Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-09-19

)unforgfven get in ON this side the bal.
ances. They may have weighed them.
selves and pronounced q Aattering de.
| cision. The world may have weighed
them and pronounced them moral. Nov
they are being weighed in Gods bal.
ances-the balances that can make nc
mistake. All the property gone, all the
titles of distinction gone, all the worldly
| successes gone; there is a soul, abso.
lutely nothing but a soul, an immortal
soul, n never dying soul, q soul stripped
of all worldly advantage. a soul-on
one side of the scales. On the Other
side the balances are wasted Sabbaths,
disregarded sermons, ten thousand Cd.
portunities of mercy and pardon that
were cast aside. They are on the other
side tine scales, and there God stands,
and in the presence of men and devils,
cherubim and arch-angel, He announces,
while groaning earthquake, and crack
ling confagration, and judgment
trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat
it: Weighed in the balances and found
wanting"
But, say some who are Christians:
Certainly you don't mean to say that
We will have to get into the balances?
Our sins are all pardoned, our title to
Heaven is secure. Certainly you are
not going to put us in the balances?"
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
ringing. You must get into the bal
arces. 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 attainments in
piety which you might have had, but
which you refused to take. We place
them all ON the other side. They 60
down, and your soul rises in the scale.
You cannot weigh against all those i'm.
projections.
Well, then, We must give you the adj
vantage, 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 holt
ness of your life, all the prayers of your
Too light yet, Come, mighty men of
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 Lati-
mers, the Wickliffes, the men who suf-
fered at the stake for Christ. Get in on
this side the Christians balances, and
see if you cannot help him weigh it
Alright. They come and get in. Too
light yet! 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!
l put on this side tho balances all the
scepters 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 bal
ances, and He puts one of His SCARED
feet on your side, and the balances be-
gin to culver and tremble 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, Am I to be
allowed to get off SO easily?" 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
to them that are in Christ
Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses
opened, sins pardcned. Go free!
Weighed in the balances, and nothing,
nothing wanting.
Oh. what glorious hope. Will you
accept it this day? Christ making up
for what you lack, Christ the atonement
for all your sins. Who will accept Him?
Will not this whole audience say; Il
am insufficient, l am a sinner, I 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. 1 hail thee" Oh! if you
could only understandable worth of that
sacrifice which 1 have represented to
you under a figure-if YOU could under
stand the worth of that sacrifice this
whole audience would this moment ac-
cept Christ and be saved.
We 60 away off, or back into history,
to get some illustration by which We
may set forth what Christ has done for
us. We need not go SO far. saw We
hicle behind runaway horse dashing
through the street, mother and her
two children in the carriage. The
horse dashed along as though to hurl
them to death, and q mounted policeman
with a shout clearing the way, and the
horse at full run, attempted to sieze
those runaway horses and to save a calam-
ity, when his own horse fell and rolled
over him. He was picked up half dead.
Why were our sympathies SO stirred?
Because he was badly hurt, and
hurt for others. But l tell you day
of how Christ, the Son of God, on the
blood red horse of sacrifice came for
your rescue, and rode down the sky and
rode unto death for our rescue. Are not
your hearts touched? That was sacri-
fee for you and for me. o thou who
didst ride on the red horse of sacrifice!
come this hour and ride through this
on the white horse of vic.