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the week he has been weighing fruits,
weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing
Goals, weighing corrections, weighing world
ly and perishable commodities, not real
izing the fact that he himself has been
weighed. On your side the balances, o
wording! will give you full advantage.
Iput on your side all the banking houses,
all the store houses, all the cargoes, all the
insurance companies, all the factories, all
the silver, all the gold, all the money vaults,
all the safe deposts-all on your side But
1t does not add one ounce, for at the very
moment we are congratulating you on your
fne house and upon your princely income,
God and the angels are writing in regard to
your soul: weighed md found wantingp'
But must go faster and speak of the
final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends, we
are moving on amid astounding realities.
These pulses which now are drumming the
march of life, may, after awhile, call halt.
We walk on ahair-hung bridge over chasms
All around us are dangers lurking ready to
spring on us from ambush. Weiie down at
night not knowing whether we shall rise in
the morning. We start out for our occupa-
tons, not knowing whether we shall como
back. Crowns being FURNISHED 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 to pull thee down into ruin consum-
mate. 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: "Behold, He cometh with
clouds, and every eye shall see Him." Hark
to the iarring of the mountains Why, that
10 the setting down Of the scales, the bal
ances. And then, there is flash as from
cloud, but it is the glitter Of the shining
balances, and they are hoisted, and all ma
tions are to be weighed. The unforgiven
get in on this side the balances. They
may have weighed themselves and
pronounced fattering decision. The
world may have weighed them and
pronounced them moral. Now they are
being weighed in Gods balances-the bal
ances that can make no mistake. All the
property gone, all the titles of distinction
gone, all the worldly success gone; there is
a soul, absolutely nothing but soul, an i'm
mortal soul, a never dying soul, soul
stripped OF all worldly advantages, a soul
on one side the scales. On the other side
the balances are wasted Sabbaths, disre-
garded sermons, ten thousand opportuni-
ties 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 announces while grooming
earthquake, and cracking confagration,
and Judgment trumpet, and everlasting
storm repeat it: weighed in the balance,
and found wanting"
But say some who are Christians: "Cer-
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
have to get into the balancesa Our sins are
all pardoned, our title to Heaven is secure.
Certainly you are not going to put us in the
balancesa" Yes, my brother. We must all
appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
and on that day you are certainly going to
be weighed
o follower Of Christ! you get into the
balances. The bell of the Judgment is ring
ing. You must get into 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
attachments 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 imper-
fections.
Well, then, we must give you the advan-
tage, 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 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
yets 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 this righteous one may be saved. They
come and they get in the scales. Too light
yet! Come, the martyrs, the Latimers, the
Wickliffes, the men who suffered at the
stake for Christ. Get in on this side the
Christian balance, 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 yet!
put on this side the balance 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 tremble from top to bot
tom. Then he puts both of his SCARED feet
on the balances, and the Christians side
comes down with 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 al.
lowed to get of SO easilyl" 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 incon.
sistencies Of life, they would not bulge tho
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
free Weighed in the balances, and nothing,
nothing wanted.
Oh! what q glorious hope. Will you
accept it this dayl Christ making up for
what you lack, Christ the atonement for all
your sins. Who will accept Him! Will not
this whole audience say: ~ am insufficient,
am sinner, am lost by reason of my
transgressions, but Christ has paid it all.
My Lord and my God, my life, my pardon,
my Heaven. Lord Jesus, hail thee" Oh
il you could only understand the worth of
that sacrifice which have represented to
to you under a figure, if you could under
stand the worth Of that sacrifice, this
whole audience would this moment accept
Christ and be saved.
We go away of, or back into history, to
get some illustration by which we may set
forth what Christ has done for ms. We neet