The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-18

to be hunters for the Lord, we must TAX
sure aim and fire. Not in the abstract ar,
we to treat things in religious discussions. I
a physician comes into sick room does be
treat disease in the abstract? No; he feel
the pulse, takes the diagnosis, then he maks
the prescription. And if we want to heal
souls for this life and the life to come, ps df
not want to treat them in the abstract. 4 The
fact is, you and I have a malady which, Il
uncured by grace, will kill us forever. Nov
I want no abstraction. Where is the baX
Where is the physician? mf
People say there is day of judgmer
ing. My friends, every day is d daylt COM
ment, and you and to-day ,Ge bot judg-
vassed, inspected, weighed HAng can
balances Of the sanctuary, Thre are the
and we must all be weighed. " are lifted
volunteers He is oneI Iof t}an1oraYist who
men in the country. %He CO most upright
brother, get in, getAinto Ties. Well my
and be weighed. Bnt "a b balances now
balances, say :sfsWhat Is gets into the
have along with your ttGhat bundle you
is my reputation forgoodn;n he says, ''that
and charity, And generosss, and kindness,
generally. H 20 my br;y, and 2kindliness
weigh that; va are goiher! we cannot
you. Now, stand. in tbs weigh you--
Esay, paid all my debts. T'Haye Won q You
an upright way in the eommunityp I'd In
yes y ssHaHe you ben kind to The. poors
Are you faithful in thousand relations In
htep tsYes. Soar so good. But now.
before you get ont o this, scale want to ask
YOU two or three qsstions, ssHaye your
thoughts always been ightr' ssNo. won saw
mo" Put down one mrk. aHaye yon loved
the Lord with all your iA-t. and srniiS.and
mind, and strengthr Won ny. Make
another mark. "ComeAnow. .bs frank and
confess Son6 that in ten ten thoasans things oa
eyes" Make ten ttousanS MARKS
Come now, get me O book lareeenoue1 to
make the record Of that nDrafis's deficits.
My brother, stand in the scles 10 not fly
away from them. I put on you. side the
scales all the good deeds you Ger did, III the
kind words you ever uttered but on the
other side the scales put this vsigit which
God says I must put thereon th other side
the scales and opposite to yoursI TUT this
weight: "By the deeds of the las shall no
flesh living be justified" Weigheda,,d found
wanting.
Still, the balances of the sanctuary Yare sus-
pended and we are ready to weigh Ay who
come. Who shall be the next? Wei, here is
q Journalist He comes and he gets TITO the
balances, and as he gets in see that I'll his
religion is in genufexions and III Onward
observances. AS he gets into the scae I
say: 'sWhat is that you have in this pockey"
oh, hes says, s'that is Westminster Assembly
Catechism."' say: 'Tery good: Whit
have you in that other pocket~ 'NOh." b.
says, ''that is the Heidelberg Catechism.
your arm, standing in this balance Of the
sanctuary" "Oh," he says shat is q church
record" every good. What are all these
books on your side the balancesp' "Oh, he
SAYS s'those are 'Calvin's Institutes ~ MY
brother, we are not weighing books; we are
weighing you. 1t cannot be said that you are
depending for your salvation upon your or
thodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds
and the forms Of religion are merely the scat
folding for the building? You certainly are
not going to mistake the scaffolding for the
temple. Do you not know that men have gone
to perdition with catechism in their pocketP'
'sBut," says the man, ~ cross myself often. n
"Ah! that will not save you." 'But," says
the man, II am sympathetic for the poor. ="
''That will not save you" Says the man,
II sat at the communion table,
THAT will not save you" "But,
says the man. II have had my name
on the church records" 'That will
not save you" But have been professor
of religion forty years" ''That will not save
YOU. Stand there on your side the balances
and I will give you the advantage-I will let
you have all the creeds, all the church rec
ords, all the Christian conventions that were
ever held, all the communion tables that were
ever built, on your side the balances. 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 wanting.
Gill tho ho1onooc ara e11cDanded Ara
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who will be weighedi Yes, here
comes worldling. He gets into the scales.
can very easily see what his whole life is
made up Of. Stocks, dividends, percentages,
''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 buy these goods?' and How
dearly can sell themY' 1 find he admires
must be ''easy."
T find from talking with him that religion
and the Sabbath are an interruption, vul-
yar interruption, and he hopes on the way to
church to drum upa new customer. All the
week he has been weighing fruits. weighing
meats, weighing ice, weighing coal weighing
confections, weighing worldly and perishable
commodities, not realizing the fact that he
himself has been weighed. On your side the
balances, o wording! I will give you full
advantage. I put on your side all the }car-
ing houses, all the storehouses ~ 9he fac
gSss esFs all at tht he ags s tSe tas
money vaults, all the sofety DID one ounce,
your side. But it does naae are congratu-
for at the very s.!gH ana house and upon your
nrineejv income God ana ol ons s9We;shed arSs; and
Ine in regard TO your SOUL "''sA'D ''''>'
foIna pst T n,mstso faster and speak OF the hnal
r puI l mh The fact is, my friends, we are
sHruElny IN amid astounding realities. Inese
MOVING mich now are drumming the march
PULSES s@ may, after a WHILE call a halt. we
.dlk on hair hung bridge over chasms. All
around us are dangers making ready 10
spring on US from ambush. We lie down at
night, not knowing whether we shan n arise IN
the morning. We start out for our occupa-
tions, not knowing whether we shall come
back Crowns being FURNISHED for thy prov
or bolts forged for thy prison. Angels OF hgn1
ready to shout at thy deliverence, or hends
of darkness stretching up skeleton hanos
TO pull thee down into ruin consummaIe.
Suddenly the Judgment will be here. Inc
angel, with one foot on the sea and the otner
foot on theland, will swear by Him that hveIh
forever and ever that time shall be no long.r 1Esr
eBehold, He cometh with clouds, ana esery
eve shall see Him." Hark to the iarrlng OF tne
mountains. Why, this is the setting dowH n Oh
the scales the balances. And then tnere So
Aosb as from q cloud, but it IS the glltter OF
the shining balances and they are nolsteo'
and all nations are to be weighed. Inc un-
foro;ven get in on this side the balances
Thsv NAV have weighed themselves ans pro,
nounced a flattering decision; Inc Wolad ad