Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-25

weighed for this life and weighed for tho
life to come" He gets in. | find that tho
two great questions in his life are How
cheaply can l buy these goodsp" and
How dearly can | sell themY l find he
admires heaven because 1t Is a land of
gold, and money must be easy" find,
from talking with him. that religion and
the Sabbath are an interruption, vulgar
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
Goals, weighing CONNECTIONS, weighing
worldly and perishablo commodities not
realizing the fact that he himself has been
weighed. con your side the balances, O
wording! | will give you full advan-
tage. / put on your side all the banking
houses, all the storchouscs, all the cargoes,
all the insurance companies, all the fac
tories, all the silver, all the gold, all the
money vaults all the safe dcposts-all on
your side But 1t 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 wantingP
The First Scrutiny.
But / must 90 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 awhile call a
halt We walk on hair hung bridge
over chasms All around us are dangers
lurking ready to spring on us from am
bush. We lie down at night, not know ing
whether we shall arise In the morning.
We start out for our occupation, not know
ing 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 deliveranCc or fends
Of darkness stretching out skeleton hands
to pull thee down into ruin consummatcl
suddenly tho Judgment Will be here.
The angel, with one foot on the sea and
the other foot on the land, will swear by
him that lvoth forever and ever that time
shall be no longer Behold, he cometh
with clouds, and every eye shall see him. "
Hark to the jarring of tho mountains
Why, that is the setting down of the scales,
the balances. And then there is a fash as
if from "a cloud, but it is the glitter of the
shining balances, and they are hoisted,
and all nations are to be weighed. The
unforgiven get in on this side the balances.
They may have weighed themselves and
pronounced flattering decision. The
world may have weighed them and pro-
nounced them moral. Now they are being
weighed in Gods balances-the balances
that can make no mistake. All the prop
erty gone all the titles of distinction gone,
all the worldly successes gone, there is a
soul, absolutely nothing but a soul, an i'm
mortal soul, never dying soul soul
stripped of all worldly Advantages soul
on one side the scales. On the other side
tho balances are wasted Sabbaths, disre-
gardcd sermons, 900 opportunities of
mercy and pardon that were cast aside
They are on the other side the scales, and
there God stands, and, in the presence OF
men and devils, chcrubim and archangel,
he announces, while groaninR earthquake
and cracking conhagration and Judgment
| trumpet and everlasting storm repeat it,
weighed and found wanting"
All Must Be Weighed.
But say some who are Christians
"Certuinly you don t mean to say that We
! will have to get into the balances OuI
! sins are all pardoned; our title to heaven
| is secure. Certainly you are not going &c
| put us in the balances?" Eyes, my broth
err, we must all appear before the judg
ment seat of Christ, and on that day you
are going to he weighed Oh, follower Of
/ Christ, you get into the balances! Tn,
bell of the Judgment is ringing. Yor
must get into the balances. You get II
on this side. On the other side the bal
anccs we will place all the opportuntie'
of good which you did not improve, al
the attachments in pietv which you mi CHI
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 i'm
pcrfcctions Well, then, we must give vol
the advantage, and on your side the seal,
we will place all the good deeds you have
ever done and all the kind words you hav,
ever uttered. Too light yet Well, W.
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 o
your Christian life. Too light yet Come
mighty men Of the past, and get in OF
that side the scales Come, Payson an,
Doddrdge and Baxter, get in on that sid
the scales and make them come down tina
this righteous one may be saved The
come and they get in the scales. Too ligh
yet! Come, the martyrs, the Latimers
the Wyclifs the men who suffered at tn
stake for Christ. Get in on this side tn
Christians balances and see if you canno
help him weight it Alright. They com
and get in. Too light Come, angels q
God on high. Let not the righteous peris
with the wicked. They get in on this sid
the balances. Too light yet l put Of
this side the balances all the scepters q
light, all the thrones of power, all tn
crowns of glory. Too light yet But jus
at that point Jesus, the Son of God, come
up to the balances, and he puts one of hi
SCARED feet on your side, and the balance
begin to tremblo from top to bottom
Then he puts both Of his SCARED feet o
the balances, and the Christians sid
comes down with stroke that sets all tn
bells of heaven ringing. That Rock G
Ages heavier than any other weight
Christ Outwcighs All.
But says tho Christian, "Am to DO a
lowed to get off so easily" Yes. If som
one should come and put on the other sid
the scales all your inlperfcctions, all you
enyies, all your jealousies, all your incor
sstencies of life, they would not budg
the scales with Christ on your side tn
scales Go free! There is no condemns
ton to them that are in Christ Jesul
Chains broken, prison houses opened, sin
pardoned, Go froel Weighed in the ba
, nnces and nothing, nothing wanted OF
what u glorious hope viii you accept
this day. Christ making up for what 70
lack. Christ the atonement for all you
sins. Who will accept himY VIII not tn
, whole audience say: ~ am insufficient,
am "a sinner, I am lost by reason OF N
, transgressions but Christ has paid it al
? My Lord and my God, my life, my pa
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