The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-11-15

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is ray reputation for goodness, and kindness,
and charity, and generosity, and kindness
/ ger orally" 20 my brotherl we cannot
We Oh that; we are going to weigh you
yoiL Row stand in the scales-you, the
/ moraiist. Paid your debtsY' s'Yesa Won
Say, paid all my debts - 'sHave you acted in
IN upright way IN the conimunityf7 Eyes,
yes" .'Have you been kind to the poor.
/ ARE you faithful In a thousand relations in
| lhs@ YES" so far so good. But now,
I before you get out Of this scale want to ask
( YOU two or three Questions. 'tHaye your
tnoug1ts always been rights' NO you say
/ M fut down one mark Have YOU loved
the lord with AL your heart. and soul. and
mind, and strengthy' ''No," you say. Make
another mark. Come, now. be frank and
confess that In ten thousand things YOU
haze come short-have you notg'
: Yes Make ten thousand marks.
/ Come now, get me 4 book large enough to
make The record Of that moralist's deficits.
Ny brother, stand in the scales, do not fly
awky from them / ut on your side the
scales all the good deeds you ever did all the
kind words you ever uttered: but on the
other SIDE the scales put this weight, which
Sol says riiist put thereon the other side
the scales and opposite to yours l put this
wight: by the deeds of the law shall no
nesh living be justified" Weighed and found
wanting
still. the balances Of the sanctuary are sus-
pended 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 ne gets in see that all his
religion is IN genuhsxions and in outward
ohssrvances. As he gets into the scales
say; What IS that You have in this pocket:'
oh. 7 he Gays, that's Westminster Assembly
cafschisnD say; Very good. What
says that Is the Heidelberg Catechisu."
s.Gisry good v bat is that you have under I
your arm standing IN this balance Of the
saurtuafyi7 'Oh, y he says that is church
record" Very good What are al these
books on your side tie balancesT' ''Oh. he |
says those are 'Calvin's Iustitutes'n "My
brother, we are not weighing books; we are
weighing YOU It cannot b said that YOU are
depending for your salvation upon your or
thoioxy. Do yOu not know that the creeds |
and the forms OF religion are merely the scat
folding for the building2 You certainly are
not going to mistake the scaffolding fer the I
temple lie sI moi know thai men have gone
UopsrdItioa with catechism in their pocketg'
Bur says the man, II cross myself often.
AM that viii not save you" But, says |
the msn- Il am sympathetic for the poor"
That viii not save you" SAYS the man. |
sat at the communion table" 4
That viii not save you-s but
says the man, Il have had my name /
on the church records That will /
not save You" But have been professor
You Stand there on your side the balances
and viii give you the advantage will let
you have all the creeds, all the church rec
oris, 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 1 must put what God
says must put there. 1 put this million
pound weight on the other side the balances:
Having the form Of godliness, but denying
the power thereof. From such turn away
Weighed and found wanting.
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who viii 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, ny friend: get into these balances and be
sighed-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
sheaply can buy these goodsY and How
dearly can I sell thems' ] find he adhires
Heaven because it is land Of gold ndmoney
must be easy"
I find from talking with him that religion
and the Sabbath are an interruption, a Tul-
gar interruption, and he hopes On the way to
church TO drum upa new customer. All the
veek be has been weighing fruits, weighing
meats Weighing ice weighing coal, weighing
eoufections, weighing worldly and perishahle
commodities, not realizing the fact that he
himself has been weighed. On your side TIE
5slances, o wording / viii give YOU full
advantage. put en- your side all the hank
ing houses all the storehouses, all the car
goes. al the Insurance companies, all the fac
tories, all the silver all the gold, all the
ugneT vaults al the safety deposlts-ali on
YOUR ri,iS' Ds1s A. as'e7 s-s's old 49, 0ance,
for at the very moment we are congratu-
iafing you on your fine house and upon your
lirincely income God and the angels are writ
ing ia regard TO your soul, weighed and
found wanting
But I must 60 faster and speak of the final
scrutiny. The fact is my friends we are
moving on amid astounding r0-iities. These
pulses which now are druvcil abe march
4 life may. after q while We
walk on hair hung bride ~.
around US are dangers III
spring on US from aulhullneta IS visit all
night, not knowing whetE ~ IL ra,
the morning. We start $40 lOOhs Ia o.
lions not knowing VIII. up
hack. Crowns being bur
or bolts forged for thy pr our country lou
ready TO shout at thy de ~.
u darkness stretching IdltlOn. III
20 pull thee down into r., L. II cor.
suddenly the Judgment W. uaS tHe 0"i
angel, With one foot On them this ra,t Oce
foot on the1end, viii swear - - Poi
forever and ever that time mel
Behold. He cometh with n
sse shall see Elm. Hank 5faDie Wneat e
naunains Why, this IS a.. 49,, dor
the sCaies, The balances INC stdch, ~
i , as from s d,Slogd sbill be more Sp-
md IN nations are to b9.lecting their me
They NAV have weighed en-
bounced a hattering dcl: a..
nay have weighed thstais lOr InlS ~
iasn mora, wow ta s kind editorfdd
,.d r4fefalra All sha ur4a pavA x-oaf.the
titles of distinction gor i1e-
ssesg gone; there Z; us anywhere on5th-
i 9,l',l 5at "a, s5ulswill gladden. hisver
Eantags, 4 soui-oile of cart wheeIcaies.
ssbbs 81 GsnsE s a1q9 cUR-SLAsH. EastSd
Of s 1t were
aast aside. They careful that tide the
scales, and there cact colds duriuefhe pres
snce 'f men and months. Such and arch
lngei, De annoand air passages. ling earth
laAs''. and crsei1iore likely 10 COZ. and judg-
4. - s.Weigbss &c winter. 1t ia repeal ta5
venting y >at causes catar iounu
But say some wIe way for istisns. Scr.
.ainly you don t me. contrary that we win
nave to get into tlie.ucklys Our sins are
II pardoned our title11l5Sf 77.;ver is secure
1er1ainiy yon are not going to put us in the
1alancest Yes Inv brother We must all
lppear before the judgment seat Of Christ, {
md on that day you are certainly going to 4
Je Teighed. !
Q follower Of Christ, you get into the bal
.rces The bell Of the Judgment is ringing.
J "a must get INTO the balances You get IN G
% this side On the other side the balances |
We viii plaise all the opportunities Of good
which you did not improve, all the attain I
nenfs N Tliety which you must have had,
Jut which you refused 10 take. We place :
hem al on the other side They 50 down, J
md your soul rises in the scale. You cannot
weigh against all those imperfections.
well, then, We must give you the advan- G
age, and on your side Of the scales we viii '
,lace al the good deeds that you have ever
lone, and all the kind words you have ever {
Uttered Too Light yet Well we must put '
n your side al the consecration of your life c
u the holiness Of your life all the prayers Of
our life, all he faith Of your Christian life, y
100 light yet Come mighty men Of the past
nd get IN on that side the scales. Come, i
'syson, and Doddridge, and Baxter, get in b
n that side the scales and make them come 4
own that this righteous one may be saved. u
ney come and they get in the scales Too a
GIT yeti Come, the martyrs, the Latimers {