The national leader., 1889-09-07

lating you fine house and upon your
princely ind 6d and the angels are writ,
ios fosna in msssia rssa your soul weighed and
But must go 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 while, call q halt. We
walk on a hair hung bridge over chasms. All
around us are dangers making 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 occnpa-
tions. 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 deliverence, or fiends
of darkness stretching up 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 theland, will swear by Him that hveth
forever and ever that time shall be no longer:
'tBehold He cometh with clouds, and every
eye shall see Him" Hark to the 1arrlng OF the
mountains Why, this is the setting down of
the scales the balances. And then there is a
flash as from cloud but it is the glitter of
the shining balances and they arc hOlSted,
and all nations are to be weighed. The I'M
forgiven get in on this side the balances.
They may have weighed themselves and pro-
nounced a flattering decision. 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 distinction gone all the worldly sue
cesses gone; there is soul, absolutely notn'
ing but a soul, an immortal soul. a never
dying soul, soul stripped of all worldly ad-
vantage a soul-on one side of the scales.
On the other side the balances are wasted
Sabbaths. disregarded sermons, ten thousand
opportunities of mercy and pardon that were
east aside. They are on the other side the
scales, and there God stands, and in the pres
ence of men and devils, cherubim and arch
angel, He announces, while groaning earth
quake and cracking conhagration, and iudg
ment trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat
it: weighed in the balance and found
wanting"
But, say some who are Christians Ser
tainly 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 bal
ances. 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
y
ments in piety which you must 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 cannot
weigh against all those imperfections.
Well, then, we must give you the advan-
tage, and on your side of the scales we will
place all the good deeds that you have ever
done, and all the kind words you have ever
uttered. Too light yet! Well, we must put
on your side all the conservation of your life.
all the holiness of your life, all the prayers Of
your life. all the faith of your Christian life,
Too light yet Come, mighty men of the past
and get in on that side the scales. Come,
Pavson, 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 thev get in the scales Too
light yeti 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 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 bal
ances. Too light yet!
put on this side the balances all the scep-
ters of light all the thrones of power, all the
crowns of glory. Too light vet. But just at
that point, Jesus. the Son of God. comes up
to the balances and He puts one of His SCARED
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. Gam I to be
allowed to get off so easilyY' Yes If some
one should come and put on the other side the
scales all our imperfections, all your envies,
a ionl oil
of life, they would not bulge the scales with
Christ on your side the scales. Go freei
There is no condemnation to them that are
in Christ Jesus. Chains broken. prison
houses opened, sins pardoned. Go freel
Weighed in the balances, and nothing, moth
ing wanting.
OH what a glorious hope Will you ac-
cept 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: 81 am insufficient, l am
a sinner, | am lost by reason of my trans
gressions, but Christ has paid it all. NV Lord,
and my God, my life, my pardon, my Heaven.
Lord Jesus, I hail thee" OH if you could
only understand the worth of that sacrifice
which 1 have represented to you under a
fgure-if you could undertand the worth of
that sacrifice, this whole audience would this
moment accept Christ and be saved.
We go away off, or back into history, to
get some Illustration by which we may set
forth what Christ has done for us. Weneed
not go so far. | saw vehicle behind run
away horse dashing through the street, a
mother and her two children in the carriage.
The horse dashed along as though to hurl
them to death, and a mounted policeman
with a shout clearing the way, and the horse
at fullrun, attempted to seize those runaway
horses and to save calamity, 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 / tell you to-day of
how Christ, the Son of God, on the blood red
horse of sacrifice came for our rescue, and
rode down the sky and rode unto death for
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