Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-02
GODS EXACT SCALES
WILL WEIGH MIN WITH ALL THEIR
FAULTS AND VIRTUES.
Many Will Be Pound Wanting-Ths Trials Which
Show Mems Wsaknsssss-H How ihs Church is
Weighsd-How Man Is Weighed.
An Excellent Sermon.
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was Thou art wei he'd IN the balances
and art found wanting. Daniel Y. y
The preacher said:
Babylon was the paradise of architec
ture, and driven out from thence tn,
graudest buildings of modern times arr
only the evidence of her fall. The site
having been selected for the city, two mil
lion men we're employed in the rearing o
her walls and the building of her works
It was city sixty miles in circumference
There was q trench all around the city,
from which the material for the building
of the city had been digged.
There were twenty-five gates on each
side the city; between every two gates a
tower OF defense springing into the skies
from each gate on the one side, a street
running straight through to the CORE
sponding street on the other side, so that
there were fifty streets fifteen miles long.
Through the city ran branch of the
river Euphraies. This river sometimes
OyeIhowed its banks, and to keep il from
the ruin of the city lake WAS constructed
into which the surplus water Of the river
would run during the time of freshets,
and the water was kept in this artificial
lake until tine of drought, and then this
water would stream down over the city.
At either end of the bridge spanning this
Euphrates there was palace-the one
palace q mile and half around, the other
palace seven and and half miles around.
DESTROYED IN ITS GREATNESS.
0 what q city The earth never saw
anything like it, never will see anything
like It. And ye. have to tell You that It
is going to be destroyed. The king and
his princes are AZ the feast. They are ali
intoxicated. Pour out the rich wine into
the chalicss Drink to the health of the
king. Drink to the glory of Babylon.
Drink 10 the great future.
A thousand lords reel intoxicated. The
king, seated upon chair. with vacant
look, az intoxicated men will-with va
can't look stared at the wall. But soon
that vacant lock takes on intensity, and 1t
is an afffight,ed look; and all the princes
/ begin to look and wonder what is the mat
ter, and they look at the same point on
the wall. And then there drops dark
ness into the room and pats out the blaze
of the golden plate, and out Of the sleeve
of the darkness there comes tinger-a
finger Of fiery terror oircliDg around and
circling around, ss though it would write;
and then it comes up ard with
sharp tip Of flame it inscribes
on the plastering Of the wall the doom Of
the king: Weighed in the balances, and
found wanting" The bang Of beavy fists
against the gates Of tho palace are follow
ed hy the breaking in Of the doors. a
thousand cleaning knives strike into q
thousand quiYering hearts. Now Death is
king. and he is seated on q throne OF
corpses. In that hall there is balance
lifted. God swung it. On one side Of the
balaucs are put Belshszzar's opportunities,
on tie other side of the balance are put
| Belshszzar's sins. The sins come down.
His opportunities 80 up. Weighed IN the
/ balances-found wanting.
There has bsen a great deal of cheating
ia cur country with false weights and
measures and balances, and the govern
ment, to change that state OF things, ap
pointed commissioners whose business 1t
was to stamp weights and measures and
balances, and a great deal OF the wrong
has been corrected. But still, after all,
there is no such thing as perfect balance
on earth. The chain may break, or some
of the metal may bs clipped, or in some
way the equipose may be little disturbed.
FALSE EARTHLY BALANCES.
You cannot always depend upon earthly
balances. A pound is not always
pound. and you may pay for one thing
and oct another: bat in the balance which
/ ia suspended to the throne of God, a
pound is a pound, and right is right, and
wrong is wrong, and a soul ia q soul, and
eternity is eternity. Gcd has a perfect
bushel aud perfect peck and perfect
gallon. When merchants weigh their
goods in the wrong way, then the Lord
weighs the goods again. II from tAe i'm
perfect measure the merchant pOuT5 out
what pretends to be gallon OF oil and
| there is less than n gallon, God knows 1t,
and he calls upon his recording angel to
mark il: 80 much wanting in that
measure of oil. The farmer comes in
from the country. He has apples to sell.
He has an imperfect measure. He pours
out the apples from this imperfect meas
ure. God recognizes it, He says 10 the
recording angel: MARX down so many
apples too feR-an imperfect measure" "
We may cheat ourselves and we may cheat
/ the world. but we cannot cheat God, and
in the great day Of Judgment it will be
found out that what what we learned in
! boyhood at school is correct; that twenty
I hundred weight is ton, and l2O solid
/ feet make q cord of wood.
/ So God will weigh churches. he takes
] oh rur On
cordiug to the worldly estimate, must be
weighed. He puts It on one side the
| balances, and the minister and the choir
and the building that costs its hundreds
of thousands of dollars. He puts them on
one side of the balances. On the other
side of the scale he puts what that church
ought to be, Whist its devotion to all good
ought to be. That is on one side. That
side comes down, and the church, not
being able to stand the test, rises in the
| balances 1. does not make any difference
about your magnificent machinery. A
church ia built for one thing-.O save
souls. If it saves a few souls when il
might save a multitude of souls, God will
spew il out Of his mouth. Weighed and
found wanting
A DAY OF JUDGMENT.
PEOPLE say there is day of judgment
coming. Ny friends, every day is q
dsy of Judgment, and you and l to-nay
are being canvsssed, inspected, weighed.
Here are the balances Of the sanctuary.
Tbev are lifted, and we must all be weigh
ed. Who will come and be weighed first?
Here is a moralist who volunteers BE is
one of the most upright men IN the cOun-
try. He comes. Well, my brother, get
in-get into the balances now and be
WEIGHED. But as he gets into the balances,
/ ssT: "What is that bundle you have
with vou?" "Oh," he says, THAT is my
reputation for goodness, and kindness, and
charity. and generosity, and kindness
generally" 20 my brother We cannot
weigh inst, We are going 10 weigh you
Won. Now, stand in the scales-you, the
morslist. Paid your debts?' ''Ies," you
saw. paid all my debts" Have you acted
in an upright way in the oOmmu-
nity?" >" Yes, yes" Have you
been kind to the POor2 are you
faithful in & thousand relations in
life?n yes" so far, so good. Bat
now, before you get out of this scale, l
want to ask you two or three questions.
Have your thoughts always been righi?'
''No." you say; "no." Pat down one
mark. ''Have you loved the Lord with
all vour heart- and soul and mind, and