New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-09-11

mouth. Weighed and found wanting. So
] God estimates nations Howmany times he
| has put the Spanish mona rchy into the scales
| and found it sufficient and condemned 1T.
The French empire was placed on one side
the scales and God weighed the French en-
| pire, and Napoleon said: Have not en-
larged the boulevards? Did / not kindle the
glories of the Champs Elysees? Have not
adorned the Tuileries? Have not built the
Sgilded opera house?'' Then God weighed the
nation, and he put on one side the scales the
emperor, and the boulevards, and the Tuil-
cries. and the Champs Elysees, and the
gilded opera-house and on the other side he
| puts that mans denominations, that man g
| libertinism. that mans selfshness, that
mans goddess ambition. This last came
down, and all the brilancy of the scene
vanished. What is that voice coming up
from Sedan? Weighed and found wanting
| But must become more Individual and
more personal in my address Some people
say they do not think clergymen ought to
be personal in their religious addresses, but
L do not think that way. What would you
think ofa hunter who should go to the
Adrondacks to shoot deer in the alb
! stract? All! no. He loads the gun, he puts
the butt Of it against the breast he runs his
| eye along the barrel, he takes sure aim, and
then crasllgo the antlers on the rocks. And
SO, if we want to be hunters for the Lord
l
abstract are we to treat things in religious
discussions. II q physician comes into sick
room, does he treat disease in the abstract?
No; he feels the pulse, takes the diagnosis,
| then he makes the prescription. And if we
| want to heal souls for this lie and the life to
come, we do not want to treat them in the
abstract The fact is, you and l have a
malady which, if uncured by grace will kill
us forever. Now, | want no abstraction
Where is the balm? Where is the physician?
People say there is a day of Judgment com
| ing. My friends, every day is a day Of judg-
| ment, and you and today are being can
yassed, inspected, weighed Here are the
balances of the sanctuary.
They lifted, and we must all be weighed.
Who will come and be weighed first? Here
| is moralist who volunteers. He is one of
the most upright men in the country. He
comes. Well, my brother, get in-get into
the balances now and be weighed. But, as
| he gers into the balances. say: "What is
| that bundle you have along with you?"
! ooh, he says, that is my reputation for
goodness and kindness, and charity, and
generosity, and kindness generally 80
my brother we cannot weigh that; we are
| going to weigh you-you. Now, stand in
the se ca the moralist. Paid your
debts?' Yes" you say, paid all my
way in the community?'' Eyes, yes. Have
you been kind to the poor? Are you faith
full in a thousand relations in life?" eyes
$50 far; SO good. But now, before you get
out OF this scale, l want to ask you
two or three questions. Have your
thoughts always been right?' 'No, .
'sHave You loved the Lord with all YOUR
heart, and soul, and mind and strength?'
s'No, you say. Make another mark Come
now, be frank, and confess that in 10000
things you have come short-have you not?'
s'Yes.'' Mark 10000 marks. Come now,
get me a book large enough to make a rec
ord of that moralsts deficits Ny brother.
| stand i'll the scales, do not fly away from
them. I put on your side the scales all the
! good deeds you ever did, all the kind words
! you ever uttered; but on the other side the
scales | put this weight which God says 1
must put thereon the. other side the scales
and. opposite, to yours I put this weight:
,"By the deeds Of the law shall no flesh living
be justified" Weighed and found wanting
| Still, the balances of the sanctuary are
| suspended, and we ale ready to weigh any
who come. Whol shall be the next?
Well, here is a Journalist. He comes and he
| gets into the balances, and as he gets in
see that all his religion is in genuaex-
AS he get, into the scales l say: "What is
that you have in this pocket?" s'Oh! he
/ says, "that is Westminster assembly cate
chism." I say: Every good. What have
you in the other pocket?" "Oh!' he says,
that is the Heidelberg catechism.' every
/ good. What is that you have under your
arm, standing in this balance Of the
sanctuaryo:'' '7Oh!'' he SAYS, "that is a
church record" very good. What are
these books on your side the balances?'
"Oh!'' he says, ''those are 'Calvin's insti-
tutes. - my brother, we are not weighing
thatyou are depending for your salvation
upon your orthodoxy. Do you not know
! that the creeds and the forms of religion are
merely the scaffolding for the building?
You certainly are not going to mistake the
| scafolding for the temple. Do you not
know that men have gone TO- perdition with
a catechism in their pocket??' But, . says
the man. 81 cross myself often" "Ah! that
will not save you" But says the man, 81
am sympathetic for the poor" "That will
not save you" Says the man, 81 sat at
the communion table" THAT will not save
YOU But" says the man. have had
my .h.t name %, on nat the aaxe church record
forty years" s.That will not save YOU
Stand there on your side the balances and l
will give you the advantage will let you
have all the creeds, all the church records, all
| the Christian conventions that were ever held,
built. on your side the balance. On the 9th
er side the balances must put what God
| says / must put there. l put this 1 ,OOO, OOC
pound weight on the other side the balances.
Having the form of goodness, but denying
| the power thereof From such turn away
Weighed and found wanting!
Still the balances are suspended. Are there
any others who would like to be weighed or
who will be weighed? Yes here comes a
wording. He gets into the scales / can
very easily see what his whole. life is madeup
of-stocks, dividends, percentages, buyer
ten days, '"buyer thirty days" in. my
friend; get into these balances and be weigh
| ed-weighed for this life and weighed for the
life to come He gets in. / find that the
two great questions in his life are. g How
cheaply can buy these goods?'' and ssHow
dearly can sell them?" find he admires
heaven because it lis a land of gold and mob
ey must be easy.
| find from talking with him that religion
and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vul-
gar interruption, and he hopes on the way to
church to drum up new customer! All the
week he has been weighing fruits. weighing
j meats weighing ice, eighing Goals. Weighing