would take more than
fifty years, more than hundred years,
and the judgment is to be consummmated
in less time than passes between sunrise
and sunset. Ah! my friends, the leaves
of that book of judgment are not made
ont of paper, but of memory. One leaf
in every human heart. You have known
persons who were near drowning, but
they were afterward resuscitated, and
they. have~told you that in the two or
three minutes between the accident and
the resuscitation, all their past life fash
red before tbem-all they had ever
thoug ght, al'they had ever Gone, all they
had ever seen in al instant came to them.
The memory never loses anything. 1t is
only folded leaf. 1t is only closed
book. Though you be an octogenarian,
though you be a nonogenarian, all the
theug ghts and acts of your life are in your
mind whether you recall them now or
not; just as Macaulay's history is in two
volumes, although the volumes may be
closed, and you cannot see word of
them, and will not until they are opened.
AS in the case of the drowning man, the
volume of memory was partly open, or
the leaf partly unrolled in the case of
the judgment the entire book will be
opened, so that everything will be dis.
played from preface to APPENDIX.
You have seen self-registering instru.
.ments which recorded how many revolu.
tions they made and what work they had
done, so that the manufactures could
come days after and look at the instru.
ment and find just bow much work had
been accomplished. So the human mind
is selfregistering instrument, and it
records all past movements. Now that
leaf, that. all comprensiye leaf in your
mind and mine this moment, the leaf of
judgment, brought ont under the fash of
the judgment throne, you can easily see
how all-the past of our lives in an'instaut
will be seen. And so great and so re-
splendentrwillzbe the light of shat throne
that not;only this leaf. lin my heart and
that leaf in your heart will be revealed
at a flash, but all the leaves will be
opened, aud you will read not only your
own character and your own history, but
the character and history of others.
Tn a m i1itorvS onrui,o, ,1Yn ant .fho Lun,1o