The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-07

other aide. 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. Toe light yeti 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 yeti Come, the martyrs,
the Laiimers, the Wickliffes, the
men who suffered at the stake for
Christ. Get on this side tbs Christians
balances, and see if you can not help him
weigh IL Alright. They come AMI get in.
Too lightl 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!
l put on this 81 le the balances all the
scepters of Ii sht, 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 tremble from
top to bottom. Then He puts both Of His
SCARED feet on the bal inces. and the
Christians side comes down with a stroke
that sets all the bells of aven ringing.
That Rock of Ages heavier than any other
weight.
But says the Christian: Sam I to be
allowed to get off so easily?" Yes. If
some one should come and put on the
other side the scales all your imperfec-
tons. all your envies all your ~jealousies,
all your Inconsistencies of life, they would
not bulge the scales with Christ on you
side the scales. Go freel There Ia no
condemnation to them that are in Christ
Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses
opened, sins pardoned. Go freel Weighed
in the balances, and nothing, nothing
wanted.
OF what a glorious hope. VIII you ac-
cept 1t this dayr Christ making up for
what you lack, Christ the atonement for
all your sins. Who will accept Hmm Will
not thisw whole audience say: 81 am in
sufficient l am a sinner, l I'M lost by rea-
sons of my transgressions, but Christ has
paid 1t all. My Lord, and my God, my
life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord Jesus,
l hail Thee" OF if you could only I'M
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 lone for US. We
need not go so far. l saw a vehicle be-
hind a runaway 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 full run, at
tempted to seize those runaway horses
n to save a calamity, when his own
horse fell and rolled over him. He was
picked up half dead. Why were our
s~ympathies so stirredr 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 o and me. o Thou who
didst ride on the red horse of sacrifice
come this hour and ride through this
sssemblage on the white horse Of victory.