The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-26

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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 eye
shall see Him." Hark to the iarring of
the mountains. Why, that is the set
ting down of the scales, the balances
And then there is fash as If from a
cloud, but it is the glitter of the shin
ing balances, and they are hoisted, and
all nations are TO be weighed. The un-
forgiven get out on this side the bal
ances. They must have weighed them
selves and pronounced a hattering de-
cision. The world may have weighed
them and pronounced them moral.
Now they are being weighed in Gods
balances-the balances that can make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
the titles and distinction gone, all the
worldly successes gone, there is a soul.
absolutely nothing but n soul, an i'm.
mortal soul, a dying soul, soul
stepped of all worldly advantages--a
soul on one side of the scales. On the
other side the balances are wasted Sab
baths, disregarded sermons, 10000 OPP
portunities of mercy and pardon that
were cast aside. They are on the other
side of the scales, and there God stands,
and, in the presence of men and devils,
cherubm and archangel, he announces.
while grooming earthquake and crack
ling conflagration and judgment trum-
pet and everlasting storm repeat il:
Weighed and found wanting"
But say some who are Christians:
Certainly you don't mean to say that
we will have TO 90 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 2"
! Yes, my brother, we must all appear
| before the judgment seat of Christ, and
on that day you are going to be
weighed. Oh, follower of Christ, you
| get into the balances! The bell of the
judgment is ringing. You must get in
to 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 at
tainments 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 cannot weigh
| against ali those imperfections. Well,
then, we must give you the advantage.
and on your side the scale 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 must
| put on your side all the conservation of
! your life, al the holiness of your life,
all the prayers of your life, all the faith
of your Christian life. Too light vet!
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 they
get in the scales. Too light yet! Come.
the martyrs. the Latimers, the Wycliffs,
the men who suffered at the stake for
Christ Get in on this side the Christian
balances and see if you cannot help him
weight il Alright. They come and get
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high. Let not the righteous perish with
the wicked. They get in on this side
the balances. Too light yet put on
this side the balances all the scepters of
light, all the thrones of power, all the
crowns of glory. Too light yeti But
just at that point Jesus, Son of God,
comes up to the balances, and He puts
one of His sacred feet on your side, and
the balances begin to tremble from top
TO bottom. Then He puts both of His
sacred feet on the balances. and the
Christians side comes 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: Am to be
allowed to get off so easily?" Yes. If
some one should come and put on the
other side of the scales all your imper-
/ fections, all your enyies, all your ieal-
ousies, all your Inconsistencies of life.
they would not bulge the scales with
Christ on your side the scales Go free (.
There is no condemnation 10 them that
are in Jesus Christ. Chains broken.
| prison houses opened. sins Eardoned.
Go free. Weighed in the balances and
nothing, nothing wanted. Oh. what a
glorious hope. win you accept it this
day? Christ making up for what you
lack. Christ the atonewent forall your
sins. Who viii accept him? VIII not
this Whole audience say; Il am INSULT
cient. | am n sinner. am lost by rea.
son Of my transpressiors, but Christ
has raid it all. My Lord and my God,
my life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord
Jesus, hail Thee Oh, if YOU could
only understand the worth Of that sac
rfice which have represented to you
under fgure-ify you could understand
the worth of that sacrifice. this whole
audience would this moment accept
Christ and be saved.
We conway off or back Into history to
get Some illustration NY which we may
set forth what Christ has Gone for us.
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