Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-09-08

all the klnus words you ever ultefcui
but on the other side the scales | put
this weight which God says | must
put thereon the other side the scales
and opposite TO yours ! put this
weight: by the deed. of the law shall
no flesh living be justified" Weighed
and found wanting.
Still, the balances of the sanctuary
are suspended and we are ready to
weigh any who come. Who shall be
the nextt Well, here is a Journalist.
He comes and he gets into the balan-
ces, and rs he gets in | see that all his
religion is in genutlexions and in out
ward ob~servances. AS he gets into
the scales | say: What is that you
have in this pocket" ''Ohr he saws,
that is Westminster Assembly Cate
chism." | say. Very good. What
have you in the other pocket" ''Ohr'
he says, that is the Heidelberg Cate
chism." Very good. What is that
you have under your arm, standing in
this balance of the sanctuary" ''Ohr
he says, that is a church record"
Very good. What are these books
on your side the balancesi' 'OhI" he
says, those are 'Calvin'S Institutes. "
My brother, we are not weighing
books; We are weighing you. 1t can,
not he that you are depending for your
salvation upon your orthodoxy. Do
you not know that the crcedS aud the
forms of religion are merely the seat,
folding for the buildingi You certain
ly are not going 10 mistake tine scat
folding for the temple. DO you not
know that men have gone 10 pcrdition
with a catechism in their pockets"
But says the man, Il cross myself
often "Ah! that will not Slve You.
But" says the man, Il am svmpa
thet'c for the poor That will not
saw YOU" Saws the man. Il sat nj
the communion table" That will
not save YOU. But" says the man,
Il have had my name on the church
record That will not save you,
But | have been a professor of rclig-
ion 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
ances. On the other side the balances
| must put what God SAYS | must put
there. | put this 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
wantingl
THE woRLDLISG NEIGHBoR.
Still the balances are suspended.
Are there any Others who would like
TO be weighed or who will be weighedl
Yes; here comes a wording. He gets
into the scales. | can very easily see
what his whole life is made up of.
Stocks, dividends, percentages. "huyer
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 ques,
tons in his life are, How cheaply can
| buy these goodsi" and How dearly
a | sell theml" | find he admires
heaven because it is g land of gold,
and money must be easy"
| find from talking with him that
religion and the Sabbath are an inter.
ruption, a vulgar interruption. aud he
hopes on the way TO church 10 drum
up a new customer All the week he
has been weighing fruits, weighing
meats, weighing ice, weighing Goals,
neutrality-suspicious., weighing world.
~ and perishable commodities, not
realizing the fact that he himself has
been weighed. On your side the bal.
anccs, . wording! | will give you
full advantage. lput on your side all
the banking houses, all the store
houses. all the cargoes, all the insur-
ance 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 moment we are
congatulating you on your zine house
and upon your princely income, God
and the angels are writing in regard to
your soul: Weighed and found want
ingl"
But | must 60 faster and speak of
the final scrutiny. The fact is, my
friends. we are moving on amid as
founding realities. These pulses
which now are drumming the march
of life, may, after a while, call a halt.
We walk on a hair hung bridge over
chasms. All around us are dangers
lurking ready to spring on us from
ambush. We lie down at night. not
knowing whether we shall arise in the
morning. We start out for our occu-
pations, not knowing whether we shall
come back. Crowns being 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 10
pull thee down into ruin consummate.
Suddenly the judgment will be here.
The angel with one foot Oh 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 coineth with clouds, and
every eye shall see him." Hark TO
the Earring Of the mountains. Why,
that is the setting down Of the scales,
the balances. And then there is q
flash as from a cloud, but il is the gilt.
ter 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 themselves and pro-
nounced a hattering decision. The
world may have weighed them and
pronounced them moral. Now they
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