The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-12

tude of souls God will spew it out OF His
mouth. Weighed and found wautingl
So God estimates nations. How many
times He has put the Spanish monarchy
into the scales and found it insufficient
and condemned ii. The French Empire
was placed on one side the scales, and
God weighed the French Empire, and
Napoleon said:
. 'Have not enlarged the boulevards?
Did not kindlc the glorics OF the Champs
Elysees? Have l not adorned the Tuil-
cries? Have / not built the gtldel
operG-hOuse?"
Then God weighed the nation, and TIE
put on one side the scales the Emperor,
and the boulcvards, aud tho Tuileries,
aud the Champs Elysces, and the gil led
opera house, aud on the other sidc He
puts that mans denominations, that mans
libertinism. that mans seifshness, that
mans goddess ambition. This last came
down, aul all the brilliancy OF the scene
vanished. What is that voice coming mp
from Sedan? Weighed and found want
ing!
Bat must becom more individual and
more personal in my address. Some
people say they do not think clargymen
address, but ought to deal with subjects
i'm the abstract. do not think that way.
What would you think of hunter who
should go to the Adirondacks to shoot
deer in the abstract? All, no. He loads
the gun, he puts the butt If it against the
breast, he runs his eye along the barrel,
he takes sure aim, and then crash go the
antlcrs on the rocks. And so, if we want
e. I fol
sure aim and fire Not in the abstract
are we to treat things in religious discus
sioas. If physician ,me; into n sick
room, does he treat disease in the alb
stract? No; he feels the pulse, takes the
diagnosis; then he makes the prescrip-
ton. Aud if we want to heal souls for
this life and the life to come, we do not
want to treat them in the abstract The
fact is, you and l Lave a malady which, if
incurred by grace will Kill us forever.
Now, want 10 abstraction. Where is
the balm? Where is the physicians?
People say there is a day Of Judgment
coming. My friends, every day is a day
of Judgment and you and to-day are be-
ing canvassed inspected, weighed. Here
are the balances of the sanctuary. They
are lifted, and we must all be weighed.
Here is moralist who volunteers. He is
one OF the most upright men in the couu-
try. lie comes. Well, my brother, get
in-eat into The balances now and be
weighed. But as he gets into the balance T.,
l say:
"What is that bundle you have along
with yo1?'
oh" lie says, chat is my reputation
L. a OH ~
ana generosity. ana kindness generality"
"Oh," NY brother! we can not weigh
that; we are going to weigh yoa-you.
Now, stand in the scales-you, The NOR
alist. Paid yourdebts?"
yes, ;" you say, paid all my debts"
Have you acted in al upri. hi way in
the community"
Yes, yes"
''Have Won been kind to tho poor? Are
you faithful in a thousand relations in
Iife:"
"Ycs''
ESQ far so good. But now before you
get out uf this scale / want to ask you
two or three questions. Have your
thoughts always been ri .ht?"
No" YOU say no"
Put down one mark.
"Hava YOU loved the Lord with all your
heart, and soul, and mind. and strength?'
"N1." you say. Make another mark.
Come, now he frank, and confess
that in ten thousand things you have
come short-have you uotH"
yes"
Make ten thousand marks. Come, now,
get me a book large enough to make the
record Of that noraIist's deficits. Ny
brother stand in The scales. do not fly
away from them. put on your side Of
the scales all tho good deeds you ever
did. all the kind words Won ever uttered ;
but on the other side the scales put this
weight which God says | must put there
ON the other side the scales and op-
posite to yours l put this weight: "By
the deeds of the law shall 30 fl nSh living
be justified" Weighed and found want
ing.
Still, the balance of the sanctuary are
suspended and we are ready to weigh any
who come. Who shall be the next?
Well, here is a Journalist. He comes and
he gets into the balances, and as lie gets
in see that all his religion i, in genu-
tlexons anu in outward obseryances. AS
he gets into the scales I say:
"WIat is that you have in this pocllet?''
"Otu' he says, THAT is the Westlnin-
ster Assembly Catechism."
| say: every good. What have you in
the other pocEet?"
"Ohw he says, that is the Heidelberg
catechism,"
"Very good. What is that you have
under your arm, standing in this balance
of the sanctuary?"
"Ohv' he SAYS, "that is a church rec
ord"