Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-26

yeti 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 yet! Come mighty men
of the past and get in on that side the
scales. Come, Payson and Doddridge
and Baxter, get in on that side the
scales and make them come uown, that
this righteous one may be saved They
come and they get in the scales. Too
light yet Come, the martyrs, the Lati-
mers, the Wyclifs, the men who suf
fered at the stake for Christ. Get in on
this side the Christian's s balances, and
see if you cannot help him weight it
Alright. They come and get in. Too
lightI Come, angels of God on high.
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked. They get i'll on this side the
balances. Too light yet put en- 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, 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 tremble
from top to bottom Then he puts both
of his SCARED feet on the ha lances and
the Christian side comes down with a
stroke that sets all the bells of heaven
ringing. That rock of ages heavier than
any other weight
4 Glorious Hope.
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 the scales all your imperfec-
tons, all your envies, AL your jealous
les, all your Inconsistencies of lie. they
would not bulge the scales with Christ
on your side the scales. Go frcel There
is no condemnation to them that are in
Christ Jesus Chains broken, prison
houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free!
Weighed in the balances and nothing,
nothing wanted. On. what glorious
hopel VIII you accept it this day?
Christ making up for what you lack.
Christ the atonenent for all your sins.
Who will accept him? Will not this
whole audience say: 81 am insufficient,
/ am sinner. | am lost by reason of
my transgressions, but Christ has paid
it all. My Lord and my God, my life,
my pardon, my heaven. Lord Jesus, /
hail thee!' Oh, If you could only un
derstand the worth of that sacrifice
which | have represented to you under
"a fgure-if you could understand the
worth of that sacrifice. this whole au
dience would this moment accept Christ
and be saved,
We go away off or pack into history
TO get some illustration by which we
may set forth what Christ has done for
us We need not go so far | saw a
vehicle behind Il runaway horse dash
ing through the street. Il mother and
her two children in the carriage. The
horse dashed along as though to haul
them to death, and a mounted police
man, with q shout clearing the way and
the horse at full run. attempted to seize
those runaway horses to save calam-
ity when his own horse fell and rolled
over him. lie was picked up half dead.
Why were our sympathies 50 stirredf
Because he was badly hurt and hurt for
others But ] tell you today of how
Christ, the Son of God on the blood
red horse of sacrifice, came for our res
cne and rode down the sky and rode
unto death for our rescue. Are not your
hearts touched? That was u sacrifice
for YOU and me 0 thou who didst ride
on the red horse of sacrifice, come and
ride through this world on the white
horse of victory