Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-09-06
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1889.

light ready 10 shout at thy deliverance. or
fiends Of darkness stretching up skeleton
hands 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 liveth
forever and ever that time shall be no longer;
sBehold, he cometh with clouds, and every
eve shall see him" Hark to the jarring Of
the mountains Why, this is the setting down
of the scales, the balances. And then there
is a fash as from a cloud, but it is the glitter
Of the shining balances, and they are hoisted,
and all nations are to be weighed The I'M
forgiven get in on this side the balances.
They may have weighed themselves and pro-
nounced aattering decision The world
may have weighed them and pronounced
them moral. Now they are being weighed
in Gods balances-the balances that can make
no mistake All the. property gone, all the
titles Of distinction gone, all the worldly sue
cesses gone; there is'a soul, absolutely moth
ing but a soul, an immortal soul, never
dying soul, soulstripped of all worldly adj
vantage, a soul-on one side Of the scales.
On the other side the balances are wasted
Sabbaths, disregarded sermons, ten thousand
opportunities of mercy and pardon that were
cast aside. They are on the other side the
scales, and there God stands, and in the pres
ence OF men and devils cilerubim and arch
angel, he announces, while grooming earth
quake, and cracking conaagration, and
Judgment 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 balancesi Our sins are
all pardoned our title to heaven is secure
Certainly you arc 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.
ALL MUST BE WEIGHED.
o follower of Christ, you get into the bal
ances The bell of the Judgment is ringing.
| You must get into the balances. You get in
on this side On the other sside the balances
we will place all the opportunities Of good
( which you did not, improve, all thsattain-
ments' in piety which you. might have had,
/ but which you refused tSftake We place
| them all on the other side. They go down,
and your soul rises in the scale You cannot
weigh against all those imperfectons.
Well, then, we must give you the. advan-
| tage, and on your side OF 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 must put on your
side all the conservation Of your life all the
holiness Of your life, all the prayers Of your
life all the faith Of your Christian life Too
light yeti Come, mighty men of the past,
and get in on that side the scales. Come,
Payson, and Doddridge, and Baxter, get in
on that side the scales and make them come
down that THU. righteous one may be saved.
They come and they get in the scales. Too
light yeti Come, the martyrs the Latimers,
the WicklifRes. the men who suffered at the
stake for Christ. Get in on this side the
Christians balances, and see If you cannot
help him weigh it Alright. They corne'and
I get in. Too light yeti Come, angels Of God
on high Let not the righteous perish with
the wicked They get in on this side the bal
ances. Too light yeti
| put on this side the balances all the scep-
tiers Of light, all the thrones Of power, 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
culver aud tremhle from top to bottom.
Then he puts both Of his SCARED feet on the
balances, and the Christians side comes 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, tam | to be allow
ed to get off so easilyr Yes. If some one
should come and put on the other side the
scales all your imperfections, all your envies,
all your jealousies, all your inconsistencies of
life, they would not bulge the scales with
Christ on your side the scales. Go free!
There is no condemnation to them that are
, in Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison
houses opened, sins pardoned. Go freel
/ hall nd rofhfuor moth
: ing wanting.
> YOU MUST HAVE CHRIST WITH YOU.
OH what a glorious hope Win you ac
t cept it this day. Christ making up for what
2 YOU lack Christ the atonement for all YOU
> sins. Who viii accept himl win not this
whole audience say: Il am insufficient, ] an
9 sinner, | am lost by reason Of my trans
j gressions, but Christ has paid it all. My Lord
2 and my God, my life, my pardon, my heaven
3 Lord Jesus, hail thee" Obi if you could
, only understand the worth Of that sacrifice
9 which l have represented to you under 6
fgure-if you could understand the worth Of
r that sacrifice, this whole audience would this
e moment accept Christ and be saved.
e We go away off, or back into history, t
Z get some illustration by which we may SCI
e forth what Christ has done for us. We neeC
t not go so far. saw u vehicle behind a run
b away horse dashing through the street,
5 mother and her two children in the carriage
I The horse dashed along as though to hur
] them to death, and mounted policeman
D with a shout clearing the way, and the hors'
e at full run, attempted to seize those runaway
e horses and TO save calamity when his owl
Y horse fell and rolled over him. He was pckct
I up half dead. Why were our sympathies &
= stirredl Because he was badly hurt, anC
e burt for others. But tell you today of how
IS Christ, the Son Of God, on the blood rec
t horse Of sacrifice came for our rescue, anc
!. rode down the sky and rode unto death fol
our rescue. Are not your hearts touched
. That was a sacrifice for you and for me. {
e thou no didst ride on the red horse of sac
II rificel come this hour and ride through thi
I assemblage on the white horse OF victory.