Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-27

Very good. What il that you have
under your arm, standing i'll this bal
ance of the snnctuaryY' "Ohl' he
says, "thnt is church record. - VERY
good What are these books on your
side the bulanccs2" "Ohl' be says.
"those are Calvin s Institutes. " "My
brother, we are not weighing books, we
arc weighing Jon. 1t cannot be that
you are depending for your salvation
upon your orthodoxy. Do you not know
that the crceds and the forms of religion
are merely the scatfolding for the build
mgr You certainly are not going to
mistake the scaffolding fer the temple.
Do you not know that men have gone
to perdition with catechism in their
pocket2'' But says the man, II
cross myself often. .'Ah!that will not
save you. "But. says the man, ~
am sympathetic for the poor. THAT
will not save you" Says the man, al
sat ut the communion table. ''Thas
will not save you. But, says the
man. II have had my name on the
church record. "That will not save
you. "But have been professor of
religion 40 years. I" ''Thut will not save
you. Stand there on your side the bal
ances and ! will give you the advan-
tage-I will lat you have all the creeds,
all the church records. all the Christian
conventions that were ever held. all the
communion tables that were ever built,
on Your side the balances. On the other
side the balances must put what God
says | must put there. Iput this 1, OOO,-
600 pound weight on the other side the
balances, Having the form OF godli-
ness, but denying the power thereof.
Weighed and found wanting
Two Grcnt Questions.
Still the balances ure suspended. Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who will be weighed Yes;
here comes wcrldling. He gets into
the scales. | can very easily see what
his whole life is made up of. Stocks,
dividends, percentages. buyer ten
days. buyer 80 days. Get in, my
friend, get into these balances and be
weighed-weighed for this life and
weighed for tho life to come He gets
in. find that the two great questions
in his life are, "How cheaply can buy
these goodsy" and How dearly can
sell themY" find he admires heaven
because it is land Of gold, and money
must be easy" l find. from talking
with him. that religion and the Sab
bath are an interruption. vulgar in
terruption, 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 perishable COM
modities, not realizing the fact that he
himself has been weighed. ION your
side the balances o worldlingl l will
give yon full advantage. put on your
side all the banking houses, all the
storciIouses, i'll the cargoes. all the in.
snrance companies. all the factories, all
the silver, all the gold, all the money
vaults all the safe deposits-all on your
side. But it does not add one ounce,
for at the very moment we are congrat-
ulating you on your fine house and
upon your princely income God and
the angels are writing in regard to
your soul. Weighed and found want
ing
But must go faster and speak CT
the final scrutiny. The fact Is my
friends. we are moving OH amid aston
ishing realities These pulses which
now are drumming the march Of life
may, after awhile, call halt. We walk
on hair hung bridge over chasms. All
around us are dangers lurking. 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 occupations, not knowing
whether we shall come back Crowns
being FURNISHED for thy brew or bolts
forged for thy prison. Angels of light
ready to shout at thy deliverance or
iends of darkness stretching out skele-
ton hands to phil thee down into ruin
consummate!
Before the Judge.
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: "Behcld. ne
cometh with clouds, and every eye shall
see him. Harl1 to the jarring of the
mountains. Why, that is the setting
down OF the scales. the balances. And
then there is flash as if from cloud
but it is the glitter of the shining bal
ances. and they are hoisted, and all ma
tions are tn be weighed. The unforgiven
get in on this side the balances. They
may have weighed themselves and pro-
nounccd hattering decision. Tbs
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 property gone. all the titles of dis
tinctjon rome all the worldly successes
gone. There is q soul. absolutely MOTH
ing but soul, an immortal soul, new
er dying soul, soal stripped OF all
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the scales On the other side the bal
ances are wasted Sabbaths, disregarded
sermons, 10. 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, cherubim and arch
angel he announces, while grooming
earthquake and cracking confagration
and judgment trumpet and everlasting
storm repeat it, weighed and found
wantingP'
In the Scales.
But, say some who are Christians:
"Certainly 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!
Eyes, my brother. We must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ and
on that day you are going to be weigh
ed. Oh, follower of Christ you get into
the balances. The bell of the Judgment
is ringing. You must get into the bal
onces Won oet in on this side. On the