Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12

side. But it does not add one ounce, fcR
At the very moment we are congratnlating
you on your fine house and upon your
princely income God and the angels are
writing in regard to YOUR soul: Weighed
and found wantingl"
But l must 60 faster and speak Of the
final scrutiny. The fact is. my friends.
we are moving on amid astounding reali-
ties These pulses which now are drum
ming the march of life NAV, after awhile,
call halt We walk on q hair hung
bridge over chasms. All around US are
dangers lurking ready to spring on US
from ambush. We lie down at night not
knowing whe' her we shall arise in the
morning. We start out for our occupa-
tions, not knowing whether we shall come
back. Crowns being FURNISHED for Thy
brow or bolts forged for thy prison
Angels Of light ready TO shout at Thy de-
liverance or fiends of darkness stretching
out skeleton hands to pull thee down into
ruin consummate. Suddenly the judg-
ment will be here. The angel with one
foot on the sea and the other foot on the
land, will swear BY Him that liveJh for
ever and ever that time shall be no
longer: Behold, He cometh with clouds,
and every eye shall see Him." Hank
to the Earring of the mountains. Why,
hat is the setting down of the scales. the
balances. And then there is flash as
from a cloud, but it is the glitter of the
shining balances and they are hOisted and
all nations are to be weighed. The I'M
forgiven get on this side of the balances.
They may have weighed themselves and
pronounced a hattering decision. The
world may have weighed them and pro"
nounced them moral. Now they are be-
ing weighed in Gods balances that car
make no mistake. All the property gone
all the titles of distinction gone, all the
worldly success gone; there is a SOUL alb
solutely nothing tut a soul an immor-
tai soul, a never-dying SOUL a soul
stripped CT all worldly advantages,
a soul on one side the scales; on tho
other side the balances are wasted Sab
baths, disregarded sermons. ten thousand
opportunities of mercy and pardon that
were cast aside. They are on the Other
side of the scales, and there God stSncS
and in the presence of men and devils,
cherubim and aIchangel he announces
while grooming earthquake and cracking
confla grafton and Judgment trumpet and
| everlasting storm repeat it: Nv eighed N
the balances and found wanting"
But, say some who are Christians: Ser
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
have to get in the balances? Our sins are
all pardoned. our title to Heaven is Sc
cure. Certainly you are not going to put
| US in the balances:" Yes, nv brother.
We must all appear before the Judgment
seat of Christ and on that day you are
certainly going to be weighed.
| o follower of Christ! you get into the
balances. The bell of the judgment is
ringing. You must get into the balances.
| You get in on this side. On the other side
the balances we will place all the oppor-
tunities of good which you did not i'm
prove, all the attainments in piety which
you might have had. but which you re-
| fused to take. We place them all on the
other side. They go down and your soul
rises in the scale. You can not weigh
against all those imperfections.
| Well then, we must give you the adj
vantage, and on your side the scales we
will place all the good deeds you have
done, and all the kind words you have
ever uttered. Too light yet! Well, we
must put on your side all the conservation
of your life, all the holiness of your life.
all the prayers of your life. all the faith of
your Christian life. Too light yet! Come.
mighty men Of the past, and get in on
that side of the scales. Come, Payson,
side the scales and make them come down,
that this righteous one may be saved.
They come and get in the scales.
Too light yet! Come, the martyrs,
the Latimers, the Wickliffes, the
men who suffered at the stake for
Christ. Get on this side the Christians
balances, and see if you can not help him
weigh it Alright. They come end get in.
Too light. Come, angels of God on high.
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked They get in on this side OF the
balances. Too light yet!
put on this 81 ie the balances all the
scepters of ii yht, all the thrones of power,
all the crowns Of glory. Too light yet.
But just at this point, Jesus, the Son OF
God, comes up to the balances, and He
puts one of His SCARED feet on your side,
and the balances begin to tremble from
iop to bottom. Then He puts both Of His
SCARED feet on the balances, and the
Christians side comes down with stroke
that sets all the bells of Heaven ringing.
That Rock of Ages heavier than any other
weight
But says the Christian: sam | to be
allowed to get eff so easily:" Yes. II
some one should come and put on the
other side the scales all your imperfec-
all your Inconsistencies of life. they would
not bulge the scales with Christ on your
side the scales Go free! There is no
condemnation to them that are in Christ
Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses
opened, sins pardoned. Go free! Weighed
in the balances, and nothing, nothing
wanted.
o! what a glorious hope. VIII you ac-
cept it this day? Christ making up for
what you lack, Christ the atonement for
all your sins. Who will accept Him? Will
not this whole audience say: 81 am in
sufficient l am a sinner, l am lost by rea-
sons of my transgressions, but Christ has
paid it all My Lord, and my God, my
life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord Jesus,
1 hail Thee" o! if you could only un-
derstand the worth of that sacrifice, this
whole audience would this moment accept
Christ and be saved
We go away off, or back into history. to
get some illustration by which we may set
forth what Christ has done for US. We
need not go so far. l saw a vehicle be-
hind a runaway horse dashing through
the street, a mother and her two children
in the carriage. The horse dashed along
as though to hurl them to death, and
mounted policeman, with shout clearing
the way and the horse at full run, at
tempted to seize those runaway horses
and to save a calamity, when his own
horse fell and rolled over him He was
picked up half dead Why were our
sympathIes so stirred? Because he was
badly hurt, and hurt for others. But
tell you to-day of how Christ, the Son OF
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