Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05


that will not save you. " "But, - says
the man, 'I am sympathetic for the
poor "That will not save you. -
Says the man, CT sat at the COM
munion table. That will not save
you. - 'sBut - says the man. az have
had my name on the church records. -
''That will not save you. ''But
have been a professor of religion forty
years - That will not save you.
Stand there on your side the balances
and / will give you the advantage
will let-yOu have all the creeds, all the
church records, all the Christian con-
ventiOns that were ever held, all the
communion tables that were ever built,
on your side the balances. On the other
side the balances 1 must put what God
says 1 must put there. I put this mil
lion pound weight on the other side the
balances: Having the form of godIi-
ness, but denying the power thereof.
From such turn away - Weighed and
found wanting
WHO Is TO BE WEIGHED NEXT?
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. l can very easily see what his
hIlOAC A1AC IL iiieiNiC up VI. ClOChSB ulFi-
dends, percentages, 'sbuyer ten days -
'buyer thirty days" Get in, my
friend; get into these balances and be
weighed-weighed for this life and
weighed for the life to come He gets in
1 find that the two great questions in his
life are: elbow cheaply can buy these
goods?' and "How dearly can l sell
them?' l find he admires heaven be-
cause it is a land of gold and money must
be easy
l flud from talking with him that re-
ligiOn and the Sabbath are an INTERRUPT
ton, vulgar interruption, and he hopes
on the way to church to drum up a new
customer. All the week he has been
weighing fruits, weighing meats, weigh
ing ice. weighing coal, weighing confec-
tons, weighing worldly and perishable
commodities, not realizing the fact that
he himself has been weighed. On your
side the balances, o wOrldling! l will
give you full advantage. L put on your
side all the banking houses, all the store
houses, all the cargoes all the insurance
companies, all the factories, all the
silver, all the gold all the money vaults,
all the safety GepOslts-all on your side.
But it does not add one ounce, for at the
very moment we are cOngratulating you
on your fine house and upon your princely
income God and the angles are writing in
regard to your soul, weighed and
found wanting. -
But l must go faster and speak of the
final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends,
we are moving on amid astounding reaH-
ties. These pulses which now are drum
ming the march of life may, after a
while, call a halt. We walk on a hair
bTyv1 hid oran 4 N
are dangers lurking ready to spring on US
from ambush. We lie down at night,
not knowing whether we shall arise in
the morning. We start out for our occu-
patIOns, 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
deliyeranc5, or fiends of darkness
stretching up skeleton hands to pull
thee down into ruin cOnsummate. Sud
denly 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 Iiveth forever 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, this is the setting
down of the scales, the balances. And
then there is flash as from q cloud, but
it is the glitter of the shining balances,
and they are hOisted, and all nations are
to be weighed. The Unforgiven get in Oh
this side the balances. They may have
weighed themselves and pronounced a
fattering decision. The world may
have weighed them and pronounced them
moral. Now they are being weighed in
God IS balanCes-balances that can make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
tbs titles of distinction gone, all the
successes gone; there is soul,
absolutely nothing but a soul, an immor-
tai soul, a neVer-dying soul, a soul
stripped of all worldly advantage, a soul
on one side of the scales. On the other
side the balances are wasted Sabbaths,
sermons, ten thousand OPP
portunities of mercy and pardon that !
were cast aside. They are ON the other |
side the scales, and there God stands, |!
and in the presence of men and devils, !
cherubim and archangel, ne announces,
while grooming earthquake, and cracking !
and judgment trumpet,
and everlasting storm repeat it |
8 Weighed in the balance and found |
wanting
But, say some who are Christians: |
Certainly you don t mean to say that |
we will have to get into the balances? !
Our sins are all pardoned, our title to |
heaven is secure. Certainly you are not /
going to 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.
ALL MUST BE WEIGHED.
o, follower of Christ, you get into the /
balances. The bell of the judgment is |
ringing. You must get INTO the bal |
auces. 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 attachments in piety |
which you might have had, but which I
you refused to take. We place them all /
on the other SIDE. They go down and |
your soul rises in the scale. You cannot |
weigh against all these impeTfections.
Well, then, we must give you the adj
and on your side of the scales /
we will place ali the good deeds you have /
ever done, and all the kind words you |
have ever uttered. Too light yeti Well, |
we must put on your side the consecra-
ton of your life, all the holiness of your /
life. all the prayers of your life, all the /
faith of your Christian life. Too light F..