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

worldly advantages, soul on one side
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 Ipen 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'
I'm 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 balances2"
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
ances. You get in on this side. On the
other side the balances we will place all
the opportunities of good which you did
not improve, all the attachments in
piety which you might 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
projections. Well, then, we must give
you the advantage, and on your side the
scale we will place all the good deeds
you have ever done, and all the kind
words you have ever uttered. Too light
yet 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 down, 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 Christians balances, and
see if you cannot help him weight it
Alright. They come and get in. Too
light Come, angels of God on high.
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked. They get in on this side the
balances. Too light yet put on this
side the balances all the scepters of
light, all the thrones of power, all the
crowns of glory. Too light yet 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 balances, and
the Christians side comes down with a
stroke that sets all the bells of heaven
ringing. That rock of ages heavier than
any other weight!
A Glorious Hope.
But says the Christian, cam L 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-
tions, all your envies, all your jealous
les, all your inconsistencies of life, they
would not bulge the scales with Christ
on your side the scales. Go free There
is no condemnation to them that are in
Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison
houses opened, sins pardoned. Go freel
Weighed in the balances and nothing.
nothing wanted. Oh, what a glorious
hopel Will you accept it this day 2
Christ making up for what you lack.
Christ the atonement for all your sins.
Who will accept him2 Will not this
whole audience say 81 am insufficient,
/ am sinner. I 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, I
hail theeP' Oh, if you could only I'M
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 back into history
to get some illustration by which we
may set forth what Christ has done for
us. We need not go SO far. l saw
vehicle behind a runaway horse dash
ing through the street, 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 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. He was picked up half dead.
Why were our sympathies SO stirred
Because he was badly hurt and hurt for
others. But I tell you today of how
Christ, the Son of God, on the blood
red horse of sacrifice, came for our res
cue and rode down the sky and rode
unto death for our rescue. Are not your
hearts touched2 That was a sacrifice
for you and me. o thou who didst ride
on the red horse of sacrifice, come and