The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-09-13

| princely income God and the angels are
writing in regard to your soul: weighed
| and found wantingw
But must 60 faster and speak Of the
final scrutiny. The fact is. my friendA
we are moving on amid astounding reali.
| ties These pulses which now are drum.
ming the march of life may, after awhile.
call halt We walk on q hair hung
bridge over chasms. All around rs 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 occupa.
tons, 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 de-
liverance, or fiends of darkness stretching
out skeleton hands to pull thee down into
ruin consummate. Suddenly the judg-
ment will be here. The angel with one
foot on the sea and the other foot on the
land, will swear by Him that liveth for
ever and ever that time shall be no
longer: Behold, He cometh with clouds.
and every eye shall see Him." Hark
to the jarring Of the mountains. Why,
hat is the setting down of the scales, the
balances. And then there is flash as
from a cloud, but it is the glitter Of the
shining balances apd they are hoisted and
all nations are to be weighed. The un.
forgiven get on this side of the balances.
They may have weighed themselves and
pronounced a fattering decision. The
| world may have weighed them and pro.
nounced them moral. Now they are be-
ing weighed in Gods balances that car
make no mistake. All the property gone,
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worldly success gone; there is a soul. alb.
solutely nothing but soul an immor-
tai soul, never-dying SOUL soul
| stripped Of all worldly advantages,
soul on one side the scales; on the
| other side the balances are wasted Sab
baths, disregarded sermons. ten thousand
opportunities of mercy end pardon that
were cast aside. They are on the other
side Of the scales, and there God stands
and in the presence Of men and devils,
cherubim and archangel He announces
while grooming earthquake and cracking
confa grafton and judgment trumpet and
everl sting storm repeat it: weighed IN
the balances and found wanting"
But say some who are Christians: Ser
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
| have to get in the balances! Our sins are
all pardoned. our title to Heaven is Sc.
cure. Certainly you are not going to put
us i'm the balances?" Yes. nv 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 balances
You get in on this side. On the other side
the balances we will place all the oppor-
tunities of good which you did not i'm
prove, all the attachments in piety which
you might have had. but which you re-
fused to take. We place them all on the
other side. They go down and your soul
rises in the scale You can not weigh
against all those imperfections.
Well, then. we must give you the ad.
vantage. and on your side the scales we
will place all the good deeds you have
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 of the 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 get in the scales.
Too light yet! Come, the martyrs,
the La'imers, the Wickliffes, the
men who suffered at the stake for
Christ Get on this side III, Christmas
balances, and see if you can not help him
weigh it Alright. They come and get in.
Too light! Come, angels Of God on high.
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked. They get in on this side Of the
balances. Too light yet!
Iput on this 81 le the balances all the
scepters Of Ii yht all the thrones of power,
all the crowns Of glory. Too light yet.
But just at this point, Jesus, the Son Of
God, comes up to the balances, and He
puts one of His SCARED feet on your side.
and the balances begin to trembie from
Top to bottom. Then He puts both of His
SCARED feet on the balances and the
Christians side comes down with stroke
that sets all the bells of Heaven ringing.
That Rock of Ages heavier than any other
weight
But says the Christian: "Am l to be
allowed to get of so easily" Yes. II
some one should come and put on the
other side the scales all your imperfec-
tions. all your envies all your jealousies,
all your Inconsistencies of life. they would
not bulge the scales with Christ Oh your
side the scales. Go free! There is no
condemnation to them that are in Christ
Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses
opened, sins pardoned. Go free! Weighed
in the balances. and nothing, nothing
wanted.
O.! what 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 in.
sufficient, am sinner, l am lost by rea-
sons of my transgreSsions, but Christ has
paid it all My Lord, and my God, my
life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord Jesus,
hail Thee" o! if you could only un.
derstand 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. We
need not go so far. 1 saw vehicle be-
hind 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
mounted policeman, with a shout clearing
the way and the horse at full run, at.
tempted to seize those runaway horses
and to save a calamity, when his own
horse fell and rolled over him. He was
picked up half dead. Why were our
sympathles 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 our rescue
Are not your hearts touched? That was
a sacrifice for you and me. o Thou who