The Brookhaven leader., 1889-09-12

customer All week he has been weigh
ing fruits Weighing meats, weighing ice,
weighing GOALS, weighing CONNECTIONS,
weighing worldly and perishable COM
modities, not realizing the fact that he
has been weighed. On your side the ball
ances, o wording! / will give you full
advantage. | 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 vaults, all the safe
| deposits-all on your side. But it does
not add one ounce, for at the very mo-
ment we are congratulating you on your
/ fine house and upon your pr1ncety in
| come, God and the angels are writing in
| regard To- your soul: weighed and found
| wautingw
| But must go faster and speak OF the
| final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends,
we ara moving on amid astounding real
tiles. These which are now drumming
the march of life, may, after awhile,
call a hall. We walk on a hair hung
bridg, lurking over chasms. All around
Us are dangers lurking ready 10 spring
on US from ambush. We lie down at
nj ght, not knowing whether we shall
arise in the morning. We start out foy
our occupations, not knowing whether we
| shall come back. Crowns being bur-
nishcd for thy brow or bolts forged for
| thy prison. Angels of light ready to
shout at thy deliverance, or fends OF
darkness stretching out 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 liyeth for ever and ever that time
shall be no longer:
Behold, He cometh with clouds, and
every eye shall see Him." Hark to the
! jarring of the mountains. Why that Is
| the setting down of the scales, tho ball
auces. Aud then there is 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 unforgiyen get on this side the ball
ances. They may have weighed them
selves aud pronounced hattering deci-
sion. The world may have weighed them
and pronounced them moral. Now they
are being weighed in Gods ball
ances-the balances that can make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
the titles Of dfstiction gone, all the
worldly successes gone; there IS soul,
absolutely nothing but soul, an immor-
tai soul, neyer-dying soul, soul
stripped Of all worldly advantages, a
soul-on one side the scale. On the
other side the balances are wasted Sab
| baths, diSregarded sermons, ten thou
sand oppOrtun tiles 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
uoVnces. while groaning earthq1 rake, and
cracking conhagration, and judgment
trumpet, aud everlasting storm repeat
it: weighed in the balance, and found
wanting"
But say somo who are Christians: Ger
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
have to get into the balances? Our sins
are all p1rdoned, our title to Heaven is
secure. Certlinly you are not going to
put us in the baances"
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
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 i'm
PROJECTIONS.
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 yet! Well,
we will put on your side all the cOnsecra-
ton of your life, all the holiness OF your
| life, all the prayers OF your life, all the
faith Eof your Christian life. Too light
! yet! Come, mighty men of the past, and
! get in on 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 yet! Come, the
martyrs, the Latimers, the Wickliffes,
| the men who suffered at the stake for
Christ. Get in on this side the Christians
| balances, and sec 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 balances all the
scepters of light, all the thrones Of pow
er, 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 bal =
ances, and the Christians 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 DO allowed to
get off so easily?" Yes. If some one
should come and put on the other side
the scales of your lmperfectons, all your
envies, all your jaalousies, all your in
constituencies of life, they would not
bulge the scales with Christ on your side
the scales. Go free! There is no con-
domination 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 a glorious hope. Will you
accept it this day? Christ making up for
what you lack, Christ the atoGement for
all your sins. Who will accept Him? Will
| not this whole audience say:
Il am insufficient; am sinner: l 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! if you could only understand the
worth of that sacrifice which l have rep
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