Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-31

tlOnS. now many times He has put the
Spanish monarchy into the scales and
found 1t insufficient and condemned It'll
The French empire was placed on one side
OF the scales, and God weighed the French
empire, and Napoleon said: 'tHave I not
enlarged the boulevards? Did I not kim
die the glories Of the Champs Elyees? Have
Inot 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 boulevards and
the Tuilerfes and the Champs Elysees aud
the gtlded opera house, and on the other
side He puts that mans denominations,
that mans libertinism, that mans selfish
ness, 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 wantingi
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.
do not think that way. What would you
think OF hunter who should go to the
Adirondacks to shoot deer in the abstract?
All, no! He loads the gun; he puts the
butt OF 1t 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, II 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 sickroom, does he treat disease in
the abstract2 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 have u malady which. If
incurred by grace, will kill us forever.
Now, want no abstraction. Where is the
balm? Where Is the physician?
People saw there is n day of indignant
ooming. My friends, every day is day of
Judgment, and you and oday are being
canvassed inspected, weighed. Here are the
balances OF the sanctuary. They are lifted
come and be weighed first. He-t is
moralist who volunteers. Hs is one o, tiie
most upright men in the country. He
comes. ''Well, my brother, get in-get
into the balances now and be weighed"
But as he gets into the balances 1 say,
"What is that bundle you have along with
your" "Oh," he says, "that is my reputa-
tion for goodness and kindness and charity
and generosity and kindliness gerrrallyl'
"Oh my brother, we cannot weigh thatI
We are going to weigh you-you. Now
stand in the scales-you, the mora ist.
Paid your debts?" ''Yes," you say, "pad
all my debts" "Have you acted in AN
upright way in the community" eyes,
yes" "Have you been kind to the poor?
Are You faithful in a thousand relations in
before you get out of this scale want to
ask you two or three questions. Have your
thoughts always been right?" No." you
say; "no." Put down one mark. Have
you loved the Lord with all your heart and
soul and mind and strength" NO" you
say. Make another mark. "Come now, be
frank and confess that in 10 900 things you
have come short, have you not?'' Yes"
Make 5000 marks. Come now, get me a
book large enough to make the record of
the moralst's deficits. My brother. stand
in the scales, do not fly away from them. l
put on your side the scales all the good
deeds you ever did, all the kind words you
ever uttered. But on the other side the
scales put this weight which God says I
must put thereon the other sidet the scales
and opposite to yours 1 put this weight,
"By the deeds Of the law shall no flesh liv-
ing be justified" Weighed and found want
lngl
Still, the balances OF the sanctuary are
suspended and we are ready to weigh any
who come. Who shalt b, the next. Well,
here is a Journalist. He comes and he gets
into the balances, and as he gets in see
that all his religion is in genuiection and
In outward observances. As he gets into
the scales say, "What is that you have in
this pocket?' "Ohi' he says "that is a
Westminster assembly catechism.' 1 say:
very good. What have you in the other
pocket?" "Oh!,' he SAYS, 'sthat is the
Heidelberg catechism." Very good.
What is that you have Gn Ter your arm,
standing in this balance of the sanctuary?'
"Oh!'' he says, "that is church record"
Every good. What are those books on your
side the balances2" "Ohl'' he says, "those
are 'Calvin's Institutes My brother,
we are not weighing books, we are weigh
ing you. 1t cannot be that you are de-
pending for your salvation upon your
orthodoxy. Do you not know that the
creeds and the forms OF religion are merely
the scaifoJdng for the building? You GER
tatnly are not going to mistake the scat
folding for the temple. Do You not know
that men have gone to perdition with
catechism in their pocketf" But" says
the man, 81 cross myself often" "Ahl
that will not save you.'' But" says the
man, 81 am sympathetic for the poor"
"That will not save you" Says the man,
IT sat at the communion table" THAT
man, 'I have had my name on the
church record" "That will not save you"
"But l have been professor OF religion
forty years. 'That will not save you.
Stand there on your side the balances, and
I will give you the advantage-I will let
you have all the creeds, all the church rec
ords, all the Christian conventions that
were ever held, all the communion tables
that were ever built, on your side the bal
ances. On the other side the balances I
must put what God says 1 must put there.
I put this 200, 900 pound weight on the
other side the balances, Having the form
of godliness, but denying the power there
off," Weighed and found wantingl
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who will be weighed? Yes;
here comes a worldling. He gets into the
scales. I can very easily see what his
whole life is made up OF. Stocks, dividends,
percentages, "buyer ten days" ''buyer
thirty days" "Get in my friend, get into
these balances and be weighed-weighed
for this life and weighed for the life 70
come" He gets in. l find that the two
cheaply can buy these goods?" aud "How
dearly can l sell them?' l find he ad-
nuires heaven because it is a land o. gold
and money must be easy L find, from
talking with him, that religion aud the
Sabbath are an interruption a 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, weig ing ice,
weighing Goals, weighing CONNECTIONS,
weighing worldly and perishable commodi-
ties, not realizing the fact that He himself
has been weighed. "On your side the
balances, o worldly! l will give yoI full
advantage. l put on your side all the
banking houses, all the storehouses, all
the cargoes, all the insurance companies,
all the factories all the silver ALI 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 >omrn. we are
congratulating you on your fine house and
upon your princely incone God and the
angels are writing in regard to your soul:
Weighed and found wantin.r''
A Launch For Gospel Services.
A launch bearing the name of Ciristiau
Endeavor, built of steel, was recently de'ii