Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-22

he calls upon his recording anger TO
mark it. $50 much wanting in that
measure of oil. The farmer comes in
from the country. He has apples to sell.
He has an imperfect measure. He pours
out the apples from this imperfect
measure. God recognizes it. He says TO
the recording angel, "Mark down SO
many apples too few-an imperfect
measure We may cheat ourselves,
and we may cheat the world, but we
cannot cheat God, and in the great day
of judgment it will be found out that
what we learned in boyhood at school
is correct; that twenty hundredweight
makes ton, and 100 solid feet make
cord of wood. No more, no less, and
religion which does not take hold of
this life, as we'll as the life to come, is
no religion at ALL
Weigh Prin cipIes.
But, my friends, that is not the style
of balances I am to speak Of today;
that is not the kind of weights and
measures. I am to speak of that kind
of balances which weigh principles,
weigh churches, weigh men, weigh ma
tions and weigh worlds. stWhatl" you
say. ''Is it possible that our world is to
be weighed" Yes. Why, you would
think if God put on one side of the bal
ances suspended from the throne the
Alps and the Pyrenees and the Hima-
layas and Mount Washington and all
the cities of the earth they would crush
it. No, mol The time will come when
God will sit down on the white throne
to see the world weighed, and on one
side will be the worlds opportunities
and on the other side the worlds SINS
Down will go the sins and away will
go the opportunities and God will say
to the messengers with the torch:
sBurn that world Weighed and found
wantingi'
So God will weigh churches. He takes
a great church. That church, great &C.
cording to the worldly estimate, must
be weighed. He puts it on one side the
balances and the minister and the choir
and the building that cost its hundreds
of thousands of dollars. He puts them
on one side the balances On the other
side of the scale he puts what that
church ought to be, what its consecra
ton ought to be, what its sympathy for
the poor ought to be, what its devotion
to all good ought to be. That is on one
side. That side comes down, and the
church, not being able to stand the test,
rises in the balances. 1t does not make
any difference about your magnificent
machinery. A church is built for one
thing-to save souls. If it saves few
souls when it might save a multitude
Of souls, God will spew it out Of his
mouth. Weighed and found wantingl
A MaIady to Be Cured.
So we perceive that God estimates
nations How many times he has put
the Spanish monarchy into the scales
and found it insufficient and condemned
i'll The French empire was placed on
one side of sac scales, and God weighed
the French empire, and Napoleon said:
''Have not enlarged the boulevardsf
Did I not kindle the glories of the
Champs Elysees? Have I not adorned
the TuiIeries? Have I not built the
gilded opera house?'' Then God weigh
ed the nation, and he put on one side
the scales the emperor and the boule-
wards and the Tuileries and the Champs
Elysees and the gilded opera house, and
on the other side he puts that mans
denominations, that mans libertinism,
that mans selfshness, that man S god
less ambition. This last came down,
and all the brilliancy of the scene van
ished What is that voice coming up
from Sedan? Weighed and found want
ing
But | must become more individual
and more personal in my address. Some
people say they do not think clergymen
ought to be personal in their religious
address, but ought to deal with subjects
in the abstract. I do not think that
way. What would you think of hunter
who should go to the Adirondacks to
shoot deer in the abstract2 All, mol He
loads the gun; he puts the butt of it
against his breast, he runs his eye along
the barrel, he takes sure aim, and then
crash go the antlers on the rocksl And
so, if we want to be hunters for the
Lord, we must take sure aim and fire.
Not in the abstract are we to treat
things in religious discussions. If a
physician comes into a sickroom, does
he treat disease in the abstract? No.
He feels the pulse, takes the diagnosis,
then he writes the prescription. And if
we want to heal souls for this life and
the life to come, we do not want to
treat them in the abstract. The fact is,
you and I have a malady which, if I'M
cured by grace, will kill MS forever.
Now, I want no abstraction. Where is
the balm2 Where is the physician?
Striking a Balance.
People say there is day of judg
ment coming. My friends, every day is
day Of judgment, and you and I to-
day are being canvassed, inspected,
weighed. Here are the balances Of the
sanctuary. They are lifted, and we
must all be weighed. Who will come
and be weighed frstf Here is moral