The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-11-07

ed from the throne the Alps, and the Py-
renees, and the Himalayas and Mount
Washington, and all cities of the earth,
they would crush it. No, no. The time
will come when God will sit down on the
white throne to see the world weighed,
and on one side will be the worlds op-
portunities, and on the other side the
worlds sins. Down will go the sins and
away will go the opportunities, and God
will say to the messengers with the torch:
'Burn that world! weighed and found
wanting"
People say there is day of judgment
coming. My friends, every day is a day
of judgment and you and o-day are be-
ing canvassed, inspected, weighed. Here
are the balances of the sanctuary. They
are lifted, and we must all be weighed.
Who will come and be weighed first?
Here is moralist who volunteers. He is
one of the most upright men in the coun-
try. He comes. Well, my brother, get
in-get into the balances now, and be
weighed. But as he gets into the balance,
I say:
'What is that bundle you have along
with your"
"Oh." he says, ''that is my reputation
for goodness, and kindness, and charity,
and generosity, and kindness generally"
"Oh," my brother we can not weigh
that; we are going to weigh you-you.
Now, stand in the scales-you, the NOR
alist. Paid your debts?"
EYES," you say, paid all my debts"
''Have you acted in an upright way in
the community"
Eyes, yes"
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you faithful in a thousand relations in
life?"
'Yes','
$50 far, SO good. But now, before you
get out of this scale. want to ask you
two or three questions. Have your
thoughts always been right?"
"No," you say mo-"
Put down one mark.
"Have you loved the Lord with all your
heart and soul, and mind, and strength"
'No," you say. Make another mark.
'Come, now, be frank, and confess
that in ten thousand things you have
come short-have you not?"
Eyes"
Make ten thousand marks. Come, now,
get me book large enough to make the
record of that moralist's deficits. My
brother, stand in the scales, do not fly
away from them. put on your side of
the scales all the good deeds you ever
did, all the kind words you ever uttered;
but on the other side the scales 1 put this
weight which God says must put there
on the other side the scales and op-
posite to yours 1 put this weight: "By
the deeds of the law shall no flesh living
be justified" Weighed and found want
ing.
Still, the balance of the sanctuary are
suspended and we are ready to weigh any
who come. Who shall be the next?
Well, here is a Journalist He comes and
he gets into the balances, and as he gets
in l see that all his religion is in genu-
fexions and in outward observances. AS
he gets into the scales say:
"What is that you have in this pocket?"
''Ohp he says, that is the Westmin-
ster Assembly Catechism."
say: every good. What have you in
the other pocket"
"Ohw he says, that is the Heidelberg
catechism M"
every good. What is that you have
under your arm, standing in this balance
of the sanctuary"
"Ohp he says, shat is a church rec
ord"
Very good. What are these books on
your side the balances?"
"Oh!" he says, "those are 'Calvin's In
stitutes.'"
''My brother, we are not weighing
books; we are weighing you. 1t can not
be that you are depending for your saliva
ton upon your orthodoxy. Do you not
know that the creeds and 1.-THE forms of
religion are merely the scaffolding 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
pocket"
'But," says the man, 81 cross myself
often"
"Ahl that will not save you"
But" says the man, ST am sympa-
thetic for the poor"
THAT will not save you"
Says the man: 81 sat at the communion
table," That will not save you.
But" says the man, II have had nv
name on the church record"
"That will not save you"
"But have been a professor of religion
forty years"
"That will not save you. Stand there
on you side the balances, and l 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 balances. i
On the other side the balances L must
put what God says must put there. l
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"
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who will be weighed? Yes:
here comes wording. He gets into the
scales. | can very easily see what his
whole life is made up of. Stocks, divi-
dends, percentages, "buyer ten days.n
buyer thirty days" Get in, nv friend:
get into these balances and be weighed
for this life, and weighed for the
life to come. He gets in. find that the
two great questions in his life are: GLOW
cheaply can I buy these goods?" and
How dearly can l sell them?" 1 find he
admires Heaven because it is a land of
gold, and money must be ''easy."
find from talking with him that re-
igion and the Sabbath are an Interrupt
ion, vulgar interruption, and he hopes
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