The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-12
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 ing fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice,
 weighing coals, weighing confections,
 weighing worldly and perishable com-
 modities, not realizing the fact that he
 has been weighed. On your side the bal-
 ances, 0 worldlingl I will give you full
 advantage. I 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 vaulte, all the safe
 deposits--all on your side. But it does
 not add one ounce, for at the very mo-
 ment we are congratulatng you on your
 fine house and upon your princely in-
 come, God and the angels are writing ill
 regard to your soul: ''Weighed and found
 wantingW
 But I must go faster and speak of the
 final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends,
 we are moving on amid astounding real ities. These which are now drumming
 the march of life, may, after awhile, call halt We walk on a hair-hung
 bridge lurking over chasms. All around us are dangers lurking ready to spring on us from ambush. We lie down at 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 hends of darkness stretching out skeleton hands 1 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 Iiveth for ever and ever that time shall be no longer:
 Behold, He cometh with clouds, and 1 every eye shall see Him." Hark to the | jarr ing of the mountains. Why, Aat IS
 the setting down of the scales, the ball. t,lces. And then there is a 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 bal 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 soul, an immor- 1 tai soul a never dying soul, soul
 stripped of all worldly advantages, soul --on one side the scale. On the | other side the balances are wasted Sab baths, disregarded sermons, ten thou | sand opportun ites 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, He an- | nounces, while grooming earthquake, and cracking confagration, and judgments trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat 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 balanc es? Our sins are all pardoned, our title to Heaven is secure. Certainly you are not going to put us in the balancesr
 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 l 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 attainments 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 im- perfections.
 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 you have ever uttered. Too light yeti Well, we will put on your side all the consecra- | { tfs,, sNF.r tPa sha hinlfn nf | life all the prayers of your life, all tho | faith Iof your Christian life. Too light yet! Come, mighty men of the past, and | get in ou that side of the scales. Come, Payson, and Doddridge, and Baxter, get in on that side the scales and make them | come down, that the righteous one may | be saved. They come and they get in the scales. Too light yeti Come, the | martyrs, the Latlmers, the Wickliffes, the men who suffered at the stake for | Christ. Get in on this side the Christian's balances, and see if you can not help him weigh it alright. They come and get in. | Too light! Come angels of God on high. Let not the righteous perish with the wicked. They get in on this side the balances. Too light yeti
 | 1 put on this side the balances all the scepters of light, all the thrones of pow CT, all the crowns of glory. Too light yet 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 ball ances, and the Christian's 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: "Am to be allowed to get of so easily?" Yes. If some one should come and put on the other side the scales of your imperfec ections all your envies, all your jealousies, all your in- constituencies of life, they would not budge the scales with Christ on your side the scales. Go freel There is no con- demnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free Weighed in the balances and nothing, nothing wanted.
 Ohl what a glorious hope. Will you accept it this dayY Christ making up for what you lack, Christ the atoGement for all your sins. Who will accept Him? Will not this whole audience say;
 "I am insufficient; am a sinner; am lost by reason of my transgressions, but NuiASb Lua phAd ~ olAs AJ Golu anu ny God, my life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord Jesus, hail Thee"
 Ohl if you could only understand the worth of that sacrifice which have rep resented to you under fgure-if you could only understand the worth of that sacrifice, the whole audience would this nome mt accept Christ and be saved.
 We go away off, or back into history, fr, gat flluafpatfnn hy tvb{rh VCa m set forth what Christ has done for us. We need not go so far, l saw a vehicle behind a runaway horse dashing through the street, a mother and her two ehildren in the carriage. The horse dashed along as though to hurl them to death, and mounted policeman, with shout clear l ing the way and the horse at full run,