The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-27
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the other foot on the land, will swear
by Him that liveth forever and ever
that time shall be no longer: Behold,
He cometh with clouds, and every eye
shall see Him." Hark to the jarring of
ting down of the scales, the balances.
And then there is fash as if from a
cloud, but it is the glitter of the shin
ing balances, and they are hoisted, and
all nations are to be weighed. The un-
forgiven get out on this side the bal
ances. They must have weighed them
selves and pronounced fiattering de-
cision. The world may have weighed
them and pronounced them moral.
Now they are being weighed in Gods
balances balances that can make
no mistake. All the property gone, all
the titles and distinction gone, all the
worldly successes gone, there is soul.
absolutely nothing but Il soul, an i'm
mortal soul, a dying soul, soul
stripped of all worldly Advantages
soul on one side of the scales. On the
other side the balances are wasted Sab
baths, disrcgarded sermons, 10000 OPP
portunities of mercy and pardon that
were east aside. They are on the other
side of the scales, and there God stands,
and, in the presence of men and devils,
cherubim and archangel, he announces,
while grooming earthquake and crack
ling conflagration and judgment trum-
pet and everlasting storm repeat it:
weighed and found wanting"
But say some who are Christians:
Certainly you don't mean to say that
we will have to go into the balances?
Our sins are all pardoned; our title to-
Heaven is secure. Certainly you arc
not going to put us in the balances?
Yes, my brother, we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, and
on that day you, are going to be
weighed. Oh, follower of Christ, you
get into the balances! The bell of the
judgment is ringing. You must get in
to the balances. 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 at
tainments 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 ali those imperfections. 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
IL oil Of
your life, I'll 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 of 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 Latimcrs, the Wyclitfs,
the men who suffered at the stake for
Christ. Get in on this snle the Christian
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, Son of God,
comes up to the balances, and He puts
one of His sacred feet on your side, and
the balances begin to tremble from top
to bottom. Then He puts both of His
sacred feet on the balances, and the
Christians side comes down with Il
stroke that sets all the bells of Heaven
ringing. That Rock of Ages heavier
than any other weight!
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 of the scales all your imper-
fections, all your envies, all your jeal-
ousies, 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 Jesus Christ. Chains broken,
prison houses opened, sins pardoned.
Go free! Weighed in the balances and
nothing, nothing wanted. Oh. what
glorious hope! Will you accept it this
day? Christ making up for what you
lack. Christ the atonement for all your
sins. Who will accept him? Will not
this whole audience say: 81 am INSULT
cient, am sinner, l am lost by rea-
son of my transgressions, but Christ
has paid it all. My Lord and my God.
my life, my pardon, my Heaven. Lord
Jesus, I hail Thee!" Oh, If you could
only understand the worth of that sac
rifice which have represented to you
under figure-if you could understand
the worth of that sacrifice this whole
audience 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. saw vehicle
behind runaway horse dashing
through the street. mother and her
two children in the carriage. The horse
dashed along as though to hurl them TO
death, and mounted policeman, with
shout clearing the way, and the horse
at full run, attempted TO seize those