The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-18


pages or your guilt are increasing year by year,
and when you stand before the Judgment bar of
God that record shall be read to a congregated
universe; and when you shall call upon the rocks
and the mountains to fall upon you, and hide
you from the face of God. angels and men will
know the reason of that cry.
Record! Record Record!
What is your record? What is your recordl
Brethren of the ministry Of Jesus Christ. since
you took the vows of His ministry upon you,
| what has been your reeordi Preachers make
record like men make record and God will judge
| you as He judges any other man at the ludg-
ment seat of Christ. God save US from having
preached the gospel to others and we ourselves
| becoming castaways. Ministers of the gospel
of Christ look to your record of fidelity and your
| record of purity tonight. Amen Oflcial
members of the church of Jesus Christ what is
| your record today What is your record in the
business world2 What is your record in the
| political world? What is your record in the mu-
ncipal community? What is your record in
your family circle2 What is your record in your
church circle2 1t has all been put down in black
and white In indelible letters and that record
will go with you to the judgment seat of Christ.
Record, Record! Record!
We sometimes talk about the Bible being true,
but. brother that record ofyour life In your own
handwrite is just true as Gods book is true.
Every line of it, every sentence of il, every
page of it You have recorded it just as it oc-
Cured Men may laugh at the arguments OF the
pulpit; men may laugh and call the Bible IA
BILE; but brother, brother you know you are
man with record sister, you know the record
Of your life has been made up to this hour, and
whether there is God not, that record of
yours is living in memory and shall live forever.
Record Record! Recordl
If some of your wives could read your record
Ike liz God reads it they would spnrn you from
their presence and drive you away from a home
of purity and chastity. Young man, II your
mother could read your record as God reads it
she would loath you from her presence and de-
spise you as corrupt and unholy boy.
Record Record Record
The record of the midnight carousal the
record of licentious deeds, the record Of drunken
debauchery, the record of lies, and thefts, and
falsehood, and degradation Oh, my God. how
it presses in living letters on many consciences
to night
Record Record! Record!
There it is, and it shall live forever My book
says that when the Ethiopian change his
skin and the leopard can change his spots, then
men can go back over the record of their lives
and interline and alter, and change the record
as 1t has been made before by their lives. Poor
man. There are thousand men, no doubt, in
this hall tonight, not of whose records
would take and be hurled into the presence of
God for all that earth that could give and all that
earth has ever promised
Record Record! Record!
Laugh at the Bible, curse at the preacher defy
God and then turn around and read record that
the devil himself would be ashamed of himself.
Record Record! Record,
This is an eternal autobiography. Our other
autoDlographles. written on paper, we can inter
line. or alter, or change, or burn up the whole
book; but, brother. the autobiography of your
life, written in legible and immortal letters upon
the tablets of your hearts. shall live as long
your soul can live. Can you change the record?
Can you go and take back that lie You told yes
terday, that evil deed you did last night! Hear
me- brother; when once it is recorded it shall
sparkle forever as eternal evidence of your guilt
before God and man.
Record! Record! Record,
And l will say another thing man talks
one way with his mouth, and writes another
way upon the record of his heart There Is a
man sits out there and says with his tongue, II
don't believe there is God, and then he writes
on the tablets of his heart, II have just told
lie; do believe it with ali my heart" There is
a man that says, II believe am as good as any,
body" and then he writes down the tablets of
his heart, II know | am not, aud / am the YER
lest hypocrite to make pretenses like that"
Another says, II don't believe in the Bible" and
then turns around and writes upon the tab
lets of his heart, Eyes l do believe it; 1
do believe it." Men talk one way and write an
other. God will make you put it down just as
you read it. just as you act it, just as you do it.
But, brother, when you face the record up yon-
der we will know what you believe and we will
know what you have done We can triae with
our tongues, but we cannot triie with that i'm
mortal pen. 1t goes down just like said it,
just like we intended 1t, just like we did it, it
goes down and it shall sparkle there forever as
the evidence of our guilt before God and man.
That is the best evidence that the nature of the
case is susceptible of that sacred evil
dence We talk about the Bible being
sacred. but l say to you, my brother it is no
more sacred than the record we make OF our life
God would not suffer our wife to touch the rec
ord of our life God would not suffer your
precious mother to put her finger on that record.
God would not suffer angel in
heaven to touch that record. That record
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a man. it is writtenin your own handwrite. and
written testimony is better than oral. The wit
ness who had the best reason for know
ing the truth and the least induce
accredited. And in addition to that
that evidence is written out, and no oral testi-
mony shall be introduced to alter, change or
vary written statement. Yonder man APP
pears with record of his life. He passes it into
the recording angels hands. They charge him
with profanity. He says, II never swore an
oath" That record is unfolded and there is the
record of every oath that ever bistered his lips
He says, Il plead not guilty" And on the
record of his life are the thousand Sab
baths that he has desecrated in the world
below. That man says, II never had the
offer of life" They turned to his record, and
there is every text that he ever heard preached
from and every expression the divine spirit ever
made upon his heart. Oh, brother, no wonder
it is said that the man condemned is dumb He
is speechless before the throne of God There
it is in his own handwrte and shall live forever
as the evidence of his guilt We talk about i'm
mortality, brother; that record of your life is
written in indeble characters. There it is just
like life has been lived, and life acted and life
talked, in all your days, in all your hours
Brother, let conscience and memory go over the
record tonight
Another may rush up to the judgment throne
and say: "Oh! thou Judge of all the earth; that
is my hayward boy! Let me speak word in his
behalf" God says: mo oral testimony stall be
introduced to alter, change or vary the written
statement We have it down just as he lived it,
just as he acted it." A preacher might say, "Let
me make few exculpatory statements for him."
Then again it will be said: There it is in his
own handwriting. written out for eternity, the
evidence of his guilt before God and man. Record!
recordl recordl With record that condemns me
with conscience on fire. stand as an immortal
man On my way to the iudgment-seat of Christ