Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-02

poor. tThat viii not save you. -
Says the man, Ct sat at the COM
munion table. That will not save
you. "But, - says the man. 81 have
had my name on the church records. -
'fThat will not save you. - ''But I
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
viii let you have all the ,creeds, all the
church records, all the Christian con-
ventions that were ever held, all the
communion tables that were ever built,
on your side the balances. On the other
side the balances I must put what God
says l must put there. 1 put this mil
lion pound weight on the other side the
balances: Having the form of godli-
ness, but denying the power thereof.
From such turn away Weighed and
found wanting
WHO IS TO BE WEIGHED NEXT?
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who viii be weighed Yes,
here comes a wording. He gets into the
scales. 1 can very easily see what his
whole life is made up of. Stocks, divi-
dends, percentages, ''buyer ten days, -
g 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: Chow cheaply can L buy these
gOods?' and GLOW dearly can I sell
them?'5 l find he admires heaven be-
cause it is q land of gold and money must
be "easy. -
1 find from talking with him that re-
ligion and the Sabbath are an INTERRUPT
ton, 4 vulgar interruption, and he hopes
on the way to church to drum up a new
customer. All the week he has been
weighing fruits, weighing meats, weigh
ing ice, weighing coal, weighing confec-
tons, weighing worldly and perishable
commodities, not realizing the fact that
he himself has been weighed. On your
side the balances, wording! 1 will
give you full advantage. 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 safety depOslts-all 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 angles are writing in
regard to your soul, "Weighed and
found wanting"
But 1 must go faster and speak of the
final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends,
we are moving on amid astounding reali-
ties. These pulses which now are drum
ming the march of life may, after 8
while, call a halt. We walk on 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 darkness,
stretching up 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. Hark, to the EARRING of the
mountains. Why, this is the setting
down of the scales, the balances. And
then there is flash as from q 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 mayShave
weighed themselves and pronounced
flattering decision. The world may
have weighed them and pronounced them
moral. Now they are being weighed in
God s balances-balances that can make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
tbs titles of distinction gone, all the
worldly successes gone; there is a soul,
absolutely nothing but soul, an immor-
tai soul, a never-dying soul, q soul
stripped of all worldly advantage, soul
on one side of the scales. On the other
side the balances are wasted Sabbaths, |
disregarded sermons, ten thousand OPP
portunities 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,
cheTubim and archangeI, he announces,
while grooming earthquake undertaking
confagration, and judgment trumpet,
and everlasting storm repeat it:
Weighed in the balance and found
wanting p"
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.
ALL MUST BE WEIGHED.
o, follower of Christ, yoH get into the
balances. The bell of the Judgment is
ringing. You must get INTO the bal
ances. 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 go down ahd
your soul rises in the scale. You cannot
weigh against all these imperfectiOns.
Well, then, we must give you the adj
vantage, and on your side of the scales
we viii place ali the good deeds vou have
ever done, and all the kind words you
have ever uttered. Too light yet! Well,
we must put on your side the consecra-
ton 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
Or ef in on that sides the scales Come