News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-09-12


"Yesn Make ten thousand marks
Come now, get me a book large enough to
make the record of that moraliSt's deficits
My brother, stand in the scales do not fly
away from them. l 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 the other side
the scales and opposite to yours L put this
weight: ''By the deeds of the law shall no
flesh living be justified" Weighed and found
Still. the balances of the sanctuary are sus-
pended 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 1 see that all his
religion is in genufexions and in outward
observances. As he gets into the scales
say: What is that you have in this pocketig
nave You in that other pocketF' ''Oh," he
says, that is the Heidelberg Catechism.
Every good. What is that you have under
sanctuaryY" "Oh," he says. that is church
record" Every good. What are al these 5
books on your side the balances" ''Oh," ne
saws. those are Calvin's Institutes. MY
brother, we are not weighing BOOKS; we are
weighing YOU. 1t cannot be said that you are
depeuding for YOUR salvation upon your or
thodoxy. Do you not know that the creeds
and the forms of religion are merely the seal
folding for the building? You certainly are
not going to mistake the scaffoldlng Ior one
temple Do you not know that men have gone
to perdition with catechism in their pocket
But saws the man, 81 cross myself otter"
'Ah! that will not save you" But" says
the man, 81 am sympathetic for the poor
THAT will not save you" says the ma man;
."Inat viii not save you" "But,"
says the man, 81 have had my name
! on the church records" THAT viii
D. hax- haa
| of religion forty years" THAT will not save
YOU Stand there on your side the balances
and will give you the advantage will let
you have all the creeds, all the church rec
ords, all the Christian conventions that We're
ever held, all the communion tables that We're
/ ever built on your side the balances. On the
/ other side the balances must put what God
says l 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, dividends, percentages,
buyer ten days" buyer thirty days" Get
in, my friend: get into these balances and be
weighed-weighed for this life and weighed
for the life to come He gets in. find that
the two great questions in his life are, ''How
cheapIy can 1 buy these goods?" and ''How
dearly can sell themy' 1 find he admires
Heaven because it is a land of gold and money
must be easy"
1 find from talking with him that religion
and the Sabbath are interruption, a vul-
gar interruption, and he hopes on the way to
church to drum up new customer. All the
week he has been weighing fruits weighing
meats weighing ice, weighing coal, weighing
CONNECTIONS, weighing worldly and perishable
hat he
himself has been weighed. On your side the
balances o worldingl l will 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 it 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 I must go 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. All
around US are dangers making 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-
lions, 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 deliverence, or fends
of darkness stretching up skeleton hands
to pull thee down into ruin consSmmate.
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 liveth
forever and ever that time shall be no longer:
Behold, He cometh with Clouds and every
eve shall see Him" Hark to the jarring of the
mountains. Why, this is the setting down OF
the scales, the balances. And then there is q
flash as from a cloud, but it is the glitter OF
the shining balances, and they are holsted,
and all nations are to be weighed The un-
l-forZ given get lnaon -thls- sidsszathe balances
/ They may have weighed themselves and pro-
nounced a hattering decision. The world
may have weighed them and pronounced
them moral Now they are being weighed
IN Gods balances-the balances that can make
10 mistake. All the property gone. all the
tiles of distinction gone, all the worldly sue
'Sees gone: there is soul, absolutely moth
rng Duu soul, an immortal soul, q never
dying soul, a soul stripped of all worldly adj
vantage, soul-on one side of the scales
On the other side the balances are wasted
Sabbaths. disregarded sermons, ten thousand
opportunities of mercy and pardon that were
cast aside. They are on the other side the
scales, and there God stands and in the pres
enee of men and devils, cherubim and arch
angel, he announces, while groaning earth
/ quake, and cracking confiagration and indy
| ment trumpet and everlasting storm repeat
1t: weighed in the balance and found
wanting"
Bat, say some who are Christians: Ser
tainly you don't mean to say that we will
have to get into the balances 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 certainly going to
be weighed
o follower of Christ you get into the bal
ences. 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 attain
ments in piety which you must 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 cannot
weigh against all those imperfections
Well, then, we must give you the advan-
tage, and on your side of the scales we will
place all the good deeds that you have ever
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 YETI Come mighty men of the past
and get in that side 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 they get in the scales. Too
y
the Wickliffes, the men who suffered at the
stake for Christ Get in on this side the
Christians balances, and see if you cannot
help him weigh it Alright. They come and
get in. Too light yet Come angels of God
on high. Let not the righteous perish with
the wicked They get in on this side the bal
ances Too light yeti
put on this side the balances all the scep-
tiers of light, all the thrones of power, 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
culver and trenble from top to bottom.
Then He puts both of His SCARED feet on the
balances and the Christians side comes down
ringing. That Rock of Ages heavier than any
other weight
But, says the Christian, Gam L to be
one should come and put on the other side the
scales all our imperfections, all your envies
all your jealousies, all your inconsistencies
of life, they would not bulge the scales with
Christ on 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 freei
Weighed in the balances, and nothing, moth
ing wanting
BUFFALO is noted rs city of houses
that are owned By the families which
live iii them; and another indication of
its wholesome condition has just been