The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-05


| of the scales the Emperor and the boule-
vsgds. end the Tuileries and the Champs
Elysees. and the gilded Opera House. and on
/ The other side he put that mans $ abomination
| tiai mans libertinism. that mans selfishuess.
teat mans goddess ambition. This last came
down. all the brilliancy Of the scene van
ishsd What Is that voice coming up from
| Sedan? Weighed and found wanting
But | must become more individual and
| more personal in my address Some people
say they do not think clergymen ought TO be
personal in their religious addresses but
ought 20 deal with jects in the abstract
| do not think that way. What would you
think think scf 9f n hunter who SHOULD 60 70 the Adj;
no. He loads the gun. he puts the butt of IL
| against the breast, he runs his eye along the
barrel, he takes sure aim. and then crash GO
| the antlers ON the rocks. And So II we want
| to he hunters for the Lord. we must take
| sure aim and fire Not in the abstract are
| we To treat things in religious discussions. II
! physician comes into sick room does he
Pde xes ths thdSSo So ne ne mns ais.s
the. prescription. And ii we want to heal
souls for this life and the life to come, we do
not want to treat them in the abstract The
| fact is, you and / have a malady which. II
| uncured by grace, will kill us forever. Now,
want no abstraction. Where is the bamy
Where is the physician
People say there Is day Of judgment com
! ing. NY friends, every day is a day of iudy-
| ment, and you and | to-day are being can
vassed, 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 IT the most upright
men in the country. He comes Well my
brother, get in. get into the balance, now
and be weighed. But as he gets into the
balances, | say. what is that bundle YOU
have along with your "Oh. he says. that
- sf.st
and charity, and generosity. and kindliness
generally 80 my brother we cannot
weigh that; we are going to weigh you
you. Now, stand in the scales-you, the
moralist. Paid your debtsg' Yes you
say, paid all my debts - Have you acted in
an upright way in the community "Nes.
yes Have you been kind 90 the poors
Are you faithful in n thousand relations in
| lifey' 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 soy Make
another mark. Come, now be frank and
confess that in ten thousand thing, YOU
have come Short-have you notF'
Yes.r Make ten thousand marks
Come now, get me "A book large enough 20
make the record Of that moralist's deficits.
My brother, stand in the scales, do not fly
away from them. ] put on your side the
scales all the good deeds you ever did, all the
kind words you ever uttered. but on the
| other side the scales put this weight which
God SAYS muSt put thereon tho other side
the scales and opposite TO yours | put this
weight: "By the deeds of the law shall no
flesh living be justified Weighed and found
wanting
Still. the balances of the sanctuary are sus-
Ill. 4
come Who shall be the next Well. here is
a Journalist. He comes and he gets into the
balances, and as he gets in | see that all his
religion is in genutlexions and in outward
| observances As he gets into the scales
say: What il that YOU have in this pocket
"Oh, he says, that is Westminster Assembly
Catechisin.' | say: Very good. What
have you in that other pocket" oh" he
| SAYS, that Is the Heidelberg Catechsm.
VERY good What Is that you have under
your arm, standing in this balance of the
sanctuaryy' "Ohn he says. that is a church
| books on your side the balances ''Oh. he
says, those are 'Calvin's Institutes. MY
brother, we are not weighing books; we are
weighing you. II cannot be said that you are
| depending for your salvation upon your or
| thodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds
| and the forms of religion are merely the scaf
| folding for the building: You certainly are
not going to mistake the scaifoldng for the
temple. Do you not know that men have gone
to perdition with n catechism in their pocket
But" says the man, II cross myself often 90
| "Ah that will not save YOU" But" says
the man. II am sympathetic for the poor"
| That will not save you Says the man,
Il sat at the communion table
"That will not save YOU But,
says the man. II have had my name
)n the church records That will
not save you" But have been n professor
| ,,stn .,s
YOU Stand there ON your side the balances
and will give you the advantage will le'
| you have all the creeds all the church rec
| Drds, all the Christian conventions that were
, ever held, all the communion tables that were
| ever built on your side the balances. On the
other side the balances | must put what God
iays must put there. ! put this million
pound weight ON the other side the balances
| Having the form Of godlness, 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 10 be-
weighed or who will be weighed, Yes, here
comes n wording He gets into the scale,
T can very easily see what his whole life Is
made up of. Stocks dividends, percentage,
| buyer ten DAYS "buyer thirty days Get
| in. rly friend: get into these balances and be
weighed weighed for this life and weighed
for the life 10 come. He gets in. find that
the two great questions in his life are, How
rheaply can buy these goods and How
'early can / sell them ! find he admires
Heaven because il is n land Of gold and money
must be easy
/ find from talking with him that religion
and the Sabbath are AN interruption, vul-
gar interruption, and he hopes on the way to
| church 10 drum upa new customer. All the
| week he has been weighing fruits, weighing
meats, weighing ice weighing coal, weighing
confections, weighing worldly and perishablc
commodities, not realizing the fact that he
himself has been weighed On your side the
hnlnnces q wording. | win give You full
advantage. | put on your side all the bank
ing houses, all the stOrehOuses, all the car
goes, all the insurance companies, all the fac
tories all the silver. all the gold, all the
money vaults all the safety deposits-all on
your side But il does not add one ounce,
for at the very moment we are congratu-
lating you on your fine house and upon your
princely income God and the angels are writ
ing in regard TO your soul, Weighed and
found wanting
But must 20 faster and speak Of the final
scrutiny The fact is, my friends, we are
moving on amid astounding realities. These
pulses which now are drumming the march
of life may, after while, call halt. We
walk on hair hung bridge over chasms. Al
around MS are dangers making ready e
spring on us from ambush We lie down AT
night not knowing whether we shall arise IN