The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-17
WHEN SOULS
ARE TO BE
ADJUDGED
Continued from page II

those wonderful faculties of your soul,
the greatest endowment of any creature
under heaven. l gave you that life with
its marvellous senses, that you might
drink in the boundless mystery All these
have been thrown away"
God who not only created US and who
redeemed us, is to be our Judge. We
will be confronted by Christ our Lord.
How he will remind us of the scenes and
sufferings Of that wonderful life of His
from HIS birth until His eyes closed on
Calvary. One drop of His precious blood
would have sufficed to have redeemed
worlds. He was not satisfied with that.
He emptied hs veins of all their precious
contents and He went through suffering
untold in order that we might be saved
by His superabundant grace. He came
to disseminate His precepts and maxims.
He came to establish church and found
a religion and put within our reach
means of sanctificaton in every age and
generation of the world, until the day of
judgment. He will say:
You failed to appreciate al that and
you come before me broken-hearted, it
is true, but alas for you, empty-handed.
died for you. l lavished every means
of salvation in vain, You turned away
from my example, and what remains for
you but to feel my burning wrath? You
must be adjudged by God and sancti-
fed"
How often do we pursue His grace, and
yet how often do men retreat cowardiy
from the opportunity offered of saving
his soul. How many sins We're confined
to the secrecy of the silent chambers
of his own mind; how many more are
hidden down in the hidden recesses of his
corrupted heart? No matter how secret
ly they may have been committed, there
was one eye which they never escaped.
That was the all-wise penetrating gaze
of God Almighty. He is to be adjudged
by an aIl-wise God, but a just God, In
vain we supplioate for mercy now, but
He says: LAS the tree falls, so must it
lie." When the time comes for justice
He will search us with lamps and win
probe our consciences to the very bottom
He will not only discover the faults but
will also mete out the measure of pun
ishment due them.
He is a powerful God, and therefore I
cannot escape His decree. Whatever SEN
tence He metes out to me, His fiat, His
will will suffice for it's eternal execu-
ton What will be the subject matter of
our Judgments at the last day? All
the sins we have ever committed in
thought, word. deed and Omission viii be
brought up before Him. How many de-
sires have we not entertained in our
thoughts? How many sins in action have
we been guilty of? So many, in fact,
that were we to try to recall them we
could not do so. We committed them de-
liberately; they were registered against
us in the Book of Life. We can no more
enumerate them than we can count the
stars in the armament above, or the
sands upon the shores of the ocean. But
God knows them all. AS the apostle St
James tells us, we will have to give an
account for every idle word spoken,
When we are ready for the judgment
| day, l can say, Is there anything in my
life that remains unatoned for, unre-
pented? What is to be the standard of
Judgment? That law which my Creator
wrought in the fibers of my mind, and
enthroned in my mind as monitor, a
| still, small voice, which speaks to me
| necessarily. No matter how secretly I
sin, the law of my nature revolts against
| what 1 do, but this small voice whispers
to me, You have done amiss. He has
proclaimed His law to me in Command
ments, which He has published to all the
world
! This judgment is to be public. The
angels of heaven viii be witnesses OF
what has occurred, and if l am lost, how
they will pity my misfortune. My fellow
men. without a single exception, will be
present to see my disgrace before heaven
and earth. How agonized and confused
they viii be, and so wrapped up in their
own individual destinies that they Will
give little comfort to me.
| The devils in hell will be witnesses, and
how they will rejoice at my discomfort.
They will say to God: We sinned but
once, and there is no judgment for us;
| but here is a soul that sinned millions
of times, and yet is adjudged. Be just.
Oh God, and visit this wretched soul CT
mine.
The soul to be judged will meet on that
day those he has led astray in life, and
they will stand UP and accuse him-hus-
bands against wives, wives against hus-
bands, children against their parents
how awful it will be. The good will be
separated from the bad. and when the
mysteries of human destiny have been
revealed then comes the sentence He
will say to the blessed: Come thou bless
ed and possess the calm prepared for
You from the foundation of the world.
Turning to the sinners, He will say:
Depart from me, ye accursed, into ever
lasting fire, prepared for the devil and
|