Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-14

says, shat Is a church record Very
good. What are these books on your
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brother, we are not weighing books; We
are weighing you. II cannot be that you
are depending for salvation upon your
orthodoxy. Do you not know hat tho
creeds and the forms Of religion are
merely the scaffolding for the building?
You certainly are not going to mistake
the scaffolding for the temple. Do you
not know that men have gone to perdi-
ton with a catechism in their pocket?"
But" says the man, 81 cross myself
often" "Ahl that will not ave you"
But" says the man, ~ am sympa-
thetic for the poor" THAT will not
save you Says the man, II sat at the
communion table" That will not save
you. But" says the man, ~ have had
my name on the church record" THAT
will not save you" but | have been
a professor Of religion forty years"
That will not save you. Stand there on
your side of the balances, and / will
give you the advantage will let you
have all the creeds, all the church
records, all the Christian conventions
that were ever held, all the communion
tables that were ever built, on your side
the balances. On the other side the
balances l must put what God says l
must put there. 1 put this million
pound weight or the other side the bal
ances: Having the form of godliness,
but denying the power thereof. From
such Jul away" Weighed and found
wanting!
Still the balances ere 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. / can very easily see what
his whole life is made up of. Stocks,
dividends, percentages, ''buyer 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. find that the two great questions
in his life are, ''How cheaply can buy
these goods?' and '.How dearly can /
sell them?" / find ne admires heaven
because it is a land Of gold, and money
must be easy"
l find from talking with him that re-
ligion and the Sabbath are an Interrupt
ton, a 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 Goals, weighing IN
fections, weighing worldly and perish
able commodities, not realizing the fact
that he himself has been weighed. On
your Side the balances, o wording! /
will give you full advantage. / put on
your side all the banking houses, all the
storehouses, all the cargoes, all the in
surance companies, all the factories, all
the silver, all the gold, all the money
vaults, all the safe deposits-all on
your side. But It does not add one
ounce, for at the very moment we are
congratulating you on the fine house
and upon your princely income, God
and the angles are writing in regard 70
your soul: Weighed and found want
ing"
But l must GO faster and speak of the
final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends,
we are moving on amid astounding re-
alities. These pulses which now are
drumming the march of life, may, after
a while, call a halt. We walk on a hail
hung bridge over chasms. All around
US are dangers lurking ready to spring
on US from ambush. We lie down a
night, not knowing whether we shall
arise in the morning. We start on
for our occupations, not KNOWN!
whether we shall come back
Crowns being FURNISHED for tn,
brow or bolts forged for tn!
prison. Angels of light ready TO shou
at thy deliverance, or fends of darkness
stretching out skeleton hands TO pUl
thee down into ruin consnmmate. Sud
denly the Judgment will be here. TIL,
angel with one foot on the sea and tn
other foot on the land, will swear b,
him that liveth forever and ever tina
time shall be no longe: Behold h,
cometh with clouds, and every eye shall
see him." Hark to the jarring OF tn
mountains. Why, hat Is the settini
/ down Of the scales, the balances. An,
then there is a fash as from a cloud
but il is the glittering of the shininI
balances, and they are hoisted, and al
nations are 10 be weighed. The IN
forgiven get in on this side the balances
/ They may have weighed themselves an
pronounced a fiattering decision. TIL
world may have weighed them and pre-
4. nounced them moral. Now they arc be
ing weighed in God balances-the ba'
ances that can make no mistake. A
the property gone, all the titles of di:
tinction gone, all the worldly succes]e
: gone; there is a soul, absolutely nothin
!. but a soul, an immortal soul, a neve
e dying soul, a soul stripped OF all world
advantages, a soul-on n side tn
I scales. On the other side the balance
are wasted Sabbaths. disregarded SCI
mons, ten thousand opportunities {
mercy and pardon that were cast asid,
5 Theo are on the other side the scales
{ and there God stands, and in the pre-
. ence of men and devils, cherubim ar
archangel. he while groanin
earthquake and cracking confiagratio
Q and judgment trumpet, and everlastin
: storm repeat il: Weighed in the ba
D ance and found wanting"
But, say some who are Christian
Certainly you don't mean TO say this
we will nave u get into the balances
o Our sins are all pardoned, our title I
e heaven is secure. Certainly you are m
- going TO put us in the balances?" Ye
O my brother. We must all appear befol
the Judgment seat of Christ, and G
that day you are certainly going TO
weighed.
follower of Christ. you get into Il
e balances, The bell Of the Judgment
- ringing. Yon must get into the ba
q ances. You get in on this side. On Il
a other side the balances we will place a
the opportunities Of good which you d