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

tAe march or life, may, arter aWnllei
call halt. We walk on a hair-hung
bridge lurking over chasns. 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 occupations, not knowing whether we
shall come back. Crowns being bur-
nished for thy brow or bolts forged for
thy prison. Angels of light ready to
shout at thy deliverance, or fends of
darkness stretching out 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 the land, will swear by Him
that iveth for ever and ever that time
shall be no longer:
Behold, He cometh with clouds, and
every eye shall see Him." Hank to the
Earring of the mountains. Why, that is
the setting down of the scales, the bal
ances. And then there is flash as from
a cloud but it is the glitter of the shining
balances, and they are hoisted, and all
nations are to be weighed.
The unforgiven get on this side the ball
ances. They may have weighed them
selves and pronounced a fattering deci-
sion. The world may have weighed them
and pronounced them moral. Now they
are being weighed in Gods ball
ances-the balances that can. make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
the titles Of distiction gone, all the
worldly successes gone; there is soul,
absolutely nothing but soul, an immor-
tai soul, a never-dying soul, o soul
stripped of all worldly advantages,
soul-on one side the scale. On the
other side the balances are wasted Sab
baths, disregarded sermons, ten thou
sand opportun tiles 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 aud
devils, cherubim and archangeI, He an
nounces, while groauing earthquake, and
cracking confagration, and Judgment
trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat
it: weighed in the balance, and found
wanting"
But say some who are Christians: Ger
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
have to get into the balanc es? 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. Oh, follower of Christi 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 opportunities of good which
you did not improve, all the attachments
in piety which you might 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 can not weigh against all those i'm
projections.
Well, then, we must give you the adj
vantage, and on your side the scales we
will place all the good deeds you have
ever done, and all the kind words YOU
have ever uttered. Too light yet! Well
We viii put on your side all the consecra-
ton of your life, all the holiness of your
life, all the prayers Of your life, all the
faith lof 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 the righteous one may
be saved. They come and they get in the
scales. Too light Yeti Come, the
martyrs, the Latimers, the Wickliffes,
the men who suffered at the stake for
Chriss. Get in on this side the Christians
balances, and see if you can not help him
weigh it Alright. They come and get in.
Too lightl Come, angels of God on high.
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked. They get in on this side the
balances. Too light yeti
l put on this side the balances all the
scepters of light all the thrones Of pow
er, all the crowns of glory. Too light
yet: But just at that 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
tremble from top to bottom. Then He
puts both of His SCARED feet on the ball
ances, and the Christians sides come
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: cam to DO allowed to
get off so easily?" Yes. If some one
should come and put on the other side
the scales of your lmperfections, all your
envies, all your jealousies, all your in
of life, they would not
bulge the scales with Christ on your side
the scales. Go free! There is no con-
demnation to them that are in Christ
Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses
opened, sins pardoned. Go free Weighed
in the balances and nothing, nothing
wanted.
Oh! what glorious hope. Will you
accept it this day? Christ making up for
what you lack, Christ the atorement for
all your sins. Who will accept Him? Will
not this whole audience say:
Il am insufficient; am sinner; am
lost by reason of my transgressions, but
Christ has paid it all. My Lord and my
God, my life, my pardon, my Heaven.
Lord Jesus, [ hail Thee"
Obi if you could only understand the
worth of that sacrifice which have rep
resented to you under a figure-if you
could only understand the worth of that
sacrifice, the whole audience would this
accept Christ and be saved
We go away off, or back into hfstory,
to get some illustration by which we may
set forth what Christ has done for us,
We need not go so far. I saw a vehicle
behind runaway horse dashing through
The street, mother and her two children
in the carriage. The horse dashed along
rs though to huFl them to death, and a
policeman, with a shout, clear
ing the way, and the horse at full rup.