The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-26

from the country. He has apples to sell
lie has an imperfect measure. He
pours out the apples from this imper-
feet measure. God recognizes IT, He
says to the recording angel: MARK
down so many apples too few-an i'm
perfect measure" We may cheat our
selves. and we may cheat the world, but
we cannot cheat God, and i'm the great
day of judgment it will be found out
that what we learned in boyhood at
school is correct-that 20 hundred
make n ton and 100 solid feet make n
cord of wood. No more, no less. And
n religion which does not take hold of
this life as well as the life to come is no
religion at all.
But. my friends, that is not the style
of balances | am to speak of to-day;
that is not the kind of weights and
measures. | am to speak of that kind
of balances which weigh principles,
weigh churches, weigh men, weigh ma
tons and weigh words. What" you
say, sis it possible that our world is to
he weighed?" Yes. Why. you would
think if God put on one side of the bal
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Alps and the Pyrenees and the Hima-
layasa 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:
"Burn that wordt Weighed and found
wanting!"
So God will weigh churches. He takes
a great church. That church, great ac-
cording to the worldly estimate. must
be weighed. lie puts il 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 he, what its consecra-
| ton ought 20 be. what its sympathy for
I the poor ought to be, what it's devotion
to all good ought to be. That is on
| one side. That side Genes down. and
the church, not being able TO stand the
| test, rises in the balance. 1t does not
| make any difference about your mag
nifccnt machinery. a church is built
! for one thug-to save souls. If il saves
a few souls when il might save u multi
tude of souls, God will spew it out of
| His mouth. Weighed and found want
ing!
So we perceive that God estimates ma
| lions. How many times lie has put the
| Spanish monarchy into the scales and
/ found ii insufficient and condemned It,
The French empire was placed on one
| side of the scales. and God weighed the
French empire, and Napoleon said:
Have ] not enlarged the boulevards?
| Did | not kindle the glories of the
| Champs Elysces? Have | not adorned
the Tuileries? Have | not built the
! gilded opera house," Then God
weighed the nation, and He put ON one
side the scales the emperor, and the
! bouievards, 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
mans goddess ambition. This last
came down, and all the brilliancy of the
scene vanished. What is that voice
coming up from Sedan? Weighed and
found wanting,
But | must become more individual
and more personal in my address. Some
people say they do not think clergymen
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address. but ought TO deal with sub jects
in the abstract. do not think that
! way. What would you think of hunter
who should 60 to the Adirondacks to
| shoot deer in the abstract? All. no,
He loads his gun; he puts the butt of il
against his breast, he runs his eye
along the barrel, he takes sure aim, and
then crash go the antlers on the rocks .
| And so. if we want to he hunters for
| the Lord, we must take sure aim and
| fire. Not in the abstract are we to treat
| things i'm religious discussions. If q
! physician comes into u sick room, does
! he treat disease in the abstract? No:
/ he feels the pulse makes the diagnosis.
then he writes the prescription. And.
| If we want to heal souls for this life and
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| the life to come. we do not want to treat
them in the abstract. The fact is, you
and have Il malady which, if uncured
10y grace, will kill US forever. Where is
the balm? Where is the physician?
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would Ike to Ice
weighed or who win he weighed? Yes:
here comes wording. lie gets into
the scales. | can very easily see what
his whole life is made up of. Stocks,
dividends, percentages, buyer ten
days buyer 20 days" Get in my
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 buy
these goods" and "Ilow dearly can |
sell them?' | find he admires Heaven
because it is land Of gold and money
must be easy" find, from talking