Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-30

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want to see your account and we viii
first compare them; and I'll pay you
what owe you and you'll pay me what
you owe me. Let us have settlement
The day will come when the lord Jesus
Christ will appear and will say to gs,u-
What have you been doing with Ny
property? What have you been doing
with Ny faculties? What have you been
doing with what gave you for aecumu-
lative purposes?" There will be no es-
cape from that settlement. Sometimes
you cannot get asettlement with q man.
especially if he owes you. He postpones
and procrastinates and says: I'll see
you next week." or "Ill see you next
month" The fact is, he does not want
to settle. But when the great day comes
of which 1 am speaking there will he NO
escape. We will have to face all the
bills. have sometimes been amazed to.
see how an accountant will run up OF
down long line OF figures. If see
ten or fifteen figures in line, and lat
tempt to add them up, and add them
| two or three times, make them differ
ent each time. But have admired the
way an accountant will take long line
of figures, and without single mistake,
and with great celebrity, announce the
aggregate. Now, in the last great settle
ment, there will be correct aeconuf-
presented. God has kept long line OF
sins, a long line of broken sabbaths, n.
long line of profane words. long hne
of discarded sacraments. q long line OF
misimproved privileges. They will all
be added up, and before angels, and
devils, and men, the aggregate will BIZ
announced. Oh, that will be the great
day of settlement. I have to ask the
question: Am ready for it7" 1t u.s.
one of more importance to me to answer
that question in regard to myself shan,
in regard to you; and it is OF more I'M,
portance for you to answer it in regard
to yourself than in regard to me. Every
man for himself in that day. Every wo-
man for herself in that day. IF thcu
be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyselfs
if thou soonest, thou alone shalt hear
it." We are apt to speak of that last day
as an occasion of vociferation-a gregt
demonstration of power and ponp; hut
there will be on that day, think, q few
tremendous, an overwhelm silence
I think it will be such q silence az the
earth never heard. It will be at the.
moment when all nations are listening.
for their doom.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF EQUALITY OF RE-
WARD.
learn also from this parable OF tbs
text that our degrees of happiness in
heaven will be graduated according 10
our degrees of usefulness on earth.
Several of the commentators agree in
making this parable the same one ns In
Luke, where one man was made F0leH
over five cities and another made ruler
over two cities. Would it be fair and
right that the professed Christian nan
who has lived very neartbe line between
the world and the church,the man who
has often compromised his Chris
tian character-the man who has never
spoken out for God-the man whe has
never been known as a Christian only On
communion days-the man whose grext
struggle has been to see how much 0f.
; the world he could get and yet w1ls,
heavens it right to suppose that that:
man will have a grand and glorious sest
! in heaven az the man who gave all his,
, service of God? The dying thief entered
heaven, but not with the sans startlas.
. acclaim as that which greeted Paul. waass,
, had gone under screenings, and across.
, dungeons, and through maltreatments:
into the kingdom of glory. Cine sta.
9 differs from another star in glory, and
they who toll nightly for Christ on
earth shall have far greater reward
than those who have rendered only hHN.
a service.
Some of you are fastening on toward
the reward of the righteous. want to-
= cheer you up at the thought that there.
will be some kind of reward waiting
, for you. There are Christian people in
n this house who are very near Heaven
y y This week some of you may pass Gnt
: into the light of the unsetting SUM- I
: saw a blind man going along the road
= with his staff, and he kept pounding the.
!" earth, and then stamping with bis !ee =:
o l said to him: What do you do chat for2'.
. "Oh, he said, Il can tell by the sound
u of the ground when I am asan .
: dwelling" And some of you ean tea
= by the sound of your earthly patA-
way that you are coming nean to
your Fathers house. ! congsatahfs.
- you. Oh, weather beaten yoyagers,
n the storms ore driving you into the hor-
y Dor. Just rs when you were looking for
o friend, you came up to the gate Of his
, house, and you were talking with the
: servent when your friend hoiste9f HE
= window and shouted: Como il1 Come
- in!" just so, when you come to The gate
=, !. of the future world, and you are sAfkina.
5 with death, the black porter at he gaee,
= methinks Christ will hoist the wm&ow
i and soy: Come in! Come int ! will
:, make thee ruler over ten cities" En-
y anticipation of that land do nea
wonder that Augustus Top1ady; the
:, author of "Rock of Ages" declared,
~ y in his last moment: Il Nave nothing
= more to pray for; God has given ms
= everything. Surely no man can live 81
= earth after the glories have Witnessed.
= Oh, my brothers and sisters, how sweet
. it will be. after the long Wilderness
" march, to get home. That was q brigh,
: moment for the tired dove in the tisnt
~ ~ Of the deluge when it found its Wa,
y safely into the window Of the ark.
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