The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-13


weighing worldly and perishable COM
modities. not realizing the fact that he
has been weighed. On your side the ball
ances, o wording! I Will give you full
advantage. 1 put on your side all the
banking houses, all the storehouse, all
the cargoes, all the insurance companies,
all the factories, all the silver, all the
gold, all the money vaults, all the safe
deposits-ail on your side. But it does
not add one ounce, for at the very mo-
ment we are congratulating you on your
fine house and upon your princeiY in
come, God and the angels are writing in
regard to your soul: 'Weighed and found
wantingW
But I must go faster and speak Of tho
final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends,
we are moving on amid astounding real
tiles. These which are now drumming
the march of life, may, after awhile
call o halt. We walk on a hair-hung
bridge lurking over chasms. All around
US are dangers lurking ready 10 spring
on US from ambush. We lie down at
nj ght, not knowing whether we shall
ari sc in the morning. We start out for
our occupations, not knowing whether we
shall come back. Crowns being bur-
nished for thy brow or bolts forged for
thy prison. Angels of light ready to
shout at thy deliverance, or fiends Of
darkness stretching out skeleton hands
to pull thee down into ruin cOnsummate.
Suddenly the Judgment will be here. The
angel, with one foot on the sea and the
other foot on the land, will swear by Him
that Hveth for ever and ever that time
shall be no longer:
Behold, He oometh with clouds, and
every eye shall see HIM. Hark to the
Earring of the mountains. Why, that is
the setting down of the scales, the ball
ances. And then there is flash as from
cloud, but it is the glitter of the shining
balances, and they are hoisted, and all
nations are to be weighed.
The unfOrgiven get on this side the ball
ances. They may have weighed them
selves and pronounced fattering deci-
sion. The world may have weighed them
and pronounced them moral. Now they
are being weighed in Gods ball
ances-the balances that can make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
the titles Of distiction gone, all the
worldly successes gone; there is a soul,
absolutely nothing but a soul, an immor-
tai soul, a never-dying soul, a soul
stripped of all worldly advantages, a
soul-On one side the scale. On the
other side the balances are waste Sab
baths, disregarded sermons ten thou
sand Opportun tiles of mercy and pardon
that were cast aside. They are on the
stands, and in the presence Of men and
devils, cherubim and archangel, Hs an
noUnces, while grooming earthquake, and
cracking cOnfagration, and judgment
trumpet, and everlasting storm rel peat
it: Weighed in the balance and found
wanting"
But say some who are Christians: Ger
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
have to get into the balances? Our sins
ara all narIO0 a6 OT1Ts fifJa f0 HaauaT1 ic
secure. Certainly you are not going tc
put US in the balances?"
Yes, my brother. We must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, and
on that day you are certainly going to be
weighed. Oh, follower of Christi 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 opportunities of good which
you did not improve, all the attainmehts
| in piety which you might have had, but
which you refused 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 i'm
| projections.
! Well, then, we must give you the ad
vantage, and on your side the scales we
| will place all the good deeds you have
ever done, and all the kind words yoJ
! have ever uttered. Too light yet! Well
we win put on your side all the cOnsecra
/ ton of your life, all the holiness Of youi
! life, all the prayers of your life, all the
| faith tof your Christian life. Too light
| yeti Come, mighty men of the past and
| get in on that side of the scales. Come
Payson, and Doddridge, and Baxter, gel
in on that side the scales and make them
come down. that the righteous one may
be saved. They come and they get in thu
scales. Too light yet! Come, thf
/ martyrs, the Latimers, the Wickliffes,
| the men who suffered at the stake for
Christ. Get in on this side the Christians
| balances, and see if you can not help him
weigh it Alright. They come and get in.
Too lightI Come, angels of God on high
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked. They get in on this side the
| balances. Too light yet!
| l put on this side the balances all the
scepters of light, all the thrones of pow
er, all the crowns of glory. Too light
vet: But just at that 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 top to bottom. Then He
puts both of His SCARED feet on the bal
ances, and the Christians sides come
! down with a stroke that sets all the bells
| of Heaven ringing. That Rock Of Ages
heavier than any other weight But says
! the Christian: Gam to DO allowed to
get off so easily?" Yes. If some one
should come and put on the other side
the scales of your 1mpsrfectiO1s, all your
envies, all your jealousies, all your in
constituencies Of life, they would not
bulge the scales with Christ on your side
the scales. Go free! There is no con-
domination to them that are in Christ
Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses
opened, sins pardoned. Go free Weighed
in the balances and nothing, nothing
wanted.
Oh. what a glorious hope. viii you
accept it this day? Christ making up for
what you lack, Christ the atoEement for
all your sins. Who will accept Him? VIII
not this whole audience say:
4 am insufficient; I am a sinner; 1 am
| lost by reason OF my transg ressions, but
! Christ has paid it all. My Lord and my
God, my life, my pardon, my Heaven.
Lord J Jesus, 1 hail Thee"
Oh! if you could only understand the
! worth of that sacrifice which 1 have rep
resented to you under fguTe-.f you
| could only understand the worth Of that
| sacrifice, he whole audience would thu
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. saw vehicle
| behind a runaway horse dashing through
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