The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-06-29
Of Busy Life; It's Fluctuations Vast Concerns"

friend; get into those 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 cheaply can 1 buy
these goods?" and "How dearly can I
sell them?" l find he admires Heaven
because it is a land of gold and money
must be "easy." I find, from talking
with him, that religion and the Sabbath
are an interruption, vulgar Interrupt
ton, 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. weigh
ing Goals, weighing confections, weigh
ing worldly and perishable commodi-
ties. not realizing the fact that he him.
self has been weighed. ION your side
the balances, o wording! l will give
you full advantage. Iput on your side
all the banking houses, all the store
houses, all the cargoes, all the insur-
ance companies, all the factories, all
the silver, all the gold, all the money
vaults, all the safe deposits 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 writing in regard to your
soul: Weighed and found wanting!'"
But say some who are Christians:
Certainly yon don't mean to say that
we will have to go 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 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 all 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
x,our 1;fo OH tho 1,o1;poac of x,o,,r l;fo
all the prayers of your life, all the faith
of your Christian life. Too light yet!
Come, mighty men of the past, and get
ins 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 it Alright. They come and get
in. Too light! Come, angels of God on
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 yet! 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
stroke that sets all the bells of Heaven
But says the Christian: cam 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 envics, all your jeal-
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 to them that
are y Jesus Christ. 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 atonementfor all your
sins. Who will accept him? Will not
This whole audience. say: IT am INSULT
cient, I am a sinner, am lost by res
SON of my transgressions, but Christ
has paid it all. Ny 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
rifce which i have represented to you
under,a a figure if you could understand
the worth of that sacrifice, this whole
audience would this moment accent
Christ and be saved.
We go away off or back into history to
get some illustrationiby which we may
set forth what Christ has done for us.
We need not 60 so far I saw vehicle
behind a runaway horse dashing
through the street, 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
ut full run, attempted to seize those