The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-11

know that men have gone to perdition
with a catechism in their pocket" But"
says the man, Il cross myself often"
"Ah. that viii not save you" But"
says the man, Il am sympathetic for the
poor" THAT will not save you" Says
the man, Il sat at the communion table"
That will not save you" But" says
the man, II have had my name on the
church record" THAT viii not save you"
But | have been a professor OF religion
forty years" THAT will not save you"
Stand there on your side 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 bal
ance. On the other side the balances L
must put what God says l must put there.
| put this One-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 will be weighed? Yes,
here comes a wording. He gets into the
scales. l can very easily see what his
whole life is made up of-stocks, divi-
dends, per centages, 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 l buy these gOods?" and
How dearly can sell them?" find he
admires heaven because it is land of gold
and money must be easy.
e. Ill --+h l,,k al
ion and the Sabbath are an interruption,
vulgar interruption. and he hopes on the
way to church to drum up new Gus
toner All the week he has been weigh
ing fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice,
weighing Goals, weighing CONNECTIONS,
weighing worldly and perishable commod-
tiles not realizing the fact that he himself
has been weighed. On your side the bal
ances, 0 wOrldlingl | will give you full
advantage. I put 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 deposits
ali on your side. But it does not add
one ounce, for at the very moment we are
congratulating you on your fine house and
upon your princely income, God and the
angels are writing In regard to your soul:
But | must 60 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 a
halt. We walk on a hair-hung bridge
over chasms. All around US are dangers
lurking ready to spring on us from am
bush. We lie down at night not knowing
whether we shall rise in the morning We
start out for our occupations not knowing
whether we shall come back. Crowns be-
ing FURNISHED for thy brow or bolts forged
for thy prison. Angels of light ready to
shout at thy deliverance or fiends of dark
ness stretching out skeleton hands to pull
thee down into ruin consummate. Sud
denly 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"
Hank to the Earring OF the mountains.
Why, that is the setting down of the
scales, the balances. And then there is a
flash 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 unfOrgiven get in on this side the
balances. They may have weighed them
serves ana q ndltcflnH QcCle-
ion. 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 distinc-
ton gone, all the worldly successes gone;
there is a soul, absolutely nothing but a
soul, an immortal soul, never-dying soul,
a soul stripped of all worldly advantages,
a sOul-on one side the scales. On the
other side the balances are wasted Sab
baths. disregarded sermons, 10000 oppor-
tunities 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 groaning
earthquake, and cracking confagration
and judgment trumpet, and everlasting
storm repeat it: Weighed in the balances
and found wanting"