The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-09-17
crypts of oceauic cave; and some will
rend off the bandage of the Egyptian

mummy, and others will remove from
their brow the garland of the green sea-
weed. From the North, and the South,
and the East, and the West, they come.
The dead ! The trumpet, the trumpet
Peal the third: Amid surging clouds
and roar of attendant armies of heaven
the Lord comes through and there are
lightnings and thunderbolts and an earth
quake and hallelujah and wailing.
The trumpet, the trumpet!
Peal the fourth: All the records of
human life will be revealed. The leaf
containing the pardoned sin, the leaf
containing the unpardoned sin. Some
clapping hands with joy, some grinding
their teeth with rage, and all the forgot
ten past becomes vivid present. The
trumpet, the trumpet!
n Peal the last: The audience break up.
The great trial is ended. The high court
of heaven adjourns. The audience HE
themselves to their two termini. They
rise, they rise They sink, they sink !
Then the blue tent Of the sky will be
lifted and folded up and put away.
Then the auditorium of atmospheric sal.
leries will be melted. Then the folded
wings of attendant angels will be spread
for upward flight. The fiery throne Of
Judgment will become dim and van.
ishing cloud. The confagration of di.
vine and angelic magnifcence will roll
back and of. The day for which all
other days are made has closed, and the
world has burned down, and the last
cinder has gone out, and an angel flying
on errand from world to world will poise
long enough over the dead earth to chant
the funeral litapy as he cries, "Ashes to-
ashes p'
That judgment leaf in your heart Il
seize hold Of this moment for cancella-
ton. In your city balls, the great book
of mortgages has large margin, so that
when the mortgagor has paid the full
amount he puts down on that margin the
payment and the cancellation, and though
that mortgage demanded vast thousands
before, now it is null and void. So I
have to tell you that that leaf in my
heart and in your heart, that leaf of
judgment has wide margin for cancella.
tion. There is only one hand in all the
universe that can touch that margin.
That hand this moment is lifted to make
the record null and void forever. 1tmay
be q trembling hand, for it is wounded
hand; the nerves were cut and the mus
cles. were lacerated. That record on that
leaf was made in the black ink of con-
demnation; but If cancellation takes
place, it will be made in the red ink of
sacrifice. O., judgment-bound brother
and sister let Christ this moment bring
to that record complete and glorious
cancellation. This moment in an out
burst of impassioned prayer, ask for it.
You think it is the futtering of your
heart. Oh, no! 1t is the ,futtering of
that leaf. -.
I ask you not to take from your iron
safe your last will and testament, but l
ask for something of more importance
than that. I ask you not to take from
your private papers that letter go sacred
that you have put it away from all human
eyesight, but I ask you for something of
more meaning than that.
That leaf, that judgment leaf in my
heart, that judgment leaf in your heart,
which will decide our condition, after
this world she'll have FIVE thousand mill.
ion years been swept out the heavens, an
extinct planet, and time itself will be so
long past that on the ocean Of eternity it
will seem only as now seems ripple on
the Atlantic.
When the goats in vile herd start for
the barren mountains of death, and the
sheep in fleece of snowy whiteness, and
bleating with joy, move up the terraced
bills to Join the lambs already playing in
the high pastures of celestial altitude, oh,
may you and / be close by the Shepherds
crook! '"When the Son of man shall
come in His glory, and all the holy
angels with Him, then shall He sit upon
the throne of His glory, and before Him
shall be gathered all nations, and He
shall separate them one from another, as
a shepherd divideth the sheep from the
goats..n Oh, that leaf, that one leaf in
N.Y. heart, that one leaftin your. heart.
Thatsleaf aof judgment oh, those two
tremendous words at the last "Comew
aGo" As though the overhanging
heavens were in the cup of great bell,
and the stars were welded into silvery
tongue and swung from side to side until
it struck, "Come" AS though all the
great guns of eternal disaster were dis.
charged at once, and they doomed forth
in one resounding cannonade of "Go |"
Arithmetical sum in simple division.
Eternity the dividend. The figure two
the divisor. Your unalterable destiny
the quotient.